Palin Talks to Media (No, Not That One)
Media, Penn. –
Sarah Palin still hasn’t addressed the media traveling with her yet, but she did address Media, Pennsylvania today, a suburb of Philadelphia and it was a bit of a shock to hear the tight-lipped Vice-Presidential candidate get the town’s attention, “I want to ask you a few questions, Media. Let me ask you a few questions.” If only she would let the actual media ask her a few questions.
Clad in a red leather jacket-–possibly a motorcycle jacket–she introduced her running mate and unveiled a gift for him. A motorcycle to commemorate his service as a prisoner of war in Vietnam made by the Orange County Choppers, “Before we go to Washington to shake things up, we have a special surprise for Senator McCain. Today we have a very special veteran with us—Paul Teutul. Paul is a Vietnam veteran and the founder of the Orange County Choppers, a custom motorcycle company,” Palin said, “And they built, you guys, they built a special bike honoring all POWs and Vietnam vets and they brought it by to give Senator McCain a chance to see it up close.” Despite the ceremony, we are told the Orange County Choppers will actually keep the bike to promote other events to commemorate both POWs and those still Missing in Action.
The Alaska governor told the excited crowd–also dressed in red–that a McCain-Palin administration would be more transparent and pledged her support for putting the details of which financial companies are being bailed out and the cost to the taxpayer online:
“John McCain and I want reform. We want transparency in Washington. As the governor of Alaska I did things like put the state’s checkbook online so that everybody could see where the money was being sent. We want to do the same thing in D.C. John wants to do the same thing with the treasury deal,” Palin said. “We believe that the American people have the right to know which firms the treasury is helping and what that selection is based on and how much that help will cost you. It’s your money and you do have a right to know where it’s going.”
McCain unveiled the new initiative at a town hall this morning in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Tags: john mccain, Orange County Choppers, Paul Teutul, Sarah Palin
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Governor Palin is doing an excellent job in endorsing proposal that Senator Obama enacted already.
Excellent move Sarah.
Now you can claim that you have talked to (the) Media.
Then, you can obtain the necessary foreign policy experience by talking to (aka photo op) President Hamid Karzai.
That will make you a fully-rounded, fully-qualified candidate for VP.
Go McBush/McBarbie!
I love Sarah Palin, she is great. She is sweet woman with great integrity. She works hard, with a good heart (I love the story she vetod the bill that wanted to block gay partner’s employee benefit), she is successful governer, she is good to her husband and her children. I can see some women will hate her because they will be terribly jealous at her: She only has one husband in her life, for many women, here in Los Angeles or In New York, women sleep with one man in life is out fashion. But Palin is married and have 5 kids; she is councial woman, city majyer, governor, she works her way and every step up. She had everything every woman want and still successful. How can they not jerlers about Palin. We should thank Palin for still keeping our great American value and culture. She is one of us, celebrities are not one of us, they don’t have our culture and our value.
God Bless You Sarah… and God Bless McCain.
Just How are they going to do this? All I hear is both of them yelling like cowboys at a rodeo, they are going to do all this “cleaning up”. Hell, they are both politicians, and McCain was involved in making the mess he is now “preaching” he is going to clean uP!! I haven’t heard on actual proposal. One plan of action on the adgenda.
“We want the media to start doing their job and stop picking on little children because of their age and their pregnancies,” she exclaimed. “Shame on you! Shame on all of ya’s!”
THE ONLY PEOPLE ON EARTH THAT CAN DO THIS IS ‘WE THE PEOPLE’
IF YOU STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCT: MAGIZINE, PAPER, TV SHOW
AND TELL THEM SO. EVENTUALLY THEY WILL CHANGE OR GO AWAY !!!
