Morgan has me all fired up over Sarah Palin this afternoon. Good man that he is, my friend is handsomely playing the part of avenging knight to her distressed pleas of celebrity victimhood.
Apparently our fair damsel has sent word out to her staunch legions that some creep writer has rented the house next door with the shocking intent of penning his way into solvency by airing dirty Palin laundry. Some other obscure villain, may his penis shrivel, has suggested that Lady Sarah harbors the evil intent to intimidate the scoundrel scribe by issuing a social networking clarion call to arms.
Give me a fucking break with this misplaced bit of chivalry.
Mrs. Palin should stay out of the kitchen if she can’t take the heat. Celebrity comes at a high price, with a lack of privacy at the very top of that list. Ask any high-flying star. Reporters camp out on your doorstep, dig through your garbage, equip themselves with high zoom lenses and follow your children to school. I’m told that they even write nasty books about famous people. Everybody wants a piece of famous.
Sarah Palin has consistently sought out a high-profile celebrity life, capitalized on it handsomely I might add, since the election. I find her distress over this writer’s close proximity disingenuous at best. Invasion of privacy comes as a part of the territory she firmly staked out and I expect she full well knew it before the campaign ended last fall. Sarah isn’t stupid, right?
If the woman wanted privacy for her family, she should have gone home to the Governor’s mansion, served out her term of office (or quit) and stayed off the national stage.
She deliberately chose to have the Joe’s of the world crawl up her personal space.
I have no sympathy for Sarah Palin on this one.
A damsel in distress? I think not.
Just so I have this straight now: We can go back to picking on Mark’s Mom now right?
We seem to be debating three things here: One, is it illegal for McGinniss to spend his five months peeking down Sarah Palin’s blouse; two, is it slimy; three, is Sarah Palin making a choice and then whining like a craven banshee about the natural consequences. And I have the impression you and I only disagree about the last of those three.
It’s no secret that since about the Florida debacle of 2000, a lot of partisan dirty tricks on both sides that would have been forbidden back in that last century, are now (somehow) allowed and even blessed. It’s also no secret that decent people lament this, dread what’s coming, look for some opportunity to reverse the course.
This, I maintain, is a whole new slab o’ bedrock. The left-wing slime has been playing the Alinsky rule against Palin since the minute she showed up, because it’s the only card they can play. They pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, isolate it from sympathy. If any defenders can be found for the Former Governor, the new talking point is going to be that we’re only defending her because she’s pretty and we’d like to get naked hot & sweaty with her.
The woman is gorgeous. But the principle is worthy too. If you’re a John Bircher, or a tree hugging hippy, or a “pass out condoms to kindergartners” or a KKK member or a neo-Nazi or a log-spiking EarthFirster or a pot-legalizer…regardless of any of that, I think at the end of the day you should be able to go home.
They’re playing the Alinsky rule against her, and this time you’re falling for it, just because Sarah happens to be pretty. Time to pull the hook outta your mouth. There’s something rather feline in the tenor of your protests on this one.
You’re a hot piece too sweetie, and if they come spying on you I’ll be right by your side, armor freshly polished, longest lance and sharpest sword in hand. Some things are just plain wrong-wrong-wrong.
I read Palin’s facebook post, and there wasn’t anything whiny about it.
Morgan, are you going to fight like a girl with the first sentence?
You are unbelievable, some days.
I can’t agree. I heard her having a long convo with Glenn Beck today, and although he tried to give her all kinds of room to whine and complain, she never did.
She’s not happy about it, she has to close her house and buy an air-conditioner in order to keep conversations private, and erect a 15-foot fence, but mostly go on about her business.
Her winning-me-over comment? She said that she and her family feel that what they want to accomplish in the public arena for the cause of freedom is worth all the hassle. “It’s worth it, absolutely.”
That’s American spirit, no damsel in distress.
pst, you’re right, she doesn’t sound whiny. Pretentiously aggrieved or rock stupid would be a better description, since I don’t believe she’s the latter, let’s agree on the former.
Ho hum.
Both Palin and McGinnis will reap plenty from this silly non-story.
Ever try decaf Morgan?
Joan, bottom line, I think she’s full of shit on this bone.
ged,
Wouldn’t hear of it. Raven’s Brew, five o’clock every single morning. Drain a pot, shit/shower/shave, go to work, drain another pot.
