Sarah Palin Threatens To Sue Publisher Of “The Rogue”

Sarah Palin has threatened to sue Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House after the company published a book titled “The Rogue” which uses “unnamed sources” to publish knowingly false statements about Sarah Palin and her family.

At this point the former vice-presidential hopeful is just trying to have questions answered, according to a source close to the Palin family in an interview with ABC News:

“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.”

According to Palin’s lawyer John Tiemessen the gossip is “malicious” and Crown publishing “were fully aware the statements in the book were false, intended to be false, and were intended to harm.”

Tiemessen writes:

“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,” while adding, “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 says at the end of his letter that the publishing company is not to “delete emails or destroy records” that may be used in the suit.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Palin family and McGinniss are feuding, Sarah Palin had an enormous fence erected at her home in Wasilla when McGinniss moved next door to the family to conduct research for his book.

McGinniss sent TLC a cease-and-desist order demanding they not show footage of him sitting at his next door home after filming ended, that clip was shown on the very first episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska.