Palin Media Avoidance Watch: Day 9 -- McCain Camp Says She Won't Do Interviews Until It Knows She'll Be Treated with "Deference"

I'm sorry...you can't compare Hilary Clinton, Presidential Candidate, to Sarah Palin, VP Candidate. Govenors are known for the domestic leadership skills they bring to the table not a thorough knowledge of world politics which comes over time.

This is an election of Presidential nominees. I would be equally nervous if Biden became president by default one day. There are many reasons he had a failed attempt at the presidency.

Lets give Palin the same deference we'd give any other Governor in the VP slot.

I think most of us can agree that no one wants 4 more years of large government, non-existent civil rights, and economic failure. So use all the energy you've put into posting on websites and be sure to vote in November. That's when your opinion will really count.

So, she's ready to lead since she has executive experience and Alaska is close to Russia, but she's not ready to confront the media or answer tough questions.

interesting....

I think Palin should be treated with the same 'deference' she treated Obama with in her speech.

She is a pit bull with lipstick and said so herself.....she wants the job of VP...then vet her like a candidate for the job of VP.

Interestingly, on the blogs right after she was selected, we predicted that the Republicans would use her as a "poor me - the media is hurting me" candidate and then refuse to give press conferences. I guess we were right.

Rosa Brooks of the LA Times wrote:

"Over the years, Palin has actively courted the Alaska Independence Party, or AIP, an organization that supports Alaskan secession from the U.S. To be clear, we're not necessarily talking about friendly secession either: As the AIP's founder, Joe Vogler, told an interviewer in 1991: "The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government. ... And I won't be buried under their damn flag."

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. could learn from this man.

Share Vogler's sentiment? You can purchase a "Joe was right!" T-shirt on the AIP's website for $25. The AIP's website also provides helpful links to other secessionist groups, including the Southern Independence Party of Tennessee (which boasts of going after "these Politically Correct Liberal Communist[s]"), Ulster nationalists and Chechen separatists.

The McCain campaign denies that Palin ever joined the AIP. But while it is in dispute whether she attended its 1994 convention, she did visit the 2000 one and addressed AIP conventions in 2006 and 2008. Her husband, Todd, was a registered AIP member from 1995 to 2002, and the AIP leadership certainly considers her one of their own.

Video footage shows AIP Vice Chairman Dexter Clark describing Palin at the 2007 North American Secessionist Convention as an "AIP member before she got the job as a mayor of a small town -- that was a nonpartisan job. But you get along to go along. She eventually joined the Republican Party, where she had all kinds of problems with their ethics, and well, I won't go into that." (No need to. The Alaska Legislature's ethics investigators are on the case.) Apparently with Palin in mind, Clark then went on to urge AIP members to "infiltrate" the major parties."

It's obvious John McCain and the Republican Party didn't scrutinize Sarah Palin before selecting her. What they saw was her gender, which potentially gave them access to female voters, especially disgruntled Hillary voters. They also saw her association with the very conservative Republican based Evangelicals, which McCain was having trouble winning over.

It was only after her selection did they bother to send a team to look into what they had. There reactions since shows they made a huge mistake as far as character, background and qualifications are concerned. That's why they are spinning all of these lies and labels to try and manufacture a positive image of her. They are trying to buy time until they can program, solidify and sanitize her true image. This is why they are trying to prevent anyone else from scrutinizing her because they now know she would be an embarrassment.

Can anyone imagine a atrong woman like Hillary hiding from the media or relying on the Democratic party to hide who she really was? The Republicans had no problem parading her out on stage at their convention to launch an attack on Obama. Now that the convention has ended, she has to be protected from the very media she and the Republican party have been pandering to. The Democrate presented America with a real woman, a strong woman in Hillary Clinton. You might not like her or agree with he politics, but you can't deny her strong constitution. The Republicans have presented us with a female VP candidate that's so fragile and questonable, even they aren't comfortable enough with her to allow public scrutiny.

WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT MCCAIN AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S ABILITY TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS?

Here are some more questions Palin should be asked.

How can you love America when your husband was a member of AIP secessionist party?

How can you dare proclaim loyalty to the USA when there's a video of you welcoming the AIP who rub shoulders with racist organizations?

Sara Palin should start giving inter-
views about the time that Ohbama starts
with the town hall debates with McCain.
"I will debate John McCain anywhere,
anytime"....................

Here are some questions Sarah Palin should answer before the election.

What do you think God’s will is for natural resources and the environment?

What do you think God’s will is for the military?

What do you think of Revelations?

What are your feelings about Track going straight into the military instead of going to college first? Why did he make that choice?

How many campaign contributions did you get from energy related companies?

Since you have been Governor of Alaska during the oil boom which has caused such surplus, how will you be able to face the challenges of a budget huge deficit?

How do pregnancy and executive office combine?