Time to order another half dozen bags, thanks for reminding me.
Gedaliya, are you still around? I want to ask you a question
MacGuiness has a long history of unethical behavior, most recently distorting the details of her book tour, and the pipeline negotiations, going back to his plagiarism and fabrications in the Kennedy bio, to his demonstrated malpractice in the Jeffrey MacDonald, revealed in Fatal Justice,
But don’t any of that get in the way of your contempt for her,
because she happens to have a voice, she is to be harassed 24/7, by a corrupt press and publishing establishment
Contempt? Are you daft, Narcisco?
Why do you find it incomprehensible that I think she ought to shoulder the natural consequences of the choices she made?
Palin sure is adept at staying in the news.
This story is win-win all the way for Palin, so much so that one wonders whether it was she who arranged for MacGuiiness to get the lease on the property.
(I mean the tank top and the shorts and the lawnmower and Trig…come on folks!)
I’d be more circumspect if I lived next door to a woman who has rifles and knows how to use them…
“Sorry, Mr. McGinniss– I was just cleaning it and it musta just gone off.”
Two or three rounds of that (double entendre *definitely* intended) would do the trick…
Why can’t Palin be a bit nonplussed, bothered, and disconcerted by McGinniss action … w/o Palin also being stupid or incompetent? Why must she handle everything perfectly, i.e. be an absolute media expert, or be invalidated as a shrewd person?
Why can’t Palin be a bit nonplussed, i.e. be a bit of a damsel in distress, yet also be strategically fighting back against McGinniss via publicizing McGinniss action? Why can’t she be both?
BTW: McGinniss’ action is loathsome. LOATHSOME. He ought be a scorned laughingstock. A punchline.
Why can’t she act like a responsible grown up?
She chose to live life under a microscope and she likes it, the Joe’s of the world come as part of the package.
Why do y’all treat her like porcelain?
She ought to send him a welcome package. Then invite Joe over for coffee. Then supper with the family. Then a cook-out with friends. Then take him fishing with the family. Maybe some duck hunting.
Now what’s he going to write?
I don’t think of her as porcelain. I also don’t think of her as perfect. I also don’t think it irresponsible to strategically shame a public figure such as McGinniss.
Though Palin may not run for POTUS, her foray into media and national conversation reminds of nothing so much as every POTUS candidate during the early months of campaigning: they make mistakes and look foolish as they feel their way into a national candidacy. In the early days: they are unpolished. Yet they learn. They become polished as they go along. Palin is becoming polished as she goes along in the national spotlight. That she is not perfectly polished doesn’t mean she is unworthy. If you consider her unworthy, no problem by me. But this is not a reason to consider her unworthy. This would bother any sensible homeowner; any sensible lakeside resident of Wasilla, Alaska.
Some loathsome Joe’s might come as part of the package, and might need to be dealt with in various and sundry ways, but you don’t expect them to be contracted with Random House, and you don’t leave them unmolested 30 feet from your window. You find every way you can to make their loathsome lives a living hell. For a public figure, public shaming is a good bet to be an effective strategy.
With respect, she is acting like a grownup. That Fbook posting doesn’t whine to my ears at all. What I hear is resignation overlying steel. I hear that she’s going to tolerate the fuckwit, and act as necessary to preserve the integrity and sanity of her family unit. There is definitely a line drawn.
I would be willing to bet that the Palin clan will manage to be fully, properly polite to this intrusive cockroach for the duration of his stay. If he needs a cup of sugar, or help with a flat or a flood, he’ll get it. It’s the civilized thing to do, and all too often forgotten.
The Palins are well aware that politics is a blood sport, and that privacy is the first casualty. Assuming that civilized behavior goes by the board is enormously destructive in long and short term. What I hear her doing in that post is being carefully, albeit minimally, civilized. In the loss of that willingness to be civilized lies the dissolution of all that we value.
Given the treatment that her family has gotten from the mediaroaches, I can’t begrudge her the minimalism.
As if no one has ever had to put up with the neighbors from hell, ever.
She chose the public spotlight. In a better time, her family would have been spared, but these are the times we’ve got. Something she should have considered as she made her decisions.
But if she regards the hassle as worth it in the pursuit of her goals, why is this even a topic for her? It does not make her look stupid or incompetent. It makes her look weak.
She has positioned herself for leadership. This ain’t leading. It is self serving.
