Is McCain hiding Palin?

last updated 8 January 2015

“The political media are up in arms because Sarah Palin won’t talk to them,” said Kirsten Powers in the New York Post, but it’s their own fault. No campaign will grant easy access when it knows “the press will make no honest attempt to be fair,” and the coverage of Palin has been massively biased from the start.

It’s hard to argue that the McCain-Palin camp isn’t going a bit overboard to protect Palin, said Chris Rovzar in New York magazine online. Either “Republicans are afraid Palin will crumble under direct questioning,” or, as CNN’s Campbell Brown complains, they’re making a sexist attempt to protect her as a “delicate flower” while selling her as a “pitbull with lipstick.”