Posted on 09/14/2011 11:31:23 AM PDT by presidio9
Sarah Palin bedding a budding NBA star, snorting coke and cheating on the First Dude?
You betcha.
The scandalous details are revealed in the highly-anticipated tell-all "The Rogue: Searching for The Real Sarah Palin," written by best-selling author Joe McGinniss.
Palin bedded future pro hoops player Glen Rice while he was playing at the University of Michigan, the National Enquirer reports about the McGinniss book.
The sharp-shooting Rice - who spent one season with the Knicks - was playing in the annual "Great Alaska Shootout" while Palin was a sports reporter with Anchorage television station KTUU, the Enquirer said.
Their one-night stand over Thanksgiving weekend 1987 reportedly occurred in the dorm room of Palin's kid sister at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Palin was described by a friend as the aggressor, with the pal reporting "she hauled his ass down," the Enquirer said.
Less than a year later, Palin was pregnant by husband Todd and the couple eloped.
The book also repeated allegations - denied in the past by Palin - that she had a six-month affair with her husband's business partner in the mid-'90s.
The dalliance put a chill on the Palin marriage, with Todd complaining to friends about the loss of intimacy in their relationship, the Enquirer reported.
McGinniss, the author of "Fatal Vision" and "The Selling of the President," rented the house next door to the Palins in Wasilla while researching the bombshell book.
His agent, David Larabell, declined to comment on the Enquirer excerpts.
"As this is an embargoed book I can't comment on the specificity of its contents," Larabell wrote in an e-mail.
"Also, I haven't seen the National Enquirer article. I don't know about this instance, but they often get these reports right."
The book also reports that Palin was once seen snorting cocaine off the top of a 55-gallon drum while snowmobiling with friends. She also smoked pot with a professor while at Mat-Su College, the book says.
And it quotes a Palin family friend as saying that husband Todd Palin also snorted coke, describing him as "on the end of the straw plenty."
The Enquirer quoted a publishing source about the explosive stories contained in the 320-page book, due in stores next week.
There was no immediate response from the Palin camp.
Maybe the gossip will give her a huge ratings boost with dems ala Clinton.
Probably not, as she is a public figure. That makes it much harder to sue. Even if she could, she would have to prove A) the allegations are false; B) the author KNEW the allegations were false and published them anyway, and C) he did so with malice aforethought. It is a high bar to clear, and it would put her through a very public and humiliating process with very little chance of success.
I am convinced Gay Joe hauled out a photo of Sarah and put it in front of the basketball player and he said: “Yeah, that’s the ticket! I remember her.”
Couldn’t agree with you more about Sarah and one night stands. She doesn’t seem like the type. And even if it’s true, I couldn’t care less.
I smoked pot in college and I’m now pretty damned conservative and straight-laced.
Now that you mention it ... Yeah, the book Going Rogue (and the photos, especially the photos) indicate that, which means the bits about smoking pot and snorting coke are probably lies as well. I'm chagrined! :^/ It's a reflection on me and the folks I hung out with in my yoot (many of them now upstanding mostly conservatives who, like me, would NEVER relive that past) that I could at first glance so easily think, "Well, it might be true, but so what?" Now with reading some smarter posts here, I'm thinking, "Well, it's probably false, but even if it wasn't, so what?"
Because the truth remains that youthful indiscretions ONLY mean something if someone is still doing them three-plus decades later. And MOST youthful indiscretions are hard life-lessons that belong in the past, no matter the politician.
Let’s take the following as given: 1. Glen Rice was a basketball star at University of Michigan. ... 2. Michigan played in the Great Alaskan Shootout that year. ... 3. Glen Rice had sex with some white woman during that trip ..... DO YOU REALLY THINK HE KNOWS WHO SHE WAS 20 YEARS LATER WHEN SOME WOMAN BECAME FAMOUS? What did they become pen pals? Was she so terrific that Rice could never forget her among all those NBA groupies?
"Do you remember a white woman back when you played in college that you met when you .....?"
"Let me stop you right there. Look, back in college, I had a lot of fans. Sorry."
"Okay, let me put it this way: Do you remember the local TV Sports Reporter when you went to Alaska to play in the 1987 "Great Alaska Shootout Tournament"?
"Oh, THAT white woman. Of course, I do. Yeah, that's her on the video. Why do you ask? Do you know her? What's she doing now?"
VIDEO: Sarah Heath, KTUU-TV Sports Reporter, doing the nightly Sports News (1988)
In 1987, Glen Rice was a college starter for the first time. The year before, he had been a freshman bench warmer, averaging 7 points per game and probably did not get much attention paid to him. In 1987, he was not yet a "star".
