Glenn Beck Leaps To Palin’s Defense, Threatens To Boycott Random House
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This could turn into an interesting showdown. Glenn Beck leapt to fellow Fox News employee Sarah Palin’s defense on his radio show today after her recent Facebook announcement that journalist Joe McGinniss had taken up residence next door to her Wasilla home.
Palin apparently sent Beck an email last night before posting the news on her Facebook telling him McGinniss’ presence was a “nightmare for our family.” Beck thinks McGinniss moving next door is the equivalent of stalking, is “really creepy” and that “Todd Palin should receive a medal for restraint.” Beck also issued this threat:
If you don’t get control of your authors I will never mention a Random House book ever again. And I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but I tend to sell books, not just my books, but books from other publishers.
This is true by the way. And if this turns into a larger fight between Glenn Beck and Random House, I suspect, the state of publishing being what it is (and the state of RH in particular, which is not good) McGinniss may find himself pressured to move on. Audio below.
Sidenote: Glenn Beck can rest-assured that Joe McGinniss does not work at Mediaite. [4:20 mark]
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Joe McGinniss- the same guy who had to payoff Jeffrey MacDonald , the guy who murdered his family, because of McGinniss’ betrayal.
“In an act of betrayal to MacDonald, McGinniss portrayed MacDonald as a drug-crazed maniac who murdered his family.MacDonald filed a civil suit against McGinniss that was settled out of court. McGinnis paid $325,000 to MacDonald.”
My sympathies would tend to be with the Palin neighbor, not the neighbor of the Palin neighbor.
Can you imagine the shouting, the fights, the smells, the babies being born at all hours of the night, the police constantly being summoned? Truant officers disturbing you while contacting investigations. Great clouds of hair spray wafting across your yard? Sheds blowing up?
And let’s not forget having Greta Van Susteren around all the time chasing Todd all over the place.
Pretty immature, King. But not surprising.
Can you imagine the shouting, the fights, the smells, the babies being born at all hours of the night, ”
sounds like your mobile home in your trailer park, king.
King, can I drag a $100 bill through your trailer park and get ya out?
In all seriuosness, Random House, I predict, will do something about this. Love or Hate Beck, the literary world knows having his endorsment is huge nowadays. If he mentions a book, it skyrockets, those are just the facts.
Isn’t a boycott kind of silly? Should Random House control where the authors it publishes live?
MichelleF says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:22 pm
I don’t know about that and Glenn should NOT try to make them do so.
Anyone can write about anyone.
TRRK,
Being respectful comes to mind. Unless you just yearn for being disrespectful without any instigation from others or in a response from this thread. Who knows, being disrespectful may be your goal. In which you can’t complain about others being disrespectful to you. I know, you were being snarky, right?
Boycotts are how the public can express themselves. Case in point, the left has started MANY against Beck. Unfortunately for them, them don’t seen to have much impact.
notsofast says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:24 pm
MichelleF says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:22 pm
I don’t know about that and Glenn should NOT try to make them do so.
Anyone can write about anyone.
I think this borders on harrassment. Can you imagine not being able to be comfortable in your own house? I’m not saying he shouldn’t be allowed to write the book, but this is overboard, in my opine.
The Real Royal King says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Can you imagine the shouting, the fights, the smells, the babies being born at all hours of the night, the police constantly being summoned? Truant officers disturbing you while contacting investigations. Great clouds of hair spray wafting across your yard? Sheds blowing up?
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I think you made a mistake… But given basic facts and what you said this more sounds like you and your people… the typical welfare, foodstamp, liberal Democrat voter too me.
I find conservatives a little confounding sometimes. In other postings some repeatedly state that nothing is as important as liberty and individual freedom. If that is the case, shouldn’t this guy be allowed to live wherever he wants?
MichelleF says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Boycotts are how the public can express themselves. Case in point, the left has started MANY against Beck. Unfortunately for them, them don’t seen to have much impact.
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Which is why the ads Beck runs are otherwise only seen on dubious cable channels between the hours of 01:00 and 05:00.
The Real Royal King says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Wow… really disgusting, King. A new low.
paulmdoro says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Isn’t a boycott kind of silly? Should Random House control where the authors it publishes live?
