Political Perceptions: A Non-Victory Tour for Palin

Sarah Palin , fresh from the losing presidential campaign, seems surprisingly eager to do mainstream media interviews, considering how much bashing she did of the media (and vice versa) during the campaign. But Ross Douthat of The Atlantic thinks that’s a good thing. Douthat says that “a post-election goodwill tour might be Palin’s best chance for a while to change the ‘Palin Rules’ that have governed her media coverage since August - rules which state, so far as I can tell, that almost any negative claim made about the Alaska governor is to be published first and double-checked later.” He adds: “The McCain campaign, in its infinite wisdom, decided that the appropriate response to this and other apparent displays of bias was to go to war against the press - and we all saw how well that worked out. It may be that unfair coverage of various sorts is just baked in the cake for Sarah Palin from now on. But if she wants to run for national office in the future, trying to charm the ‘elite liberal media’ ... (link)