The local TV Sports Reporter on a trip to Alaska during your first year as a college starter after warming the bench the year before?
Oh, yeah! You remember that after 24 years.
"Hi, Mom. ... Yeah, long distance from Alaska. ...... I think I'm becoming important. People are really starting to pay attention to me. Especially the local TV Sports Reporter up here ..... No, I'm not going to tell you all about it. I, ummm, .... don't want to run up the long distance bill. Gotta go, Mom. Love you."
Plus, remember what McGinnis is contending in their entirities: It’s not just a one-night-stand... it’s also part of “a fetish for black men.” It’s not just snorting drugs... it’s snorting drugs on top of a 55-gallon “oil drum.”
The whole thing sounds ludicrous, just like what you’d expect some fevered lib brain would concoct. I mean, really. Think about it. It’s idiotic.
I can even think of four guys I know right now who still indulge now and again, and they're as conservative, fiscally and socially, as any one of us on FR. I know there are a lot of folks in denial because they've bought completely into the "anyone who smokes pot is a pothead and a liberal" stereotype, but as for me ... I know very well that like most stereotypes, there are many exceptions. Stereotypes are liberal templates: misleading and limiting.
Where are all the Perrywinkle trolls at?
Well I think she admitted to trying pot when it was legal in Alaska.Said she couldn’t say she didn’t inhale like Clinton. That’s no secret- in some interview somebody asked her about it and she laughed saying “thanks for bringing that up.”
“He’s also the one who railroaded Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald in his book (and TV mini-series) “Fatal Vision”. “
Is that the guy who murdered his wife and kids
“Even if she could, she would have to prove A) the allegations are false; B) the author KNEW the allegations were false and published them anyway, and C) he did so with malice aforethought.”
That doesn’t sound right. When someone publishes a book that uses hearsay as fact that is clearly deflamation of character...I think the requirement of “proof” is on the person who wrote it and the company that published it.
He can speculate all he wants and give opinions, but when he makes claims that are damaging to the reputation, even of a public figure, he needs to be able to provide proof.
Where are the attornies on FR when you really need one?
Actually a lot of this seems somewhat plausible to me. Wallflower types don’t accomplish a lot of what Palin has accomplished in her career. A large portion of 18 to 24 year olds do a lot of things that later don’t seem like such a smart idea. You can either downplay them or sensationalize them like this author has done. The reality lies somewhere in the middle.
I guess I have three takeaways from this.
A) Should conservatives eat their own based on things like this? The left doesn’t do anything with their own, but love getting conservatives to take down each other with anything that looks like a scandal.
B) People shouldn’t hero worship their politicians as to their personal life whether it is Palin, Obama, Rick Perry or any of them. You’re bound to be letdown.
C) For better or worse, Palin is always going to have these type of PR flare ups, whether true or false. The media has decided to do this to her and not to Barry. Fair or not, conservatives have to figure out whether they want to have Sarah be their standard bearer knowing she’ll always have this hurdle to overcome. I think her ideas are the best of all the candidates for President but she may not be the best messenger for them for a variety of reasons.
If it’s not true, then she has a good case for libel.
FWIW. Yes, a terrible event. I did some hasty scrambling on old friend Wikipedia and a website headed Dr Jeffrey MacDonalds Case Book. I did learn what the basis of a court case was by the incarcerated former Green Beret.
Now this McGinniss pretended to be a believer in the innocence of the former Green Beret. He visited the jail often. All the time old Joe, was convinced of the guilt of his "friend". He then got lots of information for his book about the case.
MacDonald sued and after a hung jury, McGinniss paid $300,000 to get it out of his craw. Of course MacDonald could not personally get the money. One wonders if this man takes many showers, trying to wash away his filth figuratively speaking.
So you are saying that McGinniss Punked a mass-murderer in order to write a book?
After looking into the facts, I came to the conclusion that he was falsely charged and convicted.
Then the more I learned about Joe McGinniss, the more I was sure of it.
Also I meant that McGinniss was the one who might try to wash away the guilt of his rotten conscience.
So you buy his story that hippies broke into his home, murdered his wife and kids all while chanting “acid is groovy?”
If your sole source is McGinniss' "Fatal Vision" (either the book or the very well done and acted [Karl Malden and Gary Cole] TV movie of the same name) I would not be surprised that you do not.
That is exactly the way McGinniss sold and packaged it.
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