As an Independent from Pa,what Palin and McCain will bring to Washington will be 180 degrees from the kind of garbage you’d get from Obama
Obama with his agenda (whatever that is),and with his terrorist Buddy and His Spiritual mentor (Rev Wright),and all of his financial friends from the failed financial organizations,in tow,would be this country’s demise
I’ll take McCain/Palin and know that the right kind of change will take place,and that people will be held accountable for their actions…..Look out,the voting present will be publicized…So if your in office as a representative of the people,you’d better have some kind of idea as to what’s going on,because voting present won’t do
Heaven for forebid that we might get to know where she stands on anything of substance. All we know at this point is she is a female and she can read from a teleprompter.
Why should Palin talk to the “Obama” media?
The “drive-by” idiots won’t print the truth about Obama! They sure as hell won’t print ACCURATELY anything Palin says.
Drive-by’s…..go pound sand you know where!!!!!!!
If this election is about judgment. John McCain used poor judgment closing a person that is a stranger to him to be ½ a breath way from leading the most powerful nation in the world. Now he is sending her to New York for a photo op next to experienced world leaders. Sure that will give her the education and intellect to have her finger on the nuclear button. No thank you this white, educated, republican woman will be voting Obama/Biden.
She’s a joke. Do interviews!
Love Sarah! Get her in QUICK! WE NEED HONEST AND REAL HELP TO SAVE OUR MONEY AND CAPITALISM FROM ALL THESE GREEDY REPRESENTATIVES AND EXECUTIVES!
I have much more faith in her and McCain than I have in Paulson and Franks and Dodd…..and especially Obama!
For a candidate that embraced taking questions in town hall settings, I find it absolutely ridiculous that his campaign is not permitting Gov Palin to speak with the media. If you want me and other Independents to buy into his ticket, I want his VP-candidate to be able to answer questions from the media.
Put the federal checkbook on line. Gee, what a great idea! You could call it http://usaspending.gov/ …oh, wait a minute, Obama already put that in with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act in 2006. Too late Sarah…
if some would doubt the capability or the qualifications of sarah palin as VP, the more it is very doubtful of the capability and the qualifications of barack to the presidency…
I hope your foregin relations speech this week in New York will be different from the one you have been reading for the last 3 weeks. I am pretty sure they have all seen that show. You might want to show case your experience by telling them you have foreign relations experience because you can see Russia from AL.
but obama is claiming now about his transparency, and reform to the economy. do you think the americans will buy that? does he has a record of transparency? or a record of reform? or a record of honesty? or a good record of associations? i can only know that he has a record defending the ACORN. Defending Rezko, or working with AYERS. or listening to Pastor Wright. or for the record his brother in nairobi, kenya is connected with the manguki group. THOSE ARE THE THINGS AMERICANS should KNOW.
Shouldn’t the media, just answer Palin, “We Americans, asked you first”.
Shouldn’t the media just tell Palin, “We Americans, asked you first”.
She is such an Air head, does she know that we allready have this online.
Sigh…
The Media is so biased in their reporting if I were Sarah Palin I’d not be speaking to them either!!!
BUT….She IS doing the right thing by taking her case to the people…The Media will try to trick her and skew her answers and cut sentences to make it appear she is saying one thing when the intention was exactly the opposite…GO SARAH!!! Thumb your nose at them all you want…Just keep the channels open in your town halls and tell it like it is and the VOTING people of this country will take you to the top….
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!
Shes fresh,tuff,smart.and caring just what the USA needs
Why is the media ever traveling with her. She has her talking points and she has used all of them - end of story. If the media wants to catch her saying something stupid, send one cameraman and a junior reporter.
Don’t you get it media? Palin doesn’t want to talk to any of you guys more then she has to becuase generally they distort the facts! When media becomes true professionals and real journalists it may be different. Until then, who can blame her. Take a look at what has been reported! Talk about bias!
Dear Sarah: Seeing where the money is sent isn’t going to fix the problem. Please tell us HOW you’re going to fix the problem. Glib sound bites simply don’t cut it. Neither do motorcycles and red leather jackets. Get serious!
