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It is not illegal to impersonate a journalist, but when an anti-Palin blogger published a bogus "exclusive" Saturday, he signed up for a lesson in the law of unintended consequences:

Jesse Griffin, the Alaska blogger who Saturday claimed in an "exclusive" report that Todd and Sarah Palin were divorcing, will no longer work as an Anchorage kindergarten teaching assistant, school officials confirmed Wednesday.
Griffin's resignation followed revelations that the 49-year-old Griffin had posted (under the alias "Gryphen") sexually explicit advocacy of pornography and masturbation on his "Immoral Minority" blog. . . .
Griffin blamed "the Palin team and their minions" for discovery of his "Gryphen" online alias, which he says resulted in death threats and harassment. . . .

"Minions"? Merely a reporter doing his job. It's like Joe Friday said: "Just the facts, ma'am." Read the whole thing.

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SoCon| 8.6.09 @ 4:01AM

Good job, RSM. Thank you.

Hippo Gryff| 8.6.09 @ 4:08AM

See you in Hell, Jesse Griffin, you "minion" of the Satanocrats and their messiah B.O.

Blunted| 8.6.09 @ 4:21AM

Jesse Griffen must make you feel so proud, LR/Jeremiah. Another fine example of today's democrat.

What a disgusting excuse for a human being.

Tim| 8.6.09 @ 8:38AM

You don't have to scratch these activists very deep to find all sorts of surprising things.

tonypal| 8.6.09 @ 9:47AM

I believe tree hugging lefties call this Karma.

Solo| 8.6.09 @ 9:48AM

Wow! He resigned, huh?

What a quitter!

KansasGirl| 8.6.09 @ 10:10AM

Simply marvelous.

OD1 Kanobe| 8.6.09 @ 10:14AM

"Immoral Minority"

That pretty well covers it.

greg| 8.6.09 @ 10:18AM

As disgusting as Jesse Griffin turned out to be, I'm not surprised. My bet is that if a similar investigation was done on Shannyn Moore, Linda Biegel, Dennis Zaki, Philip Munger, Jeanne Devon, Andree McLeod, Sondra Tompkins, etc., etc., (the Alaskan anti-Palin bloggers and complaint filers) you would find a lot of dirt on all of them.

These are the kind of people that the DNC recruits to carry out its dirty work. Useful idiots are a dime a dozen.

JB| 8.6.09 @ 10:28AM

Every single one of these democrat bloggers are just as disgusting and inhuman.

His man had no business being around children with his obvious personality defects.

Ocarterma| 8.6.09 @ 10:46AM

Now let's interview those kids he "taught" and get to some real truth about the perve.

Pingback| 8.6.09 @ 10:47AM

Alaska Blogger, Source of False Palin Divorce Rumor, Resigns from School | Chicago Da links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…from BackyardConservative. The views represented do not necessarily represent those of the Chicago Daily Observer.] It is not illegal to impersonate a journalist, but when an anti-Palin blogger published a bogus "exclusive" Saturday, he signed up for a lesson in the law of unintended consequences: Jesse Griffin, the Alaska blogger who Saturday claimed in an "exclusive" report that Todd and Sarah Palin were…

Jill| 8.6.09 @ 11:01AM

Just another example of a low life out to destroy this good woman politically, economically, personally, et al.

Pingback| 8.6.09 @ 11:47AM

WeThePeopleNews - Alaska Blogger Who Pushed Palin ‘Divorce’ Rumor Resigns From Ancho links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…blamed “the Palin team and their minions” for discovery of his “Gryphen” online alias, which he says resulted in death threats and harassment. . . . (Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org … Tags: Liberal Smears You must be logged in to post a comment. « 4th Grade Teacher Letter to President Obama Recent News Alaska Blogger Who Pushed Palin ‘Divorce’ Rumor…

Blunted| 8.6.09 @ 12:56PM

Where are the trolls? Bring in the trolls to defend this pervert. Where are the Huff/Po minions?

Wow, even demonrats have shame, who'd a thunk it?

Bob Larimer| 8.6.09 @ 1:23PM

These are the tolerant, diversity-celebrating, open-minded members of the Humanist-indoctrinated (http://www.jcn.com/manifestos.html) Democrat Party.
Hate-filled religious fanatics, they embody the very accusations they make about conservative religious people like Sarah Palin.
The Left is full of creepy weirdos.

Angelou| 8.6.09 @ 2:19PM

The fact still remains, Palin had an affair, and she will not make it anywhere near the whitehouse in 2010 or any other time.

Jeremiah| 8.6.09 @ 2:22PM

What a fat little maggot Griffin is--he looks just like I thought he would. I wouldn't want him around my little girl or boy. Yuck!

Jeremiah| 8.6.09 @ 2:26PM

More lies from liberal nutcases. You should be institutionalized, moron. You liberals are perverts.

Besides, your hero, Bill 'sexual predator' Clinton, perverted his way through the White House for eight years--couldn't get any sleazier than that. Yet, you love him! LOL!!