Who does the cooking since you fired the Governor’s Chef? Bristol? Willow? Piper?

Did you intentionally become pregnant as Governor of Alaska?

If so did you do it to prove that women should not have to choose between Career, Education and Family?

Since you became Pregnant during your last two executive positions, do you intend to become pregnant as Vice President? President of the United States?

If you did not intend to become pregnant as Governor of Alaska, why did you?

Do you think it is God’s will that Trig has Down Syndrome or was that your intent for political reasons in conceiving a child at the age of 43 knowing of the high risk?

Why do you think the government should take care of special needs children which people chose to conceive and bear with full knowledge of the risks or realities of disabilities?

Do you think it was reasonable to travel back from Texas to Wasilla, Alaska after your Water Broke while in labor to deliver Trig knowing he was premature and Down syndrome and you would be traveling on commercial flights with hundreds of other people who would be inconvenienced if Trig Delivery happened on the flight and problems occurred.

Why did you travel at all so close to your due date?

Don't you think having chosen to deliver a special needs child you as his mother owe him more than 3 days at home together before you returned to work?

Why is a seven year old daughter Piper providing childcare for YOUR special needs child?

Wow. She will just rip the terrorists apart with that strategy. What will they ever DO if she won't talk to them!?

Place nice, or she'll go Nome.

Excuse me Sarah Palin is not running for the Queen of the United States to grant interviews as she pleases. Nor is she so weak and fragile that she needs to be protected.

If you reported with fairness you would not have to be told to shred Obama and to treat Sarah Palin with Respect and Deference: respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.

Now why exactly did they use that word?

Word to all media people and outlets that are not named Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow: THESE PEOPLE ARE RUNNING FOR A JOB TO SERVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. YOU CANNOT LET THIS STAND! Country first???? It is your DUTY to question the candidates. They are ready when the hold up their hand and say "Yup I'll run." My God! Obama and Biden both did interviews this weekend - Stephanopolous and Rather - and Obama even faced off with "papa bear" O'Reilley. I am incensed beyond belief and terrified that this will work because you - the American media - will let it happen.

She has gone from a Reindeer Barbie to a Pit Bull with Lipstick to an Ice Princess. Whah! I won't do interviews unless they are on *my* term, Whah! Can you imagine the right wingnut uproar if Obama/Biden attempted this political BS?

This is an interesting insight into how they react to tough situations. If elected, will they put the world on hold until more favorable conditions arise?

Having read so many of the posts here, you have to agree that Sarah Palin has to be answer the questions presented to her without receiving the questions in advance and without a tele-prompter giving her pre-packaged answers. Could she not answer the questions when the citizens of Alaska asked them? was she shown the "deference" she was looking for then? This is not "do as I say, not as I do" since she is doing this with her family values (and trots out her family) and then withdraws her family and access to them when it is offensive. Can't have it both ways, y'know? Last time I got into trouble at school for being unprepared, I had to do more work, etc. to show that I was serious. Does this not apply to Ms. Palin? Either answer the questions or remove yourself from the race for being unprepared.

On a side note, Ms. Sarah "Baracuda" Palin has been asked by Heart to stop using their song without permission. It must be another form of not being prepared on the campaign trail when your own "tag" song had to be forcefully removed because someone didn't pay attention to those little legal niceties, right?

I don't find fault with her for being a woman or a preceived lack of experience. I find fault with the fact that I still don't know what she stands for, where she comes from and where she is going as a potential VP for our country. If she is so techno-savy, she should have been prepared for this level of scrutiny from the online community but clearly was not.

I just hope the media doesn't fall for this. Just because Sarah Palin is being scrutinized doesn't mean it's happening because of sexism or partisan bias.

Ms. Palin's candidacy is a joke and an insult; the McCain campaign must have an awful lot of contempt for the American people.

And what of the media? They start pushing back and the McCain campaign punishes them. They didn't like how CNN treated one of their lackies, and McCain cancels his interview with Larry King. They don't like NBC and that network takes Olbermann and Matthews off of election coverage. Now this.

What a JOKE!!!

Sorry, but Palin is interviewing for a position "a heartbeat away from the presidency", a taxpayer-funded job at that. In what universe could one expect to be hired by refusing to interview until deference and 'just a few more days' is given?

I agree that her personal life is off the table, but policy issues, her personal beliefs (incl religious) and her record are all up to public scrutiny, ie how would she govern? We need this information NOW, since Ms. Palin is so new to the national scene.

No job interview, no job (no votes). Got it?

Rick Davis today announced that the McCain campaign will restrict access to Governor Palin by Reality until Reality agrees to a basic set of ground rules that will ensure that the Governor is not subjected to unfair and unexpected events. Mr. Davis said that Reality has a well documented history of intrusiveness and disrespect for Republican candidates and office holders. He pointed out that there is precedent for this action.