The Young Turks

The McCain campaign today announced that Sarah Palin will not do any interviews, she's just going to read speeches from now on. The Republicans want you to believe that Sarah Palin is ready to be at the table with world leaders, yet are not confident that she can do an interview with reporters.

Are we really supposed to believe that the American public can judge Sarah Palin's readiness for the job, by watching her read a series of speeches written for her by someone else.
The Rovian acolytes who now run McCain seem to be hoping that they can trick the American people into liking her with a few rah rah events, without giving any real substance, or facing any real questions. Possibly because she has no real substance, and really is dirty as all get out.

Jake Carney of TIME gets into this more in depth:

According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don't care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace -- in an appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough's show -- the American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve to know) from Palin's scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads.

Wallace's bash-the-media exercise has its merits as a campaign tactic. It certainly rallies the base. But the base won't lift McCain to 50% in November. More importantly, in her smug dismissal of the media's role in asking questions of the candidates, Wallace was really showing contempt not for reporters, but for voters. I bet there are a lot of undecided voters out there who were intrigued by Sarah Palin last night, but who don't yet know enough about her -- what she believes, what she knows -- to be comfortable with the idea of her as vice president of the United States. It's important to them to know if Palin can handle herself in an environment that isn't controlled and sanitized by campaign image makers and message mavens. Maybe she can, maybe she can't. As far as Wallace is concerned, it's none of their -- or your -- business.

http://www.time-blog.com/sw ampland/2008/09/no_question s_please_were.html