Joe McGinnis, an annoying reporter who has annoyingly moved into the house next door to Casa Palin in Wasilla, swears he's trying to be a good neighbor. Maybe. But this comment, however truthful, isn't exactly endearing.
"Look, this is a pain in the ass for them," he said. "I understand that. If I were her, I'd be upset. I'd be annoyed. But I'd be an adult about it, and I would figure out, okay, how can we resolve this in a way that's not going to make into something that everybody gets obsessive about? By being here I have learned things, and I've gotten an insight into her character, into her ability to incite hatred, that before I only knew about in the abstract."
Actually, we've known all about Palin's hatred thing from the get-go. Why, she's been pretty successful at turning a minor political movement into an effective death panel for civility.
