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"That would mean totally avoiding MSNBC, CNN, Washington Post and NY Times.

The less bias sources would include ABC News, USA Today, Fox News etc."

That is one of the funniest things I've read in ages. The only thing different with those news sources is that their "bias" agrees with yours. In particular, no sane person can utter the words "Fox News" and "unbiased" in the same sentence without having men in white coats appearing out of thin air to usher them to the nearest institution.

Those calling for "end to media avoidance by Palin" are those trying to steal the election Obama using smears and misquotes and unfair "gottchas".

Voters should teach those evil journalists a good lesson Nov 4.

Victory to McCain-Palin will clean up washington and also the "evil" anti-america media.

Why should he talk to a media that has been extremely bias? I think that he enjoys seeing the media squirm. He should find the most unbiased news sources and grant them media access. That way their ratings would soar and maybe the media would start being a little more fair. That would mean totally avoiding MSNBC, CNN, Washington Post and NY Times.

The less bias sources would include ABC News, USA Today, Fox News etc.

All of this back-and-forth about whether or not poor Sarah is justifiably avoiding being bullied by the media - who cares? People, it's this simple: If someone is running for office, they are expected to answer legitimate questions posed by the media, so that the citizenry can make an informed decision when it is time to vote. This woman is attempting to claim the second highest office in the land. If she cannot handle the stress of responding to questions from the press now, what is the likelihood that she can handle the responsibilities of Vice President? And what does that say of her qualifications to step in as President, should the need arise? White/black, male/female, attractive/ghastly - none of this matters. Answer the people's questions or please step down, Governor.

To the people who are cheering Palin on for ignoring the press, and to those who actually admit to voting for a candidate because she won't talk to the media - how old are you? This isn't a football game, this is an important election. This is a person who may be our next VP and possibly our next president. She needs to be available to the American people through the media. The press has thoroughly scrutinized every other candidate. Why should she get a free pass? Because she's female? I'm starting to think that Palin's cheerleaders don't want her to speak for fear of what they might hear.

People who respond, "Name me something Obama has done" in the comments under a blog crack me up.

It's called Google. Try using it once in a while. At the very least you can check the Wikipedia page about him.

Sarcasm aside, reverse the party affiliations for a second. Would the people defending this no-media policy really have us believe that if Palin were a Democrat instead of a Republican that they wouldn't be accusing her of ducking the tough questions?

If you think she is ducking, fine. If you don't think she's ducking, that's fine, too. Just be consistent.

Ha. Consistency in an election race. I crack myself up.

"Whoever said the media has a uniform bias never saw three TV producers try to order a pizza."

Common sense. A rally filled with cheering supporters as the candidate rereads a script is not the same as allowing oneself to be subjected to public scrutiny.
This woman could become President and leader of the free world, a place she knows virtually nothing about. We have a right to find out if she is as vacuous as her comments about Russia make her seem.
Even the courts honor the principle that witnesses should be subject to cross examination (hostile if the witness is deceptive) in order to search their knowledge and explore their truthfulness.
Today Sarah goes to the UN to make her first contact with world leaders, but guess what...nobody but nobody will be allowed to ask her what she learned! Nobody, not even Limbaugh. This display of avoidance shows that Palin, a communications major is simply afraid of speaking publicly and showing what she does and doesn't know.
That's just not good enough when voters have to choose a potential President.

Common sense. A rally filled with cheering supporters as the candidate rereads a script is not the same as allowing oneself to be subjected to public scrutiny.
This woman could become President and leader of the free world, a place she knows virtually nothing about. We have a right to find out if she is as vacuous as her comments about Russia make her seem.
Even the courts honor the principle that witnesses should be subject to cross examination (hostile if the witness is deceptive) in order to search their knowledge and explore their truthfulness.
Today Sarah goes to the UN to make her first contact with world leaders, but guess what...nobody but nobody will be allowed to ask her what she learned! Nobody, not even Limbaugh. This display of avoidance shows that Palin, a communications major is simply afraid of speaking publicly and showing what she does and doesn't know.
That's just not good enough when voters have to choose a potential President.

The Liberal Media Whining that they do not get their chance to attack someone who dares to go against their Obama Messiah. How pathetic.

Good for you Governor Palin, let these partisan jackals sit on their hands while you talk to the people. The press in this Country has displayed an utter lack of objectivity and fairness in this campaign. They are proving to be left wing looneys, so stay the course and speak to the people yourself. No one else will let you speak in your own words except you.

