Traveling snowbilly grifter Sarah Palin just returned to her humble ice shack in Wasilla only to find out that smartypants author person Joe McGinnis (who had already written a book about Alaska back when Todd Palin was still exploring a high school-aged Sarah Heath’s northern territories, if you know what I mean ) has moved in next door. This is very frightening thing because the house that McGinnis has rented has a ginormous observation deck which overlooks the private portions of the modest and unassuming Palin household where the most innocent members of the Palin family live their idyllic childhood when they are not being hauled around the lower forty-eight as props for mommy while she shakes down an even lower strata of rubes:
Yes, that Joe McGinniss. Here he is – about 15 feet away on the neighbor’s rented deck overlooking my children’s play area and my kitchen window. Maybe we’ll welcome him with a homemade blueberry pie tomorrow so he’ll know how friendly Alaskans are.
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Wonder what kind of material he’ll gather while overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming hole?
This would be the folksy “little garden” and “family swimming hole” which can be found next to:
…the most concrete new development in the Palin family, an enormous structure rising beside their existing 3,400-square-foot house on Lucile Lake, is something of a mystery. Based on the limited evidence in the planning department at Wasilla City Hall (the city does not require building permits), the building’s footprint alone is 6,000 square feet, but much of it is two stories. Various sources have said the project includes a television studio (Fox News, Mr. Heath said), apartments for Mr. Palin or the Palins’ older children (Bristol Palin, 19, has said, however, that she is living on her own with Tripp and paying her own bills with the help of handsome speaking fees) and a well-appointed office for Ms. Palin.
But never mind that, Sarah Palin had just gotten home from probably shaking down some trade organization for $100,000 for a word salad of platitudes, when she decided to throw on a tank top and shorts (oh Jesus, Lowry, put it away) in the 57 degree weather and go out and mow the lawn (uncut because lazy worthless Todd Palin spends all of his time drinking beer made from fermented moose and tinkering in the garage with his snow crotchrockets). But then Sarah, who can see both Russia and the neighboring house from her yard, found McGinnis trying to grab a glimpse of the glistening sheen of perspiration between her breasts as she pushed the reel mower; her nipples, like heliotropic Hershey’s Kisses, thrusting against the thin fabric of her wifebeater in the chill Wasilla air. (okay, Lowry, you can take it out again) :
Upon my family’s return this morning from endorsement rallies and speeches in the Lower 48 states, I finally got the chance to tackle my garden and lawn this evening! So, putting on the shorts and tank top to catch that too-brief northern summer sun and placing a giddy Trig in his toddler backpack for a lawn-mowing adventure, I looked up in surprise to see a “new neighbor” overlooking my property just a stone’s throw away. Needless to say, our outdoor adventure ended quickly after Todd went to introduce himself to the stranger who was peering in…
So she quit and ran in the house which is how you know that this is probably the first true story that she has ever told.
The end.





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Real nice touch that she wonders “what kind of material he’ll gather while overlooking Piper’s bedroom…”
Is that the defense she’s building for Todd to threaten the writer? That the place he rented is on the same side of her house as her ten-year-old’s bedroom? I guess it would be irresponsible of her not to speculate.
I liked Going To Extremes, thought it was a good counterpoint to the bullshit WASP idyll John McPhee wrote in Coming Into The Country. It may be, though, that she’s a bit more worried about a Fatal Vision or The Last Brother approach than she is about a tribal foot washing like A Sense Of Where You Are, but I think you gotta go to Princeton to get that from McPhee, though some of the Pineys he wrote about suggest that the right snow billy might set his khakis afire and his pen (endlessly) to scribbling. Too bad for McGinnis that Hunter Thompson already used The Scum Also Rises for the title of his piece on Nixon’s resgination.
Thanks for including the photo credit link. That particular Something Awful Photoshop forum was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on the interblogs – granting that I kind of favor the somewhat sick-&-twisted stuff – and I still like to go back to it on occasion.
How about: The Folly that Seward Never Knew as a title?
I like it.
More marketable than I Survived Lewis Powell For This Bullshit?
Sarah Palin is the Muse of Snark.
Tbogg is her Lord Byron.
She talks in platitudes throughout the night
Of “just plain folks” and “our flag flies”
And all that plainly isn’t bright
Meets in her syntax and her lies
Thus paid off to Murdoch’s delight
We summon the Idiocracies first rise
Shut Up Dumb Lady is my second favorite tag to Scrotum of Teabaggers. When I see them on the same post, I get all tingly.
