Mercede's last post and accusations from the Grizzled Mama's cub.

A number of you have asked for my response to Sadie's latest post which, sadly contains accusations about me from Bristol Palin.

For several months now I have been aware that my name has been mentioned, and not in an exactly a glowing way, around the Palin household. This point became somewhat obvious when I attended the Palin book signing in Anchorage.

I first heard that Bristol had mentioned my name in connection with pedophilia sometime in the last few months, from a source other than Mercede.  Then somewhat later Sadie contacted me and told me she had been told that as well.

It was not the first time my name had been dragged through the mud by Bristol and Palin associates.  During the deposition of Mercede (ostensibly about custody of Tripp and right before Levi and Bristol reconciled), Thomas Van Flein spent an inordinate amount of time demanding that Mercede no longer associate or talk with me, as well as Dennis Zaki and Joe McGinniss by the way.

Later of course Mercede started her blog for which I provided support, which must have infuriated the Palin family to no end.  After that the goal became to shut Sadie up and to use her association with me to discredit anything she might say.

Now for those who do not remember, the accusations of perverted behavior directed at me came after the Splitsville story in August of 2009, only a few months after a similar tactic was used by the Palin-bots to discredit David Letterman. (I remember being upset at the time that Letterman apologized for his joke, thinking that he was establishing a dangerous precedent by giving into pressure from Palin and her followers.  Of course I did not realize that I would be a target of that same tactic less than two months later.)

The decision by the Palin-bots to suggest that I was somebody who would hurt a child was an obvious one for them, since at the time I worked at an elementary school.  What better way to hurt me, and get me to back off, than to cost me my job? (No it didn't cost me my job, but I did stop working at school to dedicate more time to the blog but the Palin-bots still pat themselves on the back for their "success.")

Once the Palin's winged monkeys had firmly established my guilt in their minds they started to use me to attack my fellow bloggers, any journalist who talked with me, and politicians that I supported.  At first it even worked to some degree and I found myself increasing isolated.

However if Palin thought she shut me up she had another think coming.  As time went on instead of becoming a pariah, I became an example of somebody who had weathered a vicious attack by the Palin's and was still standing, and still actively criticizing them.  Because of that defiance I have been interviewed, and had conversations with, some very impressive individuals that probably would not have even known who I was if not for the Palin smear campaign.

Since then of course Palin has used the similar tactics to attack Joe McGinniss, and many others who have dared to defy her. If Palin and her minions have NOT called you a pervert, well than you can hardly call yourself a real Palin critical journalist now can you?

Now getting back to Bristol's defamation of my character. Well in my opinion she is simply regurgitating the same accusations that have clearly been used around her house, and in front of her for quite some time.  I do not know if this rises to the level of defamation, but of course I am looking into that.

However I am loathe to take one of the Palin offspring to court.  That seems like a small and insignificant waste of time to me. I would much prefer to be sitting across the courtroom from Snowdrift Snooki herself.  Now THAT would be a fun blog post to write!

As for her attempts to use the smear campaign against me to destroy Sadie's relationship, well that is just pathetic, and so mean it could probably only have come from an offspring of the Grizzled Mama.