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Another Palin-McCain Joint Interview

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Palin finally gives an interview (To David Brody of CBN)

He asked her why she won't give more interviews to the "cable networks"

Brody: Let me ask you a little bit about media scrutiny because some of the media networks...wonder why you don't go on some of the 24/7 cable networks. What is your response to that?

Palin: Well sometimes it just doesn't do any good. I mean you set yourself up just to continually be mocked, you know so sometimes that doesn't do any good, but what I have done in this campaign is in reaching out to the American voters through our rallies, through the one on ones, through the small meetings that we've had trying to get our message out, our plans for this country out there minus the filter of some of the filter of the mainstream media because, because that filter as, as we see every day when we turn on the news too often there is this, this opaqueness, there is this, this spin, this contortion of a person's words and intentions and that does more harm than good, so it's a greater challenge for me and for John McCain to try to get our message out there without that filter of I think some of the world's media. It's a greater challenge, but again, it does make us work harder and try to reach more people. That's why we're traveling around so hard and fast and aggressively across the US is to reach more people.
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Brody: There has been a lot of talk at least in media circles, everybody's a little confused as to on the newspaper question that Katie Couric asked you as to why you maybe didn't name some of the newspapers that you read or why you answered it the way you did, and I'm curious, because a lot of people are like, well why didn't she just say The New York Times, or the Wasilla Journal or whatever it is. Can you, can you clear that up a little bit?

Palin: And it's not just that question, but it was some of the other questions that she asked me also and, and it was, I guess my being such an outsider from the Washington elite and the media elite is the questions she kept asking me were, I kept thinking why aren't you asking me things that really, really matter right now about our economy and about how we're going to win the war and about protecting our Constitutional rights in this country, some of the questions that were being fired at me, I was kind of impatient and I think that showed, it's like come on Katie, let's talk about the things that really matter and two, the other part of that was I knew that whatever I threw out there, whether it's the USA Today, or New York Times or whatever I said, that's just more fodder for someone to not only mock, but tear apart and presume to at least claim that that is a reflection of my own beliefs, so you know, so I just felt like, let's just move on to the next question.
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Pookster said:
It is very unusual, if not unheard of. I seriously doubt Obama and Biden have even been in the same State at the same time since the Convention.
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Really? They have appeared many, many times together at rallies (The recent Virginia-in-the-rain rally being one), and were interviewed together on 60 Minutes.
 
Regnad Kcin said:
The quotes Puppycow provide in post # 23 are just sad.
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Indeed. It is an admission that she doesn't think she can answer questions in a way that will not be fodder for more mockery. I.e., she doesn't think she can give an intelligent answer. Either that or she's paranoid. Far from being mocked, if she could give good answers to questions, she would get a lot of good press.
 
Undesired Walrus said:
Really? They have appeared many, many times together at rallies (The recent Virginia-in-the-rain rally being one), and were interviewed together on 60 Minutes.
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Since I made that post, I've noticed them together at times, and appearing in the same State but in different locations on the same day as well. So, I partially retract that comment. Palin has been appearing on her own a lot more in the past several weeks as well.
 
Puppycow said:
Hannity does a joint interview of Palin and McCain.
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Oh, and here I thought this was a real interview :rolleyes:

The funny thing is that not only can you see the Republican party itself not able to get their message out, but Fox News is also having trouble. The fact that McCain/Palin are putting so much effort into appearing on shows like Hannity's displays the level of desperation in the campaign. It sends the message that 1) you aren't comfortable appearing anywhere else, and 2) you are still trying to shore up support in the GOP rank-and-file.
 
I laughed out loud when I heard/saw the old man's response to Brian Williams' question how it felt to hear Colin Powell 'downgrade' McCain's choice for VP: (fake /forced grin by McCain): ..."we would gladly have arranged for him to meet her in person and see/hear for himself why I am proud and honored to have her as my running mate (=paraphrased)
 
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