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On the Today show this morning, an aspiring old author, Mr. Joe McGinniss, hoping to write a book and cash in on the left’ s obsession with the dazzling former Governor of Alaska, Mrs. Sarah Palin, defended his locating next door to the home of the subject of his planned diatribe. McGinniss cleared matters up for viewers. He is the victim. Mrs. Palin has turned loose the “hounds of hell, and now they’ re out there slavering and barking and growling,” McGinniss said. “That’s the same kind of tactic — and I’m not calling her a Nazi — but that’s the same kind of tactic that that the Nazi troopers used in Germany in the '30s, and I don’t think there’s any place for it in America.”
Nazi tactics employed by Mrs. Palin include taking Mr. McGinniss’s picture, a posting on Facebook, describing the creep as a creep, and the building of a large fence by a real man, Mr. Palin, to allow a modicum of privacy
For me, the self-pity and horrors of Mr. McGinniss’ s travails would all be amusing, if not for the continued trivialization of the historic reality of the Nazis. For the longest time, anything not approved of by liberals and leftists has been branded Nazi. Arizona’s state law designed to enforce federal immigration law has met with this same stupid usage. A good question for Mr. McGinniss is which Jewish victim of the Holocaust, and all other victims of Nazi terror, would mind sharing his suffering and trading places? The man is more than a creep. He’s an ignorant whiner.
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Nate| 6.1.10 @ 2:44PM
McGinniss looks like Jabba the Hut.
Nasty old skeezoid.
Nick| 6.1.10 @ 2:47PM
Okay, all you stinking liberals, where is your outrage?
You constantly decry President Dither being called a socialist, communist, and nazi. Let's see if you are intellectually honest. Where are your denouncements of McGinniss?
Liberal Reader? Nate? PurpleJackass? RCV? Miss Alabama?
"Welllllllll? We're waiting?"
- Judge Smails
RCV| 6.1.10 @ 4:16PM
At least he said he wasn't calling her a Nazi. I don't recall you calling any of your right-fringe brethren to task for hurling such terms at our President.
ejp| 6.1.10 @ 5:38PM
Oh I see, that little phony disclaimer on his part means we can exempt the rest of his garbage comments in which he IS trying to liken her to a Nazi. What hypocrisy.
SoCon| 6.1.10 @ 5:59PM
Hey, RCV--that you, Bobster? Let's see your email address again so we can make sure. Haha!
Nick| 6.1.10 @ 11:54PM
Thanks for proving my point, RCV!
You stinking liberals have been crying "nazi" since the '50s. Now you are being hoisted with your own petard, and surprise, you don't like it much, do you?
Well tough!
Conservatives have finally learned to fight fire with fire. Get used to it!
Dixie Pixie| 6.1.10 @ 7:32PM
OK Nick, I will bite.
The term “NAZI” has been overused so often it has become a meaningless term.
The overuse has reduced the Nazi's to a stock comic enemy used by bad writers when they can not come up with a plausible enemy.
Liberalism however is justly becoming a synonym for Evil as it is has become a home for sleazily opportunistic people such as Joe McGinniss.
Nick| 6.2.10 @ 12:11AM
Salutations Dixie Pixie!
Yes, the term "nazi" has been overused by liberals for the past 60 years.
But, I don't believe it has reached "meaningless" status yet. Just see how much liberals scream with outrage when you call one of their sacred cows a nazi.
"Communist" and "socialist" are also working quite well.
It is up to conservatives to educate people, who don't know any better, the truth about nazis, communists, progressives, fascists, and all socialists in general.
Bob Miller| 6.1.10 @ 3:22PM
McGinniss is the opposite of a gentleman, or, come to think of it, of a man.
Margie| 6.1.10 @ 3:25PM
The stalker said this:
"That's the same kind of tactic -- and I'm not calling her a Nazi -- but that's the same kind of tactic that that the Nazi troopers used in Germany in the '30s, and I don't think there's any place for it in America."
The last part of that quote, that HE doesn't think there's any place for it in America, should be taken as a serious THREAT.
What does he mean by that and what is in his mind that he plans on doing about it?
This CREEP is dangerous.
RCV| 6.1.10 @ 4:22PM
I'm bemused by the feigned outrage over Joe McGinnis. What's he done? He's writing a biography of Ms. Palin, so he moves to Wasila and rents a house next door to her. So? And as for the "dazzling ex-governor," let's remember that she is an EX-governor because she simply abandoned her post when she sensed the opportunity to make m0ney during her 15 minutes of fame. The only thing "dazzling" about her is her ditziness.
ejp| 6.1.10 @ 5:40PM
Actually, she resigned because people who are the equivalent of McGinnis kept stalking her with phony ethics complaints. And as for ditziness in a VP candidate, I suggest you stand up and take a look at the guy who got the job (even if you're in a wheelchair, you can still count on Joe to call on you to stand up).
SoCon| 6.1.10 @ 6:06PM
Feigned outrage? I would say that describes mouth-breather McGinniss' screed to a 't'.
If Palin is such a nobody as you claim, why won't you dirtbags leave her alone?
