Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, on Tuesday banned reporters from her first meetings with world leaders, allowing access only to photographers and a television crew.CNN, which was providing the television coverage for news organizations, decided to pull its TV crew, effectively denying Palin the high visibility she had sought.
Bwahahahaha!
On the other hand the coverage has been mostly accurate in showing her to be inexperienced, unprepared, deceptive, manipulative, petty, retaliatory, and certainly not the reformer they want us to believe she is. And that message is beginning to sink in - so it would be a shame to take it off the air. Of course, the McCain camp will whine like babies... oh, never mind, every option except total BS, kiss-ass, "McCain/Palin are great" stories leads to the same tired, blame-a-liberal, response from the McCain camp.
The networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox fiercely objected to the McCain campaign's apparent effort to try to shield Palin from questions. Networks voted today to not use any video coming out of Palin's meeting as a protest.Palin has not held a news conference since being selected as McCain's running-mate, nor taken questions from her traveling press corps, frustrating journalists assigned to cover Palin for the election.
After the television networks strenuously objected to the McCain campaign's effort to block any editorial presence from the room, the McCain campaign finally allowed one CNN pool camera and one pool producer into the meeting room.
As she arrived for her meeting with Karzai, Palin avoided reporters who were camped out at the main front entrance of the hotel, instead pulling up in a motorcade to a side entrance and quickly sneaking inside.
From a town meeting a few days ago
...[Palin was asked] how she would keep domestically produced oil and coal in the U.S....
Her response:
"..."Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not. Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those as opposed to the increase of prices. So, I believe there is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect that what Congress is going to do, also, is like as such not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. In other words, it's got to flow first, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, into our domestic markets it will help on the red."
Seriously. I want to know more about flag pins on molecules! She is talking about flag pins on molecules isn't she? Hard to tell!
John McCain: Nothing But More Of The Same
John McCain: Nothing But More Of The Same
This will probably be the first (and perhaps only) VP debate I've ever watched. Get out the popcorn!
I think she'll do fine in the debate by spitting back all the talking points that she's memorized. It will be repetitive nonsense, but as long as she repeats it enough and acts like she believes what she's saying, all the conservatives will be happy (and Fox will endless say "she hit a home run"). Ultimately it won't be impressive, but I don't see her turning into a stammering fool who provides tons of new targets for our side. It'll be an in-person extended McCain TV ad regardless of what's happening around her.
If Palin, or the McCain campaign, don't like answers such as "I'd make sure the Court overturns Roe v. Wade," then give either of them another opportunity to appear on CNN to speak otherwise.
Silence gives us the chance to frame the issues and we should take advantage of it.