And about the Palin bubble …
posted at 12:30 pm on September 6, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Yesterday, I wrote about the strange meme that Sarah Palin would exist in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnall’s doorstep until the election, and the media would not be allowed to question her. Team McCain issued a reply that amounted to a Bronx cheer later in the morning, but somehow this attack persisted. Last night, though, I received today’s schedule for John McCain and Sarah Palin, which more than hints that the myth of Palin as the Girl in the Plastic Bubble was just that — a myth:
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Colorado and New Mexico10:00am Media Interview
10:30am Satellite into AARP Convention
11:30am Media Interview
12:30pm MT “The Road to Victory Rally”
Colorado Springs, CO
1:45pm MT Depart Colorado
2:50pm MT Arrive NM
3:30pm MT Media Interviews
7:00pm MT “The Road to Victory Rally”
Albuquerque Convention Center
That looks like three set-asides for media in one day, comprising at least three hours of face time for McCain and Palin. I’m fairly certain that the media will be more interested in Palin than McCain in these blocs of time, and I’m also quite certain that national media will ensure that they get their fair share of attention. That doesn’t look like a media bubble to me.
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Gretchen Wilsons Barracuda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxLuT1ZvOj0
Tazz 55 on September 6, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is appearing on milk cartons.
snickelfritz on September 6, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Who?
ManlyRash on September 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM
I think the media needs to do some Reverend Wright interviews. Why has he been in a bubble? When does he do Meet the Press? He has a book coming out right? And maybe William Ayers should sit down with Chris Wallace. Obama finally did the Factor but he has not exactly been subjected to tough questioning. This is just silly.
D0WNT0WN on September 6, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Not afraid to release Sarah’Cuda on the media!
The media were ailing; now listen for their death rattle.
carbon_footprint on September 6, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Seriously, who?
jeff_from_mpls on September 6, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Joe Biden? That is odd for you to bring up an obscure Senator from Rhode Island.
carbon_footprint on September 6, 2008 at 12:38 PM
You know, I really appreciate the style of presentation:
So much more over the style of:
wise_man on September 6, 2008 at 12:38 PM
You mean Torricelli, right?
lorien1973 on September 6, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Gretchen Wilsons Barracuda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxLuT1ZvOj0
Tazz 55 on September 6, 2008 at 12:33 PM
DAAAAMN
she sang the sh*t outta that song… wasnt she at the RNC?
stlpatriot on September 6, 2008 at 12:39 PM
See? You really can let us know what the press is saying and still give us optimism at the same time.
wise_man on September 6, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Are McCain and Palin going to continue campaigning together? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but at what point do they separate and send Sarah one way and McCain to another state? It makes sense to have a lot of pressers when John is there with her to back her up.
But at the point Sarah starts going it alone, I suspect, if the campaign has any sense, they will cut back on Sarah’s media interview schedule and maximize her exposure to key voter blocks. At least until they are more comfortable that she can handle getting blindsided and sandbagged by the liberal media that has put a target on her.
Always Right on September 6, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Got Sarah?
whitetop on September 6, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Will she cut it off at 8 questions?
a capella on September 6, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Always Right on September 6, 2008 at 12:40 PM
They split after sunday i believe…
stlpatriot on September 6, 2008 at 12:41 PM
The guy who wrote the Assault Weapons Ban.
mad saint jack on September 6, 2008 at 12:41 PM
YES, she was.
Tazz 55 on September 6, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Joe Bidin’ his time and Joe SLieperman both proved to provide JOEMentum for the other side if you look at each night in the tracking Polls. Their impact will PALeIN comparison to Sarah’s.
KW64 on September 6, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Actually, I can’t believe the press is stupid enough to have found ANOTHER expectations-lowering meme to attack Palin with.
