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Talking Points Memo —
There's a lot of complaining that the McCain campaign won't allow anyone to interview Sarah Palin. And for the major news outlets that would be in line for such an interview there's a logic to keeping up the drumbeat. But McCain campaign manager Rick Davis is right: It's their campaign to run. They can do it how they want. Everyone else should just shut up, stop complaining and call the reality for what it is.
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."
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McCain Neuters His Press
The Stump —
In his dystopian novel The Time Machine, H.G. Wells describes
how the Morlocks, who had originally evolved as a species meant to
provide for the more elite Eloi, have come to subjugate the Eloi: The
spoon-fed Eloi live up on Earth, separated from the subterranean
Morlocks. Since no real tasks are available to them, they spend all day
lounging around, feeble, listless, and ambitionless. In the end, it
turns out that they now no longer serve any purpose but to be farmed
and eaten by their once-servile Morlocks. I thought of The Time Machine
yesterday while driving home from trying to cover a McCain/Palin rally
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as ...
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