Media Flips Out on Palin

Clearly, the Mccain camp is petrified over what Palin could say to the media.  So even on a day when she meeting with world leaders, they attempted to ban reporters from the meeting.  CNN balked and pulled their cameras out until the campaign relented and allowed a producer inside.  

So what did reporters get out of the meeting?  A discussion about Karzai’s children:

“What is his name?” Ms. Palin was heard to ask, as she met with Mr. Karzai in the suite of a midtown hotel, according to a pool report.

“Mirwais,” Mr. Karzai replied. “Mirwais, which means, ‘The Light of the House.’”

“Oh nice,” Palin responded.

“He is the only one we have,” Mr. Karzai said.

Then the pool of journalists was escorted out, and the meeting began. 
The pool was allowed in for 29 seconds.

Here’s how the NY Times saw it unfold:

“Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, is scheduled to meet Tuesday in New York with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, and former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger.

But the McCain-Palin campaign’s sharp limitations on coverage of the meetings have sparked a mini-revolt – and a threatened boycott — among the press corps.

The campaign plans to bar print reporters from the meetings, and to limit coverage to brief photo-ops for a still photographer and a television camera. The television stations, though, are objecting, noting that they have a policy of not sending cameras to cover events without a producer, who provided editorial guidance.”