If they’re giving money to the guy (in the form of an advance) to write this book, then yes, they have the authority to tell him what to do.
And should they? Should a publishing house tell its authors where they can live?
paulmdoro says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:32 pm
I find conservatives a little confounding sometimes. In other postings some repeatedly state that nothing is as important as liberty and individual freedom. If that is the case, shouldn’t this guy be allowed to live wherever he wants?
I think the question is where does one person’s freedom ends and anothers begins. So you wouldn’t have a problem with someone writing a hit piece on you moving in next door and leering at you 24/7. i don’t think this is a question of him being allowed to do it, but rather the moral compass of the left that thinks it’s acceptable.
ImNotBlue says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:34 pm
The Real Royal King says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Wow… really disgusting, King. A new low.
Yeah and just when you think he’s hit the bottom.
paulmdoro says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Because this is stalking… there’s a difference in liberty and freedom… and stalking. No?
Now it’s a reflection of the moral compass of millions of people? That seems like a bit of a stretch, like saying John Ensign represents the entire moral compass of the right. It’s one person. If someone wants to live next to me, isn’t that their right? If I don’t like my neighbor, I can always move.
If he is truly stalking her then she should call the police.
“I think the question is where does one person’s freedom ends and anothers begins.”
At their property line?
Ima give Glenn a call. My neighbor has a tree that is blocking the sun from my porch. He manages a Target store.
Hopefully Glenn can get a boycott going.
Michelle:
There was a boycott in a city in Texas from Hispanics against white owned business after a local Hispanic leader told them too over Immigration legislation. They claimed success. They were so proud because they showed they reduced revenue by 19%.
But the businesses then wrote “Yes they reduced our customers by 19% but our shoplifting was reduced by 87% and the money orders for out of the country was reduced by 98% and the cost of daily clean up and trash was reduced by 84%. So they made more money from the boycott….
Along with Shoppers were reported they could actually hear English spoken throughout the community. and the business purchases was with real money and not government debit cards or food stamps.
I know, she should put up a HUGE american flag to block the view. That would probably drive him out of the neighborhood!
Yes cause of course he hates America!
Haha, really funny PureFreedom!
You raise a good question Paul, and I have come to realize that when it comes to Palin and the reactions to her, logic seems to fly out the window. In the posts of Michelle and INB, I think I can say, with complete validity, that they are giving Palin a deference due no one, absolving her of taste, judgment and accountability. However, I can also say that my response to Palin equally defies logic. I have not the slightest doubt that if she were to be seated next to me at a restaurant, I would ask to me moved, so offensive do I find her. There’s nothing logical to that, on either “side”.
paulmdoro says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:40 pm
If he is truly stalking her then she should call the police.
Wow. I see the route, I suppose. Play stupid, and throw up your hands and say, “Gee, I didn’t know I was doing anything wrong.” Hmmm.
So you have no problem with someone of dubious record moving into a house next to a political figure, with the intention of watching them, and gathering material to write a (what is already known to be unflattering) book about them? You don’t see anything wrong with that? Nothing creepy or inappropriate? No invasion of privacy, or disrespect? Nothing you’d complain about to their employer?
Partisan ugliness at its worst.
MichelleF says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:29 pm
notsofast says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:24 pm
MichelleF says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:22 pm
I think this borders on harrassment. Can you imagine not being able to be comfortable in your own house? I’m not saying he shouldn’t be allowed to write the book, but this is overboard, in my opine.”
It may be overboard, but hey, some authors move in with the people they are going to write about. He may well write a hit piece, but what better place to get insight then in her hometown?
Remember what may be an apocryphal story about Willie Sutton who said when asked why he robbed banks, ” That’s where the money is.”
The appropriate thing people can do is boycott the book if they don’t like what he writes. See what they did to Kitty Kelly on her book about Oprah.
The Left will hack into her email, sniff her garbage, make fun her Down syndrome child, and in general drench themselves in slime and mud….But they will never respond to the issues of government accountability and financial prudence that Palin raises. Welcome to the world of left wing politics, where issues are never debated and all criticisms are met with smears and character attacks.
paulmdoro says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Yes cause of course he hates America!
