Clock is Ticking as McCain Campaign Hides Palin from the Press
By Jon Perr Thursday Sep 04, 2008 8:00am
On the same day Barack Obama met with the conservative water carrier Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, the McCain campaign made it clear that Sarah Palin won't be talking to any of the media any time soon.
In a jaw-dropping appearance on MSNBC Thursday, McCain aide Nicole Wallace told Time's Jay Carney that the press wouldn't get a chance to take shots at the hockey mom turned McCain running mate.
According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don't care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace -- in an appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough's show -- the American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve to know) from Palin's scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads.
Given the highly combustible mixture that is Palin's reed-thin resume, radical right-wing agenda and mushrooming portfolio of scandals, Team McCain's effort to field the first stealth vice presidential candidate in history comes as no surprise.
But for conservatives so found of countdowns and ticking clocks, the question now is: when will "Disappearing Palin" meet the press? Apparently, "Sarahcoulda," but won't talk to the media.
The clock is ticking.
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One of the many questions I want answered - What books did you want banned from Wasilla's library, and why?
What is Sarah afraid of? I thought she was a pit bull? More like a PUSSYcat
The Talibangelicals have, for the first time, truly one of their own with a straight line to the White House and Dick Cheney's all powerful, unaccountable "Fourth Branch of Government" office, and they are not about to let that be derailed by the Satanic homosexual secular big city media.
Why would they want to hide their newly-born star ? The new face of the Republican Party ? The pit bull with a tampon ?
btw...
I did not see the speech last night (US OPEN!), but my buddy tells me they had videos of the planes hitting the WTC towers just before McSame came out !!!
Please someone tell me they didnt really do this.
How well will the McCain message: "The Republicans are coming to save you from the Republicans" message resonate with America?
The would-be Emperor's new clothes ... except he KNOWS there is nothing there.
If can't face Mr Carney how can you stand up to 'nasty' men like Putin, Ahmedinejad(I know thats wrong) and the like.
And why are (R)'s voices soooo annoying, their pitch and tone is awful.
Joe was actually supporting our chance to vet her and he said later on this morning that the RNC was a DUD!
C. Hussein Jr. @ 4:
Oh Yeah they did! They called it a tribute to the victims of 9/11!
After McSame snooze of a speech...they need Palin out there...she might be the only one with a pulse...i liked what jon stewart said last night.."the republican party is the only party that can get us out of the mess..the REPUBLICAN party made"..lol
"According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don’t care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy."
That is outrageous and the Obama campaign deserves to lose if they don't take advantage of this. If there is audio or video of this from Jay Carney, I'd love to see/hear it.
Wow.
Still using 911 for their own agenda...and you thought we were getting rid of Bush...lol
Well if he can't use his lipstick-ed up pit bull, what good is she? If he has to keep her in a cage, how's she gonna protect him?
I heard something about this yesterday but I thought I misunderstood what they had said. My first reaction after reading this post was, Holy Shit, are they making her a Prisoner of Society or a POS
surfjac @ 8:
Wallace -- what a shill 'WHO CARES????'
She's the reason people don't watch 'news' programs anymore.
Anyone wanting to stay informed learns to read and goes online.
And don't forget: mcshame knows where Osama is and he will get him! He isn't going to tell anyone else this secret but elect him and he will get Osama. Every time this man opens his mouth he sounds more and more insane.
lol just realized I was so stunned by the first sentence there that I missed the second sentence which says this was on Scarborough.
Wow...
I sure as hell want to hear her answer questions, a shit load of them.
They were OBSESSED with getting Obama on BillO, but "who cares" if she can talk to the media?
What a bunch of whores!
I know most people don't give a damn what Canadians think, but these people, especially Mrs Hitler(with her book banning) scare the hell out of me.
Does this mean that if grandpa simpson and mrs hitler get in there's going to be a special fire dept(farenheit 451) to handle the book burning?
