"In the United States, I would generally say No. With respect to defamation, under American law, it is essentially open season on public figures, especially politicians. But Joe McGinniss may have provided us with the acid test, in the form of an email he wrote to an anti-Palin activist in Alaska in January of this year.
We wrote here about the absurd and even contradictory claims about Sarah Palin that are circulating in the news as a result of McGinniss’s about-to-be-published book. But making an absurd allegation isn’t enough to libel a public person; you have to say something that you know to be false, or subjectively believe is likely false.
What is intriguing about McGinniss’s email, which has fallen into the hands of Big Government, is that McGinniss bluntly admits that there is no evidence to support the lurid rumors about Sarah Palin and her family, some of which he passes on in his book. "
[PowerLine]
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