memeorandum: Palin floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee (Willie Brown/San Francisco Chronicle)

6:45 PM ET, September 7, 2008

Top Items:

Palin Media Avoidance Watch: Day 9 — McCain Camp Says She Won't Do Interviews Until It Knows She'll Be Treated with “Deference” — 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 …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, New York Times, Althouse, Taylor Marsh, PoliBlog (TM), Truthdig, Writes Like She Talks, Media Blog and Patterico's Pontifications

Newsweek:

Palin offers first TV interview to ABC News — McCain running mate ready to for her first television interview, offers meeting with ABC News — (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin plans to sit down later this week for her first television interview since John …

Discussion: Kevin Drum

Mike Allen / The Politico:

Biden challenges Palin to take questions — Joe Biden is accusing the McCain campaign of sequestering Sarah Palin, his counterpart on the Republican ticket, and challenged her Sunday to sit for network interviews. — “She's a smart, tough politician,” Biden told Tom Brokaw in a …

Discussion: Associated Press, Political Machine, Pam's House Blend, TBogg, MyDD and The Jed Report

Associated Press:

Palin offers first television interview to ABC — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Republican vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin is offering her first televised interview to ABC News in the coming week in Alaska. — Palin, the surprise pick of Republican presidential nominee John McCain …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Liberal Values, TIME.com, TVNewser, The Jed Report, rubber hose and Daily Kos

Mike Allen / The Politico:

Palin agrees to interview — Under pressure for being shielded for questioning, Sarah Palin has a agreed to sit down with Charles Gibson of ABC's “World News Tonight,” according to an ABC News official. — No other interviews are scheduled. It will be the first TV interview for Palin since …

Discussion: Associated Press and Us Weekly

Ali / Think Progress:

Chris Wallace Fact-Checks Sarah Palin's Bogus ‘Bridge To Nowhere’ Claims — Since accepting Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) offer to be his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) has lied about her supposed opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere in nearly every single campaign appearance:

Discussion: Donklephant, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Sideshow and Liberal Values

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
NOT TRAINING WHEELS WE CAN BELIEVE IN

Discussion: Wake up America, Liberal Values, California Progress Report, rubber hose, Patterico's Pontifications and Seeing the Forest

Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Sarah Palin, media ‘piranhas,’ lobbyists

Discussion: The Raw Story

Gallup:

Gallup Daily: McCain Moves Ahead, 48% to 45% — McCain enjoying increase in support following convention — PRINCETON, NJ — The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain moving ahead of Barack Obama, 48% to 45%, when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the presidential election were held today.

Zogby:
Zogby Poll: Republicans Hold Small Post-Convention Edge

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, Althouse, HazZzMat, Reason, Jules Crittenden, Wake up America, Stop The ACLU, Don Surber, Power Line, Macsmind, American Power, Ace of Spades HQ and The Other McCain

Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS: Obama Sees Nothing Funny About Community Organizer

Mike Allen / The Politico:

Obama considered joining military, regrets abortion answer — Barack Obama says his answer about abortion at the Saddleback Church forum was “probably” too flip. — During separate televised interviews last month, Pastor Rick Warren asked the two presidential candidates when a baby gets human rights.

Discussion: Don Surber, Little Green Footballs, This ain't Hell …, Silent Running and Yahoo! News

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: No, Obama didn't “admit” to being a Muslim on ABC

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Cassy Fiano, Babalu Blog, www.redstate.com and The Other McCain

Ace of Spades HQ:
Anatomy of a Smear — Weekly Standard Dean Barnett asking a very important question.

Discussion: Dr. Melissa Clouthier, American Power, Riehl World View, Perfunction, Ed Driscoll.com, Sadly, No!, Whiskey Fire and The Other McCain

United States - Department of The Treasury:

Statement by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. on Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency Action to Protect Financial Markets and Taxpayers — Washington, DC— Good morning. I'm joined here by Jim Lockhart, Director of the new independent regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, FHFA.

Discussion: Calculated Risk, The Huffington Post, The Big Picture, Buck Naked Politics, The Glittering Eye, Marginal Revolution and Washington Post

Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
U.S. Unveils Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants

Discussion: EconLog, Donklephant, Marginal Revolution and Buck Naked Politics

Willie Brown / San Francisco Chronicle:

Palin floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee — The Democrats are in trouble. Sarah Palin has totally changed the dynamics of this campaign. — Period. — Palin's speech to the GOP National Convention on Wednesday has set it up so that the Republicans are now on offense and Democrats are on defense.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Winds of Change.NET, TIME.com and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

John McCormack / Weekly Standard:

Sarah Palin Assembles Her Foreign Policy Team — From The Scrapbook: — (Actually, the governor visits the Little Norway Festival, Petersburg, Alaska, 2007.)

Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ

Brian M. Carney / Wall Street Journal:

Political Diary — What Sarah Knows — Sarah Palin has gotten some rough treatment from the media since John McCain announced his vice presidential pick. In her speech last week, she gave a little jab back at “all those reporters and commentators.” That won't likely win her many new admirers in the Washington press corps.

Discussion: protein wisdom

SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:

Daily Show: “John McCain: Reformed Maverick” — Jon Stewart traces John McCain's evolution from a straight-talking maverick to a shameless panderer who now embraces all the things he used to condemn. — Download | Play Download | Play

Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:

Palin may woo blue-collar voters from Obama — (09-07) 04:00 PDT Washington — Democrats do not think that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's arrival in the enemy camp changes Sen. Barack Obama's path to the White House. As far as they're concerned, Republican John McCain's running mate is President George W. Bush.

Discussion: Townhall.com and NewsBusters.org