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This is absolutely insane and no voter should be fooled by this absolutely sexist treatment.
From Jack Tapper at ABC News’ Political Punch:
Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won’t subject herself to any tough questions from reporters “until the point in time when she’ll be treated with respect and deference.”
Davis assailed the way the media had discussed Palin and her family in the last week and said the campaign would wait until a less hostile media environment.
So when will she subject herself to questions?
“When we think it’s time and when she feels comfortable doing it,” Davis said, praising a Fox News Channel profile of Palin that ran last night.
Why is she scared of answering questions? Wallace asked.
“She’s not scared to answer questions,” Davis said, “but you know what? We run our campaign not the news media.”
If you say the McCain treatment of Governor Sarah Palin isn’t sexist, then you have to say that she’s woefully unprepared. If you won’t admit to either, blame the media. Which of course only brings us back to the campaign treating Palin with an unacceptable level of sexism. Unless, again, she just is completely unready – in which case, they’re screwed. In which case, it was, as I’ve written, a huge miscalculation.
Some puppeteers arms are going to get mighty weary with 57 days to go. Palin might be a lightweight, but she’s not that light.
Read more about the topic of the McCain campaign’s sexist treatment of Palin here.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:53 pm September 7th, 2008 in John McCain, Media, Politics, Sarah Palin
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Hah! You’ve turned into a bit of a joke here, Jill.
It’s unfortunate that she is in this position. Not ready to step into this. Thank God Jackie Robinson wasn’t a cry baby when he went to play pro baseball with the White boys. He took it because he knew someday others would follow and might just have a better time of it. He made it so.
She is undoing all the strides women have made in this country around leadership.
So she can throw punches in her speech and now she can’t answer questions. She ain’t NO HILLARY! And shame on her.
And Babz, don’t you wish you were a fly on the wall of McCain HQ to see how the women there are dealing with all this – if there are women in there?
Honestly, if they’d chosen a woman who didn’t need them to demand deference and three-four weeks prep time, can you imagine how strong that would be?
This is really the worst case scenario for women, I think. On the other hand, it gives everyone a chance to cast a vote not predicated on gender.
Let’s see, because they realize the media is sexist idiots and have already reported quite a bit of inaccurate information as well as knowing that the media has been pro-Obama and still is pro-Obama…it makes it sexist for the McCain campaign to not do what the media wants? How dare he not fall down and obey the media gods.
Not long ago McCain had to practically beg for media coverage anywhere close to what Obama was receiving. I’m sorry but on this one, I agree with the McCain camp, they don’t need the media and it’s clear when the coverage should have been less biased, less sexist and more balanced towards ALL of the candidates, the media failed it’s job.
Having watched her on many other interviews including on oil and environmental issues, pretending that she’s somehow not experienced enough to handle it is another mistake in underestimating her abilities.
This is a campaign tactic, it continues to feed the story that the media is bad and the larger deal the media makes about it and the more liberals start sending out petitions to “release Sarah Palin to the journalists” as if this is some type of a scene from Monty Python where they drag out the fake witch helps McCain more than it does Obama.
If I were Palin? I’d tell the media to take a flying leap, I wouldn’t help them to try to twist what’s said to help the party I was running against win.
She is more accomplished than the opposing presidential candidate. She’s also better without a teleprompter.
Lisa Renee, I’m approaching this as a voter too – not only as a freelance writer and well, maybe kinda sorta sometimes a citizen j’list.
I cannot accept that a person who could be this country’s vice president would be so unknown to us, esp. since McCain’s campaign has pushed the line about “how much do we really know about Obama.”
It’s hypocritical behavior. It almost has nothing to do with the media – they’re using the media as a red herring so they can say no.
And they – the McCain camp – are treating Palin in a sexist way. I just left a comment at another thread about how there’s a woman for an N.C. political office who says that she doesn’t ask for deference, she asks for questions.
Why don’t you find out something about her Jill, instead of rehashing the already tired old lines about her being inexperienced because she’s from Alaska, and too unsophisticated because she isn’t what you think a feminist should be?
You are assuming she’s an incompetent token because she’s a woman.
Meanwhile, has more real accomplishments under her belt than Obama, hands down, and probably more than Hillary.
You wrote, “You are assuming she’s an incompetent token because she’s a woman.”
Untrue and unexpressed. Your interpretation – maybe your fear?
Besides – remember? I am threatened by her. Why are you even reading this blog?
You wrote, “Why don’t you find out something about her Jill,”
And that would be done by reading…what? By listening to…whom?
Larry – there isn’t anyone who has anything that isn’t coming through either the media which we (sincerely) know we have to be cautious about or the campaigns – which definitely can’t be trusted because they are obviously biased.
When you locate a source, let me know.
You’ve had quite a long post about her lack of knowledge about people in New York and even in the sophisticated ‘urban’ areas of NE Ohio. You also stated that she has zero interest in ‘learning about other states,’ and stressed the homogeneity of Alaska.
Are you saying I imagined that because it’s my own fear?
And it is obvious you are threatened by her, as you’ve spent the last five days compiling all the critiques you can find about the woman.
But I won’t read the blog anymore if it bothers you–I’m sure it will be more productive for you preaching to the choir.
Larry – I”m getting old – I wrote a post about Gov. Palin and New York and the sophisticated areas of OH?? Are you sure it wasn’t a post I linked to written by someone else? I honestly don’t recall writing anything like that.
I’ve written that Alaska is a unique state that has no resemblance to any other state and I can’t imagine her understanding the needs of Ohioans, certainly not above Alaska – and I’ll add “or New Yorkers,” sure. But I’m otherwise uncertain as to what you’re referring to.
Why do you seem to be such a guilt by association person?
Maybe you just have a small vocabulary, or ability to understand others re: this obsession you have with your concern that I’m threatened. I mean – do realize how, in reality, that sounds absolutely nuts? But ok.
As I wrote on another blog last night, I definitely get fixated on topics until I get the info I want – Issue 3/Ohio Learn and Earn and public school education are two examples from other the three plus years of this blog.
So sue me. I write a lot about one person or one topic. The sky is falling (seriously – why do you even care?).
I’m not bothered in the least that you read Larry – but why would someone who doesn’t count himself in the choir and only throws obnoxious barbs (like telling me I’m threatened by someone who in reality couldn’t possibly be a threat to me) WANT to continue to read?
Do you see the lack of sense in that?
By the way, Larry – would you mind pointing me to all the comments you left on all the Ohio blogs that wrote about and against Hillary Clinton every single day of the primary, some would post several a day, every day? Because you wouldn’t want me to think that you are just a sexist conservative beating up on a female blogger about a GOP candidate now, would you?