They’re told to cover and how to cover it by both sides: the candidate’s campaign and their execs. It’s rare when a journalist or reporter can ask the questions they REALLY want to ask. When a candidate, for example, is scheduled for a show (ANY show), the producers are given lists of “suggested” questions and told what topics the candidate WILL NOT DISCUSS. Period. Charlie Rose may get in a tug-of-war with a guest sometimes, but the people who watch Charlie Rose are in the top 5% of viewers who have an education. Rose asks questions for candidates and people to THINK about. How many candidates (while running)have actually been on a show like Charlie Rose’s? Not many, probably none, because Rose will never be told what to ask. Even Oprah has to toe the line!

In the case of McCain/Palin you will see many media appearances, but rest assured that they will insist that every question be scrutinized or edited out.

Also: If 60 Minutes had been owned by Rupert Murdoch at the time, the scandal of Abu Graib would never had come to light. NEVER.

Are journalists and reporters cowards? No, they do hope to sneak in a probing question or two, but they have to do it in the midst of many bland, non-harmful questions. That’s just the way it is.

Hmmm…Question. Has anyone looked at the transcript presented to the media BEFORE the speech was given. Im curious what she actually MADlibed, or if this whole teleprompter malfunction story is more character narrative BS.

Even if the teleprompter broke and she was able to “recover” from her rehearsed speech, so what. pat b on msnbc was making a big deal about nothing. Like this “super recoving method” is a rare and special quality and is fit to be raised to a level of Sen. Obama community service. Ridiculous and Sickening.

What the hell are the msm watching?

After one sarcastic, flaming, piece of robocop speech. repugs are ready to lay it down to her, surrender; and repugs call Sen. Obama a messiah; who are the freakin robots? One pitiful uninspiring speech and they roll. Are they kidding me?

the msm are usless, making up bs and passing it off as breaking news.

News Flash repugs: palin is the pits. Face it.

There is still the problem with the votes being counted by machines made by conservatives. All the evidence is Kerry won last time by 3%!!!

McCain may not be Bush, but Palin sure seems to be. No accountability, no answering questions, no acceptance that the media even has a role in honest society. In fact, no acceptance that truth or honesty have any merit whatsoever.

If universities can give honorary degrees to political leaders, can the University of Idaho go the other way and strip Palin of her BA in journalism?

Please go to this site and volunteer, or donate, or buy a sign to put on your lawn. This is to important to leave to anybody else. You can also look at your state from here and see what events are going on in your community. Especially people who have teenagers at home. We need to register them to vote because today’s kids aren’t as narrow minded.

Assuming, for the sake of discussion, the best case scenario for McCain and he wins ALL the deeply red states AND AK, AZ, TX, MO, IN, WV and GA, which he should do, AND also the states of NV, MT, ND, SD, CO, VA, NC and NH, which he shouldn”t do, in order to reach 270 electoral votes he”d have to ALSO win either OH and PA or OH and FL or PA and FL. Go to the electoral-vote.com website and make a realistic evaluation. Anybody want to give me odds on McCain being able to do that?

I hate the way that they imply that Obama was a community organizer because he could not get a real job—like the leader of the Harvard Law Review would have trouble getting a high-paying job.

OF COURSE Palin didn’t mention anything of substance.

That was not an accident.

The Pukes don’t want the bible-babbling bint to say anything at all. But she’s gotta make speeches, so you get the tightly scripted wall of blather you got last night.

I know, right? I have NO IDEA what a ‘community organizer’ does, but I have the good sense to look it up BEFORE I make an idiot of myself.

Her speech was totally VOID of ANY SUBSTANCE at ALL!!!

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True. Except for her rattling off her personal biography, it was like watching a movie created entirely from stock footage.

Her biography may have been “stock footage” too, for all I know.

I think I wrote this somewhere else…but I heard on the radio today that people at the convention where sporting buttons that said something like, “Cool State, Hot VP”. What the heck is wrong with this picture????
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It’s just those conservatives protesting the sexist liberals, you know. (snark)