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Palin isn't afraid of the press. She's playing them.
Let's not get too wrapped up in Palin's refusal to sit down for press interviews. This works in her favor, because a) she can avoid it for a quite a while, and b) it builds anticipation for the first interview she actually does.
Read Glenn Greenwald:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/09/06/carney/index.html
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Comments (7)
Yes shes playing the press. But it still comes off as a cowardly gimmick.
September 7, 2008 11:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Of course she's playing the press. There's only 8 weeks until the election.
Republicans are geniuses at controlling the press. See: "lead-up to Iraq War."
September 7, 2008 12:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's not Palin that's playing the press, though she's complicit.
It's the McCain campaign, which is basically run by George Bush cronies. So far, everything Sarah Palin has said was pre-written by one of George Bush's top speechwriters. Everything.
The press doesn't help, as Glenn Greenwald suggests.
Since when does the press consistently ask hard questions without accepting evasive misleading talking points for answers?
I've seen only seen one example over the last eight years. Campbell Brown interviewing McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds about the foreign policy experience of Sarah Palin.
Actually, make that two examples. Chris Matthews eviscerating Kevin Jones for talking about appeasement without knowing what it really meant.
As we all know now, an absence of serious persistent inquiry by both the media and the Democrats helped foster the most deceptive political environment in American history.
And McCain's crooked talk express intends on continuing it.
September 7, 2008 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Spare me. Campbell Brown screwed up a golden opportunity because she's not an actual reporter and she's not very smart. If she were smarter and had been listening to Tucker, she could have used Tucker's words against him. Instead, she just talked over him and bullied him. She's an idiot.
In the end, Republicans won by punishing CNN for it. CNN in turn lost money by losing an exclusive interview with McCain. Well done, Campbell.
September 7, 2008 12:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree, but it's not a great plan.
She'll build up interest and then sit down with friendly FoxNews for a softball interview.
Yet the bad press of her stealth sneak candidacy will have turned off the non-fox crowd.
The GOP keeps preaching to the choir.
September 7, 2008 12:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Correction, she will sit down with FoxLite ("ABC") for the softball photo-op, er, I mean interview.
September 7, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's very afraid of the press right now because she cannot answer questions about Troopergate or the flat out lies she made in her speech. She can't answer questions about foreign policy because she has not yet learned what her position is supposed to be. She and McCain know it would be a disaster. Yes it builds up interest for her first interview but there is a lot of unflattering information about her and her record. If she isn't out there talking about it the press will fill in the blanks with what they know and it doesn't favor her. Nevertheless an interview right now will favor her less and that is what we are seeing.
September 7, 2008 1:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
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