Bet the repugs are sorry they have agreed to the debate now. Is Ifill feeding her the questions so she can study up on the answers while she is in seclusion?
liberAL @ 15:
Reminds me any Simpsons episode where Homer's fantasizing with the little 'thought balloon' above his head. McCain seems to be living in his own little fantasy world.
I knew this was coming.....a few days ago, in response to reporters' question, McCain told them to read his book. A couple of days ago, he threw a hissy fit and cancelled his appearance on CNN with Larry King. Then the GOP message of the librul media was bad and spreads lies spread like wildfire. Now Palin won't be answering questions.
I'm sorry, but this sucks. These damned repugs are pushing Palin as having more "experience" than Obama and Biden; let's see that experience in action. How is someone who probably never even heard of Azerbaijan until last week going to actually go to Azerbaijan to meet with foreign leaders to try to stop a war?
Oh, I forgot.....Azerbaijan is close to Alaska.
Oh, and by the way, from the AP:
"The jobless rate jumped to 6.1 percent in August, from 5.7 percent in July. And, employers cut payrolls for the eighth month in a row. Job losses in June and July turned out to be much deeper. The economy lost a whopping 100,000 jobs in June and another 60,000 in July, according to revised figures. Previously, the government reported job losses at 51,000 in each of those months.
The latest snapshot was worse than economists were forecasting. They were predicting payrolls would drop by around 75,000 in August and the jobless rate to tick up a notch, to 5.8 percent. The grim news comes as the race for the White House kicks into high gear. The economy's troubles are Americans' top worry."
Well, I guess I don't believe the AP because they are part of that "librual media" and spread lies.
The McCain campaign's stall tactic isn't going to last forever. Palin will eventually have to face hard questions on national security, foreign policy and the economy at some point and when she does everyone will know that she knows nothing. Its only a matter of time.
It's a little surprising that the person tasked as a senior communications adviser to the GOP nominee doesn't understand the role of the fourth estate. Ms. Wallace, here it is: The press acts as a surrogate for the American people, asking the questions that we don't get to ask.
Allowing Palin to meet with Mr. Carney is not a favor to him personally, it is the obligation of any candidate for high office. It is part of the vetting process (which the McCain campaign obviously sucks at!).
Did Ms. Wallace learn her skills in the "Harriet Miers Ostrich School" of vetting? Just stick your head in the sand, let it all swirl around you, and hope for the best?
That they have such open and hostile disrespect for the office of the presidency (and the rights of the American people to be informed) is just about the most unpatriotic display I have ever seen.
Hey, it takes time to indoctrinate a new member of the team. Even John McCain doesn't seem to adhere to what they want him to say half the time.
Is this the strategy - first attack the liberal, biased media elites, then withhold Palin from their scrutiny because all they would do is mean to her? Have I got it? I thought McCain said, "We don't hide from history; we make history." What kind of history is she going to make in hiding? I don't get it.
JonAtWork @ 18:
Olbermann can start using the '24' clock now too!
Ignore the MSM at your own risk Mrs Palin, but when you carp about them misstating your posistions on anything, you will only have yourself to blame.
This is a little off topic but I just got it from a friend: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/wannajumpmyscooter/JesusPilate.jpg
Also, hiding her won't matter much when she has to debate Biden. She might have some canned responses there, but he'll probably rip her to shreds.
I'm sure we'll hear about how harsh he was on her. We already heard that with Obama on McCain, although I felt most of that paled in comparison to how McCain's friends went on about Obama... and in some ways, McCain basically trying to steal the slogans and thoughts of Obama and the Democratic party is even more insulting to begin with.
surfjac @ 8:
You think this might mean they're finally owning up to their responsibility/complicity in their destruction and the deaths of all those people? McShitstain certainly bears some responsibility for some of the chickens that came home to roost that day...
Naaaaaah...who am I trying to kid...
There probably are many who don't care. How many?
Someone ask her about the corrupt corporate takeover of our government.
