Palin Media Avoidance Watch, Day Seven

The GOPUSA is behind the boycott to have Palin interviewed on the Oprah show. There reason is because Palin is a woman, and that the Oprah show caters to women. One of Palin lead boycotters said that Palin is breaking a glass ceiling for women.

Obama could use that same argument as to why he should be on Oprah'' show. He is after all, the first ever nominated Afro- American candidate in a country that not long ago legally endorsed slavery, discrimination against blacks and other minorities.

But notice Obama campaign is not doing this, he is not using his race as a tactic to gain support. His campaign is not boycotting any group or business by using his race as an excuse to force a hand picked interview. obtain favorable is not saying things like; there saying that because I'm black, there picking on obama and asking him tough questions because he's black or if he were white he would be considered qualified.

Is Palin using her sex to be treated differently? Is she asking for preferential treatment because she is a woman? Oprah, is not allowing any candidates on her show to be interviewed, democrat or republican of which has nothing to do with Palin sex. She announced her decision months ago way before the world even heard or knew about Palin, as she just appeared on the scene a couple weeks ago.

If Palin wants to be interviewed so bad, why won't she be interviewed by the tons of qualified professional news anchorage personnel that have been knocking on her door for the opportunity? Is it because she does not want to be asked the hard questions like the other candidates? I think the Palin boycott is more cynical, if Oprah interviewed Palin on her show and asked tough questions, she would be attacked by the GOPUSA who asked for the interview in the first place, as not being fair to Palin because of her support of Obama.

So I say to Palin and her campaign, move on and get Palin interviewed by the appropriate news forum. And stop boycotting Oprah show for enforcing policy that was already in place way before the world even heard of a Palin. The GOPUSA is very hypocritical, for they use sexism when it's convenient!

E. Ferguson
Missouri

PALLEAASEEE!

Poor Sarah...attacks on her and her family...so unfair?

ok...obama a muslim and an extremist...fair?

clarence thomas raked over coals/publically humiliated with unfounded charges of sexual misconduct fair?

hmmm...lets go way back...

Alexander Hamilton, for challenging autoractic, corrupt Burr, was challenged to a duel, and shot to death, WITHOUT DRAWING HIS WEAPON.
fair?

common...poor Sarah...first of all...why is she using her first name...it is, respectfully, Gv, Palin no?

Politics and digging truth and dirt, destroying enemies...is nothing being unleased on "poor Sarah" as something new in intent or degree.

Get you heads out of your...."sandboxes."

And let her put on one of "Hillary's pants suits" and face the Washington correspondents, and not some pre-orchestrated media interview...like the ones where you get the questions before the answers..."Cone of silence anyone?"

Answer no questions = has no brain.

I can't believe someone actually suggested that Geraldine Ferraro be interviewed in lieu of interviewing Sarah Palin. That would be as useful as interviewing Jack Kemp.

Here are some of the things Obama has done "besides running for president:"

After college, community organizer
Saw that helping people would require changing laws and politics

Not only got into Harvard Law School without benefit of family connections, but then became president of Harvard Law Review

Chicago – civil rights lawyer, taught constitutional law

Illinois State Senator for eight years

US Senate:
-first law passed was a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent
-Veteran's Affairs Committee
-worked on non-proliferation efforts, to help keep our country safe
-alternative fuels and higher fuel standards, to help keep our nation safe and independent

He has worked for over a decade now to help less fortunate people, veterans, and address the real safety issues that this nation faces

If this continues until November, this is a huge problem for McCain. However, I suspect she will be taking interviews within the next few weeks.

No, she's not ready to be President, but 1) she isn't running for President and 2) she's still more ready than Obama. Please tell me what Obama has done besides run for office?

Hey Concerned in Ohio... that's the point! At least he went on O'Reilly to answer questions from one of his most adversarial "reporters" (and I use that term loosely in this case). Yes, bullies are rude, vile, mean, obnoxious people who love to interrupt which is exactly who O'Reilly is and other people have more courtesy and tact. Also, all the idiots asking why Michelle hasn't gone on interviews - well, uhh... last I checked she wasn't running for any office and I don't recall Nancy, Barbara, Hillary nor Lauara being grilled on Face the Nation, etc. when their husbands were running for POTUS. LMAO!

Here's a thought! Why doesn't the American press show some respect for a change and talk to our country's ONLY other female VP candidate, Geraldine Ferraro, while waiting to interview Palin? Wouldn't it make sense to touch base with her and get her thoughts on Palin about now? Or is everyone afraid that she might actually be a strong woman who thinks for herself and not simply toe the party lines? Either way...where is Ferraro? Was she even invited to Obama's convention in Denver? What is happening to MY party!!!??