I really expected Palin to do some woodshedding to catch her political understandings up to her sudden fame. That was stupid of me. Handling a stalker is probably something she can handle.
With respect, she is acting like a grownup. That Fbook posting doesn’t whine to my ears at all. What I hear is resignation overlying steel. I hear that she’s going to tolerate the fuckwit, and act as necessary to preserve the integrity and sanity of her family unit. There is definitely a line drawn.
I would be willing to bet that the Palin clan will manage to be fully, properly polite to this intrusive cockroach for the duration of his stay. If he needs a cup of sugar, or help with a flat or a flood, he’ll get it. It’s the civilized thing to do, and all too often forgotten.
The Palins are well aware that politics is a blood sport, and that privacy is the first casualty. Assuming that civilized behavior goes by the board is enormously destructive in long and short term. What I hear her doing in that post is being carefully, albeit minimally, civilized. In the loss of that willingness to be civilized lies the dissolution of all that we value.
Given the treatment that her family has gotten from the mediaroaches, I can’t begrudge her the minimalism
About the only thing I’d like to add is that it’s interesting this “take the consequences of being out in public” argument is only used against certain people, over and over again.
Certain others are allowed to toddle off home, even if they’re raging hypocrites about it. Al Gore gets to throw off as much carbon as he cares to — it’s his HOME. Ted Kennedy fought the Cape Wind project tooth and nail, even having the temerity to say “You don’t understand, that’s where I sail!” Michelle Obama can be as nasty as she likes to whomever she likes. But don’t you dare hit back because she’s the First Lady, she & her daughters should be off limits.
I mean this with complete respect, Daphne, but public-eye-consequences my salty left nut.
Have you lost your mind, Morgan? Everybody on our side of the aisle piles on the people you mentioned.
[...] Daphne is on Weigel’s side on this thing. She thinks Palin’s whining about the natural consequences of being in the [...]
Daphne, “Everybody on our side of the aisle. . . .”
Sounds kinda’ hyperbolic to me. There are usually some half-wits who do not understand civility but I think our folks are considerably more civil than theirs.
I also think many of her more severe critics are motivated by envy.
She, at present, isn’t the answer to all of our political problems but, like a good wine, improves with the passage of time.
Besides, who else you got?
Bread and circuses. Jesus H. Christ. I’m SERIOUSLY beginning to think ostriches might know sumthin’, especially when it comes to US politics.
But Hey! Just shouting “Palin!” always brings the crazies out. Works every danged time.
Daphne, you have a lot of good points but this time you are wrong.
As Morgan said, even people in the public eye need to get away from the shit. This stalker has effectively put Sarah under 24/7/365 surveillance. That’s never OK, unless are a LEO and have a warrant.
The Palins chose to keep their home and way of life. If she took the cash that she is earning and put it toward a mansion on a large gated parcel, her opponents would be screaming about that.
If you were watched to that extent by law enforcement, you’d have a stack of citations as tall as you in about 6 weeks. We all would. Same if you were followed by a cop every time you drove. That’s not enforcement, its harassment. Same thing this little creep is doing. It’s not news, it’s stalking.
You don’t like Palin. We all get that. But buy a clue here.
Daphne,
I’m new here but I have enjoyed your blog so far. You do have a way with words!
However, I think you are all wet on this one.
First of all, in all of your discussion about this situation, I have not seen you say just what exactly you WOULD have her do under the circumstances. Not that she should have stayed in the Governor’s mansion…that’s water under the bridge. What would you have her do?
Personally, I think she’s handled it just fine. As nicely as she could, she has simply shined daylight on a cockroach. What’s wrong with that?
Secondly, unlike the Gore’s, the Kennedy’s, and other high profile celebrities, she doesn’t live on a ‘compound’ with 10 foot walls surrounding her home.
Thirdly, regarding “Everybody on our side of the aisle piles on…”, who have you heard of renting the mansion next door to the Gore’s or the Kennedy’s (or anyone on the left for that matter)???
If she hadn’t already ensured a completely obscured sight picture, long lens proof landscaped dwelling on enough acreage to see them before they see you then she doesn’t even know how to play the game.
Frankly, it makes me wonder about her abilities. Granted, I am sure she would like to pose herself as the “ain’t skeered” new politician cleaning her kills for the camera. But if she expected to ever again have a private life she was a mad fool.
