Monday, October 20, 2008
Palin appeases, and pleases, the national media
Sarah Palin seems to have disposed of at least one objection of her critics, that she has not made herself available to the national press corps:
It was less than two weeks ago when Sarah Palin astonished her traveling press corps by lifting the curtain (literally) and journeying to the back of her campaign plane to answer reporters’ questions for the first time after 40 days on the campaign trail. But the candidate who has been criticized for having a bunker mentality when it came to the national media can now lay legitimate claim to being more accessible than either Joe Biden or Barack Obama.
In the past two days alone, Palin has answered questions from her national press corps on three separate occasions. On Saturday, she held another plane availability, and on Sunday, she offered an impromptu press conference on the tarmac upon landing in Colorado Springs. A few minutes later, she answered even more questions from reporters during an off-the-record stop at a local ice cream shop.
By contrast, Biden hasn’t held a press conference in more than a month, and Obama hasn’t taken questions from his full traveling press corps since the end of September. John McCain—who spent most of the primary season holding what seemed like one, never-ending media availability—hasn’t done one since Sept. 23.
It is obvious that Sarah Palin is coming up to speed rapidly, which in turn give credence to this thesis.
3 Comments:
By 
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Tue Oct 21, 02:57:00 AM:
Wow!! She has answered questions on three seperate occassions in two days. Hold a chapter in the next version of Profiles in Courage! That will turn the election around all right! Smear campaigns, race baiting, nationalizing banks and government purchases of bad mortgages(glad there is no socialism there). Oh and just a wee bit of abusing power to get even with your brother in law. Conservative ideas and principles anyone? William F. Buckley & Goldwater must be turning over in their graves. No wonder the Dems are going to win. But now that Sarah can handle those tough trick questions like what newspapers that you read and has had more press contact than Joe Biden, well that fixes everything.
By , at
Tue Oct 21, 06:20:00 PM:
As I type this, I hear that Biden's in time out, after inserting his foot in his mouth one too many times. Sarah's just getting started ... my theory has been they set her up to make her look like the fool, waiting to do a rope-a-dope on Bambi and Smirky, and it seems to be working.
Jeez ... if one heartbeat from the Resolute Desk has traction, then think of the nightmare of Obama being unable to serve. I'd take my chances with Sarah over Joe any day of the week.
By , at
Tue Oct 21, 08:07:00 PM:
It is obvious that Sarah Palin is coming up to speed rapidly
Up to speed in what? Torpedoing McCain's campaign?
The latest polls show that she's more of a drain on McCain than even Bush!
