Sarah Palin may have just tweeted the ammunition that Joe McGinniss needed to file a lawsuit against her over the use of his name and image on her crappy un-reality show. Update!

Earlier today the Grizzled Mama sent out this tweet:

Will discuss Fed's quantitative easing plan(print $ out of thin air)tmrrw@ tools trade assn speech;then edit addl "Sarah Palin's AK"episodes
10 hours ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

Did you catch that?  According to Sarah Palin herself, SHE has control over the editing process on her reality show. In other words whatever images, or dialogue they use for the show are given a thumbs up directly by HER. (Read her tweet again.  She does not say she will "help to edit," she simply says she will "edit.")

Which means that everything included in this clip below, which was proudly displayed on TLC's "SPA" website (Don't bother looking now because for SOME reason it was replaced), was something that Sarah Palin, ex-Governor, ex-VP nominee, and now reality television show editor, put her stamp of approval on.

Now isn't that interesting?

Earlier When Joe McGinniss became aware that his image was being used without his permission, and that his character was about to be assassinated on television sets all across the country, he had his lawyers draft a warning to those he believed responsible.

At that time he addressed his concerns to the people in charge of creating the reality show, not the subject of the show herself.  However NOW that Mr. McGinniss has been informed, by Ms. Palin herself no less, that said star has final say over the editing process, it looks like the author might have an even stronger case against his ex-neighbor than he had against the shows producers or creators.

In fact it appears, at least to my mind, that Palin purposefully filmed, and chose to broadcast, that portion in an effort to further damage the author's credibility in order to sabotage his ability to sell the finished product. I am assuming that it is part of her larger effort to minimize the impact that learning the truth about the Grizzled Mama may have on potential supporters, as well as the voting public.

If Joe's lawyer can prove that damaging his ability to sell his book, and therefore make a living, was Sister Sarah's intent, and don't forget we also have the evidence of her earlier Facebook rant as well, then I think Mr. McGinniss might have a very strong case indeed.

What do you think?

(H/T to Sarah Jones for connecting the dots earlier.)

Update: According to the New Yorker there was more of Joe McGinniss in that first episode than we first realized:

And then “Wow” again. When they arrive back home, Palin attempts to poison Piper’s little mind with her mean-girl attitude. “See, we one-upped him, Piper,” she says of McGinniss. “We had a good day. And he’s stuck in his house.” (Actually, the camera finds him sitting outside on his porch, reading a book.)

Wow!  Has there EVER been a more immature, spiteful individual on the political scene than Sarah Palin?

Well since Richard Nixon that is.