Posted on 09/16/2011 3:11:24 PM PDT by kara2008
[ Joe McGinniss interview on The Today Show 9/16/11 ]
Sometimes, I think it’s a public service to sit through some of this garbage so that you don’t have to.
The Today Show calls Joe McGuinness “longtime political author” — but I can think of a few better descriptive words more apt for a man who moved next door to the Palin family to stalk them and peep into the windows of young girls, the way McGuinness did last summer. “Longtime political author” is not the word I’d use to accurately convey the disgust his behavior generates.
I have no idea what this woman’s name is (the new Today Show talking head whose head is talking in the clip above), but she’s the latest mimeographed Today Show female host, succeeding Meredith Viera, who herself replaced “the perky one” Katie Couric, who was the pale replacement for Jane Pauley (ignoring Deborah Norville completely, as everyone should). These hosts seem to get more generic and less competent as they continue to be churned out of “journalism school”.
Whatever her name is (I think it might be “Savannah Smiles”, honestly, which wouldn’t surprise me in the least if it was true) sat down with Joe McGinniss in his cluttered, ramshackle home and kept calling his book “a bombshell” and “a takedown of Sarah Palin”.
Othertimes, he was distracted and seemingly looking about in corners or on the ceilings for the trolls, nymphs, and brownies he believes live or are baked there.
McGinniss has a creepy, whispering, fey voice and reminds me of a lonely old man in the neighborhood well-informed mothers would insist their kids avoid come trick-or-treating time. I don’t think McGinniss would put razor blades in the candy or anything, but I also wouldn’t trust him to not do anything inappropriate around children when unsupervised either. He’s just creepy. If your frisbee lands in his yard, kids, let him keep it. I don’t think it would be hygienic to ever want back anything that had been in his possession when the doors are closed.
Savannah Smiles goes on to say McGinniss spent four months in Wasilla, Alaska, but forgets to mention he was stalking the Palin family at that time. She makes it sound like his car brokedown or his plane was diverted there, in the middle of nowhere, and he looked up and said, “Oh, Wasilla. I can either write about the Iditarod or I can stalk Sarah Palin. Let me toss this coin and see how I’ll spend my life”.
Apparently, he walked up and down the various streets in town and ended up speaking to 200 people who had heard of Sarah Palin in order to write his book. I suspect some of his “interviews” were with various woodland creatures and ghosts or other things he may have made up, since most of his “interview” subjects are anonymous in the book.
McGinniss lies in the interview and says it was just “happenstance” that he moved next door to the Palin family and started peeping in their windows; he claims the woman who owned the house practically forced him to move there and rent it, and it was never his idea.
Yah, right.
Then he claims that he didn’t include in the book anything he learned about the Palin family from living next door. What really happened, that The Today Show doesn’t tell you, is that the Palin family filmed the Sarah Palin’s Alaska TV show during this time and were away for most of McGinniss’ peeping expedition, so all of the minors in the family were well-protected at a safe distance from this man when he was holed up next door, doing whatever it was he did all day, with binoculars.
McGinniss makes a point of repeatedly calling the Governor “Sarah”, as if he personally knows her. Stalkers always do this, because in his imagination he probably has a manufactured fantasy relationship with the Governor. It would not surprise me in the least if he dressed up as her “for Halloween” and had arguments with himself in the mirror about whether or not the Governor is being a good friend to him.
Creepy!
Another clue to McGinniss’ mental health is how mad he gets when telling Savannah Smiles about Todd Palin “tromping” through the yard to tell him to behave himself and stop peeping on the Palin’s minor children.
Savannah reads part of a statement from Todd describing how the Palin family feels about McGinniss’ creepiness and his obsession with the Governor.
McGinnis sits there, listening proudly, like he’s receiving a commendation.
Then McGinniss accuses the Governor of being a bad mother and of using cocaine. Savannah asks him how he knows these things, and McGinniss blushes and says, essentially, “I just know”. He makes a point of saying he’s not accusing the Governor of doing anything like this now, probably because he doesn’t want to be sued for defamation.
The next weird bit reveals what a racist McGinniss must be, because he tells Savannah Smiles it’s a big scandal that Governor Palin allegedly dated a black basketball player before she married Todd — which is a scandal only to the agenda-driven media and hypocrite Leftists like McGinniss because even if the Governor had indeed dated this man, an unmarried woman dating a black man is not a scandal.
Except, of course, to the hypocrite racists in the agenda-driven media who would invent a scandal over that.
McGinniss then says the Governor is not going to run for President because she’s just interested in easy money.
Which is interesting because the Governor turned down about $10 million to film another season of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” for TLC, which would have gone into production this summer and aired next year, but she clearly didn’t take that easy money. $10 million is a lot of money to turn down for what would essentially be an all-expenses-paid summer long vacation with her family that would then be aired as a TV series promoting herself — if all she was interested in was easy money and attention as McGinniss claims.
Todd Palin is right: McGinniss is creepy, and many people who came in contact with him while he was in Wasilla agreed with the depiction of him as an obsessed and disingenuous man with an ax to grind.
I have a friend who works at bookstore who is allowed to borrow books for free, and she’s going to lend me McGinniss’ book for a few days so that I can read it, do a write-up on every accusation he makes in it, and then return it. This way, people can know what lies McGinniss has told without them ever having to read this tripe for themselves. It will be worth staying up all night reading this garbage myself so that other people don’t have to, and so they don’t send any royalties McGinniss’ way from buying his work for use as anything other than toilet paper.
Honestly, McGinniss is one of those people who make you want to take a shower after having watched and listened to him.
Maybe ABC is trying to goad her into running....if she does I’m gonna help her kick some you know what.
This is so obvious that a person of intelligence like yourself risks a loss of credibility for posturing as if you do not see the difference.
But just in case you truly do not, allow me to explain. The use of a first name is most often a token of felt closeness, of familial affection, of camaraderie. When a person who genuinely likes and respects Sarah uses her first name, there is no cognitive dissonance. The usage “feels” right, because it matches the cultural template for an expression of affinity.
Whereas when someone like McGuinniss uses the familiar names of the family to whom he is a predator, there is no affection, no sense of family, no personal affinity, only predation. The usage is as jarring as if a rough-looking total stranger driving an old van approached your young daughter at the play ground and called her by her first name. What does your cultural template tell you about that? Creepy? At a minimum.
Who was Geoff?
BTTT - absolutely excellent.
Aside from the fact that when she introduces herself, she calls herself Sarah to us.
Sheeesh.
Appreciate you taking one for the team, Kevin...
1. This book will not have the authors desired impact, and
2. Anyone who entertains this cretin on their network virtually guarantees they (if not their network) will not have access to Governor Palin any time soon (regardless of the outcome of her upcoming decision).
Amish don’t speak like that. Wrong “hood”!
Yer right.
Your question remains without an answer.
Thanks!
I find myself asking variations of that question regarding most of his major policy decisions or statements.
No, it wasn’t Meredith Viera. It was the new one. Savannah Guthrie? All these NBC types look alike. Just like all the dames on Fox look alike.
Hi, Sam. Geoff is not here tonight but I am!
OOPS..I didnt read the part where it said “Succeeding” Meredith Vierra..I missed that part
Awesome!!
Savannah is even worse than the former host Vierra. Savannah is the former MSNBC White House reporter (and ya know what that means....)
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