Interloper| 8.6.09 @ 2:28PM

The Presidential election is in 2012, bonehead. Such smart demonrats!

J. Carpenter| 8.6.09 @ 2:32PM

When this thing started gaining momentum I tried to convince him to craft a retraction and apology.

More precisely, the advice I gave him was to "shut up", urging him to realize that we all have skeletons in our past that could see the light of day--particularly given the realities of life in cyberspace.

He obviously relished the idea of playing David to Palin's "Goliath" and was urged by his readers to carry the banner of anti-Palinism into battle.

I warned him their advice could damage him severely.

Now his family has to pay the price for his stupidity.

Hopefully, this will just fade away before his wife and kids take a beating also.

J. Carpenter| 8.6.09 @ 2:38PM

Anjelou, it's the confusion with opinion or conjecture with fact that fed the beast that devoured this guy. You might profit from his mistakes by acknowledging you personally know nothing about any such infidelity.

Can you comprehend that it is the kind of blind rush to judgement in which you engage that ultimately will have the cumulative effect of sabotaging Obama's presidency.

No single snowflake believes it is responsible for an avalanche.

Bob| 8.6.09 @ 2:41PM

Princess Palin is getting divorced?

Ocarterma| 8.6.09 @ 2:49PM

Wife & kids????? This turd has a wife and some kids???? Let me guess his "wife" has a 5 O'clock shadow right........wife & kids indeed...........

Blunted| 8.6.09 @ 3:34PM

The only Princess on this thread is you, Bob. Dope.

I thought Jesse the fruit was single. If not, I worry for his children.

C4P| 8.6.09 @ 3:44PM

Gee, Carpenter--you mean like the way you fascist azzholes beat up on Sarah's family?

Like the has-been David Bitterman laughing about Sarah's 14 year old daughter getting raped in front of 50,000 people at Yankee Stadium? Really?

Poor, poor liberal monster Jesse Griffin; my heart breaks for him. No amount of b!tch slapping is enough punishment for this scum sucker or all of you perverted demonrats.

Save your phony crocodile tears, libtard. Everything you stand for is a lie.

SoCon| 8.6.09 @ 3:46PM

Carpenter, TOO LATE!! America has awakened and Obummer's presidency is already dead--and you losers know it.

Pingback| 8.6.09 @ 7:39PM

Shannyn Moore links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Alaskan blogger Shannyn Moore gives us the inside scoop. Moore's name lit up Google and a light bulb went off at the fledgling CyberFrequencies' …   Alaska Blogger Who Pushed Palin 'Divorce' Rumor Resigns From … My bet is that if a similar investigation was done on Shannyn Moore, Linda Biegel, Dennis Zaki, Philip Munger, Jeanne Devon, Andree McLeod, Sondra Tompkins, ……

Catherine| 8.7.09 @ 12:06PM

Sarah has not threatened to sue the author of the blog "Palin Deception, which is dedicated to exposing the allegation that Bristol is the mother of Trigg. (Yes--there was an announcement in December that Bristol had Tripp, but no one saw that baby until February.) Why no suit in the case of this blogger?

The author of the blog speculates that Sarah never will threaten to sue because the burden would then be on her to prove she is, indeed, Trigg's mother. And she can't.

Skeptical? What's your opinion of why she hasn't sued this blogger?

Summer| 8.7.09 @ 2:44PM

Good!! If he stayed at that school, I'd have pulled my child out of it. Who needs this filthy-mouthed hateful person teaching my kids and indoctrinating them with liberal views and Marxist tactics. This guy has been divorced twice. I wonder what his exes think of him and why did he get divorced from both within about a 5-10 year timeframe? What is this supposed father teaching his kids????

Good riddance to that piece of trash who should have been taken out to the dumpster ages ago!!

Archeon| 8.7.09 @ 11:29PM

Sarah Palin is a cunt.
Just wait, I bet she and Tod are getting a divorce.

SARAH PALIN 2012| 8.8.09 @ 1:19PM

All of you fascist liberals are c*nts. You're all worthless pieces of human excrement. I hope Sarah beats your thin-skinned, jug eared joker clown in 2012.

I'm going to work my @ss off to help make this happen, scum bucket.

SARAH GOT THE LAST LAUGH!!| 8.8.09 @ 2:52PM

And so will we in 2010 and 2012. Perverted liberals must go!

SAY NO TO OBAMA CARE DEATH PANELS!!

Mal| 8.12.09 @ 9:32PM

Lordy, I hope I never actually meet the nasty people who post here. Yuck!

NOMAL| 8.14.09 @ 2:42AM

Don't recall sending you an invitation, moron. Weak weenies like you aren't welcome anyway.

Mal| 8.14.09 @ 11:24AM

Yes, I've noticed that some extremist conservatives would prefer to replace our Constitution with the law of the jungle but I really don't think "Every man for himself" is a sound basis for government or civilization. It's not what the Republican Party used to stand for and the vicious nature of its current "supporters" has done more to damage its power than the most Marxist liberal.

chris| 8.17.09 @ 2:01AM

palin is such a horrible person

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