No surprise to Alaskans that some of the people who dared to speak to Joe McGinnisss on the record are now being threatened.

Courtesy of Winnipeg Free Press:

Author Joe McGinniss says some of the people quoted by name in his controversial book on Sarah Palin have been threatened since its release last week. 

"A couple of them have already gotten some blowback," McGinniss said Thursday in a telephone interview from Toronto, where he was in town promoting "The Rogue: Searching For The Real Sarah Palin." 

"One guy was even told he'd better watch his back because it's going to be a long winter; he might not see the end of it because he has such a big mouth." 

After months spent fending off similar threats when he moved next door to the former Alaska governor last year while researching the book in Wasilla, Alaska, McGinniss suspects Todd Palin and his pals.

"Todd really is a bully," he alleges with a sigh. 

This is the point that has to driven home repeatedly concerning why so many people will NOT speak on the record about Palin and her numerous scandals.  Because they are terrified of just this kind of thing happening to them.

And if anybody has reason to doubt Joe, then listen to what Nick Broomfield has to say on that same topic:

To make matters worse, word had spread throughout the town that Broomfield was intending to make “a hit piece” on Palin, which scared many of the townspeople into silence, with one former Palin classmate worried that speaking out against Palin would ruin him financially in Wasilla. And that's when things got strange. 

“I got Anchorage police calling me up, then I started getting some weird phone calls to the office—people calling me ‘scum' and a lot of people just saying one word and then hanging up,” said Broomfield. “Just creepy stuff.” 

By the way in this interview Joe also responds to a question about the letter from Palin's lawyer threatening a lawsuit:

Although Palin has dismissed the book as defamatory and warns she will sue, Crown Publishers says it stands by the book and its author, while McGinniss says he's not worried. 

"Anybody can have a lawyer write a letter threatening to sue," he said. "To actually sue is a very different business and you open yourself to a discovery process."

I have it on good authority that Joe is chomping at the bit for the opportunity to face Palin in a courtroom.  There are some on the Right who claim that he and his publisher are in deep doo doo and that because the lawsuit would take place in Alaska that McGinniss and his Crown Publishers are sweating the cost involved in traveling back and forth to Alaska.

Bullshit! Take it from me, Joe LOVES Alaska, and if he could get his publishers to foot the bill to fly him back and forth, while also receiving tons of press for his book during a lawsuit against Sarah Palin, the man would be in hog heaven!