McCain/Palin ???

[lizbud]

I was floored by this statement coming from the McCain camp on when
they will "allow" palin to speak to any newsmedia. She wants Americans
to vote her into the 2nd highest office in the country, but she is not
capable of answering any questions? If she's not up to tough political
questions, she should just say so.



Palin Media Avoidance Watch: Day 9 -- McCain Camp Says She Won't Do Interviews Until It Knows She'll Be Treated with "Deference"
September 07, 2008 9:41 AM

Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself to any tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."

Davis assailed the way the media had discussed Palin and her family in the last week and said the campaign would wait until a less hostile media environment.

So when will she subject herself to questions?

"When we think it's time and when she feels comfortable doing it," Davis said, praising a Fox News Channel profile of Palin that ran last night.

Why is she scared of answering questions? Wallace asked.

"She's not scared to answer questions," Davis said, "but you know what? We run our campaign not the news media."

Wallace said inappropriate intrusions into Palin's family and personal life aside, there are legitimate questions about whether she is prepared to be vice president.

"Sarah Palin will have the opportinity to speak to the American people," Davis said. "She will do interviews, but she'll do them on the terms and conditions" the campaign decides.

In fairness, an Alaska TV reporter did get to ask Palin a question Thursday, something along the lines of

"Governor, we feel like we're losing you - are you still going to be there for Alaska?"

- jpt

[Grace]

Why is she scared of answering questions? Wallace asked.

That's what I've been asking myself recently. You better believe if Obama shut himself off from the press, there would be tougher queries than that one by the Republicans.

[Grace]

From POLITICO -

Palin agrees to interview
By: Mike Allen
September 7, 2008 02:57 PM EST

Under pressure for being shielded for questioning, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has a agreed to sit down with Charles Gibson of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” according to an ABC News official.

No other interviews are scheduled. It will be the first TV interview for Palin since she was named 10 days ago as running mate to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

Palin had planned to return to Alaska this weekend but is so popular on the stump that she is going to stay out a few more days before returning home. One of her sons deploys to Iraq on Thursday.

Palin plans to sit down with Gibson later this week in Alaska, the source said.

The McCain campaign kept her off Sunday shows this weekend and plans to be sparing with high-risk network encounters, which they contend are unimportant to voters despite the media’s fixation on them.

But McCain officials could see her reticence was feeding the narrative of her being unprepared for the job.

Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, her counterpart on the Democratic ticket, challenged her Sunday to submit to network questioning.

““She's a smart, tough politician,” Biden told Tom Brokaw in a “Meet the Press” interview live from Wilmington, Del. “So I think she's going to be formidable. Eventually, she's going to have to sit in front of you like I'm doing and have done.
Eventually, she's going to have to answer questions and not be sequestered.
Eventually, she's going to have to answer on the record.”

[RICHARD]

Oh my word. Pun intended.

The same reason the Bo won't do interviews is not the probably the same reason that SP will not.

But then again, If you ummm and ahhhh a great deal, that may look like you are not prepared or can't answer a question, In SP's case she might not be trusted to keep from pulling out a gun during the convo...

One of the late night talk show hosts did a joke about that...


What is it with VPs and guns, What could possibly go wrong?

[Edwina's Secretary]

The same reason the Bo won't do interviews is not the probably the same reason that SP will not.

That's odd. I heard Barak Obama being interviewed on one of the Sunday morning talk show this morning. It was a pretty tough interview. And he handled some questions well and some questions not so well.

But he was interviewed.

Or does Bo refer to someone else?

[Edwina's Secretary]

Wow! Unless the press tells the story the way they want it told - no interviews. More of the same as we get today!

Unfortunately, digging dirt on candidates and their families is as American as apple pie. Andrew Jackson's marriage to his wife before her divorce was final was a major scandal in its day and a big issue in the campaign. Some say it killed her.

Abraham Lincoln's wife also took a lot of heat from the press. She was from a slave owning family.

Negative press is what drove Nixon to make the famous "Checkers" speech and more recently we had the infamous Swift Boating. Anyone remember some hosility toward Kerry's wife? I can recall some pretty nasty things said about her right here on PetTalk! About her voice, her looks, her money.

I assume they are keeping Palin off the radar to control the message and to train her to talk about something other than mooseburgers.

Pity they don't think her capable of handling the heat.

[Grace]

I assume they are keeping Palin off the radar to control the message and to train her to talk about something other than mooseburgers.

Pity they don't think her capable of handling the heat.

She is being prepped. I read in last night's paper -

Experts Helping Palin Brush Up on Foreign Policy

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4 -- Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is among several national security experts helping brief Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on foreign policy issues as she prepares to hit the campaign trail while cramming for a debate with her Democratic opponent, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), in less than a month, according to officials from Sen. John McCain's campaign.