The McCain campaigns desire to shield its GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin from the risk posed by reporters asking questions, while still drawing high profile media attention to her meeting with world leaders backfired when the press corp. that accompanies the governors campaign revolted this morning.
Palin who has yet to hold her first press conference despite four weeks of campaigning, initially attempted to bar reporters from her meetings with world leaders today. But reversed course after they protested and threatened to cease coverage.
Campaign aides told the press pool that follows the governor they would not be admitted along with still photographers and a videographer taken in to photograph her meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
When told “the decision was not subject to discussion”. Apparently the otherwise competitive press corp. in a rare and startling show of journalistic unity decided enough was enough. CNN which had been selected to provide pool images for T.V informed the campaign it was pulling its crew from the Karzai meeting, An action that would have denied Palin the very media exposure she was seeking during her first meeting with a world leader.
Facing a pull out by major media covering the campaign, Palin’s people relented and spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt quickly issued a statement claiming it was all just a “miscommunication.” While it may be boiler plate GOP strategy to attack the media when they start losing. Polls indicate the vast majority of a shrinking pool of undecided voters who will decide the race are not FOX network viewers. If Senator McCain hopes to rebound in the few weeks left till election day he can ill afford any more controversy with journalists covering his campaign.
8 users commented in " Press Corp. revolts against Palin "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDon’t shelter her like a baby! If she wants to run with the “Big Boys”, they need to let her run with the “Big Boys.”
Let her talk – then criticize the words that come out of her mouth. It shouldn’t take long.
Revolts? Right. You can’t blame Palin considering the constant demeaning hate monger bashing by the media 24/7. The media picks and chooses its stories. The news media blacked out Palin’s 60,000 + rally in Florida but felt it was important to make the SNL incest skit a national story.
This is hilarious; how long do they plan on keeping her in that little cage? We want to hear what she has to say!
“Let her talk – then criticize the words that come out of her mouth. It shouldn’t take long.”
real classy girl, huh, WTT (White Trailer Trash)
this statement is exactly why the press is being limited to Palin.
Maybe if your statement had been “Let her talk – if she shows she is a buffoon, then criticize the words that come out of her mouth.”
It’s obvious that NOTHING she says or does will be good enough to you far lefties that are ready to poop yourselves from fear of her. So WHY should Palin even try to be fair to the left moon howling press?
They don’t need the press. It’s worse if they allow access than if they do. McCain/Palin is going to be our next Country leaders, and there’s nothing the wild eyed Hollywood freaks, or the Soros controlled MSM can do about it. The lefties know it and are chewing their own arms off because they have flipped out.
Hilarious.
Finally! The press should have revolted well before now, rather than enabling the disrespectful McCain-Palin charade. Journalists are not given access to interview her and she won’t answer questions at a press conference, but they’re supposed to run daily puff pieces based on Steve Schmidt’s “spin” and if they dare critique the whole circus, or do their own research and investigations, they get forty lashings of his tongue. The whole thing is a terrible scam, a travesty of truth and disservice to American voters. Our country has lost its way. Monty Python has taken over.
She is marginalizing herself.
I think we know already She has no place on a national stage.
She is not put in front of the press because she has nothing of substance to share outside of moose hunting.
Take a chill pill, RoboTech, you’re not making sense. The woman is supposed to be a Vice Presidential candidate – you know, the second most powerful job in the US. If she’s not grownup enough to be let out on her own without Daddy, for fear of being asked a nasty basic question that a Veep candidate faces on a daily basis, how on earth is she supposed to be ready to handle the multiple publics and people she would have to deal with in the job?
Neocons like you, who call decent journalists trying to do their job and give voters the truth and facts required to make wise voting decisions, are not American patriots who care for your country. You don’t deserve to have a vote if you don’t respect the responsibility.
It’s all really funny the McCain campaign props her up as a Govornor of Alaska, moose hunter, hockey mom, etc… yet shelter her from speaking to reporters.
How can they win an election if they do not communicate to the people?
Keep her in the closet for all we care.
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