McCain-Palin Media Avoidance Watch, Continued

"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.