Yep, that was my leftist tweak of the day and you of course, bit. I never said he hates america, but lefties do seem uncomfortable around expressions of patriotism. Hey, maybe that’s why obama is skipping the memorial day festivities this year.
Joe McGinniss living next to Sarah Palin by itself is not stalking. If he invades her privacy or other that can legally be investigated as stalking, then that’s stalking.
If Palin wants to file a complaint, she can. She hasn’t yet that I’m aware of. Is it creepy? Sure, probably. Did Joe McGinniss move next door to freak Palin out? Sure probably, but not illegal or stalking by itself.
Just as Beck can recommend not to mention (purchase) Random House books. If you think OK for Joe McGinniss to move in next door, then the same logic/acceptance should apply for Beck to threaten to boycott Random House.
notsofast says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:47 pm
MichelleF says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:29 pm
notsofast says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:24 pm
MichelleF says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:22 pm
I think this borders on harrassment. Can you imagine not being able to be comfortable in your own house? I’m not saying he shouldn’t be allowed to write the book, but this is overboard, in my opine.”
It may be overboard, but hey, some authors move in with the people they are going to write about. He may well write a hit piece, but what better place to get insight then in her hometown?
Remember what may be an apocryphal story about Willie Sutton who said when asked why he robbed banks, ” That’s where the money is.”
The appropriate thing people can do is boycott the book if they don’t like what he writes. See what they did to Kitty Kelly on her book about Oprah.
I hear ya. Not that any of us would buy the book anyway.
Partisan ugliness? Geez, I think we’re getting a bit carried away here. How close should he be allowed to live to her? He hasn’t done anything illegal by moving next door to her has he? You’re just assuming he’s going to commit a crime? I think he’s engaging in self-promotion to sell a book. Otherwise, isn’t he allowed to live wherever he wants?
MichelleF says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:49 pm
I hear ya. Not that any of us would buy the book anyway.”
I will wait to see what he has to say and whether it is even relevant 2 years or so from now.
Sorry Michelle I just get tired of the “my party loves America more than yours” BS.
Big_F-ing_Deal says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:43 pm
That made no sense. Even for you, that was dumb.
The Real Royal King says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:47 pm
In the posts of Michelle and INB, I think I can say, with complete validity, that they are giving Palin a deference due no one, absolving her of taste, judgment and accountability.
And your evidence for this would be? Ah, making stuff up again King. Nice.
I wonder, how much of your life is real, and how much have you invented. We already know you’re not a world traveler. We already know you’re multiple people on this site. We already know you’ve been around for years, playing the same old act… lying as you see fit. I guess I just wonder why you would do that? Are you legitimately insane? Do the meds not work? Or do you think you’re accomplishing something?
As I said in another post when you “called for civility,” which (as the above post demonstrates) you participate in none of… Who do you think you’re fooling?
However, I can also say that my response to Palin equally defies logic. I have not the slightest doubt that if she were to be seated next to me at a restaurant, I would ask to me moved, so offensive do I find her. There’s nothing logical to that, on either “side”.
The only catch is… you have evidence and understanding of what you’d do. For the rest, you’re just making stuff up.
paulmdoro says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Otherwise, isn’t he allowed to live wherever he wants?
And who is stopping him? If Palin (or Beck, or anyone else) want to complain… isn’t that too their right?
Why don’t Glenn and Sarah just f*ck and get it over with..
Sure it’s their right ImNotBlue. Complain away!
Big_F-ing_Deal says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:56 pm
Why don’t you, KO and BHO do the same to each other in a daisy chain?.
paulmdoro says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Sorry Michelle I just get tired of the “my party loves America more than yours” BS.
Well, I didn’t say one party loves the country more, I just said libs seem uncomforable with shows of patriotism. I didn’t just pull that out of thin air.
aulmdoro says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Partisan ugliness? Geez, I think we’re getting a bit carried away here. How close should he be allowed to live to her? He hasn’t done anything illegal by moving next door to her has he? You’re just assuming he’s going to commit a crime? I think he’s engaging in self-promotion to sell a book. Otherwise, isn’t he allowed to live wherever he wants?
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Another very good comment. An excellent example of our lack of logic in things Palin. She’s sort of an Incarnate Edsel.
“I didn’t just pull that out of thin air.”
