Your Most Obsequious Servant
Shakesville — From ABC's 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 ...

Palin media avoidance watch, day 9
WTF Is It Now?!? — The McChickenshit camp says Failin won't do interviews until they know she'll be treated with "deference." This is rich, especially coming after the huge Palin suckathon the media engaged in after her convention speech. "She will do interviews, but she'll do them on the terms and conditions" the campaign decides, snivelled McInsane campaign manager Rick Davis.Hey, if she's too afraid to deal with the media, how will she be able to... well, you know the rest. Unbelievable. Even Andrew Sullivan is pissed. ...

Election Central Sunday Roundup
TPM Election Central — ... McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told Fox News this morning that Sarah Palin won't be doing any media interviews "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference," and when Palin would be "comfortable" doing it. So far in this campaign, Palin has taken only one question, from a gushing Alaska reporter: "Governor, we feel like we're losing you -- are you still going to be there for Alaska?" ...

Not Training Wheels We Can Believe In
Talking Points Memo — ... Davis says Palin won't give any interviews until she feels "comfortable" giving one. And this morning he added that she wouldn't give any "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference." ...

Mean Girls
The Mahablog — ... Davis says Palin won’t give any interviews until she feels “comfortable” giving one. And this morning he added that she wouldn’t give any “until the point in time when she’ll be treated with respect and deference.” ...

McCain Campaign: Palin will Appear when she is “comfortable”
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Jake Tapper at ABC’s Political Punch, blogs the comments of McCain campaign manager Rick Davis on Fox News Sunday that I noted in a comment this morning: 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 ...

Ready to lead on day one
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com — Who knew pit bulls were so fragile? Update: Adding in, please understand I know exaclty what they're doing here. The plan is to make it appear as though Palin is all but legally classified as mentally disabled, at which point all she has to do at the debate with Biden is not have spontaneous explosive diarrhea on live national television and every single news pundit in America will announce that she held her own against a man with 35 years of foreign policy experience. I'm also aware that complaining about Palin's hiding is playing right into their ...

'Deference'
Political Animal — 'DEFERENCE'.... So, when might we see Sarah Palin talk to the media about, well, anything? According to Rick Davis , McCain's campaign manager, Palin won't tolerate an interview "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference." Fox News' Chris Wallace followed up, asking when voters can expect to see Palin answer tough questions from reporters. "When we think it's time and when she feels comfortable doing it," Davis said. Josh Marshall explained why these aren't " ...

Biden calls Palin out.
Blah3 Feed — ... McCain minion Rick Davis says the media won't get to talk to Palin until 'until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference.' He seems to forget that Palin is interviewing for a job working for us. If I went to a job interview and gave my prospective meployer conditions that would need to be met before I'd answer any questions, what do you think would happen? ...

'Respect' and 'Deference' Watch
Taylor Marsh — BY TAYLOR MARSH Oh, this is just too priceless. 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 ...

Palin Agrees to Interview
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — ... Earlier in the day, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told Fox News that Palin would not subject herself to any tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference." ...

Media Entitlement for Dummies
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — Media Entitlement for Dummies media_entitlement_for_dummies.jpg If I worked for the McCain campaign, here would be my response to this , in full: "If the press wants to know Gov. Palin's position on any particular issue, that would have been a better opening question than, 'Is your youngest child really your daughter's baby?'" P.S. This blog has become all Palin all the time anyway, but if for some reason you need all my babbling about it on one page, check it out . Posted by Jim Treacher at September 7, 2008 11:46 AM

On Sarah Palin avoiding interviews for now... and the dumbest things Obama and McCain have said.
Althouse — I've been thinking about the way Sarah Palin is avoiding interviews. She can't keep doing that, but I think it's wise for her to take some time to bone up on things and to develop rhetorical strategies. She's going to be severely tested, and she's got to take some time to get ready. Her opponents are right to make a big deal out of every minute she delays, but the price of making a mistake is great. You know any dumb thing that slips out is going to be used to the hilt. And something dumb is inevitable. ...

Hey Wait! I Thought Sarah Palin Was Avoiding the Media!
Stop The ACLU — ... Irony. The McCain camp offers Sarah Palin’s first interview to ABC, the same news network spreading the rumor that she was avoiding the media. Heh. ...

Sarah Palin and the Fourth Estate
Comments from Left Field — ... That’s what McCain’s campaign manager means when he tells Chris Wallace that 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.’ ” ...

Sunday reading: Hockey what?
Ben Smith's Blog — Chile sauce! Nate Silver, on his home sports turf, Sean Quinn has an inspired Palin argument: She's not a hockey mom, but a "hockey agitator." McCain says he'll appoint Democrats. (Lieberman will need somewhere to go, too.) Inhofe questions Obama's patriotism. Obama will lunch will Bill. Palin avoids questions for a ninth day, which sort of encourages those of us in the press to raise them. Gibson will, at some point, get the first interview. David Wade is ...

caribou barbie...
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... 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." - abc ...

