memeorandum: Doubt, Distrust, Delay (Bob Woodward/Washington Post)

8:15 PM ET, September 7, 2008

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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: TPM Election Central, Althouse, Taylor Marsh, PoliBlog (TM), Writes Like She Talks, Washington Monthly, Truthdig, 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: Blue Crab Boulevard and Kevin Drum

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, The Moderate Voice, Us Weekly and The Democratic Daily

ABCNEWS:

Palin to Sit Down With ABC News' Charlie Gibson — Veep Pick Is Elusive Target for the Democrats — Gov. Sarah Palin will sit down with ABC News' Charlie Gibson for her first interview since winning the Republican vice presidential nomination, the network's news division confirmed today.

Discussion: The Swamp, Top of the Ticket and Booman Tribune

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: The Moderate Voice, Associated Press, MyDD, Political Machine, Pam's House Blend, TBogg, Yahoo! News 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, The Jed Report, TVNewser, Daily Kos and rubber hose

Newsweek:
An Apostle of Alaska — We know the outlines—the moose-hunting mom …

Discussion: TalkLeft and BeldarBlog

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

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

Ali / Think Progress:
Chris Wallace Fact-Checks Sarah Palin's Bogus ‘Bridge To Nowhere’ Claims

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

Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
The Scrutiny of Sarah Palin

Discussion: JustOneMinute and The Sideshow

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.

Nate Silver / The New Republic:

Today's Polls: The Bounce Arriveith — Here's what I think it's safe to conclude: the GOP had a successful convention. John McCain now holds a 3-point lead over Barack Obama in the Gallup daily tracking poll, his largest lead since May. And Rasmussen shows the race tied at 48-48 …

Discussion: Power Line, Wizbang, Hot Air and Commentary

Brian M. Carney / Wall Street Journal:
Political Diary — What Sarah Knows — Sarah Palin has gotten …

Discussion: Macsmind and protein wisdom

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

Discussion: The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Newsweek, Stubborn Facts, Outside The Beltway, Althouse, HazZzMat, Reason, Jules Crittenden, Stop The ACLU, Don Surber, Wake up America, Power Line, American Power, Macsmind, Ace of Spades HQ and The Other McCain

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: JustOneMinute, Don Surber, This ain't Hell …, Silent Running and Little Green Footballs

Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Video: No, Obama didn't “admit” to being a Muslim on ABC — Within 10 minutes of this airing we'd already gotten four or five e-mails about it; 20 minutes later, a bowdlerized version had already hit YouTube and begun circulating. I despise lefty sites for twisting conservatives' words …

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

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

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

Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:

U.S. Unveils Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants — WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department seized control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the nation's giant quasi-public mortgage finance companies, and announced a four-part rescue plan that includes an open-ended guarantee from the Treasury Department …

Discussion: EconLog, THE CUNNING REALIST, The Glittering Eye, Marginal Revolution, Donklephant and Buck Naked Politics

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

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

Seattle Times:

Sarah Palin had turbulent first year as mayor of Alaska town — Sarah Palin's first year as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, could easily have been her last as she became embroiled in personnel challenges, a thwarted attempt to pack the City Council and a bitter standoff with her local newspaper.

Discussion: Grasping Reality …, MoJoBlog and Democrats.com

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: American Power, Townhall.com, NewsBusters.org and Los Angeles Times