Palin Media Avoidance Watch: Day 9 -- McCain Camp Says She Won't Do Interviews Until It Knows She'll Be Treated with "Deference"
September 07, 2008 9:41 AM

Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself to any tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."

Davis assailed the way the media had discussed Palin and her family in the last week and said the campaign would wait until a less hostile media environment.

So when will she subject herself to questions?

"When we think it's time and when she feels comfortable doing it," Davis said, praising a Fox News Channel profile of Palin that ran last night.

More here on ABC

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Maybe being ready on Day One is less important than being comfortable first, I guess.    Two comments from the blog are worth repeating:

So we have to be "nice" to Sarah Palin before we hear what her positions are? Whose country is this, anyway?

This ain't Wasilla. Sit down and answer every single question that the electorate has. Otherwise, get out of the contest.

How's that for nice, Miss Congeniality?

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Deference is something you earn, and the best way to earn it is by answering tough questions from skeptics.

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