Sarah Palin accused
her neighbor of enabling a "stalker", for having rented her home to Joe
McGinniss, Sr. a non-fiction writer who is writing a book about the Palins.
Palin’s husband has since built a 14-foot-tall cedar fence around their
property.
Sarah Palin's next-door neighbor sought out
author Joe McGinniss as a tenant, McGinniss's son said.
"No one is stalking anyone," Joe
McGinniss, Jr., wrote in response to an email from a Palin supporter who
confused his email address and his father's. "A woman was renting her
house and sought out the author because the Palins had crossed her (owed her
money for renovations she had done at their request and never paid her for). So
she knew McGinniss was writing the book and found him and offered him the
house."
The
Palin’s neighbor "turned down more lucrative offers from the National
Enquirer who wanted the house so they could 'stalk' and take pictures, etc...
She said no," he wrote.
McGinniss,
Jr. also wrote that Palin is "inspiring a lot of hate in people, appealing
to so many of people's worst instincts. Sad and scary." And he defended
his father's decision to rent the house:
“He's not stalking or peeping or
peering or meddling. He's simply fulfilling his obligations to his publisher
and his readers and himself -- to get as close to the subject of his book as
possible. You'll never see tabloid photos or depictions of backyard activities.
He's a professional writer with great integrity and an amazing sense of
fairness. McGinniss, Jr. added, "Sarah Palin's
middle-school style reaction to an author renting next door is quite something.
But maybe my father's grandchildren, when they fly up to visit, can make some
new friends. They'd probably have a lot of fun together actually."
Sarah Palin told Glenn Beck yesterday that her
husband had been "trying to get hold of their neighbor all winter
long" to ask about renting or buying the place, in part "for fear of
something like this happening."
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