Sue Random House for $10 Billion - Sounds Good ....

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“ In an email dated January 27, 2011, Joe McGinniss, author of The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, says that Random House lawyers have told him he has provided nothing more than “tawdry gossip” to substantiate “any of the salacious stories about the Palin family.” Below, I present each of these accusations in turn, and how McGinniss used most of them in The Rogue, even though he admitted in his email that he could not prove them: [Excerpted] a) Todd had sex with a hooker, or with anyone else outside his marriage. McGinniss dropped the “hooker” accusation–probably because he was afraid, as his email suggests, that the sole source “may be mentally unstable” and that even the National Enquirer appeared to be ready “to back off this story.”  Yet McGinniss did publish allegations in The Rogue that Todd flirted with other women b)  Sarah had an affair with Brad Hanson, or anyone else. McGinniss presents no named source for this accusation in The Rogue other than an article in the National Enquirer in October 2008 [and third party sources] McGinniss does not quote Cottle directly, but says that she fills him in on local gossip ... . c)  Track was a druggie who enlisted in the army to avoid a jail term.  Or that he vandalized Wasilla school buses. McGinniss’s basis for accusations of drug use by Track Palin is the National Enquirer, which in turn had quoted an unnamed “source” in 2008. He adds that “reports of Track’s drug use persisted even into the summer of 2010” but does not specify what those reports are, or from whom (p. 114). His primary source for the accusation of vandalism in 2005 is local gossip: “word spread immediately in Wasilla,”  Blah-blah-nlah d)  Willow was involved in the vandalism of the empty house in Meadow Lakes.  Or that Sarah rushed back from Hawaii to put the lid on that. McGinniss’s only source is the National Enquirer, which made these claims in 2010. He also claims “[m]any in Wasilla” believe the story (p. 111). He also cites gossip related by Colleen Cottle in 2010–again, Blah-blah-nlah e) Trig is not Sarah’s natural born child. [Me: I think this is the most inexcusably malicious of the lot] McGinniss provides no new evidence for this debunked claim, quoting “questions” being asked on “blogs” and the like (p. 316). McGinniss also cites “many Wasillans” who allegedly say that “even if she had not faked the entire story of her pregnancy and Trig’s birth, it was something she was eminently capable of doing” Blah-blah-nlah f)   Bristol was promiscuous as a high schooler and drank and used drugs, or became pregnant again after Tripp’s birth. McGinniss’s source is again local gossip in the summer of 2010: “Rumors immediately run rampant,” he says (p. 204). Once again, he also cites gossip allegedly related by (but not directly quoted from) Colleen Cottle in 2010. He mentions a July 2010 interview in The Daily Beast with Bristol’s alleged new boyfriend at the time, Ben Barber, which does not discuss promiscuity or drugs, and actually contradicts the claim that Bristol became pregnant again Blah-blah-nlah Read: Explosive Email Shows Anti-Palin Author McGinniss, Random House Likely Published Literary Hoax Read: Random House on Sarah Palin’s Privacy: A Tale of Two Press Releases Read: Random House ‘Rogue’ Scandal Update: McGinniss Confirms, Griffin Fumes, ‘Hooker’ Responds ” The cure of course is to successfully sue McGinnis and Random House for, oh I dunno, $10B?