Explosive Email Shows Anti-Palin Author McGinniss, Random House Likely Published Literary Hoax

Big Government.com ^ | Sept 22, 2011 | Andrew Breitbart

[libstripper]

The awful launch week for the over-hyped, expected bestseller The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, by controversial author Joe McGinniss, just got worse. Much worse.

After a week of universally scathing pans from the reflexively anti-Palin establishment media, McGinniss now faces the fight of his literary life: the accusation that he seems to have knowingly submitted a book to his publisher, Crown/Random House, that was filled with unproved “tawdry gossip” and rumors that lacked “factual evidence.”

[dead]

I didn’t live this long and work this hard over so many decades to wind up as AlaskaWTF between hard covers.

Wow! If that email is legit and can be proven so, this book will be in the remainder bin by Wednesday, next week.

Random House is going to take a bath. I'm pretty sure the Palin's won't sue, because it would just drag this crap out, but they sure could.

[Diogenesis]

"McGinniss, Random House Published (PRE-PLANNED Literary Hoax
In the email below, sent in January of 2011, McGinniss reveals that his manuscript,
then under legal review at Crown/Random House,
could not prove its most headline-grabbing allegations. "

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SSDD

"In 1987, McGinniss agreed to pay $325,000 to settle a lawsuit brought
by the convicted murderer who was the subject of McGinniss’s book Fatal Vision."

"In 2003, Random House released a larger-than-life, massive bestseller
by James Frey entitled A Million Little Pieces. Later, it was revealed that the book
was a fantastical literary hoax that made its way past some of the highest-paid
and most respected editors and lawyers in the literary world. Doubleday/Random House
felt compelled to offer full refunds to those who had bought the book."

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"From: Joe McGinniss To: Jesse Griffin
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 6:15 PM
Subject: I have to ask you for help
Jesse–
Legal review of my manuscript is underway and here’s my problem:
no one has ever offered documentation of any of the lurid stories about the Palins.
... I’ve neither seen nor heard anything that indicates that Ms. Tripp’s story has any basis in fact.
... No one has ever provided factual evidence that:
a) Todd had sex with a hooker, or with anyone else outside his marriage.
b) Sarah had an affair with Brad Hanson, or anyone else.
c) Track was a druggie who enlisted in the army to avoid a jail term. Or that he vandalized Wasilla school buses.
d) Willow was involved in the vandalism of the empty house in Meadow Lakes. Or that Sarah rushed back from Hawaii to put the lid on that.
e) Trig is not Sarah’s natural born child.
f) Bristol was promiscuous as a high schooler and drank and used drugs, or became pregnant again after Tripp’s birth.

Jesse, if you can put me in touch with people who are willing
and able to substantiate any of the above, now is the time to do so.
Otherwise, I hope you won’t complain that there are no startling new revelations in my book.
... My book represents the last best chance to put the truth about Sarah in front
of the American people in a documented, verifiable way.
But I need facts that I can rely on.
I didn’t live this long and work this hard over so many decades
to wind up as AlaskaWTF between hard covers.
Joe"

[Leep]

I’m surprised MSNBsC hasn’t offered him the head Anchorman position..???

[barstoolblues]

Must be some of that “climate of fear” that the Palins have around them that made this come to light.

And as the great Steve Roberts said, Palin actually bears some responsibility for the fact that someone like McGinnis would do this stuff. Yes. See what you made me do Sarah. You’re breathing. Its your fault.

[barstoolblues]

Must be some of that “climate of fear” that the Palins have around them that made this come to light.

And as the great Steve Roberts said, Palin actually bears some responsibility for the fact that someone like McGinnis would do this stuff. Yes. See what you made me do Sarah. You’re breathing. Its your fault.

[Red Badger]

Sounds like a defamation lawsuit may be in his and their futures..................

[kevkrom]

It almost seems like the whole thing was engineered to invite a libel lawsuit, knowing that if one was launched, that would take time and energy away from any Palin campaign (plus, opening up the Palins for discovery) and if a suit isn't launched, they'll use it as "evidence" that the claims were true.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

For the latecomers to the Alaska anklebiter saga, who is Jesse Griffin?

Anchorage Kindergarten Aide Resigns Following Disclosure

And here he IS!

The Immoral Minority

[Savage Beast]

They’ll love it in Lower Slobovia.

[mad_as_he$$]

To good to be true. I doubt that this is the genuine email.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Nothing here—all the Judges are Democrats—a picked jury will be Democrats—they could say that Sarah is really the Daughter of Adolph Hitler and get away with it. The cards are stacked against Sarah Palin. When the truth comes out about Obama and all it will show the most corrupt rule ever in the USA.

[Diogenesis]

Random House and McGinnis BOTH had prior experience
with libel and fraud, themselves.

There is absolutely no doubt this was planned
for maximal pain and suffering and hurting America
by someone waiting with very deep pockets (kevkrom probably correct).

[LibFreeUSA]

They will, but now’s not the time. They have the ability to destroy both the author and the publisher over this book. But, as I said, now is not the time.

[NonValueAdded]

I’ll give Joe one little bit of credit ... he is bringing together support for Sarah from the strangest corners, even Levi for crying out loud!

[Eagle of Liberty]

The best I got from that email was a new term and I think it should be logged into the FR lexicon!!! That term - AlaskaWTF. And now to use it in a sentence:

but because Sarah’s hypocrisy about her family is one of the things that galls me most

AlaskaWTF is McGinniss talking about here? Hypocrisy about her family? Like she doesn't love them as much as is seen in public?

[Rational Thought]

Good job of reporting by Andrew Breitbart.

[liberalh8ter]

After reading his e-mail I need a shower. This man is a vile invertebrate. This is stalking, pure and simple. Disguising it as “literature” shouldn’t make it any less illegal.

[Cboldt]

-- I doubt that this is the genuine email. --

If it isn't, Breitbart has opened himself up to a defamation judgment.

The extent McGinniss and Random House are at risk depends on how they couch the material, in the book. If the book says "there are rumors ..." then it's not defamatory.

If it is defamatory, Palin can just hire a lawyer on contingency, and let the case ride out without much investment the way of personal time or emotion.

[Jim Noble]

Is Todd Palin a “public figure”?

[Spirit of Liberty]

Sounds like he has a personal problem. LOL