Ask Sarah Palin
Booman Tribune — ABC's Jake Tapper reports that Sarah Palin will not be interviewed until she is treated with 'deference'. Tapper must have relayed this information to his ABC colleague Charlie Gibson because Gibson landed Palin's ...

Disgusting
Rising Hegemon — ... The McCain Campaign itself proclaimed no press interviews with Palin until the press were deferential enough. And nobody is more deferential to Right-Wing talking points than Charles Gibson. ...

Oh, joy
Firedoglake — ... The McCain Campaign itself proclaimed no press interviews with Palin until the press were deferential enough. And nobody is more deferential to Right-Wing talking points than Charles Gibson. ...

9/8: Game-Changer
Blogometer — ... focus exclusively on McCain. [...] We make a mistake when we forget we can and must do several things at once. This is one of those times. If we fail at any of them -- making Palin unacceptable, making McCain Bush III, advancing our own character and solutions to our nation's sad circumstances -- we won't win." PALIN III: It's Time To Face The Music, Governor! Liberal bloggers spent much of this past weekend criticizing the McCain camp for refusing to allow Palin to do any interviews "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference" : ...

Sarah Palin To Do Real Live Press Conference?
TPM Election Central — ... Indeed, the McCain campaign is cheerfully being very up-front about exercising total control over the terms as to how -- or whether -- she's made available. McCain campaign manager Rick Davis made this as clear as you could want by suggesting recently that he wants to see her treated with "deference" first -- basically flipping the entire press corps the bird. ...

Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for September 9, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... Rove mean and Nixon vindictive."  Really now, Sarah, Sarah, the more we get to know ya, the more disgusting you are!  Just what America does not need, a Racist Repuglican, “vindictive and mean” woman just a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States of America!!! * * * “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.’”   Now that’s a ...

Flashback: Steve Carrell Nails McCain On Pork-Barrelling
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... But also, and more to the point, no doubt he will go on about how he will veto pork-barrel spending and rein in earmarks and how he's always been so maverickly anti-earmark and pork-barrelling. As a matter of fact, he has not — and back when the media was allowed to question him without passing a strict prior deference-and-respect test, a certain sharp-eyed journalist caught him out on that. The year was 1999, and it was Steve Carrell with the Daily Show. Charlie Gibson, take note: ...

Palin: Why Gibson Got The Get
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... from ABC News will pack up and head to Alaska for his interview with the elusive and press-wary GOP vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. After Palin bypassed two Sundays of potential interviews and attacked the media in her convention speech, after she was pointedly made unavailable to the press, and after John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis blustered on Fox News Sunday that she wouldn't suffer an interview until the media was ready to treat her with "deference and respect" — well, after all that, she finally deigned to favor someone with ...

Matthew Filipowicz: Exclusive "Not Seen On TV" Video Of Sarah Palin's First Interview
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... By now we've all heard that Sarah Palin has decided to grant an exclusive two-part interview to the reporter the campaign has deemed will treat her with "deference and respect". We all thought that first interview was going to be with ABC's ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — THIS IS WHAT REPUBLICANS THINK ALL INTERVIEWS OF PALIN SHOULD BE LIKE Or maybe I should say this is what Republicans think all interviews of Republicans should be like. Here are the questions right-wing radio blowhard Hugh Hewitt asked Palin yesterday. You want "deference"? You got it: HH: Governor, your candidacy has ignited extreme hostility, even some hatred on the left and in some parts of the media. Are you surprised? And what do you attribute this reaction to? HH: Now Governor, the Gibson and the Couric interview struck ...

After Attacks on Palin, Biden Given a Pass by Media for Not Holding Press Conferences
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... that between Palin's debut on the national stage in August, 23 days went by without her granting "a single news conference with the national media." On September 7, ABC's Jake Tapper wondered when would Palin " subject herself to questions?" Even earlier on September 4, ...

After Attacks on Palin, Biden Given a Pass by Media for Not Holding Press Conferences
Stop The ACLU — ... that between Palin’s debut on the national stage in August, 23 days went by without her granting “a single news conference with the national media.” On September 7, ABC’s Jake Tapper wondered when would Palin ” subject herself to questions?” Even earlier on September 4, ...

After Attacks on Palin, Biden Given a Pass by Media for Not Holding Press Conferences
The Next Right — ... that between Palin's debut on the national stage in August, 23 days went by without her granting "a single news conference with the national media." On September 7, ABC's Jake Tapper wondered when would Palin " subject herself to questions?" Even earlier on September 4, ...

Karen Russell: Palin: No Press Conference, No Medical Records, No Big Surprise
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The McCain/Palin camp telegraphed that Palin wouldn't have a press conference. Back in early September, McCain's Head Mudslinger Rick Davis said Palin wouldn't take tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference." ...