Sarah need to address the issues and stop hiding from them. Who cares where she shop or about her sending thank you notes to her girlfriends. Seems to me that she just want attention for anything other than responding to the concerns that are confronting the nation today. She seem to be the replica of Bush and McCain in her nonresponsive mode and it is unbelievable that some folks seem to be stuck in her world of doing and saying nothing about the economic, health care, education, etc. issues that must be addressed and dealt with.

whatever she says will be distorted and taken out of context. So why not speak directly at ralleys and have bloggers and cell recordings to listen to, when dealing with the media only use live open form venues. the Gibson chop/chop shop is proof/reason enough to avoid studio settings. In a way its back to good old fashioned campaining!

Finally, Groseclose and Milyo from UCLA find a systematic liberal bias of the U.S. media. "This is echoed by three other studies— Hamilton [2004], Lott and Hassett [2004], and Sutter [2004]."

You want people to talk to you? Then stop slanting your reporting.

********************************************** Just because journalists have an informed opinion does not mean they have biased reporting.

I have learned that conservatives seem to believe that the truth, served up with documented facts is a Liberal Bias.

Joe Biden has done 85 or so interviews since he became Obama's running mate. He's been called a gaffe machine and yet, he keeps doing interviews.

Palin has done three and two of them were softballs (People and Hannity).

We get it.

Palin is scared of the media.

Of course Palin is drawing major crowds. Everyone wants to know what she stands for because there have been no interviews. When they get there they are treated to a nice speech delivered with the help of a teleprompter written by McCain's campaign. I'm sure that inspires a lot of confidence. Sure. That's why her ratings have plummeted.

We may end up with a President with a communications degree who believes the apocalypse is coming a wee bit too slowly and decides to give the world a little push.

Ok Ryan, I'll pretend you really want answers and play along.

"Gibson was rude"

How was he rude?

Simply put, aside from the attitude (and you'd need to watch the videos for that) the "Exact Words" gotcha was impolite at best; and at worst it was unintelligible as his "exact words" quote was incorrect.

"cut up her answers so that she came across badly"

How so?

You didn't read the transcript of the first night's interview at Mark Levin's webpage did you? Something like 70% of what Palin said got cut from the broadcast.

Most of her answers got cut from multiple sentences covering a topic were cut down to a sentence (or partial sentence) soundbite.

When you give me a 2 hour interview, and I cut you down to 5 minutes of soundbites; nobody would think I'd done your speech justice, or given you a fair platform; would they?

When you cut most of her answers, you've just shown you're not interested in what she has to say. Gibson's editors were obviously more interested in Gibson's questions (only some that made him look foolish were cut) than Palin's answers.

Heck, in some cases Palin's answer to a cut follow-up question was aired as her answer to the original question.

Dishonest, hack-job, manipulative editing; these are all fair analysis of what ABC did to the Palin interview.

Somehow she doesn't want to come back, have partial phrases edited from paragraphs and be misrepresented again?

How dare she not allow you to butcher her comments more? Doesn't she know that ABC controls the truth?

About global warming, Palin
is blissfully ignorant.

On war and peace, her view
is that men don't start wars.
Her god ordained the invasion
of Iraq. We just carry out
his tasks.

On NATO expansion, she echoes
Bush and McCain. That means
her god could be ordaining
wars in Georgia and Ukraine
for his own recreation and
pleasure. We are pawns in
his grand cosmic scheme.

She's a crazy mixture of
religion and politics like
some wacky pastors.

Considering that Charles Gibson, supposedly one of the best and most impartial reporters out there, couldn't manage to get his "exact quote" right, even though the video is readily available, and essentially acted as if his job was to trip up this woman who had the audacity to think she could hold her own with her betters, I'm not surprised.

The reason Sarah Palin should avoid the MSM is as follows: she's not going to get anything close to a fair hearing.

The evidence?

Elaine Povich reports that only seven percent of all Washington correspondents voted for George H.W. Bush in 1992.

David Brooks notes that for every journalist who contributed to George
W. Bush’s campaign, another 93 contributed to Kerry’s campaign.

Finally, Groseclose and Milyo from UCLA find a systematic liberal bias of the U.S. media. "This is echoed by three other studies— Hamilton [2004], Lott and Hassett [2004], and Sutter [2004]."

