If Palin is so good, why is she blocked from the media until Nov?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

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. Here's the exchange:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhgUvX_8Joo


Wallace's bash-the-media exercise has its merits as a campaign tactic. It certainly rallies the base. But the base won't lift McCain to 50% in November. More importantly, in her smug dismissal of the media's role in asking questions of the candidates, Wallace was really showing contempt not for reporters, but for voters. I bet there are a lot of undecided voters out there who were intrigued by Sarah Palin last night, but who don't yet know enough about her -- what she believes, what she knows -- to be comfortable with the idea of her as vice president of the United States. It's important to them to know if Palin can handle herself in an environment that isn't controlled and sanitized by campaign image makers and message mavens. Maybe she can, maybe she can't. As far as Wallace is concerned, it's none of their -- or your -- business.

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

[SmokingJacket]

1. It will probably backfire.

If it doesn't... I live in a much stupider country than I thought. :(

[symbolman]

2. Your time blog link is damaged..

can you fix it?

thanks..

the NERVE of these assholes, the INVISIBLE CANDIDATE? Not this time buddy! :)

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. it's fixed

[RockaFowler]

4. What is she so afraid of??

Honestly. She is not ready to lead. It's time to let the real people into this race. John McCain could have picked a real leader. He chose to pick a woman with no experience when there were plenty of other women in his party that were ready to lead. He chose poorly!

[President Decider]

5. Why? . Is this hard to answer? ...it's because she doesn't know shit about the issues themselves

She read the script they gave her .... that's it.

If the media would be granted access to her they would immediately find out what an empty-pantsuit she really is. She would not be able to provide and depth or substance on the issues.

[zbdent]

6. Someone would get press credentials

to serve a subpoena ...