While the media in the lower 48 lingers in its love fest for Sarah Palin, newspapers in her home state are doing their job, calling Palin out for reneging on her promise to cooperate in the ongoing ethics investigation, as well as her refusal to make herself available to the national press.
The Anchorage Daily News wrote:
There's no polite
way to say it: Sarah Palin has been hiding out from hard questions. It took 10
days from when John McCain announced his pick until the McCain campaign agreed
to schedule Palin an unscripted interview with a serious journalist....
• You present yourself as a Republican maverick who took on your own party's
corrupt political establishment. In November's election, your party is running
an indicted U.S. Senator, Ted Stevens, who is awaiting trial on charges he
accepted more than $250,000 of unreported gifts from the state's most powerful
lobbyist. Will you vote for his opponent? Will you urge Alaskans to help you
change Washington and vote him out of office? If not, why not?
• Sen. Ted Stevens' trial is still pending; he has declined to say whether he
would accept a pardon from President Bush before he leaves office Jan. Do
Alaska voters deserve an answer to that question before they cast their vote
for or against Stevens in November? What is your position on a president
pardoning a public official before a jury has ruled on guilt or innocence?...
• Why have you reneged on your earlier pledge to cooperate with the Alaska
Legislature's investigation into Troopergate?
• In spring of 2004, the Daily News reported that you cited family considerations
in deciding not to try for the U.S. Senate: "How could I be the team mom
if I was a U.S. senator?" What was different this time as you decided to
run for vice president?...
• If you were a fully qualified vice-presidential candidate from the get-go,
why did you wait more than 10 days to face reporters?
• McCain spokesman Rick Davis told Fox News the media didn't show you enough
"deference." How much deference do you expect to get from Vladimir
Putin or Hugo Chavez?
Can you imagine if every media outlet asked
these questions? The American people might actually hear something other than
the bridge to nowhere lie, the sold the jet on Ebay lie, the pit bull and lipstick joke, and the "Did I tell you my son's going to Iraq" line.
