Don't get me wrong. I'm really not in Sarah Palin's corner. I just find it discouraging that author Joe McGinness and now, filmmaker Nick Broomfield, are taking such cheap hits at her. McGinniss particularly.
I know all about using un-named sources. I've certainly done it, generally to keep cops and firefighters from losing their jobs after giving me information I was entitled to get anyway. But McGinniss seems to take a special delight in dishing confidential source rumor, gossip and innuendo. His claim that he just "happened" to find a house directly next door to the Palin's but never looked over the fence . . . well, to this writer that just seems stalkerish.
Both men have gotten their scoops from talking to those who are on the outs with the Palins. Gee, you suppose they might have an axe to grind? You betcha. Joe and Nick, can I talk to the people in your lives you've screwed and see the crap they tell me about you?
Here's the bottom line. Sarah Palin is a phony. She mouths cheap phrases, quick lines that a lazy and, in many cases, under-intelligent public loves to hear. She chose to leave her job as governor to make gazillions on the speakers' circuit and on Fox and to be idolized by millions. She loves the attention. But she will never become more than that because she is having too much fun conning the people who love her so much.
So why bother to try and shake her, guys? You can't do it. And what you've produced in book and film is just trash.
