The Associated Press reports today, May 28, 2010, that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has erected a 14-foot-high fence at her Wasilla home, making good on a promise to prevent her new neighbor, a writer working on a book about her, from peering in. See the video.

Journalist and author Joe McGinniss, who is not known for writing flattering books about politicians, decided to write a book about Sarah Palin.

This story gets amusing. It seems, so the New York Daily New reported, that Palin's next door neighbor went out of her way to rent the house to the author, whom she knew from media reports is planning to do a book on Palin. The Palins had crossed the neighbor. The neighbor says the Palins owe her money for renovations that she did at their request, that they never paid her for, and, so she knew McGinniss was writing the book, so she found him, and offered him the house. McGinniss accepted the offer. He says he always try "to get as close to the subject of his book as possible."

Sarah Palin looked out her house and saw trouble.  She complained and tried to get McGinniss to move, and tried to get him moved. She claimed that he could be looking into her yard, and into the windows of her house, and could be peering in on her, and could overhear what goes on in her house. My opinion is that she doesn't want any one to take a serious look at her, to talk to her neighbors, to go through the gossip, and to get a clear picture of just what kind of person she is. What is the lady hiding?

Anyway, she had a fence built, so that now, from her house she can see a fence. Oh dear, now she can't look from her house and see Russia!