She’ll make it so or she won’t and in that action or inaction shall be the truth.
I’m speaking of our (artificially) unified, common, “prevailing notions of decency.” The prevailing We, capital-W; not “our side of the aisle.” The propped-up, painted on, rice-paper-on-balsa-wood Palin’s-a-dimwit “consensus.”
Good little liberals are to be left alone. And aw, how dare you pick on their babies; man, that’s just OVER the LINE!
Anyway. I know you’re a decent judge of character, and have defended you at my own place. But anyone who doesn’t think Palin has a legitimate gripe about this, doesn’t think she can ever have a legitimate gripe about anything, ever. They’ve/you’ve pre-judged her to have earned every bit of grief she’ll ever have coming, and I defy anyone to prove me wrong about that.
Some of you people seem to be operating under the delusion that just because someone you like has decided to join in the Game that the rules deserve to be changed.
It doesn’t work that way. Not for anyone, left, right or middle.
David, I’m sure if some enterprising trash journalist could afford to rent the compound next to the Kennedys, Clintons or Gores, they would be all over it in a New York second. Those boys know it, too.
Morgan, who leaves the liberals alone? The vultures looking to make a buck sure don’t.
Daphne,
I don’t think the “rules deserve to be changed”, because of Palin. I think the left is CHANGING the rules BECAUSE of Palin.
I have never seen a politician attacked as ruthlessly and savagely as Palin was attacked by the left starting as soon as she was announced as the old man’s running mate.
I think this is part of what the public at large is finally waking up to, and it is part of the general awakening with the Tea Party movement.
The politicians on the left are crossing the line with government spending/power/control; the journalists/bloggers/whoever on the left are crossing the line in pursuit of their propaganda/agenda.
More and more people are waking up to this, and I believe Ms. Palin is especially in tune with this.
Pointing out what the other side is up to is not whining, is not playing damsel-in-distress, and is not weakness.
YMMV
David, you ought to delve in our country’s political history, it’s always been a low down, nasty, mud slinging business.
Rightwing bloggers are no better than the leftwing when it comes to slash and burn propaganda and attacks.
Palin’s children and her womb should have been off limits, they weren’t and that’s that.
It’s a new day and she’s a famous celebrity now, not a political figure. More like a Limbaugh, Beck or Hannity than an Obama.
But it looks like she won’t have to put up with the evil writer much longer, the NYT reports that the finishing touches are going up the new Palin family’s walled compound.
David says, “Daphne,…I think you are all wet on this one.”
Is it okay to imagine the all-wet-Ms.-Daphne in a t-shirt?
Just asking.
I have no personal investment in the answer.
Daphne,
Yes, I’m aware of much of our country’s history vis-a-vis political nastiness. However, pamphlets and newspapers of limited/slow distribution are a far cry from what we have today where the most baseless accusation is spread around the world in minutes.
It sure would be a sight to have Todd go over to his new neighbor and challenge him to pistols at dawn…
btw, I don’t think ‘walled compound’ is accurate. The picture I saw is of a single fence between the two homes.
Right, if Palin had just stayed in the Governor’s Mansion she would have been left alone.
Sheesh.
Your argument falls apart right there.
Fenced, walled, whatever – it’s privacy that she knows they need because of the life she’s chosen.
I think you fine people taking up the sword in defense of Palin completely underestimate the woman. She makes calculated statements issued to stir up an emotional response and her fans heed it every single time.
The truth of the matter is that I get extremely irritated these days with conservative voters. I want all of us to be as exacting, doubtful, questioning, critical and eager to pounce on our politicians and leaders as we are with the other side.
I wish you would stop taking the pols and opinion-making pundits that you like, the ones who issue the juicy red meat sound bites and have charismatic personas, at simple face value.
Republicans brought us to the bad place, Democrats are making it worse just as fast as they can. It’s time we, the public, started behaving differently if we want different results.
We need to divorce ourselves emotionally from party/ideological identity and start a cold-eyed, ruthless examination of every man and woman who would claim to represent us, whether in office or in the realm of shaping political opinion.
Charlie, it’s Alaska. If she had stepped off the public stage after the run, she wouldn’t be on anyone’s radar right now.
Daphne,
I’m not ‘taking up the sword in defense of Palin’. Really, I’m not. She’s more than capable of defending herself.
