Sarah Palin threatens to sue Random House for publishing "The Rogue."

Courtesy of ABC News:

Sarah 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,” ABC News has learned. 

A source close to the Palins tells ABC News that the “Palins are fighting back and demanding answers from Random House.” 

“Random House is at the top of the food chain and published a book based upon acknowledged unsubstantiated gossip,” the source said. “The revealing email is key as evidence of this defamatory approach to politics through proxies.” 

Tiemessen writes in the letter that the email “clearly describes the fact that Mr. McGinniss researched and investigated many false and scurrilous allegations, and concluded that there was absolutely no evidence anywhere backing these allegations.” 

Palin’s attorney writes that it is “malicious” for Crown to publish the book when it has proof McGinniss and Crown “were fully aware the statements in the book were false, intended to be false, and were intended to harm.” 

“The final work that was published contains most of the stories that Mr. McGinniss complains were nothing more than ‘tawdry gossip’ that amounted to the wishful fantasies of disturbed individuals,” 

Tiemessen writes. “Since both your company, and the author, clearly knew the statements were false, admitted they had no basis in fact or reality, but decided to publish in order to harm Governor Palin’s family, you and Mr. McGinniss have defamed the Palins.” Tiemessen ends the letter by warning the publishing house not to “delete emails or destroy records” that may be used in the suit. 

The email Tiemessen cites in his letter to Mavjee came to light last week when conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted an email between McGinniss and liberal Alaskan blogger, Jesse Griffin. In the email posted on Breitbart’s site without explanation for how they got access to it, McGinniss writes, “Legal review of my manuscript is underway and here’s my problem: no one has ever offered documentation of any of the lurid stories about the Palins.”

I don't know how Joe feels about this but I say "Game On!'

Those of us who have been blogging about Palin for years have been dying to get her into a court room just for the opportunity to go through the discovery portion and watch her try to prove she DID give birth to Trig Palin on April 18, 2008.

Of course Joe did not make that allegation exactly, but he DID make some rather scandalous allegations that I am beyond confident he has the sources to back up.

By the way Palin is famous for threatening to sue people, and then backing off.  I have to doubt that THIS time she will actually go through with it either.

Oh sure it will excite the Palin-bots into a masturbatory frenzy, but does anybody REALLY think she wants all of these scandalous stories played out in a courtroom in front of the national media, who will all of the suddenly take a MUCH more intense interest in a book that she wants everybody to ignore?

But hell if she DOES sue, how much would you give to be a fly on the wall and hear Alaska Republican Lyda Greene, ex-Head of Security Gary Wheeler, Troopergate victim Walt Moneghan, and ex-boy toy Glen Rice testify under oath concerning what THEY know about the Grizzled Mama?

I swear I will clear my entire calendar the minute they start jury deliberations! I would not miss it for the world!