Don’t they realize they’re getting played? Guess not.
someone on September 6, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Or dismiss a male reporters question in a condescending way such as “We’re going to get to that later, eye candy.”
wise_man on September 6, 2008 at 12:45 PM
when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, the American Flags are thrown in the garbage, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot – what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing the planet?
TheBigOldDog on September 6, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Hey Allah? I came to be a fan in your devastatingly sarcastic cartooning days. When did get to be unfashionable?
I really *need* a BarryO cartoon with the theme of throwing Joe “French Cuffs” Biden under the bus.
HelenW on September 6, 2008 at 12:46 PM
KOS: well she won’t go on Keef’s show to “face the truth” so you PHAIL ed….
//moonbat
sven10077 on September 6, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Obama who? The Obama bubble has burst; 18 months of overdone media coverage has the American people burned out on this fabrication of an empty suit. Sara Palin is now the rage, with only a few months left in this campaign.
Obama and his “I’m a citizen of the world “a messiah”, I will part the sea and bring every citizen of the world into my light” theme is now a dead myth creation by a man with an ego the size of this planet.
Message to Obama… You sir, have seen your time come and go. You sir, have been replaced by a commoner, a regular PTA type of human, a wife and a mother who doesn’t look down on the rest of us from a perch somewhere on top of a magical hill.
Keemo on September 6, 2008 at 12:48 PM
I was wondering the same thing. She might have to cut it off at 7 because, after all, she is a woman.
HawaiiLwyr on September 6, 2008 at 12:48 PM
She sings the living sh*t out of it in this version! And with Jerry Cantrell (of Alice in Chains).
carbon_footprint on September 6, 2008 at 12:49 PM
There is only one interview with Gov. Palin that I am interested in hear/watching. That will be the one Michelle Malkin conducts in one of her patented Vents.
How about it Michelle? I’ve already sent my email the campaign stating Sarah should talk with you as soon as possible.
Zorro on September 6, 2008 at 12:50 PM
UMd: Obama yout rally fizzles;
140/36014 = 0.4%
/fizzle!
Terp Mole on September 6, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Why can’t she just eat her waffle??
120pages on September 6, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Its going to be interesting to see how the media act when they finally decide that Obama is toast. Will they follow him all the way into the grave or will they switch sides and and start tossin in the shovels of earth?
johnsteele on September 6, 2008 at 12:52 PM
“Joe Biden? That is odd for you to bring up an obscure Senator from Rhode Island.”
i presume deliberately misidentifying the state was part of the joke — the bigger part being greasy joe himself of course …
:-)
Buckaroo on September 6, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Supposedly Greta on Fox News will have exclusive one-on-one interviews with Gov. Palin tonight and tomorrow (Saturday/Sunday).
Enoxo on September 6, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Meanwhile, Obama get’s away with 8 question pressers about his house deal with Rezko, and deigns to allow O’Reilly 1/2 hour for an interview. Seem’s to me he spends more time with Keefy on MSNBC than anyone…
Go Figger !
RocketmanBob on September 6, 2008 at 12:55 PM
She was great in that, but Nancy Wilson played too. It was a tribute to Heart.
Tazz 55 on September 6, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Seriously, these people will be heading to the early bird special.
No one will be watching.
:/
Kini on September 6, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Point of question other than O’Reilly receintly how many media interveiws has Obambi done ltely ?
William Amos on September 6, 2008 at 12:55 PM
I wonder how many still get this,
CarnakEd.drjohn on September 6, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Oooh, I enjoyed the rest of it so much I missed the subtle dig about the American Flag thrown in the garbage. Nice body shot, Governor.
a capella on September 6, 2008 at 12:56 PM
“140/36014 = 0.4%”
hey — that’s still 139 better than al cranken did …
:-)
Buckaroo on September 6, 2008 at 12:56 PM
“a capella on September 6, 2008 at 12:56 PM”
point of order — she didn’t actually say the flag line, bigolddog is just pointing out she SHOULD have said it — ’cause it’s, like, TRUE …
:-)
Buckaroo on September 6, 2008 at 12:58 PM
The MSM:
The largest, cheapest DNC 527 group in the world!!!