You want people to talk to you? Then stop slanting your reporting.

This is nothing new, Bush did it in the last two elections, mostly appearing at events with carefully vetted Republican supporters. Sad but true.

my parents live down in the villages and i will tell you there are no minorities at the villages. my parents think palin is great. my mom said she thought palin was smarter than alot of people, i asked her if she is smart enough she just said that obama is scary. ok my parents are racist, but palin needs to speak to the media. it is unbelievable that the woman in this country don't get mad that the media treats a woman differently than a man. there is no way a man gets away with what palin does. it is a shame that america gives a white woman a free pass but obama's wife get's question after question about her patriotism and the media ask's if michelle is angry. i can't believe this country.

I have learned so much during this election cycle.
1) I must be half as rich as John McCain as we have six vehicles.
2) Running for POTUS gives you the experience to be President (AC 360 interview).
3) Charlie Gibson is only cheerful interviewing Democrats.
4) Voters who are Democrats and do not vote for Obama are racists.
5) It is possible to attend a church for twenty years and be totally clueless
6) The ladies of The View were not ladies when they had the McCains as guests.
7) The MSM picks and chooses what appears in their newscasts with a bias that is unbelieveable.
8) Service to our country is less important than lipservice to a teleprompter.
9) If I am a woman and I vote for McCain-Palin, I must not be educated. (I guess I'll send my undergraduate and graduate degrees back to UNC-CH and NCSU and request a refund.
10) There is a world beyond the beltway and the "Big City, and it is called middle America. Many of us could care less what some overpaid celebrity thinks.

With a 80% favor rating overall, (75% with dems) Gov. doesn't need to bow down to the MSM, and if they weren't listening, said she wasn't going to seek their approval. MSM S/b DSM (downstream media). This lady too savvy to step in it, not like B.O. who seems to walk in it every day. The people who want to vote for her want to see her in person, not on the boob tube.

This guy is a ABC News' Senior National Correspondent? Man they throw around titles. Cracks me up...

I can't wait to read the analysis on why Obama didn't win the election. They should start writing them now, so it's fresh in their memory.

If you work in MSM, I would suggest spending some time NOW with your resume, as more lay-offs after this election will surely come. People are just tired of the bias...

yes the Empress as no clothes, but it is the cheering crowd that keeps her fooled until some small child will speak up, then the crowd will jeer; but what does this say about the crowd? It is to McCain's'discredit that he foisted someone as poorly qualified as Palin on us, and it is a terrible insult to us that he should do so. Do we not deserve better? Ms Palin isn't to be vilified for not being qualified, she is what she is, but she should have known better than to have accepted his invitation. With grace she could have said thanks but no thanks, like she did for the bridge to nowhere. However McCain took the spotlight off himself and his family and sacrificed Palin instead. This is a war hero!

Jake you are making the same mistake others have made. If you went to school in the U.S. you know all you need is to be 35 years old and a natural born citizen. nothing about a passport or talking to the MSM. Sorry Jake but you are looking down your nose again at the American people.

Benjamin9
“I believe she has appeared before more folks than Biden.
Whats the deal w/Biden?”

Opps sorry Benjamin9, apparently you didn’t get the memo.
It’s currently a 3 way race for VP.

Obama’s running against Palin for VP, and in a distant 3rd is Biden (ya know he takes the train home almost every night” Biden.

Where's Sarah?? From todays' Washington Post:
In addition to having private sessions with Afghan president Hamid Karzai and Colombian president Alvaro Uribe scheduled for Tuesday, the Alaska governor now has a more elaborate list of heads of state lined up for Wednesday.

According to the campaign, she will meet Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili; Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko; Iraqi President Jalal Talabani; Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari; and Indian Prime Minister Manhoman Singh in a single day.

So, let's see-- she's done the Gibson interview and Hannity this past week, as well as campaigning. Sorry if she doesn't have time right now for you, sir but after the disdainful way the media has treated her, I don't blame her for keeping her distance. Maybe try some decency and respect for her & her family, and see if that gets you an interview or press conference.

“I worry that when we need to know facts that we have a right to know, they will avoid communicating with us, too!!! Obama/Biden '08!!!”

Good question, excellent observation!

Now pop quiz
Name 5 Bills/Legislation Obama has authored, fought for, and gotten passed?

Being 1 of 99 Co-Sponsors on a bill on a bill doesn’t count.

