JOE McGINNISS

She can relate, you betcha. She can tell these folks how the 100 mph winds that we had in Wasilla in September 2010 knocked down that hastily constructed fence that Todd had built. She has a relational empathy with these folks, heck, she lost her fence to big bad winds and you know that was just awful and she and her family and still trying to pick up the pieces and rebuild.

I would think that her God would have just made her fence right again, just as she is telling these folks that God will fix them up “real good” again if they just have faith.

Good Lord, her humility is stunning isn’t it, I mean who does she think she is that she should be visiting and consoling when it’s nothing more than another photo-op? Wonder if she brought cookies. She needs to get out of the way and let the real volunteers get to work, unless of course she shuts the damn cameras off and rolls up her sleeves. Yeah, like THAT’s gonna happen. The woman is an idiot and a FRAUD.

Her hair looks better than it did at her paid gigs this week. Oh, wait, this is no doubt a paid gig as well, and look, Mommy went to Alabama and all Piper got was a really big sweatshirt that Mommy didn’t even pay for.
If she really wanted people to think she was there for more than a photo op, why didn’t she actually DO something instead of an infomercial for Samaritan’s Purse, whose leader males more than the President of the United States? Anything connected with the Grifter turns my stomach.

When does this woman have time/take time to care for her youngest children?

Back in 2008, his salaries were over $600,000 from Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and over $400,000 from SP.

He got so much flack for the large numbers that his BGEA salary was cut to $100,000 in 2009. Then again, I haven’t looked through the financials so there could be other forms of compensation such as grants to himself and family as well.

Worth investigating.

Joe –

My mom went to high school with Franklin – a private Christian high school in Florida. She still has her yearbooks – if you decide to follow this lead. My father was an Army Chaplain, and he thought Billy was more full of himself, than the ‘holy spirit.’

Be well

Oh, my. Have you ever seen two people working so hard at helping?

They would be like Sean Penn if they did what you describe. HE actually sleeps on cots and does real work and funds it with his own money. And he is someone whose hand she would refuse to shake.

The only word that comes to my mind is BARF!!!

Joe, I want to second what Carollt said upthread: please consider turning your considerable talents to investigating people like Franklin Graham and his ilk. Religion has become (and possibly always has been) a money-making machine for con men and drifters. Think about it. The pickings are so easy. All you have to do is pontificate from an altar about your “devout” relationship with a supernatural being, and the religious faithful unquestioningly take you at your word and shower you with tax-free money. Why waste your time on three-card Monte, shell games, and thimble-rigging when you can go for bigger game by just working your jaws?

I may be an atheist, but there are few events more uplifting than a Catholic High Mass where they pull out all the bells and whistles in a magnificent cathedral, built by human hands, accompanied by music that makes your heart sing and yourself say, Yeah, we as a species are are marvelous creatures..

Sarah the people of Alabama need help not you coming here to see what attention you can get for yourself. Please leave my state alone. Attention is all you want. If you want to really help give a good donation and stay in Alaska and keep your mouth shut.

I think that in the middle image, Tawd is trying to get a bug off the teleprompter. Just sayin, also too.

Sarah is trying to get attention . She is are a fake. She could care less about helping anyone. Just wants to been seen. She needs to go to Alaska and leave other people alone. Sarah is the dumbest, craziest,and most evil person I have ever seen.

May, I feel your pain.
The quitter is all about photo ops.

Hey, I live in Wasilla, where the diaster (Alaska’s Shame) is supposed to reside.

Hope that things get back to normal and any losses soon end. Diasters sure hurt, that I do know.