TheHat on September 6, 2008 at 12:59 PM
She needs to work a waffle joke in. The community organizer can whine about it being another smear.
JammieWearingFool on September 6, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Ten bucks she says, “Can I just finish my waffles?” :o) I just love the low expectations. Rush always says, they’ll walk into the door and stomp the bag of manure on the step every time. Don’t stop this ride, I never want to get off!!!
hoosiermama on September 6, 2008 at 1:01 PM
You wanna talk about a media bubble? WHERE IS MICHELLE OBAMA?
SouthernGent on September 6, 2008 at 1:01 PM
She sings the living sh*t out of it in this version! And with Jerry Cantrell (of Alice in Chains).
She was great in that, but Nancy Wilson played too. It was a tribute to Heart.
Tazz 55 on September 6, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Maybe Gretchen can talk some sense into them, lol
stlpatriot on September 6, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Another sexist smear debunked, just like the stuff about her reading her lines yesterday. Men in the Senate never do that!
They’re trying to make her look like a one-hit wonder, but then ambush her if she talks. All because she’s a fine strong amazing woman with real character.
econavenger on September 6, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Didn’t see your comment, JWF. GMTA
hoosiermama on September 6, 2008 at 1:02 PM
No, that’s just me little recommended addition to that rift….she didn;t actually say that…yet. I sure hope she does!
TheBigOldDog on September 6, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Or did you mean Eagleton?
Scouter on September 6, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Michelle Obama?
She’s the one filling the Barack Obama suit while he’s secretly on vacation in Switzerland with George Clooney
econavenger on September 6, 2008 at 1:03 PM
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is appearing on milk cartons.
Well that is because Plugs Biden spends more time on his hair than Governor Palin.
Mr. Joe on September 6, 2008 at 1:03 PM
I heard that Biden was recently spotted hauling some trash bags to the dumpster at Invesco Field.
Kevin71 on September 6, 2008 at 1:04 PM
Tell it to Sully.
Dude is so wacked out that he doesn’t realize his ass has already been handed to him before he posts.
Oh, there’s this, too. I’m beginning to think that Andrew just doesn’t have any use for women.
Dan Collins on September 6, 2008 at 1:06 PM
http://proteinwisdom.com/pub/?p=1432
Dan Collins on September 6, 2008 at 1:06 PM
“The Palin bubble,” is more like the Palin nuke explosion, but without the Styrofoam props.
byteshredder on September 6, 2008 at 1:07 PM
I’m tellin’. We’re not allowed to listen to that song.
nyrofan on September 6, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Beginning? We are talking about Andrew Sullivan here.
wise_man on September 6, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Gallup Daily Tracking. McCain within 2.
Pianobuff on September 6, 2008 at 1:15 PM
It only counts when its the New York Slimes and ABC/CBS/NBC grillings with the obligatory cutting-off-answers and selective editing to change the tone of the answers the talking heads are famous for.
Neo on September 6, 2008 at 1:21 PM
almost shot coffee over my monitor..
DaveC on September 6, 2008 at 1:22 PM
So McCain and Palin are going to submit to interviews. If Palin doesn’t make a gaffe, we’ll never hear a word about any of them.
Cicero43 on September 6, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Pretty much since boyhood, I’ll bet.
Cicero43 on September 6, 2008 at 1:26 PM
Speaking of ‘milk-carten’joe, how about we start asking: What if something happens to Mr Biden, wouldn’t that leave Obama just one heart beat away from being president with No Foreign Policy experience??
jist saying.
Da_Hutt on September 6, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Gallup Daily Tracking. McCain within 2.
Pianobuff on September 6, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Gallup is “paid for” by sicko leftist people far to often. Gallup will mislead the American people all the way up to about (1) week before the election, when they will suddenly come closer to the real numbers in order to gain some sort of recognition. This game is well documented.