Enquiring minds want to know IF Palin had an affair with her husbands former business partner?
Shocked! The McCain campaign has run out of convention days to use as a reason to avoid all of the media's questions.
She accused Hillary of whining. Now she herself is hiding. Yeah, she's tough alright.
What a shrill voice she has. She thinks it was all good with the speech without mentioning that it was written for her. Those are NOT her thoughts per se. I don't think they will get away with this for long. The media is waking up to a small degree and I hope they keep pushing this point.
Tony @ 30:
Biden will be under strict instructions to treat her gently. There was some kind of poll on some program or other last night which recorded that 57% of respondents (all "Murkin" voters) believe the Lord's Plunger Handle Up The Ass of Democracy is MORE qualified to be Veep than Biden is. Also, that her choice of styles for her glasses had become the latest accessory fad, overnight selling out in NYC and DC...
We are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fucked.
Oh Oh Another Cheney clone. Can't stand exposure to the light.
Mommy, Mommy there's a Puppet on TV
What people forget is that pitbulls are not naturally aggressive creatures... they have to be taught that way.
A dog by any other name...
Oh the hypocrisy makes my head explode. "Who cares" if Palin speaks to and gets interviewed by the media? VOTERS. Can you imagine if Obama refused to get interviewed? I guess being a reformer means you don’t have to answer tough questions about anything. With the shit hole Bush has dug for us and for Palin to refuse to talk and tell us her world views, its very telling about the qualifications of this stunt casted VP pick. It’s outrageous
This McCain fan says she have never seen a family get treated so poorly by the media. She must have been in coma for the Bush era. First of all McCain broke the Bristol getting knocked up story and I guess they must think the media should ignore this story, yeah lets forget about the fact that Palin is running for VP and preached abstinence.
This McCain fan has never seen a family get attack like this before because her party was the one doing the attacking and destroying peoples lives. McCain picked Palin to get attention and now he’s got it, ha ha
She has to run back to Alaska to clear this mess up. I wonder how much money they are going to pay this guy to shut up?
Brad Hanson - Sarah Palin’s other lover and…a city council member?
September 5, 2008
Rumor has it that Mr. Brad Hanson, the man that has spilled the beans on his affair with Sarah Palin to The Enquirer is now a member of the Palmer City Council. He was married at the time when he was alleged to be with Palin.
Hey, it's distasteful and dubious, but The National Enquirer was partially right on John Edwards, so here it is:
ST. PAUL, Minn. | John McCain’s campaign is denying a tabloid report that vice president candidate Sarah Palin had an extramarital affair.
The National Enquirer wrote in its edition dated Sept. 15 that Palin had an affair with a business associate of her husband, Todd Palin. He discovered the infidelity and dissolved the business, the article said. It attributed the allegation only to “an enemy” of the Alaska governor.
SApeaking of choice, did you just about fall over with mirth when Sam Bee, on TDSWJS last night, captured the evasions of the GOPuke revellers as they tried to avoid saying "choice?"
Fuukin Comedy GOLD!
"According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don’t care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy."
Maybe there are some people in America that care little about Palin's lack of experience on foreign policy and national security issues. However, there are those foreign leaders who do care about such matters and they will be very interested in what she does or does not know. When she eventually opens her mouth it will become very apparent to them that she knows nothing. They will then see her as easy pickings when she eventually has to deal with them at some point.
Wow....totally shows the lack of faith they have in her to speak for herself.
So are the debates with Biden all cancelled now? I hope that Biden demands that they go on whether Secretive Sarah shows up or not. I think the point needs to be made that she’s refusing to participate in some of the most basic exercises in democratic elections.
The McCain people are going to do what they learned with Bush, put her in front of a hand selected "town hall metting" and claim that she is talking directly to the American people without the media filter. We will be subjected to questions about how hard is it to be such a beautiful woman with some many kids, can you give us a great moose stew recipie, and do you love Jesus or your husband more. Mrs Palin is not ready for prime time, hell she isn't ready for the test pattern at 3AM, so I am not stunned by this. Smoke and mirrors, that should be the repug slogan.
woody, tokin librul @ 36:
Dear GOD!
