Joe McGinniss’ highly-anticipated Sarah Palin tome, The Rogue, landed with a bit of a thud when it was released last week. Reviewers hated it, readers didn’t buy it and the Palin 2012 speculators were uninterested or unwilling to push McGinniss’ salacious revelations.
This is all of course, bad news for McGinniss, who’s already complaining that the press isn’t giving his work a fair shake. But it might also be bad news for Palin, who was due for another of her trademark long, drawn-out battles with the national press after The Rogue published. Those generally net her a lot of coverage and riled-up supporters.
Enter the lawsuit, sure to get the book and the feud some of the headlines both parties involved are interested.
And, so, this bubbled up on Monday night:
ABC News has learned exclusively that Palin’s family attorney John Tiemessen has written a letter to Maya Mavjee the publisher of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, that Palin may sue her, the company, and the book’s author Joe McGinniss “for knowingly publishing false statements” in his book released last week, “The Rogue.”
Team Palin cites a McGinniss email Andrew Breitbart published the other day that Palin fans said proves The Rogue is less than accurate. McGinniss denies this.
Now with McGinniss, Brietbart, Palin and the lawsuit threat all coming together, you’ve at least got the kindling for the kind of media firestorm you have to believe both Palin and McGinniss thought was coming a week ago.