What get’s me irritated is what I see as knee-jerk criticism of anything and everything the woman does. It’s why I asked you, after your criticism of her, what YOU would have done in her situation.
I’ve come across many otherwise fine folks on these here tubes, whose knee seems to jerk the same way yours has here.
I know she makes calculated statements at times. She’s quite good at it.
And I certainly agree with you on the “need to divorce ourselves emotionally from party/ideological identity and start a cold-eyed, ruthless examination of every man and woman who would claim to represent us”. Hear, hear!! I’m a conservative/libertarian and I’ll tell you the R’s have done almost as much to raise my blood pressure as the D’s have. A pox on both their houses.
Palin has done things I don’t agree with, and she’s done plenty that I do agree with. But she hasn’t done anything yet that causes me to question her motives. So far as I’ve seen and read, her actions line up with her stated beliefs. That puts her head and shoulders above most other men and women ‘who would claim to represent us’.
I would have moved out until the new compound was ready, David.
Oh woe is us.
The Palins live next door to a…
Typist.
Nicely done Daphne.
You’ve hit a nerve.
It’s the mindset that says Palin must always be in the wrong, that messes up the whole thought process. Like I said at my site, where you claim I mis-characterized your words: Your logic is sound but you proceed from an unsound point. So whether you can think in a straight line or not doesn’t even matter.
If Palin was burned at the stake at dawn, you’d be blaming her for pollution and carbon emissions. And you’d be criticizing the rest of us for excessive piety if we failed to agree with you about it.
You speak of the nasty history of U.S. politics. Care to fill me in on the history of hostile reporters renting homes within fifteen feet of their targets’ primary residences?
I disagree, Daphne. I remember the frenzy of lawsuits leading up to her resigntion. They never would have let up on her–especially if she said anything of national or international importance. (Arizona ring a bell?)
This isn’t 1890 when it took weeks to get to the territories. We got that new fangled Internet thing now
Morgan, stop putting words in my mouth, it’s no way to win an argument and it makes you look like a schmuck.
By the way, if you’re man enough, you owe me an apology over at your site for making shit up and putting my name on it.
I say exactly what I mean, why don’t you try directly addressing my points rather than your warped interpretations and nonsensical projections of my very clear positions.
I’ve always been honest and direct when debating you, I’ve never fought like a liberal and I have to wonder why you do so on every issue that we happen to disagree on.
Charlie, name me one losing VP who still rings the public’s bell.
Her lawsuit issues derived from her actions as Governor, the state covered the majority of those legal costs. She resigned to earn some serious money while the fire was hot, good on her.
Ten percent of the American public outside of Alaska didn’t know who the woman was before the McCain pick and they would have quickly forgotten her if she had slipped back into her old life with quiet grace.
She’s cashing in, both politically and personally.
Frankly, I admire her for it. She certainly knows what she’s doing.
Succinct perfection, as always, G.
Daphne, I can’t think of one V.P. selection who has ever fired up the base AND the opposition the way Palin did.
I do agree that the damsel has no need of assistance. She’s playin’ ‘em.
Welcome to the club, Charlie.
“Pretentiously aggrieved or rock stupid would be a better description”
There wasn’t anything pretentious about what she said, either.
And why would it be stupid to mock a journalist for going so far as to move in next door? Seems to me that journalists need a lot more public mockery than they get.
the video at the bottom of this Hot Air post shows McGinniss being bitter and angry when an ABC reporter knocks on his door. So far, it appears Palin is fighting him quite effectively via publicly shaming him and via generating intrusion into his privacy.
Sarah Palin is a believing, salt of the earth leader.
She needs more seasoning, which is coming at the speed of light.
In the meantime she needs a good diction coach.
Oh I’m putting words in your mouth am I.
Let’s put that to the test. When is Palin right about anything? Manufacture the scenario, brick by brick, yard by yard. Come up with something. If you can’t, my critique stands.
After all, if she dresses like a slut, then she deserves what she gets, right? I mean, she has it coming. Uncovered meat, you know.
Put down the crack pipe, Austin.
Morgan – yes , you have put words in my mouth and you know it. The only test we need is to compare what you say I’ve said and what I actually did say.
Since the two don’t square, you owe me an apology.
Stop moving the goalposts and try to stay on topic, that’s how debate works, you don’t win by telling lies about your opponent.
