Ethics

We Must Protect Palin from Questions

By Ed Brayton

Greg Sargent is right, the McCain campaign's obsession with keeping Sarah Palin from having to answer questions from the press is reaching absurd levels. During her series of photo ops with world leaders in New York yesterday, the campaign first wanted to keep the press out completely except for a camera. Then they agreed to allow one reporter in to give a pool report. And here is part of that pool report:

McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin ("Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?") but McCain aide Brooke Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room.

Palin looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question, to which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say "No."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).