We all know where you “pull” your posts out of.
I didn’t just pull that out of thin air.
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Then, what did you pull it out of?
King:
She’s sort of an Incarnate Edsel.”
And that’s why he wants to write a book about her, eh?
Oh sorry, if I actually felt the need to respond to you two, I would tell you.
All the Marys in Heaven. We’ve set off Michelle and INB. They we’ll be spending hours concocting conspiracy theories about us being the same person and how I/we managed to transmit two posts at exactly the same time. They’ll be too tired to fix dinner for the kids. I suspect it will be a Domino night.
The perpetual liar continues to distort reality at some dusty compound in Utah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OBydKDSrRI&feature=related
And that’s why he wants to write a book about her, eh?
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Exactly. It will interest everyone. Everyone will feel affirmation, and everyone will be angry. Sounds like a winning formula to me.
I also have to agree BFD that there is an element of sexual tension when Glen(n) and Sarah get together. It reminds me of the cat that keep coming up on our porch before I had my cat neutered.
The Real Royal King says:
May 25, 2010 at 5:03 pm
She is as relevant as an Edsel, as insignificant as any politician, and yet YOU KO, RM, MSNBC, HP MM, dailyKos, and Mediaite can’t go for a week without talking about her. More than BFD’s avatar!
LOL
Are Beck and Palin here? I thought the King couldn’t comment on anyone who wasn’t present.
HAHA, write you’re quick!
Having been to Wasilla, I can say with confidence that McGinniss is torturing himself living there. The term “Valley Trash” didn’t arrive out of thin air. It’s like the Texas of Texas.
The Real Royal King says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Then, what did you pull it out of?
Perhaps it was this comment… from earlier today:
Again… who do you think you’re fooling?
OH SNAP!
I wasn’t planning on wasting my breathe (even though I could waste ALOT of it on that answer) answering him, but feel free!
“…Farrakhan was not present, and I didn’t care to make remarks about someone who was not present.” Royal King
Glenn? Sarah? Where are you?
Wow..these fucktarded liberals aren’t just creepy. They’re bat-shit crazy and dangerous.
i don’t worry about Sarah and Todd. They have lots of guns and I’m sure they would use them if threatened. What concerns me is if Todd and Sarah have to travel and are in the situation where they have to leave the small children in someone else’s care. I sincerely hope that if they do that they have bodyguards that have nocompunction about killing..becuae it’s only a matter of when..not if..that one of these fuckheaded leftards come after her small children
Don’t worry. Oprah has been known to sell a book or 2, even 1 book that turned out to be a fraud. Oh, and McGinnis is probably covered under that whole Fair Houseing Act thingy.
Hilarious!
Oprah has also been known to eat a few pounds to more!
This is a joke! he has no power to stop the boycott against him. But he want’s to boycott others, lol. Year right Glen! go ahead and do it and lets see the effect.
felixw says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:47 pm
The Left will hack into her email, sniff her garbage, make fun her Down syndrome child, and in general drench themselves in slime and mud….But they will never respond to the issues of government accountability and financial prudence that Palin raises.
Ha ha ha ha ha. How’s the weather on Planet Crazy?
I haven’t yet watched the clip, so I apologize if Beck covers it, but…
Bill O’Reilly’s most recent book is published by Broadway, which is an imprint of the Crown Publishing division of Random House USA. So, if Beck were to organize a boycott of Random House, one would assume it might include O’Reilly’s books and possibly extend to the tour the two of them do to support Bill’s most recent publication.
Jackie_Treehorn says:
May 25, 2010 at 7:13 pm
felixw says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:47 pm
The Left will hack into her email, sniff her garbage, make fun her Down syndrome child, and in general drench themselves in slime and mud….But they will never respond to the issues of government accountability and financial prudence that Palin raises.
Ha ha ha ha ha. How’s the weather on Planet Crazy?
Well since most of those have already been done, I’d say he isn’t too crazy.
roxsteady says:
May 25, 2010 at 5:41 pm
What part of the Fair Housing Act, specifically?
Jackie_Treehorn says:
May 25, 2010 at 7:13 pm
I guess that means you deny any of what Felix said?