Well, now, this is all fingerlickin’ kerfufflery, that’s for sure, and I have mostly tuned out Palin and tea parties. You might think I’m lying, but her voice hurts me in ways you can’t possibly understand. My father is a piano tuner, and he also has perfect pitch. It’s not bragging, it is just the way it is.
I don’t know if it’s the timbre or the pitch, but there’s a certain quality to her voice that just shatters my spine like glass. I just can’t bear to listen to anything she might say because of it.
People think I’m crazy because I say this, but there are certain noises that really cause me pain, and frequencies I can hear which others can’t hear unless they are right up on them. I hear electricity as it thrums in the box outside our houses. Even when all the windows are shut. My husband didn’t believe me for years, but when he went out and heard the box thrumming, some 50 feet away from the house, he became a believer. It isn’t even a loud noise, but it keeps me up all night with the low frequency humming. Certain notes on the piano make me cringe if they are slightly out of tune, and I just don’t like violins. Sorry. Or trumpets.
I don’t hate Palin, I just don’t like her voice. Or Hillary Clinton’s for that matter. It’s even worse than Palin’s.
….Al Gore on the other hand has a voice that could rock me to sleep like a baby. It’s soothing, just like a mother’s voice. Soft and musical. It’s a fluffy mommy’s voice.
I think Austin passed the crack pipe to Jewel.
The sound of Gore’s voice makes my ears bleed.
Which is fitting, because “a fluffy mommy” describes Gore just about perfectly. Though I certainly don’t want him hovering over my bed at night. Ewww.
I was medicated to be sure, when I said that, but he does have a soft effeminate voice, you have to admit.
Even when I am not medicated, Palin’s voice is just awful on my ears.
Charlie, name me one losing VP who still rings the public’s bell.
I’m not charlie… but: Gore. Mebbe he doesn’t qualify coz he ran at the top of the ticket after being Veep. But he sure as Hell energizes me, and NOT in a good way.
Jewel: You and me BOTH, re: Palin’s voice. Keerist… the thought of having to listen to her for four frickin’ years is enough for me to vote against her, no matter WHO’s running. Or stay home, more than likely.
Call me shallow.
Well, ‘shallow’, Bush’s blunders were a never ending source of crimson face for me, but there’s nothing and I mean NOTHING like the shrill, ear drum damaging sound of a screaming woman…must be years and years of having to listen to screaming women. I have an aversion to them.
I know Palin isn’t ‘screaming’. She’s speechifying. And it’s annoying as hell to hear it.
What I want to hear is a man’s manly voice. Chris Christie has such a voice. Commanding and warm and manly. Obama’s voice hath not charms to sooth my savage breasts. He is dull and flat and riddled with boringness. Give me James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman’s voice any day.
I thought Bush’s blunders were hilarious, he amused on a regular basis.
Palin’s voice reminds me of my least favorite sister-in-law, a Chicago native with a grinding, nasally twang.
Gore sounds like a retarded Southerner, Obama could be every black preacher portrayed in the movies, so he comes across as a pretender to my ears. Barney Frank wins the worst voice award in my book.
Christie has a wonderful set of pipes – very manly.
Not meaning to shock, but I agree with Jewell, Daphne and Buck about the voice. I wouldn’t want to listen to it all day every day. Of course the same holds true for…Barney Frank, Hillary Clinton, San Fran Nan, John Conyers and His Barackness of course.
Is that a way to judge a person?
I’m pretty sure Jewell, Daphne and Buck already know the answer to that one. People like me choose to find other, deeper criteria. They can do what they like. They know it reflects on them.
Daphne, you didn’t take up the challenge so no retraction/apology is needed.
Morgan, you have to deal with the goods on the table before we can address your challenge.
Sweet man, my good friend, I’m not angry. Slightly irked, but nothing more.
You still owe me some props for abusing my good name.
Except Mr. McGuiness has proven to be unethical in practically all his previous endeavors, including his reporting on the AGIA
line, for a now defunct publication. you seem to want to excuse him for this
I’m very late to this conversation. What say we let Iowahawk have the last word on this thread.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2010/05/hi-there-neighbor.
Apparently it’s not just liberals hearing voices in their heads.
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Wow! Thatt a reporter can afford to move next to the Palin home is almost reason enough for me to vote for her. OTOH, I’d like to the assignment to move next door to the next Kennedy, Edwards or Gore: a brief life of expense account luxury for writing about not being able to see my neighbor’s mansion.