Joe McGinniss and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week!

Courtesy of Joe's blog:

I must have committed a truly egregious crime in order to turn MSNBC hosts into clones of those at Fox News. 

What do they have in common? 

Fear of Sarah Palin. 

Even though she holds no office, nor ever will again, MSM cowers in anticipation of her lash. 

And they don’t like being told they didn’t do their job in 2008 and haven’t done it since, having made no effort to see the grotesque face that lies behind the snazzy mask. 

I got behind the mask. I did find the real Sarah Palin. 

But it’s a whole lot easier to try to kill the messenger than it is to read the message.

(Read more by clicking the link at the top.)

During a conversation I had with Joe pretty early in his research, he said that he did not want me to blog about talking to him or coming to his house until after he left.

I told him I completely understood because once the Palin-bots realized that we were talking they would essentially use me, and my now damaged reputation, to bludgeon him into submission.

Joe said that he did not care about that, and that he had been through worse, but he did not want to give them any hints as to who he was talking to.

Of course part of this conversation was BEFORE Palin realized he was renting the house next door and unleashed the "Hounds of Hell" in his direction.

THAT was something he had NEVER experienced before.

But Joe's a tough old bird.  He handled it pretty well I thought.

But today Joe is taking a terrible beating, and yes some of those blows (due to the leaked e-mail) are being delivered using me as a bludgeon.  Of course even before they knew about me, they had already labeled Joe a stalker and "creepy," so they already had a quiver full of verbal slings and arrows to use against him.

For all of you who have often asked why MORE people don't speak out about the Palins, I think that you are having those questions answered at this very moment.

Daring the "Wrath of Palin" is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who are concerned about their reputations, their livelihoods, or their families.

But dammit, SOMEBODY has to do it!  Thankfully Joe has taken up that challenge, but he is now getting hit from all sides, and needs support.

Please do what you can to reach out to some of these people who have written Joe off, like Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and others at MSNBC and CNN.  Let them know that we expected more from THEM.

After all we already have Fox News to attack him on Palin's behalf.

Look I was born to be a fighter.  I got kicked out of Sunday School at age five for busting the kid in the chops who dared to sit next to my girlfriend, and was fighting grown men in the ring before I even hit puberty.

I don't sweat the Palins. But if we really expect others to feel safe enough to venture out and tell their stories we have to support those who have gone before.

In other words if we want to know the truth we have to help protect those working to expose that truth.

Sometimes Joe misses the point and says that bloggers, and their commenters, don't make a real difference.  Well we know that is not true, so let's remind him of why Sarah Palin and her sycophants spend so much time on this blog. (It ain't just because of the pretty blue color you know?)

Let's go out there and make that difference!

P.S. For those who missed it yesterday, here is the full transcript of Joe's Q and A over at FDL.