McGinniss: Palin using 'Nazi' tactics Tags:Sarah Palin,Books,'Today Show',Joe McGinniss ListenPrintCommentEmail Subscribe.By ANDY BARR | 6/1/10 1:13 PM EDT Text Size-+reset.
Author Joe McGinniss accused former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin on Tuesday of using “Nazi” tactics in unleashing the “hounds of hell” upon him in protest of his moving next door.
Palin first announced that McGinniss was renting the home next to her Wasilla residence in a post on her Facebook page, which among other things suggested he could see into the bedroom of the governor’s teenage daughter.
Since then, McGinniss has been a target of conservative scorn online and has even received death threats for moving next door to Palin, a reaction for which the author blames Palin.
“Sarah hysterically puts up this Facebook page with all sorts of ugly innuendo,” McGinniss said Tuesday during an interview on NBC’s “Today" show.
McGinniss said the reaction to his moving next door to the former governor has demonstrated “the power Palin has to incite hatred and her willingness and readiness to do it.”
“She has pushed a button and unleashed the hounds of hell, and now they're out there slavering and barking and growling,” McGinniss said.
“I'm not calling her a Nazi,” he added, “but that's the same kind of tactic that the Nazi troopers used in Germany in the '30s. And I don't think there is any place for it in America.”
McGinniss plans to stay in the house through the summer as he completes his research on the former governor.
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