Good Lord you commenters make a lot of noise here…
As I see this I don’t think it’s fair for Beck – Someone who would absolutely support someone moving near Albert Gore’s house to investigate ‘Crime Inc.’ to say that Random House’s writer moving near Sarah Palin is harrassment.
That said, I think if the guy is harassing her, then he needs to stop being a jerk. No one deserves to be harassed at their home.
sarah palin deserves whatever she gets and beck should mind his own business
Palin really scares King. Look how many posts he has made here. LOL. The guy is soooooo stupid. Remember everything King posts is funny. It is not ment to be funny. Stupid is funny.
We need to quit treating these left-wing loons like they are people. If Sarah would send me a ticket to Alaska, I would get rid of the guy next door in less than an hour.
Just a reminder……….
Overall, 42% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. That is the lowest level of approval yet measured for this president. Fifty-six percent (56%) now disapprove of his performance.
king would kick your ass blower and sarah palin is nothing but a teebagger
I’m not a Palin fan, but the thought of a person who’s writing a book about someone moving in right next door to them really is kinda creepy. What does he hope to gain by living next door, unless he plans on spying to see who comes and goes or putting a sound amplifier in his window or something.
He can write whatever he wants about whomever he wishes, and of course can live wherever he likes; however, he’ll have to accept that some are gonna think it’s bordering on downright stalkerish.
Stalker Joe McGinnis is just another little parasite clinging to Gov. Palin’s hunting boots, begging for a few crumbs of media attention. Put him in the same category as Kathy Griffin, or Tina Fey–Lilliputians, midgets.
Kird, what are you smoking?
The Drop Out Governor of Alaska has to send you a ticket to garner your assistance, Gordon Blower Show? My, the age of chivalry has indeed passed.
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MichelleF says:
May 25, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Idk what fantasy world you live in, but due to color of change Beck lost a lot of his endorsements.
Lars Svensen says:
May 26, 2010 at 6:10 am
I regret to inform you, but Tina Fey had a promising career before Palin ever emerged on the national scene.
Next they’ll dress up in a moose outfit and graze in her backyard. I thought PDS was so yesterday? Isn’t it time to bring out the Rand Paul gavel?
Say hi to Sarah for me, King. Since you were able to comment on her, she must be sitting there with you.
I am pretty certain that if I were Todd, while I was with the chief of police, the mayor of Wasilla and my pastor, having dinner in a very public place, Mr McGinnis would probably get lost in the wild, to never be heard from again. It is really sad the way people can walk off in Alaska and just plain disappear.
But that is just me. I am kind of old fashioned about some old pervert moving in next door to lear at my wife, daughters, son and grand child.
Perhaps the Palins have enough friends in Wasilla to follow this ass-hat 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Maybe local shop keepers can close their stores when he arrives, needing services.
I don’t understand why some of you feel the need to defend this guys behavior. You are probably the same kind of people that support unions delivering bus loads of thugs to a private home to terrorize some poor middle school kid while his parents are away.
@ChuckfromTacoma: He’s a writer. The unfounded perv accusation comes from Palin’s delusions.
Well Glenny, He probably can’t afford the mansion next door to yours and there are already several books coming exposing you for the scum you are. YOU need a good ass kicking and it wouldn’t be hard to do. Big mouth. mean spirited jerk
palin needs to pay 4 her crimes against amerika. this is justice.
Liberal comments championing this writer’s actions appear to call for the world of “1984.”
Sh!t like this, and the fact that you can’t recognize it for what it is, prove that you have been lobotomized. Liberals, at least on this, have no independent thought and only spew hatred while adding “k”s when its “cool” to words. I continue to hope that LIBERALS HERE ARE JUST TRASH TOO INTIMIDATED TO POST ON KOS OR HUFFINGTON.
True liberals are smarter and worthy of debate than this rabble here.
This FOOL is definitely a STALKER! He has been to some of her book signings and bid $70,000. to have dinner with Sarah, (someone bid higher and won.) Then he moves to Wasilla, RIGHT NEXT DOOR??? I hope Sarah will get a restraining order against this weirdo creep. And if Glenn Beck decides to boycott Random House, this guy has a huge problem. Go Glenn! (I won’t be buying his silly book!)
Is it me or does the King talking about Palin make “it” sound like a queen!
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