Palin gaffe watch

[Boilerfan]

Er, uuummmm... maybe if she ever talks to the press...

[Boilerfan]

Soooooo close!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonath...s.html?showall

Palin gets question, looks to McCain, demurs

This is what happens when campaigns let reporters into photo ops. They get all uppity and ask questions.

From the pool report account of what happened after McCain and Palin's meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvilli and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko:

McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin (“Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?”) but McCain aide Brooke Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room.

Palin looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question, to which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say “No.”




By Jonathan Martin 01:18 PM

[Mark The Shark]

They need to free Sarah. She'll do just fine.

[DetroitFolly]

I'm not sure, Mark...if they felt that way, wouldn't they free her?

[JayVee]

whew... another Palin thread. I was worried about the lack of them recently...

[chasfh]

This is a woman who is supposedly ready to be the President of the United States right now. And she can't talk to the press until they "treat her with deference", as Rick Davis said on Fox News Sunday before the Gibson interview?

It's ********* that they're even doing this, but the greater ********* is how her supporters twist themselves into knots in an attempt to characterize this as standard operating procedure.

They're doing everything they can to shield Eliza Doolittle because they know she can't hack winging it with the media. if she could, she'd be hacking it right now.

[Oblong]

Yes, she should be more like Joe Biden. She'd be out there talking about FDR being on TV as President in 1929.

The press doesn't deserve to talk to her after the way they hacked her up with lies put out by Obama's people and supporters. They're irrelevant now. McCain's trying to prove that the media isn't a necessary part of campaigns anymore.

[JayVee]

McCain's trying to prove that the media isn't a necessary part of campaigns anymore.

if so, he's wrong.

[Oblong]

The point is, the campaigns don't need their consent anymore on what an acceptable candidate is. The media was was offended that he dared pick someone they didn't think was going to be picked and that they had to scramble around to find dirt on, way up in Alaska, no less. That's a long plane ride. And there's not a lot of Starbucks up there. They're cranky.

[Mark The Shark]

I'm not sure, Mark...if they felt that way, wouldn't they free her?

Because they are too tightly controlling her message to make sure it coinsides with McCain's message. Its a mistake borne out of poor tactics, not out of fear.

[DetroitFolly]

Well, we agree its a mistake. Its starting to have an impact.

[Blue Square Thing]

McCain's trying to prove that the media isn't a necessary part of campaigns anymore.

Lol - so why did I just see him on the news here talking about *his* initiative to suspend campaigning and trying awful hard to show leadership on international tv?

Or are you suggesting that he wants to, you know, not do debates or something because he ants to take the media out of the issue?

Honestly, this claim deserves to be withdrawn.

[eastside billee]

I love the fact that Palin isn't appearing on liberal tv.
Ignore the whole lot of em.

[Oblong]

Lol - so why did I just see him on the news here talking about *his* initiative to suspend campaigning and trying awful hard to show leadership on international tv?

Or are you suggesting that he wants to, you know, not do debates or something because he ants to take the media out of the issue?

Honestly, this claim deserves to be withdrawn.

withdrawn? this isn't a courtroom.

[Blue Square Thing]

withdrawn? this isn't a courtroom.

No, it's not.

It's still a total misrepresentation however and if you feel you totally misrepresent something you tend to withdraw that comment - or clarify it or apologise for it or whathaveyou.

[Boilerfan]

Palin: I can give you examples of things that John McCain has done, that has shown his foresight, his pragmatism, and his leadership abilities. And that is what America needs today.

Couric: I’m just going to ask you one more time - not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.

Palin: I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you.

Katie Couric is being sexist and not showing deference to the VP candidate!

[FloridaTigers]

Katie Couric is being sexist and not showing deference to the VP candidate!

Couric is part of the liberal media out to destroy poor Sarah Palin. Her being sexist is just the tip of the iceberg. Oh that evil liberal media...

[pfife]

Couric is part of the liberal media out to destroy poor Sarah Palin. Her being sexist is just the tip of the iceberg. Oh that evil liberal media...

If she can't handle the liberal media, or Couric, how is she going to handle those enemies like the PM of Spain?

[pfife]

I love the fact that Palin isn't appearing on liberal tv.
Ignore the whole lot of em.

I love watching the strength of the republican ticket look uber weak too.

Keep on keepin' on.