Sarah Palin
Great Celebrity with Manias,

But no "Meet the Press", No "Face the Nation", No "This Week"....

Oh, These are too difficult Programs for her brain.

It's as simple as this: the reason McCain will not let Palin speak is because he knows she won't be able to answer questions intelligently because she has no experience.

And that will scare the hell out of everyone knowing that she could be a heart beat away from the presidency; talk about nuts! Thank goodness the American people are smarter than that.

Obama/Biden'08

Good job. Keep counting and drawing attention to this. The notion that a VP candidate would go into hiding from the press is absurd. She's a joke. Not a funny one, unfortunately.

I recommend the McCain campaign continue to keep her in the "Candidate Protection Program". It just shows how unqualified she is to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

I find it ironic that Democrats are trying to compare their Presidential candidate to the Republican's Vice Presidential Candidate. Especially when Obama's first instinct during the Russian territorial expansion action into Georgia was to call for "Georgia and Russia to show restraint". Especially when Obama is willing to sit down with Ahmadinejad without preconditions. I don't care what side of the political spectrum you fall, the Office of the President has certain powers of presence and meeting with foreign leaders, hostile or otherwise, lends credibility to them. Even when negotiating Matters of State with the former Soviet Union, pre-meetings were conducted so the US could negotiate from a position of power. We know McCain will confront world leaders with backbone. Looking at Gov. Palin's record of standing up to Republican Party higher-ups and other state officials in Alaska, I think one can argue that Palin has that same strength. I'm not worried about international matters if McCain/Palin is elected. I truly wish, from a non-partisan, American-oriented position, that Obama will have those same abilities if he is elected. But I'm just not sure right now that he does. Maybe something will change between now and Nov 4, but right now, I'm just not convinced.

So, Palin is supposedly ready to be the Vice President (and maybe the President) of this country, but she is not ready to talk to reporters??? Alllllrightythen.

Caribou Barbie can't stand up to CNN, so how can she handle Putin and Iran?

What a complete utter joke the GOP has become. They push this woman to the front of the stage, then quickly rush her off to a secret location where she can study "Vice President for Dummies"

Now, if Obama did this, you wingnuts would be SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER, but it's okay if you are a Republican.

Of course the average GOP voter is just another pavlovian dog who salivates on cue when told to. They don't think, they just obey.

I can't believe that even the most partisan Republican chucklehead can see no problem here. I guess I overestimated people again.

I believe the root of the problem is that journalism is dead in america. All I see is screaming matches between supposedly opposing points of view, each trying to outdo the other in outrageousness. I would not put her in front of any one except perhaps C-span, Charley Rose or the guy that moderated the debate between her, Murkowsky and the other candidate in the 2006 election (he was pretty good). Otherwise the rest of the journalists on TV today are nothing more than a bunch of punks.

if you guys don't force this issue and isist that this woma submit herself to the same vetting process as every other candidate for office, we will lose faith in th epress and believe that this election is racist, sexist abd biased in ways unheard of. John McCain cannot force this woman down our throats without information about who she is and how and why she has made and will make professional decisions that will directly and indirectly affect our lives/

you press guys need to get busy, if she won't sit down then you need to find the news she is hiding.....

For a few weeks, yes, she will be little more than a spokesperson. So will Joe Biden. For better or worse, the campaign is led, ideologically, by the top of the ticket. Everything is very carefully orchestrated. Heck, put Biden's speeches and Obama's speeches recently next to each other, they'll be saying the exact same things. So will Palin and McCain when they do separate campaigning.

Its the old addage that if you say something long enough, loud enough, and often enough, it becomes truth. Messages, on both sides of the campaign, are so very tightly controlled. But that's not to say the VP brings nothing to the table, on either side. Heck, Palin was instrumental in convincing McCain on the virtues of offshore drilling. We know she's in favor of responsible ANWR drilling while McCain has been hesitant to support such a move. But I wouldn't be too surprised to see McCain swing around to that position in the debates.

Its the same thing wherever you work. If you go off and promise a customer (we, the voters) something other than what the boss told them, you're gonna get canned. But you can take your boss aside in private and say, "Hey, this is what I think we're capable of and this is what we need to change." Call me a political cynic, but I don't believe anything they say on the campaign trail is anything but scripted. Everything has been focus group tested, run by policy advisors, and practiced dozens of times before we see it on TV.

So essentially she's like some sort of "spokesmodel" for the campaign -- she's allowed to read canned material and look pretty, but her own thoughts and ideas are strictly off limits.

Women deserve better. Republicans deserve better.