She mowed the lawn carrying Trigg in a backpack?
Get on that, Tammy:
http://www.hss.state.ak.us/ocs/
Sounds like a pre-emptive strike on Joe. Just in case. Also. If I were Joe, I’d be careful about accepting any blueberry pies from the Palins.
So, Sarah mows the lawn? With what, a flame thrower? Considering all of the time she spends here in Baja Real America parting fools from their money that grass must have been at least four feet high.
Maybe Sarah should invite Malkin up to help mow the lawn. They can wear matching plaid skirts while they squawk like chickens.
Dear Penthouse: I couldn’t believe it yesterday when my neighbor showed up and made me eat her ho-made blueberry pie. [rest of letter censored by Rich Lowry's cardiologist]
The central idea that I got from McGinniss’ book is that Alaska tends to attract people who go there because they can’t deal with other people; the problem is that solitude requires certain coping skills which the same set of people also tend not to possess. So you’ve got someone who’s supposed to be skilled at meeting and greeting people and dealing with them on their own level–you know, like any politician at any level–and she’s all but accusing him of being a pedophilic voyeur and has to dispatch Todd to deal with the guy? Does she have any idea of how much she comes off as a crazy lady who probably had all those kids only because she doesn’t like cats?
As far as peering goes, she started it with all that “I see Russia, I see France.”
and placing a giddy Trig in his toddler backpack for a lawn-mowing adventure,
It is more probable that Joe McGinnis wrote that line than that Caribou McBarbie did.
Here where I live, if you have a nosey neighbor you put up a privacy fence. I suppose this concept hasn’t reached the northern frontier yet. Sad that.
Is Palin upset that the guy next door was able to rent his own personal private property to someone Palin would rather not have for a neighbor? Libertarian for me but not for thee.
As Sarah’s Facebook “friend” Sandra Forman put it:
Sorry you didn’t have decent enough neighbors not to rent to him :(
McGinniss will fulfill Andrew Sullivan’s wet dream and ferret out the truth about Trig’s birth.
The working title? “Fetal Vision.”
Shorter Barbie:
“How DARE he sit on his deck and look at stuff!”
and placing a giddy Trig in his toddler backpack for a lawn-mowing adventure
So where the hell was slacker Piper/Trig’s nanny???
What a colossal C__T this woman is!!! Jesus Tapdancing Christ, now she’s concerned because a real, live journalist/writer is living next door?? Heaven forfend…you lying sack of shit. Screw Scarah Palin, go away, and stop polluting the airwaves with the shit that streams out of your mouth, every goddamn day. Yes, I am having a rotten morning, thank you!
Ha ha hah!!!
That’s what they get for bein’ too cheap to buy the neighbor’s property.
Sarah, if you’re ashamed of what you do in your easily-viewed-from-neighbor’s-deck back yard, you probably shouldn’t be doing it.
swimming hole?
Jeez, all of that freaking polyester so close to the flames…
Oh, and the sentence should read “…placing a giddy retarded Trig in his toddler backpack for a lawn-mowing adventure…”
well, it’s a lake so they can’t call it a cee-ment pond.
I may be wrong to assume that C. Barbie has a power mower, but judging from the rest of her possessions I think it’s a safe guess. In which case, putting your baby in a backpack and running the mower right in front of him is a really good way to damage his hearing beyond cure.
Oh, and I thought people renting their homes to other people without having to ask the neighbors’ permission came under the heading of the free market. Silly me.
and placing a giddy Trig in his toddler backpack for a lawn-mowing adventure
And the CEO of Manus Power Mowers places an urgent call to the legal department…
Joe McGinnis is mean.
Everyone knows she can’t stand attention.
Also too, is this the same wilderness that Bristol described in her recent testimony in the Guess-My-Password-Go-to-Jail Trial?
“So, putting on the shorts and tank top to catch that too-brief northern summer sun….”
Oooooohhhh my knees are weak……
……..and needless to say, I’d eat her pie anytime!
Signed
Joe in Alaska
So Sarah…you were totally cool with whoever owns the house having that deck to watch you from? Who is it, one of the guys who some claim really fathered your kids?
You can take the trash outta the trailer, but can’t take the trailer outta the trash. Or something to that effect.
“The dirt pool.”
This is good news for Palin. She’ll be able to burnish her insider cred by telling folks she can see a journalist from her house.