Taking things to a whole new level of creepy
May 27, 2010 Leave a Comment
Palin’s new neighbor turns out to be a legendary journalist:
Sarah Palin has a new neighbor in Wasilla, Alaska, and he’s not just any old regular joe.
The former Alaska governor posted on her Facebook page Tuesday a shot of the back of a blue-shirted, chino-clad man who she says is famed author Joe McGinniss.
“Yes, that Joe McGinniss,” Palin writes. “Here he is — about 15 feet away on the neighbor’s rented deck overlooking my children’s play area and my kitchen window. Maybe we’ll welcome him with a homemade blueberry pie tomorrow so he’ll know how friendly Alaskans are.”
McGinnis is perhaps best known for his youthful book on the Nixon campaign, “The Selling of the President 1968,” which has become a classic of political journalism. But he has also written a book on the oil pipeline in Alaska, and his “Fatal Vision” from 1984, on the Jeffrey MacDonald murder trial, became a popular cause celebre.
McGinniss is a master of immersive journalism, and he is currently writing a book about Palin. (She was also the subject of a none-too-flattering profile by McGinniss in Portfolio last year)….
An e-mail to McGinniss’s publisher, Broadway Books, and to McGinnis, as well as a voice mail left with his agent, were not immediately returned. Broadway Books told the Associated Press, “McGinniss will be highly respectful of his subject’s privacy as he investigates her public activities.”
That is a topic McGinniss has joked about before, writing last July on his public Facebook page beneath a photo of Palin as a young woman, “Why won’t media leave her kids alone when she’s trying so hard to protect their privacy?”