The Bills/ Legislation have to have a name or number that can be checked and verified.
Example:

McCain/Feingold, McCain/Lieberman, McCain/Kennedy

I don’t care if you agree or disagree with the bills,

I’m just trying to find out if this guy ever showed up for work!

Public law (xxx-xxxx) SB (senate bill) and such.

WE know a lot about Palin’s 20 months of Gov so far.
Over the same time space, 20 months, I can’t find a single thing this guy did.

To make it easier pick ANY 20 month segment that Obama was a State or Federal Senator, you can even use a segment that covers 20 month’s State through Federal.

If you can’t come up with some why would you vote for this guy?

She sure isn't keeping herself sequestered from voters - she's out there everyday and they love her.
On economic, foreign policy and social issues her beliefs and policy ideas are in line with the core values that have made this country great. Her record shows she has the backbone, intelligence and political skills to get her policies enacted. I'd say she's qualified.

Jake,

the objection as I understand you is that Palin is not running through the media gauntlet that is designed to destroy her? The Ossiah goes on O'Reilly and gets an interview that was designed to portray Bill as a moderate rather than vet Barrack. Otherwise, the media is adoring.

I am still waiting for a investigation into ACORN and the Chicago machine. The scale of intensity is not equal. I am wondering how the Dems would feel if the media voted 9-1 Republican?

I think the McCain Palin team is doing the right thing. When McCain opened up his campaign he was not able to stay on message. Obama's lack of transparency had him in the lead. If that is what America wants then that is what they get.

McCain/Palin rock!!

I see no reason for the McCain campaign to brief representatives from the Obama campaign (i.e. what you call "the media") in the middle of an election.

The public is best served by the approach they are taking - go direct to the people and skip right over the media priesthood.

Worked for Reagan.

Jake snarks: "Early on in this campaign, before McCain began his media avoidance strategy, the McCain campaign would muse aloud about how relatively inaccessible Sen. Barack Obama was. Why was he afraid of answering questions? they would ask. Weren't we in the press corps insulted?"

Obama is again 'relatively inaccessible' - he won't address reporters without leaning on a TelePromptR - but you lot aren't insulted, or apparently even interested. It's all Palin-bashing, all the time.

WaPo: [McCain] is not entitled to keep the public from being able to make an informed assessment of that judgment.

Problem is, since all of the MSM reporters are panning for mud in Alaska and none asking any inconvenient questions (Rezko? Ayers? Wright?) of Obama, the public is being robbed of the ability to make an informed assessment.

I can see the moon from my house, perhaps I am qualified to be an astronaut. All the people along the borders of every country who are not blind but can actually see across the border are now qualified to be VP. It is not a disgrace to be educated, to have studied hard, to get letters behind our name, letters that stand for something. There is nothing wrong with being educated and perhaps knowing the meaning of the word "doctrine". I thought everyone in school had to learn history of their country, this is not an elitist prerogative but a duty. Ms Palin should know what the Bush doctrine is as well as the doctrines of the past Presidents. This is high school stuff. Once more people it is not a sin or against "family values" to be educated and then apply that education to the service of your country, like being VP or being President. What we have here is the dumbing down of America and people are proud of it. Look across that border and learn another language! Glorifying ignorance will not get us anywhere. Try some humility for a change!

The media is a laughingstock. Here's a guy all lathered up about access to one of the Vice Presidential Candidates (How many calls has Tapper made to Joe Biden for an interview?) while the Democratic Presidential nominee's toughest question from ABC to date is which flavor of ice cream he prefers.

I understand there was over 14 million+ dollars in charitable funds guided by Mr. Obama in Chicago that oddly have not been accounted for. Where is the media scream and cry to find out what happened to the money in Obama's trust during what appears to be his only experience handling money?

It appears there is no shame with Mr. Tapper or many of his counterparts at ABC. Who will be the first responsible news organization in America to demand to know what became of the money under Obama's supervision as Director of the Woods Fund?

The big loser this November will be the MSM, Americans across the country have been looking at the political tripe and personal attacks served up by ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN on the GOP ticket. It looks like the public is making their voices heard via the Nielsen ratings....how did those ABC Emmys do last night?...the worst ratings in the history of the program and it's been telecast for over forty years?

