Gee, it's been nice to focus on possible widespread crashes in the global financial system, serial bankruptcies and growing malfeasance at Treasury and the Federal Reserve and not on Sarah Palin. The way she's behaving, the press may quit reporting about her altogether. Palin may have blown it. Didn't take long. Her demise in the media accompanies that of the testy senator with whom she's running and whose campaign has been handling media relations pretty badly.
Anyway, here's ol' Barbie at the -- jesus! -- at the UN!
"Sarah Palin’s relationship with her traveling press corps went from barely existing to downright chilly Tuesday, when the two sides briefly engaged in a standoff over journalists’ access to Palin’s photo ops on the sidelines of the United Nations meetings here.
"Palin, whose meetings here were all to be private, has yet to hold a press conference with her traveling press corps, and her campaign has tightly restricted which media outlets have gotten face time with the candidate.
"But the control rose to new levels Tuesday morning, when the campaign announced it would bar a Wall Street Journal scribe and a CNN producer from the small “pool” of journalists allowed to cover the grip-and-grin photo ops ..." Politico
Okay. I left out the end of that sentence because it seemed so surreal. The "grip-and-grin photo ops" Palin was heading for were (chuckle) "with foreign dignitaries and international policy experts and advocates."
Tee-hee!
It's not like the press doesn't have any leverage, you know. They could (and should) just walk away until the person who wants us to pick her to be Veep answers a few F-n questions. Hell, I have had more in depth interviews for much crummier jobs than she has had for the Veepresidency.
HJ
Posted by: Bing | September 23, 2008 at 08:37 PM