Why are Americans such fucking sheep?
Nicole Wallace has been a major irritant on "Morning Joe" and elsewhere, and yes her voice went up two octaves in faux outrage. I'm surprised she didn't spill her coffee.
But "the media did something to Sarah Palin's family" she hasn't seen before, in her lifetime? Sure we have. It's the celebrity angle, if we can push it that way. Think Britney Spears. Equate one celebrity with the nation's newest "celebrity". Make it tabloid.
But zooming out a bit, it's such a theater. Palin and McCain as victims. Yet somehow, braving the director's chair in the teeth of the TV set.
I think the R strategy is to limit access to Palin (like McCain's less frequent interviews on the Straight-to-Hell Bus) in order to 1) whet appetite and get better behavior from the press and 2) plow the field of "victim" at the same time.
It's up to the press to stick to their guns, attempt the interviews, and not give in to "better treatment" aka softball questions. We'll see.
Somebody opined a couple days ago that Palin is an orchestrated distraction to take the heat off of John McKeating. Uncle McFester chose Palin BECAUSE of her problems and those of her family.
I think that is probably correct, and it smacks of the kind of opportunism that is first nature to the amoral John McCain.
Sarah Palin and her unfortunate family will absorb the punishment while McSame is free from unwanted scrutiny about:
Being the go-to guy for Charles Keating in the Keating Five ripoff.
His sealed military records
His hotdog flashy flyboy ****-up that caused a disaster on the USS Forrestal
His skirt chasing infidelity
Questionable real estate-for-legislation deals
Being wrong about Iraq from before day one
Now everybody's attention is focused on Mrs Mooseburger.
Convenient, eh?
woody, tokin librul @ 42:
That was fuckin hilarious...that girl at the end of the segment was truly an idiot.
Why didn't McCain just appoint a sock puppet as his VP nominee?
Referring to Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, Mr. Trippi added, “All Obama has to do is say, ‘Bush-McCain, Bush-McCain.’ ”
BUSH MCCAIN BUSH MCCAIN BUSH MCCAIN BUSH MCCAIN BUSH MCCAIN
There has never been any substance to the GOP. Look at Dubya who was treated with kid gloves most of the time. Why would he be so out of pace with the American people 82% think we are on the wrong track.
I guess what good for the GOP is good for the nation, after all the GOP did not ask Palin any questions!
This whole Brittany Spears/Paris Hilton/Jerry Springer Show V.P. pick circus sickens me.
When they think she is ready she will answer questions but it will be questions posed to her by the hosts of shows only on FOX. I'll bet big bucks on that.
Palin parades her daughter before the cameras for the world to stare at but is afraid to present herself for review.
Ms Palin is suffering from mono and may not be available for interviews for the next several weeks.
are they going to let the pit bull off her leash for the debates or is she going stiff the citizenry on that too?
How are we suppose to know where she stand if she will not talk to the press. Are they afraid that she will say something that they do not approve of or will she let the truth slip how they really don't care about the american people and are really into this for the money. They can talk all they want about be for the people, but just look at their record. They cut everything that will help us and give money to the corps. Mccain was going on about how we should not get help if our house is in foreclosure because we can't make the payment. But what happens when the banks get in trouble because of their greed, the republicans are the first ones to hand them money. Talk about a double standard.
I want to hear what they are going to do for me, I don't hear one word on how they are going to fix the economy, what they are going to do for education, employment. All they do is talk about how bad or good things are depending on who they are talking to. One speech we are not doing good, the next speech we are doing good. They need to make up their mind either we are or we aren't. Talk about flip flopping. They have mastered it. And of course they are always taken out of context, even when you are playing the whole speech. And catch them. The American people need to wake up and smell the roses. Again the republican party does not care about you or me, all that matters to them is how much money they can make for the corporations and lobbiest.