For those of you who see these news stories as a chance to attack Obama, why don't you just focus on the issue--Palin. Is it really your opinion that a VP candidate does not need to talk to the press, answer questions from the American people and generally be accountable for her record? Is paranoia about the media so deep that you don't think anyone in the media can ask a fair question? Can you really be satisfied that she has met the requirements of office with the amount of information you have at hand? If the answers to these questions if "yes" that's scary enough but of course it is really the judgment of McCain that is in question here as well--picking someone who he has to hide from the public and who still remains an unknown in the political arena. The thought of having a candidate one beat away from the presidency who has yet to respond openly to her public may be the single best reason to reject her.

Jake, I'm glad to see this posted. Those who are whining should remember that this woman compared herself to a pitbull--a remark that's been endlessly repeated. So if she's that tough she shouldn't be shrinking from media interviews. I thought she did poorly in the interview with Charlie Gibson and that's all we've seen. If she can't handle step one of running for office, what is she going to do when facing the Washington press corps and avoidance isn't an option?

The MSM is nobody's friend...The problem is that voter's get the impression that the campaign is afraid that she'll make a mistake...Beyond that, there really ARE questions that go beyond the Sean Hannity softballs...1. Followup about this Trooper nonsense...2.Followup on her family's involvement with a party that would consider cessession from the US...3. Follow-up on several questionable assertions that SHE made which bring her credibility into question...I'm sure that many of the big issue questions will be explored in the debate. The questions that require answers are these fringe issues...McCain's campaign makes an intelligent politician look like - a Beauty Queen.

Why is the Arctic Empress
hiding from the media?

The Empress has no clothes!

Jake, Glad to see this posted. It is a question we should all be asking and the people who respond as if this were whining should stop and think for a moment: Would you hire someone to work in your own company who you had not confirmed was qualified for the job? If not, why would you want someone in the top office of the country who has yet to prove that she is anywhere near qualified? Besides, she claims she's a self-described "pitbull" who can handle anything so let's see her handle the press for starters.

"60,000 people on a Sunday afternoon...hardly a peep about that."

Probably because like most things coming out of the McCain campaign including inflation of crowds, that one was not true.

60,000 people on a Sunday afternoon...hardly a peep about that.

While the msm has been picking up stories planted by astroturfing Axlerod, Governor Palin as been engaging with crowds of people, endearing herself and her family to them.

She doesn't need you, msm. In fact, you've behaved as her enemy, not objective journalists. It's time you considered yourself exposed, and therefore irrelevant.

"Steve Schmidt complained that the Gray Lady and other news organizations hadn't sufficiently scrutinized Barack Obama and Joe Biden, seizing on the ties of Biden's son, Hunter, to the credit card industry as a prime example.

To illuminate that connection, RNC communications director Danny Diaz sent out to reporters just now a piece he said "clearly states [Hunter Biden's] work for MBNA."

The story Republicans are hanging their hat on?

You guessed it, published in The New York Times on Sept. 13. "

who cares about the alphabet media, WaPO or NYT? Sarah Palin should talk to voters, answer their questions..have townhall meetings, have people phone in..the media is out to get her, if the media is fair, she should participate. But the media is so in the tank for the One it is downright a disgrace. Just what kind of foreign policy experience John Edwards had in 2004? How about Bill Clinton in 1992? What about the Messiah himself? Anyone cares about what he actually accomplished when he was the community organizer, the state senator and the senator? McCain and Palin should ignore the media, and if they win the election, shut their doors for the junkyard dogs from WaPo and NYT, esp the NYT crowd. Seriously, these folks from the NYT are no better than the D&D pajama crowd from DailyKos, want to play AD&D, get these people, for real news, go somewhere else..

Boo hoo hoo. Sarah won't play with the media. I think it's great! Reason enough for me to vote for her and her outstanding running mate and remember, my vote cancels out y'alls vote!

"But the bill didn't become law, for a simple reason: Democrats opposed it on a party-line vote in the committee"

I love when right wingers offer op-ed by McCain advisers and pretend that's its somehow detached non partisan analysis.

Of course the writer doesn't tell you that bill was only read to the Banking committee (which the GOP controlled) before being presented to the Senate (which the GOP also controlled).

You want blame for why that bill did not receive even a vote?

Talk to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist in between indictments for corruption.

From the WaPo editorial quoted here: "McCain's selection of an inexperienced and relatively unknown figure was unsettling, and the campaign's decision to keep her sequestered from serious interchanges with reporters and voters serves only to deepen the unease."