Transparency is only an issue when there is something to hide…….transparency hasn’t been the major problem here, poor management is the problem, poor decision-making and too much power in the hands of too few with no oversight by wiser people.
Give us some REAL solutions…..forget the chopper and the red jacket.
BTW: speaking of transparency……….where are your Tax Returns?????? Why aren’t they made public like the other candidates?
Shushannah Walshe must be an Obama fan.
The Media can’t take what they dish out. Reporters, Anchor people and Editors alike get so defensive when they are challenged don’t they? It seems fair game to attack ANYONE except, the Media. When anyone challenge the media, the media naturally becomes defensive and then sets out to persuade the Public that the media position is the right one. I don’t think the kind of media reporting today is either fair or professional and exemplifies the state of moral attitude in our Great Nation, disrespective of the rights of all people to be fair and honest and unbiased.
This is obsurd - when will she answer any questions???
When have McCain and Palin gone to urban communities? Since the beginning of their campaign, they have been talking about “small town values.” The United States is not comprised only of small towns. When do they make appearances in communities that reflect the diversity of America? At least Obama goes to rural, suburban, and urban communities. Heck, he has even gone to communities where McCain is leading in the pools by double digit margins. I’ve yet to see any appearances before any non-white communities by McCain. So, in terms of this dynamic duo’s lack of appearances before the “media”, when will they appear before the people?
I would not talk to the media if I were her either. The media is too biased and trying to tear her down for no reason all the time. The amount of lies they report, I would never speak to any of them at all. Well I would be very selective as to whom I did speak with, give exclusive interviews to media that are being un-biased and leave the liberal media out of the loop.
Obama already came up with the checkbook online reform. Sarah is starting to be a liar.
“John McCain and I want reform. We want transparency in Washington. As the governor of Alaska I did things like put the state’s checkbook online so that everybody could see where the money was being sent. We want to do the same thing in D.C. John wants to do the same thing with the treasury deal,” Palin said. “We believe that the American people have the right to know which firms the treasury is helping and what that selection is based on and how much that help will cost you. It’s your money and you do have a right to know where it’s going.”
Once burned, you know. The media is not her friend and she knows it. Let them suffer. She gets enough publicity without having to cater to the media.
Good for Palin not giving the media the time of day. They don’t deserve it after everything that has been done to McCain and her.
Why is Palin hiding from the media? Shouldn’t she be held to the same level of scrutiny as the rest of the candidates? Obama and McCain have been under a microscope for nearly 2 years, and Biden has also been vetted by the national media during his own Presidential campaign. Arguably, Palin should talk to the press more than the others since no one knows who she is. The more she hides, the more I wonder what she and the McCain camp are afraid of.
Given the leftist nature of the media and their happiness to attack on all fronts, even personal fronts involving family and disability, why should Palin ever speak to them? They are all lemmings.
I wouldn’t talk to them either. They are so far up Obama’s backside that I am surprised the man can walk. Until they start reporting in an unbias manner, Keep them away.
If Sarah Palin could truly hold her own, why hasn’t she been answering questions from the actual media while out on the stump? She is the only candidate who has avoided the media, yet she is the one that has the least amount of exposure to the American public. She was elected Governor of Alaska with 114,000 votes in a State with less than 750,000 people. Senator Obama was nominated with over 18,000,000 votes, and was elected to his Senate seat with 3,500,000 votes from a state with almost 13,000,000 people. He has enacted several pieces of legislation since being in office, including ethics reform and spending transparency. Also, he is not running against Palin, he is running against McCain, who has zero “executive” experience, so what is the difference? Republicans need to accept the fact the Palin is merely a celebrity with no ability to speak intelligently about the issues, and who was chosen for shock value and her gender. Start making the case for McCain, not her. He is the one you are electing, or have you all forgotten that?
