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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Chris mocks Palin but wants Interview!


Chris Matthews Mocks Gov. Palin One Day, Calls Her For Interview the Next

NewsBusters By Warner Todd Huston - January 17, 2009

Old Media Talking Out of Both Sides (of Their Mouths) About Palin As we all know, Governor Sarah Palin has over the last week come out swinging at the Old Media and some far left elements of the new one. With the release of the Palin interview segment by documentarian John Ziegler and the subsequent wheezing attack by Pat Dougherty of the Alaska Daily News, Palin has once again taken center stage in a media maelstrom.
The Anchorage Press has a nice, fair re-cap of this current imbroglio between the Palin hatin' Old Media and the governor of Alaska. One part of this article, though, is a spot on question that the ravenous Old Media should be forced to answer. If they all hate Palin so much, if they are all so sure she is a has been and is through on the national political scene, why are they clamoring so to get interviews with her, why the constant reporting on her?
Bill McAllister, the governor’s communications director, had a good question for the leg tingling Chris Matthews and his ilk because one minute Matthews slams her and the next calls her offices to get an interview.

Introducing the clips, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews referred to “the vice presidential campaign that won’t end,” a characterization that McAllister says was hypocritical, as Matthews had recently called him asking for an interview.
“If it’s so objectionable, why do you want to interview her?” McAllister asks. Story continues here...

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