This week Joe starts his media tour, and it appears that his first stop will be CNN and a sit down with
Piers Morgan:
Palin author Joe McGinniss and more Author of controversial Sarah Palin book "The Rogue," Norway Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and former Gov. Jennifer GranholmAs a rule I tend to avoid CNN, but of course this time I will make an exception.
Joe sent me this e-mail to give me a heads up to where he will be making appearances:
I do Piers Morgan show on CNN Monday, with Colbert and Bill Maher down the line.Also next week, Chris Matthews, Lawrence O'Donnell plus daytime MSNBC.Also The View and Joy Behar. Joe tends to keep me in the loop, so I imagine he will firm up these dates and let me know in time to alert all of you.
By the way to the person who keeps sending me messages saying that Joe used me, let me respond.
Why yes, yes he did.
He used me to make contacts, to promote his book, and to bounce ideas off of.
But here is the thing, I used him as well. I used him to reach out to sources that were afraid to go on the record with me. I used him to give me access to the deck of the house right next to the Palins where I got to sit, eat Yak burgers, and gloat. And I used him to get the babygate story out to a much wider audience.
Except that I don't think either one of us consider that "using" each other. We both had an agenda, and did nothing to hide it from one another.
I believe that is called "cooperation."
Update: A lot of you have been sending me the
Doonesbury strip from today, so I thought I would post it along with some quotes that show up on the website. (And before anybody asks me, no I don't know who the redheaded lady is.)
SAY WHAT?"Never hurts to rumormonger." — Sarah Palin, in an email musing on ways to prevent Alaska Senate President Lyda Green from being re-elected "Flippin' unbelievable. Wouldn't you think they'd be afraid of being proved wrong when they rumor around the building like that?" — Palin, in a subsequent email objecting to a (true) rumor that Bristol Palin was pregnantHypocrisy thy name is Palin!
Update 2: You have GOT to listen to this radio interview that Joe gives on the
Leonard Lopate radio show! He goes into MUCH more detail about Palin's fling with Glen Rice, and even says that Rice has a copy of "The Rogue" and called him to say that, "It's all good."
In other words the stories swirling around that Rice did NOT confirm the affair are bullshit.
McGinniss also says that he confirmed what is in the book with multiple sources ,and nothing was sourced to only one person. The Palin-bots can bitch and moan all they want, but Joe is no dummy and he had all of his ducks in a row before he sent his manuscript to the publisher.