Vice Presidential debate, Oct. 2.
Even considering how little these heavily scripted events resemble a true debate, it should be more than entertaining.
Sarah Barrack-Uda? What kind of terrorist name is that, anyway?
Maybe for some unknown reason she will have to withdraw from the veep debate. Something like one of her children is "ill".
Cheney has her at his undisclosed secure location.
If they keep Palin from the media the media will search just that much harder into her background.
surfjac @ 13:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yLAulRwIfU
They ought to keep Tom Ridge away from the press. Last night after the speech he called John McCann, John Bush. I swear I hope someone post the video on the internet.
Nona Yabiz @ 61:
Yikes, she's a Muslim and a terrorist, no wonder she's in hiding. Are they hiding her in her sleeper cell. Hope she has a cot and stuff in the cell.
Oh I forgot to point out that McBain was NOT wearing his Flag lapel pin last night...
Why does he hate America?
They've probably got lawyers with cash paying off all possible sources of scandal in Alaska right about now.
She actually IS from a Moose-slum country.
NorwoodWoman@26: Yep, you are correct. And be reminded, McLamebrain said
during his 911/POW "talk" last night that his administration would have total and
complete transprancy. What a bunch of BS..."Hiding" Palin is not in keeping with
his LIE.
By the way, somehow I managed to watch McLamebrain's entire "talk"..and in my
humble opinion, it was the most ridiculous, mundane, uninteresting talk I have ever
witness from a Presidential candidate. He is, or should be, a complete embarrasement to the Repug Party. Anyone, with any sense or an IQ above 100,
will totally discount him as a serious candidate.
Kind of OT but Krugman has an excellent column up on NYTimes on the politics of resentment.
A good read indeed!
1e47Kansaskowboy @ 65:
LOL it was up on youtube last night.
Thank Dog for the internet.
Pretty obvious after McSame went down in flames last night that they have to get Palin out there carrying McCain on her back.
liberalNmoderation @ 67:
Consider his voting record on Veterans' Affairs and ask "why does he hate the troops?"
If you have an opportunity to read the editorial in The Nation, you will understand the GOP convention in a nutshell, from the scramble away from the word republican itself (just can't seem to capitalize it, just don't believe its a proper noun) to the bullshit that McCain is now trying to pitch. It comes down to the old fart being nothing more of the same. Look at his actions not his words. He has willingly been part of the problem he now tries to distance himself from for the last 30 years. We know how to destroy the mantra they are trying desparately to fit within. Unfortunately, with a willing "liberal media" its going to take much more effort than it rightfully (no pun intended) should.
if mccain actually wins this election, i am boycotting republicans in every aspect of my personal and professional life....friends, family, clients....i don't care....no more phone calls, no more holidays, that's it...
this is bizarre...they are in some other, irrational, fact deprived world.....if they pull this off somehow, they deserve scorn and alienation.....
to willfully hand this country back to republicans, after these last 8 years, is simply unforgivable, considering the stakes, considering the record and the consequences...
The democrats need to label Palin as a liar.
The convention speech was full of whoppers. She was a commercial fisherman, so I guess she knows a good fish story.
"Sarah Palin tells whoppers." That needs to be the theme.
The fact that John McSame doesn't think that the american people need to discover how the individual "a heartbeat (or a chemotherapy session, as the case may be) from the Presidency" thinks is absolutely "unconscionable" and the american people need to rise up against this form of tyranny. How dare McCain underestimate the intelligence of the populace in this way? How dare Mr. McCain in his attempt to "stop the Sarahcoulda bleeding" decide that the american people who are actualling "hiring these candidates to do a job" would be so easily fooled?
