Straight Talk Express..... McCain Campaign Plans To Keep Palin Away From The Press»

[RedEarth]

Yesterday, McCain adviser Nicole Wallace dismissed the fact that Gov. Sarah Palin has yet to take any questions from the press. “So what?” she scoffed. Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, campaign strategist Rick Davis suggested Palin might never sit down for an interview if, he said, it’s “in our best interest” to keep her away from the media:

SCARBOROUGH: Yesterday Nicole Wallace suggested that she was sitting right there and told Jay Carney of Time magazine ‘Sarah Palin doesn’t have to talk to you, she doesn’t’ have to talk to the press.’ … Can we expect Sarah Palin on Meet the Press and other one on one interviews throughout the course of this campaign?

DAVIS: We’re going to do whatever we think is the best to win. We have 60 days left and if we think it’s a good idea to go out there and do those shows, we’ll do them.

SCARBOROUGH: Can you avoid it? Meet the Press?

DAVIS: We can afford anything we want to do. … We’re going to do what we think is in our best interest. If that means access to the press, we’ll give it to you.

The McCain campaign reportedly told the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder not to expect any one-on-one interviews with Palin any time soon. Despite McCain’s pledge of transparency — even proposing a regular President’s question time with Congress modeled after the British version — he has been shutting off press access for months. Yesterday, a Time reporter explained that McCain bizarrely refused to answer his questions, “like he’d been body-snatched.”

Davis insisted that “there are no strings attached” to media access to McCain. Yet just this week, McCain abruptly canceled an interview with Larry King as punishment for a tough CNN interview with one of his spokesmen. What’s more, top McCain aide Mark Salter said that “only the good reporters” would get the best seats in the new campaign plane. “You have to earn it,” he said.

Davis told MSNBC that Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) “didn’t do a single interview until a week after his nomination,” but the assertion is false. Biden and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) sat for an interview with 60 Minutes “just moments after” Obama left the stage at the Democratic convention.

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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/05/mccain-campaign-plans-to-keep-palin-away-from-the-press/

[emulatorloo]

1. They are desperate to hide her EXTREMIST VIEWS from independent/swing voters

If those voters learn about what she actually believes and advocates they will run away.

To me this is probably 70 to 80% why they are hiding her from the press.

[predfan]

2. This is why KKKRove was caught unaware when he criticized Democrats for inexperience.

He was out of the loop on this pick, keeping his hands clean. This is all Rick Davis, and he's not nearly as sharp as he'd like to be, nor as sharp as McCain needs him to be.

Stay on message, let this bunch self-destruct.

[Fluffdaddy]

3. We'll be lucky if they let her on Fox & Friends. Meet the press...NEVER

[apnu]

4. Good one, not much straight talk if they don't talk. (nt)

[Fluffdaddy]

5. Do to her exactly like FOX did to Obama. Have a daily countdown

[Abacus]

6. Straight Balk Express?

:shrug:

[smartvoter]

9. Hate Talk Express. nt

[smartvoter]

7. Straight Talk Express: What a Joke. nt

[ITsec]

8. This is a 3 ring circus.

[Jennicut]

10. Will the press like this? I think they might turn on you pretty fast if act like this

And no interviews? For someone who wants to be the VP of the United States? Biden has done lots of interviews alredy plus we know so much about him because he's been in congress 36 years. Palin? No one knows her and we are expected to trust her to take over for president if McLame croaks? Whatever.