Palin Camp Goes To New Lengths To Shut Out Media

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(NEW YORK) Update: After media outlets complained to the McCain/Palin campaign about its attempt to prevent an editorial presence at Gov. Palin’s first meeting of the day, a pool producer was allowed in to the photo spray with Palin and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
She has been a candidate for the second highest office in the land for nearly a month, but Sarah Palin has yet to hold a single press conference. Now, the McCain/Palin campaign is attempting to take an unprecedented step in their apparent effort to protect Palin from having to face impromptu questions from national reporters.
Last night, the campaign provided locations for Palin’s scheduled meetings with two world leaders and Henry Kissinger to a network TV producer, who was assigned to provide editorial content on the meetings for the five television networks. The reporter was not going to be allowed to sit in on the private meetings but would be permitted to be on hand as still and video photographers took pictures at the beginning of each meeting.
But just a little more than an hour before Palin’s first meeting was set to begin, the pool producer was notified that he would not be allowed in to the photo spray. This means that the McCain/Palin campaign would get the benefit of free pictures of Palin’s meeting with world leaders without having to face the possibility that the candidate might have to answer a question from the media.
Television networks, including CBS News maintain a policy that if they are prevented from having an editorial presence at an event, they will not allow cameras to shoot it.
The McCain/Palin campaign’s effort to stifle editorial coverage of the candidate’s meetings with world leaders comes a week after CBS News asked Palin an impromptu question about the AIG bailout, while Palin made an off-the-record stop at a Cleveland diner.
After the Cleveland event, a Palin staffer told CBS News that questions “weren’t allowed.”
In Orlando on Sunday, Palin had another off-the-record stop at an ice cream shop, but the pool producer who was assigned to be in Palin’s motorcade was not notified when the candidate departed to get ice cream, and so there was no editorial presence at the event.
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See all 198 Commentsgive her things to read up on so that she can answer questions. and the reason why they arent letting her talk to the media is because she cant
they are scared to death of what will come out of her mouth
PLUS SHE IS PROBABLE TO BUSY STUDING UP FOR THE DEBATE SHE HAS WITH BIDEN...
All they''''ll do is try to discredit anything she does!
Skrew the media!
Posted by StormyTexan at 06:46 PM : Sep 23, 2008
They won''t even let FOX near her! (see link below) Are THEY liberal Obama supporters?
No? Then what do they have to HIDE?!
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/09/23/palin-media-blackout-continues/
Posted by jockh at 04:37 PM : Sep 23, 2008
Yeah, right! Of your kindergarten class perhaps.
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No kidding. I would want to keep her in the closet also. The less America sees of Sarah Palin, the better off she will be.
Tango Sierra, pal.
Incidentally, how many news conferences has BHO given lately?
Tango Sierra, pal.
Incidentally, how many news conferences has BHO given lately?
Posted by FetusandMe at 06:10 PM : Sep 23, 2008
And limbaugh is an Asslimb.
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If you want to continue the secrecy of Bush and Cheney, then vote for McCain/Palin. The Media addressed the issue today only because of the restrictions the campaign imposed on the press during Palin%u2019s meetings with foreign leaders, but tomorrow, it will be swept under the rug. This is really serious and speaks for the entire philosophy of McCain. Where are the courage and the integrity of the Media or do they want the same situation as when we went to Iraq, without questioning or challenging the authorities?
why not do a HUGE story on Biden and then give palin...and ONLY palin.....equal time? don''t take any campaign statement or any surrogate. BIDEN AND PALIN story. Then they''l lhave to decide if Biden is gonna get ALL that FREE press.
to palin fans: she is a coward of the worst kind. Complete and total moronic chicken.....she even banned FOX NEWS---are they liberal also? So, that leaves only one conclusion---she is the biggest embarrassment of mccain;s career.
PALIN = COWARD
MCCAIN = COWARD
The idea that a warhawk whose most consistent economic philosophy is deregulation at a time of economic crisis related specifically to a lack of regulation and a hockey mom (however sweet that sounds) can be in a close race for the white house at this time shows that Karl Rove still knows what he''s talking about.
Posted by nosheep2
So you are a self-appointed arbiter of blogging excellance, able to discern which candidate''s supporters are intelligent and factual? Let''s look at your own posting, based on your criteria.
"but if an Alien were to make that choice by using the blogs as a guide, he would pick McCain on the sheer stupidity of the Obiden bloggers."
Alien is not a proper noun, therefore you erred in capitalizing it. Also, based on your context, blog posting information would not be used as a guide, it would be analyzed for accuracy and evidence of rational, logical thought processes.
I could continue, but I also don''t have the time or patience to correct a McCain-supporting blowhard. I am neither young nor ignorant, but I AM an Obama supporter. I would also say, "Lord help us," if McCain is elected and we''re subjected to another four years of Republican malfeasance. (BTW, any intelligent alien, assuming its culture valued a democratic form of government, would approve of young adults being involved in the election process.)
They recognize that they have an inferior platform, an unqualified candidate and have turned the straight talk express into one of the lowest meanest most deceitful campaigns in our history.
They know that the media will call them on these issues and so they made a calculated decision to demonize the media and with a large usually closed-minded non-data driven segment of society, this is a tenable strategy. The side benefit for them is that bad media coverage plays into this strategy and so once they''ve committed to this, being completely dishonest and dismissive is not such a bad way to go.
The question will be whether there are enough independents who see through the cr@p.
Would you cover one staged Broadway play every day, with the same actress and same script, as NEWS? Well that'' s what her staged events are so quit lapping them up. That campaign is using the "media accessibility" as a SMOKESCREEN TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM ISSUES.....AND TO PALIN.
SO QUIT. DON''T LET THEM USE YOU.
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