No Questions! Campaign says Palin won't answer any questions -- just read speeches from now on

[nichomachus]

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/no_questions_please_were.html

According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don't care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace -- in an appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough's show -- the American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve to know) from Palin's scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads.

So, you can just stuff it, peasants.

[marylanddem]

1. Good lord. Have we really come to this?

[Born_A_Truman]

2. Does that mean she won't debate Biden?

What a joke.

[nichomachus]

3. If you were her, would you?

[Born_A_Truman]

24. I wouldn't

But then I am also smart enough to know I am not qualified to be VP.

[stolivodka]

9. That's what I want to know!

Does that mean that the fake war hero is also trying to chicken out of debates?

[WinkyDink]

Her excuse will be interesting. Maybe that's the point of all the "liberal Obama media"

slanders. Set up a Potemkin reason for not participating in the debate.

[blondeatlast]

4. Will she debate? I honestly bet she won't; she can't even face "Good Morning, America."

How the hell can she take on the likes of Joe Biden?

Wow. I'm almost speechless.

[BlueIdaho]

5. Amateur Hour.

Do they really think folks will swallow this horse shit? Will Caribou Barbi ever have to answer questions from the press - ever? Could it be she is terrified? Is she the dog that caught the car?

[Kerrytravelers]

6. Well, color me surprised.

:sarcasm:

[Kerrytravelers]

7. Well, color me surprised.

:sarcasm:

[PA Democrat]

8. Palin should be SLAMMED for this.

What an inept coward.

[Franks Wild Years]

10. Pathetic woman.

An exceedingly weak, cowardly individual.

[City Lights]

11. How lame.

:eyes:

Mr. Tough Guy and his Trophy Sidekick are pathetically inept and unprepared.

Two wimps in a pod.

[LSparkle]

12. We MUST make an issue of this ... What is she AFRAID of???

What are her HANDLERS afraid of? Is she her own woman (the strong,
rifle-wielding, moose-skinning salt-of-the-earth ceiling-shatterer)
or just CARIBOU BARBIE (as we've all been suspecting)?

Put Obama and Biden out (even together) in town hall settings to such
an extent that it SCREAMS transparency and openness, and run ads that
show poor little Sarah in a bunker in an "undisclosed location" a la
DICK CHENEY.

DO WE WANT A SECRETIVE, UNACCOUNTABLE VEEP AGAIN????

[MrModerate]

13. The McCain campaign is self-destructing . . .

Breaks my frakkin' heart.

[Bucky]

14. How... Reaganesque....

At least they didn't put Dubya in a bubble until he fucked up a few times.

[MikeE]

15. Wow

Just wow. I guess she wasn't quick enough, even with all the coaching she was receiving, to be prepared, either that, or they know the dirt that is coming.

[fishwax]

16. boy, that sounds very desperate

Nicole Wallace sounded quite desperate to somehow disparage the suggestion that a VP should actually be able to answer unscripted questions.

[K8-EEE]

WHAT A CHICKENSHIT!

If they think they can get away with that they're nuts.

She's doing plenty of whining about the press too, didn't she tell Hillary NOT to whine? Just do BETTER? Like....HIDE??

[Cattledog]

17. The interest she's generated

will soon fade away. I guess the Pitbull's been neutered.

[high density]

18. So in other words she knows absolutely nothing about anything

They're making it a wee bit too obvious.

[Mojambo]

19. Unbelievable

Is it possible that even this lap dog press will let this go?

[Epiphany4z]

20. I am sorry

but we could be her employers..we dam well better have our Questions answered...there should be a letter to editor in every paper..this is just sick.

[gateley]

21. Sigh. She did not say that Palin won't answer any questions -- let's not

spread this around. Read the transcript, not just somebody's interpretation of it.

She was discussing Palin's speech - that it was an introduction of Palin to the people. That the purpose of it was to get to know who she is, that the people weren't interested in the other stuff.

I think the conversation was about the speech only -- I don't believe she was indicating that Palin won't answer questions in the future.

The campaign knows they'd be mincemeat if they tried that approach.

[nichomachus]

44. Then, why is she ducking the Sunday talk shows?

You'd think that an unknown candidate, new to the campaign, would be trotted around to be on all the shows to get the exposure that she's going to need about two months from now.

But, she's ducking the shows. How strange!

[gateley]

51. If they really attempt this, it'll backfire. It would have to, don't you think? nt

[Duke Newcombe]

71. Because they're prepping her...like a kid cramming for the finals...

Unfortunately for her, it will soon be revealed that her "knowledge" and "experience" is a mile wide and an inch deep.

Duke

[DeschutesRiver]

66. Just for the record

I watched the segment on Morning Joe. She absolutely said, several times in response to the Times guy (and in the course of the general conversation as well), that it was not important for Sarah to answer any media questions, that the only questions she'd take would be from the american public. She ended on that note as well, emphatically, when the Times guy again mentioned questions to be answered, "not from the media."

