Sarah Palin released her latest Facebook post in retaliation to the NBC interview with her new neighbor, author Joe McGinniss. I found some things interesting in her response - hypocrisy.
Next, Palin told her loyal followers that she made the strategic decision to not appear in the interview with McGinniss and instead issue a response, which was the reason why she and Todd had such a miserable Memorial Day (I guess she had some pressing matters to attend to).
Did you notice how Palin attacked her new neighbor before getting to the meat and potatoes of her Facebook post? Apparently, it was McGinniss who started all this drama, not the Palins.
While Todd the scholar felt investigative journalism is a horrible practice, summing up his opinions in a single sentence, Sarah went into a little more detail, stating how evil McGinniss is by pointing out that he stopped by her doorstep last year or how he made an impressive bid at a charity auction - she fails to mention that when McGinniss stopped by her house, he was dropping off a book for her. Sarah concedes that what McGinniss is doing is okay but then copies her statements from the other day about how "fences do make for good neighbors." I guess figuring out how to cut and paste took up a majority of Memorial Day. Also notice Palin's last line where she mentions how the media will sensationalize "whatever the latest episode is" - it was Palin who first sensationalized this "nontroversy."
NBC responded to thank us for our statements and again promised that they would "make sure" that the Today Show aired both of our statements "as a fullscreen graphic during the segment tomorrow." We were grateful because we knew that our statements would counter any accusation of "inciting hatred." And boy was it necessary because in his interview on NBC this morning McGinniss doubled down on his accusation to actually compare us to the Nazis!
I guess it was McGinniss' silence that caused a threatening Craigslist listing to be posted or a reminder in The Frontiersman of Alaskan law that permits the use of deadly force. I guess that had nothing to do with Sarah Palin blowing the whistle on her new neighbor.
Taking a play out of the conservative propaganda handbook, Palin continues to paint herself as the victim because NBC didn't print her entire comment in it's entirety. Maybe NBC didn't print her response because it only consisted of accusations against the author - McGinniss was already on air defending himself from Palin's previous accusations. I also find it funny that she is upset that her statement would be aired the following day, "after the damage had been done." Where was Sarah Palin when James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles made severely edited videos depicting ACORN as a corrupt organization... oh wait... Sarah Palin hated ACORN a couple years back, attacking the organization way before the wannabe journalists made their propaganda film.
Palin plays dumb as to what she actually meant when she pondered in her earlier Facebook post what McGinniss was going to write about while watching over her young daughter's bedroom, repeatedly referring to McGinniss as a "journalist" in quotation marks. McGinniss also stated in his interview that he didn't care about Palin's children, yet she continues to drag them into the picture, stating that she wants McGinniss to "leave [her] kids alone." I don't know about you, but to me it seems that Palin is trying to justify herself by claiming she was doing it in the name of protecting her children.
Palin mentions that McGinniss is 15 feet away from her children's play area - in her previous post, wasn't he 15 feet away from her kitchen window? Does Palin have any comprehension of her spatial reality? Again, Palin paints herself the victim, discounting McGinniss' claims that he is being threatened by claiming that she has been threatened longer. I love how Palin also calls this accomplished author a "self-proclaimed 'journalist'. She did get one thing right - stating that ignorant and hateful people have the right to freedom of speech too.
Palin is correct in that "reporters must be held accountable," so what does she have to say about her coworkers at Fox News who continually distort the facts day after day? What does Palin have to say for her own "journalistic" piece that misrepresented interviews like the one with LL Cool J? What does Palin know about journalism?
Palin's little Facebook piece is pure hypocratic trash. She attempts to distort the facts and make herself the victim in a situation that she created. Sadly, Palin followers will fall for this crap and attack McGinniss, but now that Palin is beating this horse to death, her fans are going to get riled up even more. I suggest McGinniss buy a gun because you never know what kind of crazy person is lurking around the corner, and as we have learned from The Frontiersman, Alaskan law allows you to use deadly force in protecting life and property.
I also question as to whether or not NBC was acutally in contact with the former half-term governor on Memorial Day. Palin offers no evidence, and taking her advice to heart, I am holding Palin accountable for her actions because God forbid she commits an act of hypocrisy and posts something "corrupt, deceptive, and maipulative..."