Posted on 09/26/2011 3:53:55 PM PDT by Al B.
Sarah Palin’s family attorney John Tiemessen has written a letter to Maya Mavjee, the publisher of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, that Palin may sue her, the company, and the book’s author Joe McGinniss “for knowingly publishing false statements” in his book released last week, “The Rogue,” ABC News has learned.
The book was widely panned by critics for using unnamed sources to criticize Palin and her family. Tiemessen cites an email they have access to in which McGinniss writes that attorneys from Crown Publishing told him “nothing I can cite other than my own reporting rises above the level of tawdry gossip. The proof is always just around the corner, but that is a corner nobody has been able to turn” and that McGinniss “ran out of time” to sufficiently source the book.
A source close to the Palins tells ABC News that the “Palins are fighting back and demanding answers from Random House.”
“Random House is at the top of the food chain and published a book based upon acknowledged unsubstantiated gossip,” the source said. “The revealing email is key as evidence of this defamatory approach to politics through proxies.”
Tiemessen writes in the letter that the email “clearly describes the fact that Mr. McGinniss researched and investigated many false and scurrilous allegations, and concluded that there was absolutely no evidence anywhere backing these allegations.”
Palin’s attorney writes that it is “malicious” for Crown to publish the book when it has proof McGinniss and Crown “were fully aware the statements in the book were false, intended to be false, and were intended to harm.”
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Excellent.
Palin may end up with her own publishing business.
Hope she CRUSHES them in court.
Please do so, I’m tired of the moron I work with who actually buys such slanderous trash as truth.
Hahahahahaha!!!! I really hope that she sues them BIG and refuses to settle! I want that twerp author brought into court and made to testify under oath! Hahahahaha!!!! Go get ‘em Sara!!!
Crown Palin Publishing!
Good! Sue the bastards right into the pits of Hell, where they belong!
Id normally say I hope she sues the pants off of pervert McGinnis but I really don’t want to see what he looks like with his pants off LOL. McGinnis is a slimeball and even Keith Olbermann and NPR want nothing to do with him, it shows what a pile of crap his “Book” is when even Olbermann has his standards
“Don’t Retreat, Instead - RELOAD!”
“Taste My Nightstick.”
When the autor was on The View last week even those lib women were giving him a bad time...Joy Bahar wasn’ t real nice to him. It must be bad!
I don’t think Sarah is going to sue but the threat of suing will probably make Random House pull the book off the selves and dumb creepy Joe and in essences admit guilt by their actions
It is about time someone calls these Leftist publishing hacks out for this BS. I hope Palin puts these dopes out of business.
Schadenfruede, baby!
“nothing I can cite other than my own reporting rises above the level of tawdry gossip. “
So, DoDo Joe thinks he can’t be sued successfully for “tawdry gossip”?
I refer him and his lawyers to Carol Burnett’s very successful suit against the National Enquirer.
And then NO SETTLEMENT, short of a complete retraction.
Why threaten?
If she has a case, drag his ass to court and get all the books recalled!
Don't threaten! DO IT
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