Just be thankful the quitter isn’t govenor of Alabama. When Alaska’s Shame was Alaska’s First Woman Govenor, she showed up at a diaster site with cookies that had scripture quotes inside the wrapper. She got there on Graham’s jet (no roads to the diaster site). Sowah, as govenor, didn’t utter a word about our diaster. Not one word. Then she decides to hop on Graham’s jet and visit the diaster site, 6 weeks later.

dear joe,
being an analytical type person i sometimes try to sort out why i spend so much time reading about sarah palin on both the pro and anti palin blogs. i read the pro palin blogs to try to ascertain why these people continue to follow her and support her and believe in her. it does indeed boggle the mind. i read the anti palin blogs with the hope of one day finding out that she has been caught in her own web of lies and thievery and cheating.

her complete lack of respect for anyone other than sarah or for any social graces or with any regard for the laws of our society are a constant source of amazement to most people. you seem to take her actions and words in a much less reactive manner- perhaps because you know exactly who she is. having gotten close to sociopathic, psychopathic, narcissistic people in your previous work has possibly given you a much clearer eye with which to view her. it is that finely honed instinct for evil followed by the investigative work you do to expose the evil that has everyone anxiously awaiting the release of your book. i believe there is an intrinsic trust we feel for you that you do know of what you speak.

i was discussing this whole sarah palin thing the other day and finally just came out with the truth. if you are a good person. an outwardly giving person. a compassionate person. an honest person. a fair person. a respectful person. a patriotic person. a generous person. a loving person. if you are one or all of these things, then you want sarah palin to disappear. she IS the antithesis of all that americans are known to be and are proud of being. she is the american right wing evangelical version of al quaeda.

joe, i believe there is a lot of pressure on you to bring sarah palin down with what you reveal in your book. i hope the media and the law assist with her social, professional and financial demise. i think for many people it will be a joyous celebration of justice finally having been done.

i enjoy reading your daily observations about this fake, this phony created by politicians and the media.
with the exception of those who promote sarah palin and support her, everyone knows she is a fake. her appearance is fake. her words, her history, her “wonderful family and husband todd”, her background, her daily life, her experience, her ability to hunt or fish, her dedication to her children and her service to her town/state/country, her facebook page and twitter page…………all fake. how much more of a leap does it then take to believe her pregnancy was a fake? from where i sit typing, i am not trignostic. i am more about trignity. honor and truth for the child who has thus far spent way too much of his life as a prop for his adoptive mother’s own narcissistic needs.

peace

I’m going to make a prediction. It’s just a matter of time til the son of Billy Graham is caught in a Jim Baker/Jimmy Swaggert moment. It might not be a sexual foible, could be a financial one. But Franklin thoroughly enjoys running an evangelical empire – oh he likes it very much – and after that display he made of himself when he was uninvited from the prayer breakfast pulling a Pharisee in the parking lot, it’s clear that his ego is bursting at the seams. No wonder he and Palin like each other so much. Two frauds peddling God and raking it in and feeling the power.

I’m also remembering something. I’ll have to paraphrase from memory because I don’t remember her exact words but someone asked Billy’s daughter about Sarah coming to visit to have that unholy communion with Franklin and his father in North Carolina and the daughter, when asked about what her dad thought of Sarah, said “Well my dad might be in his 90s. But he’s not immune to being swayed by a pretty woman”. I got the impression that she knew that her brother – the great evangelical leader – had more or less brought his ailing father a little female entertainment.

Which sums up Sarah’s career. I’ve always thought the GOP could have accomplished the same thing with their base for much less trouble and money if they’d just hired from an escort service, told her to wear glasses and mention God a lot while flashing some ankle.

ooo that last photo of Graham in overalls… begs for a caption contest doncha think? *gRin*

Todd – “I cain’t believe my favourite massage parlour is gone…”
Sarah – “Shut up and look humble for the camera Todd or I swear I’ll cut off more than your allowance”
Graham – “We thank theee Lord for thy fortuitous tornado – the Samaritan Purse was feeling mighty empty.”

She and franklin graham have never seen a tragedy they couldn’t exploit. Didn’t Jesus say “if ever you encounter human suffering turn it to your advantage by making it a photo-op”? A verse both she and franklin should heed is “You reap what you sow.”

I, too, hope you make an expose of the opportunistic franklin graham your next project.

as in helping themselves to a photo-op opportunity at the expense of the less fortunate?

I hear Alaska is just lovely this time of year. 🙂

I kid. I kid.

$475,440 annual salary according to Charity Navigator