I don't know what other program she may have appeared on, and spoken differently. The one I am referring to was this morning. It was something else.

[Ichingcarpenter]

22. Pat Buchannan said this earlier long before the memo came out

Said she doesn't need to answer any questions and Tweety slammed him so bad
and said they will lose the election if they do that.

[Epiphany4z]

34. I knew pat was being to pushy

on that point I knew something was up

[Ichingcarpenter]

49. I thought it was odd too. He had gotten the memo and was pushing it

Tweety destroyed the argument so much that Pat really didn't have a good rational answer.

So I think this story is true.

[redqueen]

46. What the hell? Why would Pat say something so mind-bogglingly stupid?

Oh... wait...

Yeah, nevermind.

:P

[Marsala]

23. They are SO toast

The media will spend the next two months blabbing about how Palin is hiding from them like Dick Cheney in his bunker. McCain himself isn't exactly going to be Mr. Available himself, either.

Meanwhile, Obama goes on Bill O'Reilly. Palin and McCain will be unwilling to face the harsh interrogation of Larry King.

[TexasObserver]

25. "GOP Spokesmodel Sarah Palin"

Candidates have to answer media questions.

[Brundle_Fly]

26. She'll Answer Questions... of course she will

FAUX NEWS WILL HAVE THE STORY

[PA Democrat]

27. I am furious. This token candidate is setting the woman's movement back by 30 years by demanding

a different set of rules. And this is the wimp who was ready to take credit for Hillary's groundbreaking efforts? Screw her.

[seabeyond]

29. don't be sexist. treat me special and gentle.... i mean wtf n/t

[yy4me]

28. Come on folks, do they think we are dumb? This is absurd and

I hope the media is paying some attention here. Our future is at stake and she doesn't want to talk about it? Sounds like a petulant, spoiled, dictated-to wacko. Enough already.
There should be a law requiring a certain amount of public unscripted exposure. When this is all said and done, If mcSame wins then dies, we are in deeper doodo than anyone could guess. Another puppet like ****.

[AspenRose]

30. Eliza Doolittle needs to spend all her time practicing for the debate

So she doesn't have time for questions with the media....

[AZBlue]

31. Because she's so good at giving speeches?

[Bobbie Jo]

32. The Mannequin Candidate

So...they just prop her up and pull her string?

[PA Democrat]

36. Talking Barbie. No brain necessary.

:mad:

[Bake]

33. If she won't face reporters -- FACE THE VOTERS -- then don't cover her scripted events either!

Is Camp McCain just TRYING to piss off the press? What idiots.

Bake

[redqueen]

35. Are they serious? Is that from The Onion?

:wtf:

[butterfly77]

37. These people really do have some damn nerve...

they have been running around the Republicons and the media for months complaining about how we don't know enough about Obama and he has done everything they have harped on answered every question and they think this BITCH is going to get away with this. Yeah, I said it..

[Rectangle]

38. Our leaders (Obama,Biden) need to call them on this

directly!
They need to get bare-knucked with McCain/Palin.
Give her, (and him) the straight talk express
"You are cowards, put up, or shut up, You understand?" :nuke: :grr:

[BeyondGeography]

39. Won't work; McCain will be worn down by questions about this until he cracks

It's so outrageous, even the whores won't go along with it.

[Bread and Circus]

40. McCain Camp: "We didn't vet her, we don't want the American people to either"

[PA Democrat]

45. Bingo.

[Marnieworld]

41. And the queen requests that no one make eye contact as well

This is ridiculous. They have actually found someone worse than Bush. She's up to the job but cant handle an interview? Wow. Just wow. Nothing pleases the media more than denying access. :sarcasm: They'll just start saying whatever they want if she won't refute them.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

42. HA! I thought this was going to be a joke thread. What a world.

[krkaufman]

43. Yep, I saw that on this morning's MSNBC Morning Joe program.

She was unbelievably rude to the guy from Time (author of the above), and he came back with some snark later. I think Nicole Wallace may have raised the ire of the media a bit.

[ErinBerin84]

48. oooh, did you see Jay Carney on MSNBC later today

talking about how McCain became "invasion of the body snatchers" (seriously) during his interview recently? He was talking to Brokaw. It should be on youtube, if you missed it.

[krkaufman]

57. Ah, Carney... that's his name.

No, I haven't seen that vid, yet, so thanks for the tip.

I'm not sure that picking a fight with Time magazine was the best move for McCain.

[Schema Thing]

47. I like the way Joe Scab jumped in there for the press. Good work journalist Joe.

[Kaylee]

50. They've got to be kidding!

Who the hell do they think they are?

