Palin ‘snorted cocaine off oil drum’, book says

SARAH PALIN’S husband jumped to her defence yesterday after an upcoming book claimed the Republican snorted cocaine off an oil drum and had a pre-marital fling with an African-American basketball star.

The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin by Joe McGinniss — who moved in next to Palin’s home in Alaska last year as part of his research — comes out in the US on Tuesday, as the Tea Party darling ponders whether to formally seek the Republican presidential nomination.

“This is a man who has been relentlessly stalking my family to the point of moving in right next door to us to harass us and spy on us to satisfy his creepy obsession with my wife,” husband Todd Palin said. “His book is full of disgusting lies, innuendo, and smears.