Sarah Palin is using the publication of Errol Morris's new book A Wilderness of Error to launch a new attack on Joe McGinniss, who wrote about her in his 2011 book The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, telling The Hollywood Reporter that McGinniss is "a stone cold manipulative liar."

At first glance, Palin, the former Alaska Governor and current conservative standard-bearer, and Morris, the Oscar-winning director of the 2003 documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, would seem to be strange bedfellows. But they have found a common enemy in McGinniss, who in addition to writing about Palin, penned the 1983 crime book Fatal Vision, which found former Green Beret Jeffrey MacDonald guilty of killing his wife and children. Convicted in 1979, MacDonald is currently serving three consecutive life sentences. Morris, whose 1988 doc The Thin Blue Line led to the release of a man unjustly convicted of murder in Texas, reopens the MacDonald case in his new book, Wilderness, and while he doesn't conclusively exonerate him, he raises plenty of questions, dramatizes an alternative narrative of the case, and directs scathing criticism at McGinniss' damning book.