The exact same thing could be said about the Democratic Party selecting Barack Uh-uh-uh-bama.

Ignoring the media is precisely the right strategy for Republicans. The rule should be - do nothing to legitimize the press as neutral arbiters of news and events.

They should follow through at the debates and insist that Obama pick two questioners and they pick two. That way Obama will have to answer a question from someone other than some fawning left-wing "journalist".

The faster the major newspapers and the network "news" media fold the better for the country.

"Okay Jake, I'll bite. But why don't you tell me where Senator Joseph Biden is now? When was the last nationally televised interview he did? Juxtapose that to Sarah Palin. When will Sen. Biden & Obama provide another nationally televised interview? When will Sarah?"

Biden has been interviewed nationally and locally more than 80 times since he was announced as VP including every cable morn show, Sunday morn news & 60 minutes.

Palin was interviewed by People magazine, Charlie Gibson and a lovestruck Sean Hannity.

How that for juxtaposition?

"How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett"

But the bill didn't become law, for a simple reason: Democrats opposed it on a party-line vote in the committee, signaling that this would be a partisan issue. Republicans, tied in knots by the tight Democratic opposition, couldn't even get the Senate to vote on the matter.

I've been following Govs. Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal, the two rising stars of GOP, since 2007. Had MSM done proper homework, you wouldn't be "caught off guard" by Sen. McCain's choice of Gov. Palin as his VP pick.

Now you all want her to make your job easy for you. Gee...and you wonder why you have no credibility left.

Speaking of Al Gore, does he have allergies or something? He's blown up like a balloon.

Ryan C. - we just call people who believe global warming is man made "People who have made Al Gore a millionaire."

Okay Jake, I'll bite. But why don't you tell me where Senator Joseph Biden is now? When was the last nationally televised interview he did? Juxtapose that to Sarah Palin. When will Sen. Biden & Obama provide another nationally televised interview? When will Sarah?

No, Jake, I'll ask when will Sen. Biden sit down with Charlie Gibson or let him hang out with him with unfettered access for 3 days? Jake, as a member of the media, you realize that stating an idea over and over again makes it akin to the truth. However, factually speaking, you lack facts babe.

Oh, boo-hoo.

Is that mean Sarah not playing nice with the 'media' ? How dare she ? Does she not know how (self) important you all are ?
I see no reason why she or anyone else should ever talk to the 'media'. About anything.

Ever.

Many of us(and I mean MANY, and FAR more than even a few years ago) can't stand the 'media', and don't believe ANYTHING it says. Frankly the sooner the media propaganda machines fade away the better for all. I can't wait to be perfectly frank.

We don't care that she does not bow down to your demands. In fact it is as they say --- a 'feature' not a 'big'.
A BIG FEATURE if truth be told.

"John McCain, co-sponsor of bill to reign in Freddie/Fannie monster in 2005. The Dems would have none of it"

The GOP ran Congress and the committee that was intro to in both 2005 & 2006.

So how did the Dems stop this bill?

WhoisReally2Blame, I think Dodd, Schumer and Barney Frank are going to be visiting Rangel at his beachside home in Punta Cana for an extended vacation soon. LOL!

Yeah, I guess you guys weren't listening when she gave her acceptance speech...she's not going to get into the good graces of the media.

I can't really recall anyone ever anointing Jake Tapper and his liberal "journalist" colleagues as the final authorities on whether Sarah is qualified.

Hey, nice job you liberals in the media have done investigating Obama's Chicago Machine ties and Biden's family lobbying manners. Oh, wait. That happened in another dimension.

McCain doesn't seem to have any trouble talking to the people.

"I think she sat with Charlie Gibson for a couple of nights during which he asked her tougher questions then he has ever asked 0bama."

Which question was tough?

"After she is elected VP in November, the whole lot of the "main street media" is going to rue the day that they were such water carriers for 0bama that they didn't treat this woman with the courtesy and respect that she deserved. Who will be laughing then?"

So once in power Palin will have venegance on the media?

"and there are alot of Americans who don't believe that global warming is man-made."

Yes we call them ignorant right wingers who cling to pseudo science fed to them by their respective propaganda outlets.

