Why is Sarah Palin granting so few interviews?

[SHRED]

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"Pit Bull"???

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Hiding in Plain Sight
Why is Sarah Palin granting so few interviews?
Sunday, September 21, 2008

JOHN McCAIN selected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate 23 days ago. Since then, Ms. Palin has not held a single news conference with the national media. She has answered only a handful of questions from voters and reporters. She sat down for a lengthy discussion with one nonpartisan interviewer, ABC's Charles Gibson, and granted another interview to conservative Sean Hannity of Fox News, as well as a sit-down with People magazine and some interviews with Alaska media. Where Dick Cheney made the rounds of five news shows the weekend after he was tapped by George W. Bush, Ms. Palin has not turned up on a single Sunday program.

Mr. McCain's selection of an inexperienced and relatively unknown figure was unsettling, and the campaign's decision to keep her sequestered from serious interchanges with reporters and voters serves only to deepen the unease. Mr. McCain is entitled to choose the person he thinks would be best for the job. He is not entitled to keep the public from being able to make an informed assessment of that judgment. Ms. Palin's speech-making skills are impressive, but the more she repeats the same stump speech lines, the queasier we get. Nor have her answers to the gentle questioning she has encountered provided any confidence that Ms. Palin has a grasp of the issues.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/20/AR2008092001763.html

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[mikelgb]

1. In what respect, Charlie?

[Jack Rabbit]

3. !!

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[az chela]

2. She ran out of lies and bridges

[oldtime dfl_er]

7. She's the brain to nowhere

she's got nothing to say

[begin_within]

4. well, considering that one with Gibson, I'm not surprised

[Jim Sagle]

5. Because she doesn't know how to talk?

:shrug:

[stillcool]

6. Yikes... she sounds like George

"Retreat is defeat in Iraq," as she told Mr. Hannity, is a slogan, not a vision for how to proceed. On Russia, Ms. Palin said, "What we have got to commit to also, especially when we talk to Russia -- no Cold War. We have got to know that our mind-set needs to be opportunity for pressure and diplomacy and sanctions if need be as we keep our eye on a country like Russia." What sanctions does Ms. Palin have in mind?
Her answers on issues of domestic policy were hardly more reassuring. Asked what was behind the financial meltdown, Ms. Palin cited "the corruption on Wall Street," with no explanation of what corruption she was referring to. Asked whether the government had made the right call in bailing out Fannie Mae and AIG, Ms. Palin floundered: "Well, you know, first, Fannie and Freddie, different because quasi-government agencies there where government had to step in because the adverse impacts all across our nation, especially with homeowners, is just too impacting. We had to step in there. I do not like the idea, though, of taxpayers being used to bail out these corporations. Today, with AIG, important call there, though, because of the construction bonds and the insurance carrier duties of AIG. But, first and foremost, taxpayers cannot be looked to as the bailout, as the solution to the problems on Wall Street"

[teknomanzer]

11. She sounds like a high school kid...

who crammed for an exam the night before. You can tell she has no mental grasp of what it is she is trying to say. Her grammar is like (or worse than) a high school student as well. Maybe that is why the backwater types like her so much. She is definitely not erudite. Oops, did that make me sound like an elitist? Oh well if they are offended my response is - "READ A BOOK! Preferably one without pictures if you can manage it."

[stillcool]

14. yeah..not a lot of thought process...

kind of reminds me of cliff notes. Those never did work for me.

[curious one]

8. She can't memorize the whole speech and using cue cards is a no no.

Besides when you lie and get called on, how you are going to defend yourself without looking like a moron.

[WarbirdForObama]

9. Can I guess this one????

Because she's an Vapid, Insanely Religious, Right Wing Fanatic who spews nothing excpt garbage fed to her by Rove, Cheney, and Bush.

Is that the right answer????? :)

[spag68]

10. Palin

I don't give one dog turd if she meets or stays away from the press. Soon she will be headed back to Ak. and will face some reporters of her own.

[firedupdem]

12. She has nothing to say...if she can't read it..she speaks jibberish.... n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

13. Why aren't our candidates asking this question? nt

[patomime]

15. She's waiting....

till she can see Russian people.

:popcorn:

[obiwan]

16. Simple. A closed mouth gathers no foot.

[Raschel]

17. What happened to ask her anything , anytime?

Didn't she say that a few days ago?

I'll be her handlers are spending every waking moment of her day trying to give her a high school education in time for the debates.

I'll bet they even make her listen to tapes while she's sleeping.

What a nutjob.

[fortyfeetunder]

18. She's like a Chatty Cathy doll

There are only so many times you can pull the string and get a new phrase out :evilgrin:

[OakCliffDem]

19. Palin is all show and no substance

[Doctor_J]

20. Because she's a dim-witted extremist who would not be able to

explain away the vast corruption in every office she has ever held? Because she's an ignoramus who wouldn't be able to answer a single question about world or national affairs without an earpiece?

Just a guess :shrug: