Former half-term Governor Sarah Palin built 14-foot fence to block view of next door neighbor who is writing a book about her

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."

Tea Baggers pissed at Senator Brown (R-MA) for taking away average American's freedoms; like his support for financial reforms that adequately regulate 'poor little ' Wall street firms like Goldman Sacs, What!

During his fight to win Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts, Scott Brown was hailed as the Tea Party candidate. Now the newly elected junior senator is under fire from the very groups that are credited with his victory.

Members of the Tea Party are infuriated that Brown has helped Democrats pass several key pieces of legislation. In February, he voted with the majority party to pass an important jobs bill. And just last week, Brown's vote gave Democrats the edge to break a filibuster on financial reform legislation.

Shelby Blakely the executive director of the media arm of the Tea Party Patriots is livid; "His career as a senator of the people lasted slightly longer than the shelf life of milk," she told The Boston Globe.

"The general mood of the Tea Party is, 'We put you in, and we'll take you out in 2012.' This is not something we will forget," Blakely said.

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann said, "Senator Brown is toast to the Tea Party and impact on getting other favored candidates elected may be in serious question."

"If the Tea Party crowd's mantra was fiscal responsibility, that's the first thing if you gave them a list they say they're concerned about, why go after Senator Brown about financial regulatory reform, which is also known, I believe, as fiscal responsibility?" asked Olbermann.

The Wall Street Journal's Thomas Frank joined the MSNBC host to help answer that question.

"They aren't really about fiscal responsibility, right? Where were they during the Bush administration when he was -- when the Bush people were running up these colossal deficits?" wondered Frank.

"What they're about is anti-government," he continued. "So, of course, they don't like what Scott Brown did. Whenever you empower government to regulate market participants, that's -- you're stripping away our valuable freedoms every time you come down hard on poor Goldman Sachs," Frank joked. "A lot of people thought he was a [Republican In Name Only] from day one...The conservative movement has this sense of themselves as forever being played."

Watch Keith Olbermann and the Wall Street Journal's Thomas Frank talk about Senator Brown here:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann#37326132

Connecticut Tea Baggers make awful choice for Republican US Senate nominee

Can someone please explain why the Connecticut Tea Baggers chose former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon over former 3 term Congressman Robert Simmons as their nominee for the US Senate this Fall. These people are nuts.

Robert Simmons is a retired US Army Colonel who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007, representing Connecticut's Second Congressional District.

After graduating college in 1965, Simmons enlisted in the United States Army as a Private, serving in active duty from 1965 to 1969. Simmons graduated from Infantry Officer Candidate School in 1967, and spent 19 months in Vietnam during the Vietnam War where he earned two Bronze Star Medals.

After his active duty service, Simmons served in the United States Army Reserve as a Military Intelligence Officer from 1969 to 2003, retiring at the rank of full Colonel. Simmons led the 434th Military Intelligence Detachment. Under his command, the unit was selected as the best small unit in the U.S. Army Reserve in 1996 by the Reserve Officers Association.

In 1979 he earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1979 he became a staff member for Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island, and then in 1981 the Staff Director for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence under the Chairmanship of Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ).

Linda McMahon, the Republican nominee in the 2010 Connecticut Senate race, is married to Vince McMahon, with whom she operated World Wrestling Entertainment from its establishment in 1980 through 2009. Linda McMahon was also active in the wrestling ring from 1999-2001.

In September 2009, Linda McMahon stepped down from her position as CEO after a 30-year career in the wrestling industry. Her campaign made headlines when she revealed she could spend $50 million of her own money to win the US Senate seat.