Hiding Sarah Palin behind 'deference'

[liberal N proud]

Media access to the Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee will be tightly controlled. Charles Gibson of ABC gets the first shot. There's a long list of questions he could start with.
By JAMES RAINEY, ON THE MEDIA
September 9, 2008
John McCain's campaign essentially confirmed over the weekend what some had suspected: Media access to Sarah Palin, would-be vice president of the United States, will be tightly controlled.

Troublemakers need not apply.


And how will we know those troublemakers? They will be the ones unwilling to treat the governor of Alaska with what campaign manager Rick Davis called "some level of respect and deference."

Deference?

The dictionary definitions I find begin with "respectful submission" and "yielding."


That might be the right approach for a reporter lucky enough to interview McCain's 96-year-old mother, Roberta. (If only our politicians were so plain-spoken.)

But it would be wrong -- and, dare I say it, even sexist -- to suggest that Sarah Barracuda is too meek for a little back-and-forth with the denizens of the Fourth Estate.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/campaign08/newsletter/la-na-onthemedia9-2008sep09,0,31104.story


The question I have; LA Times has this list of questions Gibson could start with but will they ever get asked?

[iamjoy]

1. REPEAT AFTER ME

If she can't stand up to the mainstream media, how is she going to stand up to Ahmadinejad, Putin and Hu?

[liberal N proud]

2. But if they sneak her past the media and the American people it will be too late