USA Today/Gallup Poll
CBS/NYT/Gallup Poll
CNN/Gallup Poll
How many times do you see these head liners used? The companies listed prior to Gallup are the ones funding the polling company. Always, upon digging into the details of the numbers polled, we find Democrats were polled much more heavily than Republicans in order to produce the desired results as requested by those financing the report… As the old saying goes, follow the money.
Keemo on September 6, 2008 at 1:38 PM
It’s at this point in the campaign that I knew I was going to miss Tim Russert. Palin would have made her Sunday morning talk show debut there for certain. Tim would have asked her very tough but fair questions, to which I’m sure she would have responded with aplomb. Tim’s bona fides with he whack jobs in the MSM would have toned things down quite a bit I think. But Tim’s not here and there’s no one else that comes close to filling his shoes.
Hey, Sarah came out of nowhere, right? Perhaps there’s a media superstar that’s awaiting her chance at the big time.
turfmann on September 6, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Okay Ed. Then why’s she not on “Meet the Press”, “Face the Nation” and the rest of them?
Because she’s not able to answer the questions. That’s why?
This was a stupid move by Juan McSame and the Republican Party is going to be subjected to the move humiliating defeat ever.
and it’s sad too.
LibertarianConservative on September 6, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Ed, stop letting facts, reason and logic get in the way of the Liberal Cause.
Racist!
Montana on September 6, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Making the Liberal Media as much an issue as all others, is a winner for McCain/Palin. The American people are sick and tired of the Liberal Elite Media trying it’s best to get us to tote their line by way of the bullshit brainwash. This was not the intent behind the creation of “the free press” and the privileges given to journalists. The Liberal Elite Media has been abusing these privileges for decades now, and it’s high time these people face their punishment.
Dan Rathers & all others involved in the scheme to alter a presidential election with biased and fabricated information, should be in prison for the crimes they were guilty of committing. The fact that I would be in prison if I had committed those (or similar) crimes, makes me just a bit resentful.
Keemo on September 6, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Always Right on September 6, 2008 at 12:40 PM
LoL….She’s a big girl. I’m sure she can handle herself.
bridgetown on September 6, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Given the current electoral map at Rasmussen, flip New Mexico to red, and McCain wins the election.
connertown on September 6, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Now there’s a bumper sticker!
eyesky on September 6, 2008 at 1:54 PM
LibertarianConservative on September 6, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Has the saying “dumber than dirt” sank into your brain yet? Sarah will work these brainless Liberal fools in the media like a finely tuned Stradivarius. Things will be on her terms rather than on their terms. Sarah has little or no respect for the Liberal media, for good reason. God has given her much wisdom, strength, and courage.
Keemo on September 6, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Yep, and she’ll end up just like Barry Goldwater… Defeated.
LibertarianConservative on September 6, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Maybe she will be, when she has time.
Or…
You just might wake up and realize that “Meet the Press” and “Face the Nation” have little do with Meeting the American People.
Why again do we need a biased media to control and filter messages from elected leaders? Hmm?
Montana on September 6, 2008 at 2:02 PM
“Because she’s not able to answer the questions. That’s why?”
um, no, ‘cuase they simply haven’t scheduled her yet. and they’re prolly afraid of her. and they hate her — tho prolly not as much as you …
Buckaroo on September 6, 2008 at 2:04 PM
You’re the one sounding defeated, sport.
Patrick S on September 6, 2008 at 2:04 PM
“LibertarianConservative”
well, he tells on himself with the name — they’re contradictory on too many things [see paul, ron and any other gop candidate]
/that’s where the bitterness prolly stems from …
Buckaroo on September 6, 2008 at 2:06 PM
AWESOME. Just AWESOME.