Palin is such a phony hypocrite…why won’t she talk to the media? Think about it…the more people find out, the more “substance” we get, the more she loses luster. The more details we find out about her, the more she loses “rock star” status.
The buzz from her selection has already subsided. Her adopted mantra goes completely against her past record. People who have been supporting her in the Republican ranks have already been found to be hypocrites.
The writing is on the wall.
The Republican party wants us to “buy a pig in a poke.” An expression when a person thought they were buying a pig at the market in a brown bag, but failing to look in to verify what they were buying would return home to “let the cat out of the bag.” I hope we will have a chance to look at what we are expected to buy, but it looks like they want us to only focus in on her superficial qualities and expect the best.
I do not blame Palin for talking to the media. If they would get serious and ask intelligent questions instead of playing their leftist liberal games then maybe she will participate. She is doing the smart thing by talking to “Middle America” because they are the ones that matter most. “Middle America” is finally waking up to the liberal press and the press does not matter to them anymore.
Where’s the transparency now!! Please, do you think that we are all that stupid.
When are we really going to see what this woman has to say? I want to hear it from her, not the teleprompter, not the debate moderator, not a media interviewer: HER. With so much rhetoric flying around on both sides, I want to see what the woman has to say for herself. Giver her a chance to get the word out.
Of course the Libs and Dems have nothing to say about this. A more transparent washington??? How absurd. We like money wasting washington. We want the government to have a blank check. We want to put a fetus in every pot and an abortion in every driveway! We love Madonna masturbating on the cross! Great show! Great show!
Seriously though… clean it up. Transparency is the only way. With a GDP of $13,130,000,000,000 USD (13 TRILLION) There is a lot more room to move around the economics and an issue like this AIG bailout of 700Bill then leaders would let you think. But the problem lies in the wasteful spending of the other 12.4 Trillion dollars the US government reports having this year (yes thats $12,400,000,000,000 thats a lot of zeros) Although it is a big chunk of our economy, with a little oversight and a big curb on wasteful spending we can turn this government around.
I would like to see Obama’s projected spending… A Kadjillion dollars on peace, two Kadjillion on love, and all the rest paid to russia and china so they dont invade us. Oh too bad they are not honest and will invade us anyways.
Sarah Palin has an INNER glow that reveals her sincerity.
Obama’s ‘glow’ is artificially produced by spotlights that reflect off his facade and hide the little man inside.
Why won’t Palin talk to the press. What are they trying to hide?
I don’t blame either party for not speeking to the media!
The pettyness the media has come to is unthinkable but happening!
Main street USA my not be a politically educated as you belive you are but I hope I am not the only one who can see the twisting of words, and badgering of one side to another. Let us choose for ourselves, I don’t want or need any of you in my voting booth!
Give us the WHOLE TRUTH thats your job, not to twist the facts and muddy everything up with your petty nonsense
I hope McCain and Palin continue to tell the major media to shove it. Both of them, especially Governor Palin, have been dragged through the mud by the biased major media. The major media claims to be unbiased but they have done no investigating of Obama’s time in New York, his time at Harvard, his ties with William Ayers, his time with ACORN, his ties with Rev. Wright, his tendency to vote Present, his ties to the mortgage crisis, and the many other questionable issues in his past. This information is getting out through the alternate media and will cost Obama the election; as it should. The shame is the major media is not doing its job.
Folks; no matter you like her or not, this reborn “Joan of Arc” will burn most of those old Washington stuff away if the GOP wins this time.
The on going scenario will be like this, to most of Obama’s supporters, prior to the Super Tuesday of November, will eventually change their mind after realizing what their idol is made of; an empty suit, period. Because TALK after TALK after TALK without any previous EXPERIENCES on both domestic and foreign affairs is definitely not a right person for the highest position/toughest job in the nation.
God bless America!
Chrene
We already know she is a “flake” and a fake….
Just go ahead and let the media talk to her…lets get her “flakiness” out in the open.
So America can see her for the fake she is.
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