******* Not only is global warming Not man made, it's not even happening!! A report by a UN climate scientist came out a month ago and said:" The world is in a cooling trend"

uh ... I think she sat with Charlie Gibson for a couple of nights during which he asked her tougher questions then he has ever asked 0bama. The woman is too smart by half for the media. After she is elected VP in November, the whole lot of the "main street media" is going to rue the day that they were such water carriers for 0bama that they didn't treat this woman with the courtesy and respect that she deserved. Who will be laughing then?

Global Warming in NOT man-made. The Globe is warmed by the sun, not man. Thankfully, not all politicians are idiots.

With NBC accusing the Palin family and letting Al Franken write a hit piece on John McCain, ABC conducting an interview like it was an inquisition and then editing it beyond recognition and lying about quotes from Palin such as leaving off "let us pray" and the Washington Post goint so far as to say McCain was "wildly exagerating" when all McCain did was quote the Washington Post, I can see why she doesn't trust you guys. You have a good audience in the Obama/Daily KOS campaign though.

I have not watched msm for years now. I am so sick and tired of them. Why can't we use their reports as a campaign contribution to obamassiah?
Maybe you don't know that it was not McCain who said there were 60,000 people there, but the fire chief. I understand that they are having the "great 0" take his teleprompters with him every where he goes, because as soon as he gets off his written talk, he says things like lipstick on a pig.
I will never understand why we would want someone whose character is so shallow that he associates with the dregs of criminal activity and anti-American screeders (I know not a word).
All you lefties, including the press, there are lots of left countries that you could inhabit and love, this is the only one with a constitution of freedom and personal liberty. Go find your own.

hey anon - yes it is the21st century and there are alot of Americans who don't believe that global warming is man-made.

hey anon - yes it is the21st century and there are alot of Americans who don't believe that global warming is man-made.

We trust Sarah - we don't trust the press.
Maybe if the gotcha journalism was reduced, the agenda journalism was exchanged for true news gathering and there was a true desire to uncover the issues on BOTH sides of the debate, John and Sarah could/would be more available to the press.

Sarah Palin talking to the MSM crowd
would be sort of like Obama's desire to chat with crazies like Ahmadinejad &
Chavez without preconditions. The difference is Sarah is intelligent enough to recognize enemies while Obama
is merely a fool. Sarah has no need to
expose herself to the supposedly objective reporters who are in fact water carriers for the Obama campaign.

Well Steve Schmidt is in full meltdown mode today screaming at the NYT.

It appears he is upset that NYT has the audacity to point out Rick Davis's lobbying efforts for Fannie Mae.

I mean how dare they point that out and ruin the McCain guilt by association attack on Obama.

Even the press is tired of the McCain campaign's steady stream of lies.

Why shouldn't she avoid the media? The more she stays away the more attention she gets. Her name is a household word and the more trashing of her everyone does the more people love her. Besides, everyone (democrats and republicans alike) knows full well that the hidden agenda is to smear her and trip her up to fail just like good old Charlie tried with his rediculous Bush Doctrine question which he butchered and ended up making her look smarter than him. The fool.

Keep BO out of the white house.

MCCAIN/PALIN

Believe it or not, in this
21st century, there is a
governor of a state in these
United States who flatly
says that global warming
is not man-made.

That governor is Sarah Palin
now pretending to be ready
for the office of VPOTUS and
potentially POTUS.

Atlanta Media Guy -

If you're going to talk about Saul Alinsky, please 1) spell his name correctly and 2) refrain from calling him a "Marxist." This sort of name calling makes me wonder if we're on the verge of a new McCarthy/HUAC Era.

Alinsky was one of those dreaded "community organizers" who believed in economic justice and helped people of all races and religions in ecomomically devastated Chicago areas like Back of the Yards and Woodlawn.

It would have been surprising had Obama not studied his principles and techniques while he organized unemployed steel workers on the South Side of Chicago.

Generations of community organizers and not-for-profit groups have relied on Alinsky's books to help improve the lives and communities of ordinary working folks. I'm sure the have-nots wish they could afford to hire lobbyists. They have community organizers instead.

Governor Sarah Palin continues to speak to the ones who really matter in this campaign, the American voters. The press can continue to polish their Obama pins and put out their myopic articles and commentary, but I'm not buying any of it anymore. I am so sick of their mean spirited attacks and liberal bias on Governor Palin and her family. The press has blown what little credibility they had. The fourth estate is dead. We are on our own to get to the truth about Obama, since you won't even pretend to look into his associates and mentors.

Can you say "cost reductions" at ABC?