S on September 6, 2008 at 2:12 PM
I don’t know why people were speculating that she was just for “appearance” From Dayton, Ohio appearance, I could tell she was picked to Plow the Road, for John McCain, and that is just what she has been doing. All the While the MSM has been trying run her off the road, and they have not been successful. I suspect she is going to get some help from the rest of the Republican Party now, they will be blocking for her. Think NASCAR.
The Reason the Media is having such a difficult time defining her is because they are East D.C., mindset, and Sarah is West, it is an entirely different mindset.
At least some of the Republicans, stopped getting the flop sweats and the wobbly legs, since her speech at the convention:)
Dr Evil on September 6, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Who was the one that refused to do town hall meetings and take questions from the American people?
Oh yea, that was Obama..
Chakra Hammer on September 6, 2008 at 2:30 PM
We wanted to go to the rally in the Springs, but the tickets were gone before she even gave her speech. Bummer!
Common Sense on September 6, 2008 at 2:34 PM
After the Nielson numbers Palin put up on Wednesday night you can bet every political TV pundit schmuck that trashed her and sneered down their nose at her last week is begging, begging her for an interview now.
DamnCat on September 6, 2008 at 2:39 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA3plc4lf78
Curt on September 6, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Yeah the sour milk ones ;>)
grapeknutz on September 6, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Yep, and she’ll end up just like Barry Goldwater… Defeated.
LibertarianConservative on September 6, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Nice to have you on record dirtbag.
Keemo on September 6, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Say, speaking of missing persons, after the expensive makeover, second roll out, and then the big DNCC speech, where’s Michelle Obama?
The real girl in a bubble. Should Obama’s campaign consider an “Amber Alert”?
BuckeyeSam on September 6, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Maybe she would be in the bubble but it’s already full to bursting. Bill Ayers, J. Wright, Michelle Obama, Father Flager, and Tony Rezco (iron bubble) haven’t left any room for Sarah.
I guess she’ll just have to keep on kickin’ their hippy asses.
Mojave Mark on September 6, 2008 at 3:29 PM
When will Obamo announce his VP pick?
Who do y’all think he’ll pick?
TheSitRep on September 6, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Great web site and art. You are very talented.
carbon_footprint on September 6, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Oh where oh where is Aunt Esther?
carbon_footprint on September 6, 2008 at 4:47 PM
Yep, and she’ll end up just like Barry Goldwater… Defeated.
LibertarianConservative on September 6, 2008 at 1:58 PM
kayo on September 6, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Here are a few interviews I found which occurred before today and after Palin announced (yet, Politico ran a “story” this afternoon that she’s not giving interviews).
http://www.bobandmark.com/palin_mccain_interview
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/08/palin_on_energy_and_obamabiden.html
http://community.adn.com/plain/node/130122
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20222685_1,00.html
http://www.cnbc.com/id/26462569?__source=RSS*blog*&par=RSS
ynot4tony2 on September 6, 2008 at 8:15 PM
Stepford?
OldEnglish on September 6, 2008 at 10:42 PM
There is more than one kind of bubble, and bubbles always burst. Gov. Palin’s awesome and meteoric rise can all-too-easily nosedive. I really hope and pray not, but I worry that the hoopla will spend itself too soon before the election. It takes a lot of energy to maintain this level of enthusiasm over an extended period – I am hopeful that the McCain/Palin campaign knows the downside to ‘too much of a good thing’.
Meanwhile, it seems that the biggest whiners about Gov. Palin being kept from them are the folks at MSNBC. Being interviewed by MSNBC is the same as being interviewed by the Obama/Biden campaign staff. Perhaps we could propose a deal: Gov. Palin will agree to be interviewed on MSNBC when Sen. Obama agrees to be interviewed by Rush.
(I refuse to take bets on the outcome of that.)
ss396 on September 6, 2008 at 11:03 PM
She should go on Face the Nation and debate whether “moops” is a legitimate word.
Mr. Wednesday Night on September 7, 2008 at 1:18 AM
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