All Blog Posts from From The Road

From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

(LANCASTER, Pa.) After spending the better part of her candidacy under the safe confines of carefully staged rallies and having struggled through a few high-profile interviews, Sarah Palin is coming out of her media shell.

She now holds daily interviews with local broadcasters and conservative talk radio hosts, she gave her first ever on-camera press conference with her traveling press corps on Friday, and tonight she’ll take the leap that everyone’s been waiting for when she appears on “Saturday Night Live.”

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From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

The true extent to which Palin-mania has come to dominate the TV news cycle hit home for me last night as I flipped through the channels on the Palin campaign’s charter flight from Reno to Denver. Within a period of about a half hour, I caught the much-anticipated debut of Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night,” as well as separate Palin documentaries on MSNBC and CNN.

Tina Fey was such a dead ringer for Palin that I was tempted to open the curtains that seperate the governor and her staff from the media to make sure she was still on the plane and hadn’t managed to sneak off to Manhattan to appear live on the show.

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From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:

(MANCHESTER, N.H.) Barack Obama canceled his appearance on Saturday Night Live tonight due to Hurricane Ike. The campaign said Obama did not deem it appropriate to appear on the show as a result of the “unfolding crisis” in Texas. SNL, creator-producer, Lorne Michaels, told Politico yesterday that they were prepared for Obama to pull out if Hurricane Ike became more serious.

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