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be scared, very scared of the gop this election.

Palin bans reporters from meetings with leaders

By SARA KUGLER – 3 hours ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, on Tuesday banned reporters from her first meetings with world leaders, allowing access only to photographers and a television crew.

CNN, which was providing the television coverage for news organizations, decided to pull its TV crew, effectively denying Palin the high visibility she had sought.

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The campaign told the TV producer, print and wire reporters in the press pool that follows the Alaska governor that they would not be admitted with the photographers and camera crew taken in to photograph the meetings. At least two news organizations, including The Associated Press, objected and were told that the decision was not subject to discussion.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijGq94pVTj9FGiR-c5EdA3iSm2owD93CGVI01

not subject to discussion.  that’s rich.

btw – ken burns isn’t a large fan either:

"He (McCain) selected someone who is so supremely unqualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency and he has turned the selection process into a high school popularity contest and an ‘American Idol’ competition," Burns said. He said that McCain made a "cynical" pick in what he said was the most important decision of his presidential candidacy.

high school popularity contest.  interesting.

what is the campaign afraid of?  generalized contrived spontaneous honesty?  can she be trusted to maintain the “message” or are they afraid she will just constantly call the reporters by their first names without substantively answering any of their questions?

we don’t need subterfuge.

we need change.