After all, we are the "employers" and we have every right to conduct an "employment interview" which often includes having the applicant discuss his background. Are you kidding me here? We're paying the salary and we get no time for questions? We're paying the salary and she goes and hides from us? We all know well what happens when we intentionally fail to disclose material facts in our resume to our future employer, don't we? We definitely DON'T GET THE JOB. This is an experience every working american has had in his/her lifetime. If you don't deliver the goods to the employer, you're SOL. McCain is making damn sure that Palin recedes into the woodwork so he's, quite overtly, sabotaging not only her Veep candidacy but his own in one fell swoop.
The pundits are weighing in about his boring speech last night which had no tangible plans for our future and now he's not permitting the american public from conducting it's own "employment interview" with Palin. I'd say he's, as predictable, dabbling in self-destructive behavior right now. I'd say he's showing more about what he really thinks about Middle Class america by this totally "elitist move". I'd say that he, himself, doesn't believe that Sarah Coulda is right for the job.
If you fail to show for the interview, you're chances of being hired are slim to none.
REASON FOR STEALTH VP - SEE LINK TO WASILLA CITY HALL
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_86rDygA8zso/SLxLtL-aIRI/AAAAAAAAAEk/UXbmd7huza...
Palin * McCain - The People's EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEW That Wasn't!
It's time for the Dems to bring back the guy in a chicken suit, used during Clinton/Gore's first campaign. Have the "chicken" follow McCain around to every one of his appearances, holding up a sign that says, "WHERE'S SARAH?" This is a legitimate issue for the Dems -- if Palin is such hot stuff, how come they won't let her talk to the press without handlers? Hammer on it from now until November, if that's what it takes.
#49 EXACTLY!!! It's like McCain if trying to put a CONE OF SILENCE around his messes, dontcha think?
It's beyond offensive that he can lie and cheat at the simplest of rules...e.g. the ego-driven Rick Warren fiasco, and it just evaporates into thin air.
COUNTRY FIRST MY HANGING CHAD!!
Palin is now a known "liar" and McSame "hates the troops" - wow! What a campaign platform. Add to that the underestimation of the american public to conduct an employment interview on Palin via the press (a scrutiny we extend to male and female alike in our political process) and his obvious belief that they are definitely not "public servants" who are hired by the american people. How elitist and ignorant can one get? But in typical McSabateur style, McCain blows it again and shoots himself in the foot.
As I've repeated all week long, Obama and Biden need do nothing whatsoever. Their coffers will fill by the mere stupdity of John McCain; they will overflow due to the obvious reckless of John McSame. They can and have taken the high road. Now send out Hillary to complete the job! She's due in Florida next week and she will show little Sarah how women in politics do the job. No damn wonder McCain's quaking about putting Palin out in public.
As far as "hiding Palin from the press", just ask yourself honestly: WWYD? No doubt about it - with no real resume to go on, this woman is a sitting duck. She's the egomaniac sitting in the employment agency who believes that a bouffant hairdo and some heavy eyeliner and a wink and a nod will get her the job. How totally she has underestimated her future employer - The american people. How totally!
You've got to be sh!tting me! WTF is wrong with these people on the Right.
Ncole Wallace sounds like she is answering to a bunch of 12 year old listeners. It boggles my mind to think that this women is a paid McCain aide and really tells you all you need to know about the Republican candidate.
This morning I tried to listen to McCain's speech but I couldn't do it. That cadence he speaks in just lulls my mind and the first thing I feel is sleepy.
He reads his speeches like a grandfather reading to a little kid. It's unbearable. Plus that strange grin that creeps up on his face each time he believes he has delivered an applause line, is just strange.
This is crazy! Now we are expected not to question Palin? Do they honestly think Americans are going to fall for that? You know what. Go ahead, hide her. That will go over REAL well.
woody, tokin librul @ 42:
That was sweet, kind of like Fonzarelli trying to say "I was wrong."
That's so right wing. Pout about the liberal media and take their toys and go home. Who's to blame for the media frenzy over Palin? McCain is. You pick a total unknown and that's what happens. Of course the media is going to go out looking for anything they can find. More power to them.