Three Books, One Worth a Read, Two Worth the Trash: Kennedys and Palins

Three Books, One Worth a Read, Two Worth the Trash: Kennedy's and Palins

In recent weeks, three books have hit the literary market, one a revealing collection of the thoughts of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, the other two gossipy collections of rabid drivel written and published out of spite and animosity. . . .

When it comes to hatchet jobs and unmitigated squalor, no recent writing surpasses the venture into the arena of political and character assassination better than Joe McGinness’ salacious book about Sarah Palin and her family. With just a few tweaks and a few more graphic lies, McGinness’ The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin could rival Fanny Hill and Tropic of Cancer.

McGinness began his quest for Palin dirt two years ago by renting a house adjacent to the family property in Wasilla, Alaska, so close that the Palins had to erect an 8 foot fence to keep Peeping Joe from spying on the family and leering into their daughter Piper’s bedroom.

He denied he could even see her bedroom–meaning he must have looked for it–and Todd Palin paid him a visit.

Like any snake, McGinness reacted angrily when he was stepped on and said, “He came over to get in my face about moving in there. I said, ‘You’re not even going to know I’m there. . . . I mind my own business. I don’t care what happens on your side of the fence. That’s not why I’m here.’ “ (http://aol.it/9EZTQj)

Wasilla’s population is just shy of 8,000 and covers an area of almost 12 square miles but McGinness chose to rent next door to the Palins. Of course, he didn’t care what happened over at the Palins. It was simply coincidence that he ended up their neighbor and rumors of the binoculars on his windowsill are just rumors.

Apparently, Peeping Joe didn’t see nearly enough to fill a book so he proceeded to fill The Rogue with other rumors and innuendo. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5551.)

Slime, Sleaze, and Levi Johnston

Slime, Sleaze, and Levi Johnston

Levi Johnston is the kind of guy a girl should bring home to meet the family–but only if the family would beat the living daylights out of him. The reader may recall Levi, the handsome, young high school student who transformed himself into a vile snake to gain fame and make a buck.

Todd and Sarah Palin of Wasilla, Alaska and their young daughter, Bristol, were evidently taken in by Johnston in more ways than one. The Levi-Bristol relationship has become common knowledge: pre-marital teen sex, pregnancy, Baby Tripp, and two engagements, both of which Bristol broke off.

Following Tripp’s birth, Bristol worked, attended school, took care of their child, became a spokeswoman for teen sexual abstinence, advocated against abortion, wrote a “memoir,” Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far, and finished as a finalist on “Dancing with the Stars.”

Johnston decided he didn’t want to get his hands dirty in the Alaskan oil fields and opted for a career as a male model/actor and, since that objective wasn’t panning out too well, embarked on a mission to smear the Palin family. He, too, wrote a book, a yet-to-be-released tome with the slanderously-loaded title, Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs.

It was hardly his first excursion into smearing, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5445.)