[DeschutesRiver]

52. I watched that on Morning Joe; bitched on every post I could about it

Nicole was a piece of work - laughed each time as she dismissed the idea that Sarah would be answerin question from "the media". From the american public? Oh sure, but not from media.

Said it multiple time; made sure she got it in one more time, ending the set with yet another crack about how Sarah will NOT be answering, if it it the media asking. I never figured out why she kept laughing like it was ridiculous to even suggest that it would be important to answer media questions, when it is the voter's opinions only that count.

How wierd is that? Like americans should stay home from work to wait for Sarah to have a q & a session some day? Or do a single rushed whistle stop in their town? I think we like the press doing its job for us, them and the whole nation; so we can dig further if we need, or just get some help figuring out the issues raised, so we can make better decisions.

[BumRushDaShow]

53. The repukes are mocking the entire U.S. electoral process. n/t

[senseandsensibility]

54. Is the media going to talk about this?

This is truly shocking.

[terrya]

55. I guess that means she won't be in the debate with Biden,

Since there will be questions.

Hell, that will REALLY be a snap for Biden. :-)

[workinclasszero]

56. Aww little Caribou Barbie is scared to show the people

what a reich wing lying POS she really is!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

58. Achtung! Achtung! You vill ask no qvestions und you vill enchoy it!

[bigwillq]

59. What a fucking joke.

How the hell is she going to go head-to-head with Biden, and WORLD LEADERS! :shrug: :mad:

[Botany]

60. Caribou Barbie is afraid?

:rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

61. WHAT ARE THEY HIDING??????? This is Suicidal

Parsing on words ain't gonna do it....

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[moondust]

63. A sure sign of ignorance and/or incompetence.

Same as Bush's heavily scripted, exclusive campaign rallies and his supersecret Presidency. Joe Sixpack might humiliate them in a spontaneous exchange, not to mention what the press might do. Neither Bush nor Palin has the intellect to hold high office, but they're going to do everything they can to hide that fact.

[Willo]

64. I don't think we should make a big deal of it

McCain's campaign told a Times Reporter this morning that Palin wasn't going to be answering questions of the media and blew them off as unimportant.

If we make a big deal about Palin not doing the debate, she will look good for just showing up.

IMO, I think it's better to let their people and the media talk and make excuses for her.

If she does not show you can be sure it will be a family (baby) emergency, of which it will be "Who would not understand and do the same in this situation.

She must show up, AND if she doesn't we have to trust the thinking of those would have watched that debate.

[Bubbha Jo]

65. Why she won't answer them will become more important

than what she would actually say. Bad move.

[GoesTo11]

67. Don't worry, the press won't stand for this!

They'll bend over for it.

[AzDar]

68. How fucking Cheney-esque.

[AgadorSparticus]

69. well.....doesn't this speak volumes! Obama's camp will be foolish to let som'n this juicy get away

take some of their buzz away. prime opportunity. but then again, democrats seem to be experts on letting opportunities get away....

[Monk06]

70. I said it before. This is a fundy/neo con coup in the GOP. Palin will be the president in all but

name. Mc Cain will be a potted plant that Palin
will water once in a while if she remembers to.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

72. Bring on the tons of ads against her

I hope Move On runs short ads addressing each of her scandals and weirdities. For example, I'd like to see a Move On ad showing her addressing the 2008 AIP convention with her words "keep up the good work", followed by quotes by past AIP leaders who describe how they hate the United States.

If she won't get out there and answer these allegations or submit to a long interview in which specific questions are asked, rebuttals by campaign spokespeople and surrogates won't work. She has to address these things herself or they remain unrebutted.

[Arrowhead2k1]

73. This is actually a smart strategy for the McCain camp because.

She's actually as dumb as a fucking door knob unscripted. Good call...

[Arkansas Granny]

74. They need to edit that statement to read "the Republican voters don't care

whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy".

[JackBeck]

75. Another McCain talking point goes down.

Is he still going to accuse Obama of merely being a candidate that just makes speeches?

[Mad_Dem_X]

76. Can't wait for the debate!

:bounce:

[nichomachus]

79. Debate questions

Q. Mr. Biden, are you comfortable with the fact that Barack Osama, I mean Obama, and his wife are terrorists.

Q. Governor Palin, do you think Jesus loves puppy dogs as much as he does pussycats.

Q. Mr. Biden, do you think people should be allowed to marry animals.

Q. Governor Palin, what's your favorite color and why.

[Tutankhamun]

77. The word "Palin" is ancient Sanskrit for "cartoon".

[AmericanUnity]

78. George Bush in high heels. All image, little factual substance. All speeches

[nichomachus]

80. You asked for it

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

81. Now it has become the "no talk" express

[Raine]

82. She's incapable and unknowledgable

of answering questions, so now she doesn't have to. :-(