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BY BLAKE HANSON


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She’s not running for President yet, but that doesn’t mean Sarah Palin is out of the limelight. This time, it isn’t of her own doing. The media’s going crazy over a juicy new unauthorized biography. Oklahoma’s KSBI has a few nuggets.

“Back in her spots reporting days in the 80’s she apparently had a steamy hookup with then-college bball turned pro star Glen Rice. It was just a few months when she eloped with her husband, Todd. After she got married, the book says she hooked up with Todd's business partner.”

The book contains allegations of infidelity, cocaine-snorting, and all-around rowdiness. It isn’t often the New York Times and Sarah Palin agree on much, but the new book has the Times taking a swipe at author Joe McGinniss, writing....

“There is one area, and only one, in which ‘The Rogue’ is dead-on. Mr. McGinniss knows how publicity works. He appreciates, not to say emulates, the way members of the Palin family cash in on celebrity and contradict themselves without penalty.”

McGinnis says he confirmed the Glen Rice tryst -- with Glen Rice himself. And in a new sit-down interview with NBC’s Today Show, McGinniss goes on the defense.

REPORTER: “McGinniss says the Palin enemy list in Alaska is long, but acknowledges he talked to few friends. Do you think you were fair to her in the book?”
MCGINNISS: “I think I was as fair as I could possibly have been, given the fact that she told all the people who were closest to her not to talk to me.”

A columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News takes the book’s claims as truth -- and is critical of Palin’s political doctrine, writing...

“What I care about is that her rhetoric reflects an intolerance of those whose lives have been as interesting as hers has been. She's aligned herself with a rigid faction who denounce interesting lives like hers as ‘loose,’ ‘godless’ and ‘un-American.’"

McGinnis had rented a place next door to the Palins when he started doing research on her. Hubby, Todd Palin, takes issue with that -- and in a statement to ABC News, he writes...

“His book is full of disgusting lies, innuendo, and smears. Even The New York Times called this book ‘dated, petty,’ and that it ‘chases caustic, unsubstantiated gossip.  This is a man who has been relentlessly stalking my family to the point of moving in right next door to us to harass us and spy on us to satisfy his creepy obsession with my wife.”

The book is set to be released September 20th.


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