With Oprah Winfrey not wanting to interview Sarah Palin, or any other candidate until after elections, the Republican Vice Presidential candidate will have to settle for Charles Gibson.
Palin has agreed to a sit down interview with ABC’s Gibson later this week.
This will be Palin’s first TV interview since John McCain publicly announced her as his running mate.
Gibson will fly to Alaska and interview her over two days.
Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, says of Palin, “She’s not scared to answer questions. But you know what? We run our campaign, not the news media. And we’ll do things on our timetable.”
Gibson did interview McCain during the Republican National Convention, though he chose not to ask about Palin’s personal life.
Later, he stated on his blog, “Once you know about her daughter’s pregnancy, once you know about her husband’s political interest in the Alaska Independent Party, once you know about the special nature of their latest child, I think that’s enough.”
Well, he BETTER ask her some good questions or the interview is going to suck!
As for Davis, he added, “Why would we want to throw Sarah Palin into a cycle of piranhas called the news media that have nothing better to ask questions about than her personal life and her children? So until at which point in time we feel like the news media is going to treat her with some level of respect and deference, I think it would be foolhardy to put her out into that kind of environment.”
Boring! If it were any other candidate, you know they’d be asking all sorts of questions.
Is Palin getting special treatment????
As for Democratic VP hopeful, Sen. Joe Biden, he’s already challenged Palin to sit for interviews.
He said in a recent interview, “Eventually she’s going to have to sit in front of you like I’m doing and have done. Eventually she’s going to have to answer questions and not be sequestered. Eventually she’s going to have to answer questions about her record. The difficult hurdles are to come, I think: The first interviews she’ll face on issues; the first time she’s closely questioned on positions she’s taken in her state; and then, of course, the debate with Joe Biden.”
Let’s see what Gibson decides to ask Palin.
You know they’ll be prepping her all week on different questions!
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