Sarah Palin lives rent-free inside your very tiny minds. All of you liberals are losers, especially mouth-breather McGinniss.
RCV| 6.1.10 @ 6:33PM
If she'd just slink back to the meth-dealing, hunt-from-a-helicopter,abstinence-for-everyone-else crowd in Wasila that she came from, and stay out of everyone's face, I'd be delighted to forget about her. Her excuse for abandoning her job was so laughable that it gave pause to even her most ardent supporters.
ejp| 6.1.10 @ 6:51PM
Oh, I see, in other words, she should check her First Amendment rights at the door. I guess that tells us who suddenly becomes more worthy of getting themselves into a Nazi analogy territory! :)
As for her "abandoning" her job, I think she would have been perfectly happy to continue, but it seems that a bunch of liberal wackos were determined to keep her from doing her job with the phony ethics complaints.
RCV| 6.2.10 @ 12:48AM
No, she has every right to exercise her First Amendment rights, as we do to criticize her inane mumblings when we choose. And as Joe M has to investigate and write about her. If it was that petty criminal James O'Keefe moving in next to Barney Frank, you guys would give him an award!
Nick| 6.2.10 @ 1:21AM
Didn't you hear, RCV?
Mr. O'Keefe pled guilty to a misdemeanor. And got probation and 100 hours of community service.
No jail time. Just like Scooter Libby and Karl Rove! Ha-ha!
SoCon| 6.1.10 @ 7:35PM
Uh, Palin IS back home in Wasilla--guess you didn't notice. Are you braindead or just totally nuts?
Mouth-breather McGinniss is in Palin's face--that's why we're talking about her right now.
Sarah lives rent-free in you freaks' heads.
RCV| 6.2.10 @ 12:50AM
Get a new line, SoCon, the "rent-free" one doesn't even make sense.
SoCon| 6.2.10 @ 2:25AM
It makes plenty of sense--if you're not braindead like you, troll.
Don't you dumb liberals have enough troubles on your mind with your bribes offered to democrat congressmen and your incompetent handling of BP's (Barack's Problem) Gulf disaster?
Oilbama's new motto: Spill, Baby, Spill.
Tim*| 6.1.10 @ 4:43PM
Uh Oh ! The Liberal Agenda Wimp attempts to play The Nazi Card.
Apparently , McGinniss couldn't play The Race Card.
We Can See November From The Tea Party House .
Ken (Old Texican )| 6.1.10 @ 6:54PM
RCV, Purpleguy et al,
The thing that saddens me to think about, is the idea that you guys actually might believe your goofiness.
Hey,
If you are paid plants...go for it. You can't do any harm here, (except perhaps drowning me as I laugh coffee through my nose, heh).
But if you guys really buy your own goulash, my goodness youall are going to have empty lives and meaningless deaths.
(Such a waste)
McGinniss isn't worth the keystrokes or electron wastage to discuss further. However, I will reimburse MR. Palin for the bullet to end the peeper.
SoCon| 6.1.10 @ 7:29PM
The only bullets Palin needs are verbal bullets, Ken.
The slimy McGinniss gives everyone the creeps.
Piper could probably take the flabby, foam-flecked mouth-breather down! :)
RCV| 6.2.10 @ 12:53AM
My life's been quite fulfilling, rewarding and all around pretty darn good, thank you. Mr. Palin justs stands by and smiles, you betcha.
SoCon| 6.2.10 @ 2:28AM
Mr. Palin is a REAL man, unlike the liberal slimeball, McGinniss and any dirtbag who defends the perv.
You betcha!
Margie| 6.2.10 @ 11:14AM
Right on, right on, right on!
Herman Bumster| 6.1.10 @ 7:41PM
Palin For Presidentin!
Wesley Mouch| 6.1.10 @ 10:27PM
Yes, we must all work hard to make sure Palin is the republican candidate in 2012. Don't spare any effort.
RCV| 6.2.10 @ 12:54AM
...and all of us on the Democratic side say, from your lips to God's ears!
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!!| 6.2.10 @ 4:15PM
Oilbama's presidency is being destroyed by the oil-strangled Gulf Coast.
Spill Baby Spill
See you in November
Richard Baker| 6.2.10 @ 7:40AM
Wonder when Todd goes next door and tells this bozo to mind his manners.
George | 6.2.10 @ 11:58AM
I saw the interview with Matt Lauer on Today. Joe, God bless you. You looked like a hysterical woman trying to defend the indefensable. You created the whole situation, you moron. YOU decided to move into a house right next door to your subject. Why? YOU state that YOU are going to go all over the city prying into her personal business and harass her friends and neighbors. YOU think that the public is stupid enough to buy into a benign motive?
Remember one thing genius. Public figures ARE fair game and ARE accountable for their statements on political issues. Public figures ARE NOT nor should they be subjects of harassment or irrational ridicule.
If you feel that she is wrong on point, go ahead and write your little editorial. It will be accepted by some and rejected by others. ACT LIKE A MAN!! After all, Murrow didn't rent a house next to McCarthy's.