Mirroring Bush’s tactics, McCain-Palin campaign try to hand-pick reporter for Palin interview.»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/17/palin-decider-reporter/

Mirroring Bush’s tactics, McCain-Palin campaign try to hand-pick reporter for Palin interview.»

A local NBC affiliate in Maine reported last night that the network had requested an interview with Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) after she spoke at a rally in Bangor yesterday. However, the station declined when Palin’s handlers said they would grant the interview only if the McCain campaign could choose the reporter:

{We} also requested a one-on-one interview with Sarah Palin but the McCain-Palin campaign wanted to choose the reporter who would do the interview. That was a condition we could not agree to so we declined the inverview opportunity.

Indeed, the McCain campaign’s stunt is eerily similar to way President Bush has handled interviews with the media. When the White House offered NPR an interview with Bush last year, there was a catch — Juan Williams had to conduct the interview. “The end result,” the Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin noted, was that “Williams did the interview for his other employer — Fox News.”

[Higher Standard]

1. Hell, they're continuing the tactics they've been using with Palin

As I recall, all their interviews for her have been with pre-approved interviewers, though I am open to being corrected. But I believe they approved Gibson, Couric, and Hannity, though they clearly didn't get what they expected from the first two.

[City Lights]

2. No more toddlers in America's Executive Branch!

Sammy Joe GOPlumber has spoken to more reporters than Mooselini. If she can't take the heat, she needs to head on home where it's cooler.