FOX News Producer: Restrictions On Palin Access "Unprecedented"

Is John McCain losing some of his friends at FOX?

FOX News Producer Shushannah Walshe just lashed out at the McCain campaign for denying access to reporters who wanted to witness Sarah Palin's U.N. photo ops earlier today. Walshe said the McCain campaign's restrictions on press coverage were "just unprecedented."

"There's not once chance that Governor Palin would have to answer a question. ... They're eliminating even the chance of any kind of interaction with the candidate -- it's just unprecedented."

Walshe noted that the McCain campaign eventually did relent and allow a reporter in the same room as Palin -- but only for just 29 seconds.

Comments

[chartridge]

Two annoyed anchors on Fox last night- I was shocked I thiought I was on the wrong channel- allthe Fox devotion to MCCain and they got slighted poor babies!

[montemalone]

Why are you watching that claptrap in the first place?
My cat can give me more news than Murdoch's Money Machine.

[Woodn88s]

Looks pretty simple to me , You won't see Palin till the right wing neocons are finished programming their new pretty robot!

[NamelessGenXer]

The extra beauty part? No one is ever going to ask Scarah if she has met a foreign leader again. What a colossal waste of everyone's time and energy.

[chf2go]

Has this not given the Republicans a clue as to what a McCain administration would look like? Endless secrecy and no questions allowed. We call the shots here mentality. Haven't we had enough of this? The press should absolutely revolt and refuse to cover them until they treat Sarah Palin like she is indeed an equal candidate. The McCain camp simply undermines her by putting her in a bubble. Are they afraid to let her speak? She simply cannot gaffe any worse than McCain does on a daily basis.

[grf67]

Well Ms. Walshe, put on your big girl pants and stop covering palin. You will not miss anything since she only has a few talking points and after a week the campaign will be begging you to return.

[tlgeiger62]

You're missing the point! We all KNOW she wouldn't have anything worthwhile to say ... it's that she's being shielded and PREVENTED from saying ANYTHING (worthwhile or not).

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[exflatlander]

Hear! Hear! Good for you Floridians. Don'tlet the Repubs steal another election from you.

I don't get the elderly, though. This is the generation that should remember the Depression. They should be getting a REAL strong sense of deja vu right about now. Robber barons raping the public and leaving them to rot. It took a Democrat, a wheel;-chair bound one, to straighten that mess out. Twelve yeares of hands-off Republican government did the country in. Only difference is that the government then (under FDR) was functional. I am not so sure now. It's not only bloated, it's bloated with Bush's ideological thugs. Lots of heads will have to roll, and they will call it revenge.

(Can you imagine with Karl Rove would have done to FDR today? Nasty ads about somebody in a wheel chair not being fit to govern. I can just see them.)

[Beca]

So let me get this straight, if you can sit in the same room as a head of state without pooping your pants, burping out loud or giving somebody a wedgie, you have proven that you have the necessary foreign policy experience to be the second in command here in the US? WOW! If I would have known that, I would have run for President a long time ago! I've gone to Five different countries, met three Presidents (well, one I saw through a window three blocks away, the other one I saw as his car drove past where we were, and the other one.... I forget, but I was in the same country as the President!) and Oh wait! I think I can be Queen! I met the Pope too! I, along with a million other people had an "audience" with the Pope in Italy--they told me it was the Pope, my binoculars got foggy and couldn't see through them but..yeah that counts as meeting a dignitary right?
So, who wants to vote for me for Queen of America!!

[jgaines7]

Sure, using my McCain resume filter, you seem like a sure bet. Beca for Queen!

[bartonfink]

you will get my vote only if you can field dress a moose carcass

also, are you "hot?" just wondering

[thebluecrayon]

Beca '08

I like Beca. She seems just like me, shares my values and has spunk.

[trillian6]

You forgot cooing over the kids!

[newunderground]

I sat across fro Nixon at his inauguration (200 feet across Pa Ave).
I saw Carter walk by for his inauguration. (Now there is a REAL christian)
So I guess I'm qualified too.

[zenaby56]

I encourage people on this blog now to ignore ExDemocrat. This person is trying to incite something ugly.

[killa9500]

ExDemocratOhio is the same person as HILLSBORO_OHIO_45133.

Spelling "Vice" with an 'S' is pretty much a dead giveaway for a worthless troll.

[Rictracee]

this was nothing but a PHOTO OP.. that's it.. and I can not believe someone is trying to act as if what she doing has any comparison to Barack.. she is a FRAUD FOR SURE.. I bet them leaders walked away in disbelief that America would put this woman on a pedestal like she is another Hillary Clinton.. I am sorry Clinton supporters should be outraged.. but so many of them are uneducated they proberly don't see anything wrong

[TN]

They showed her sitting with one guy, didn't recognize him, and he turned around and the look on his face was priceless.

[Legacythroughgiving]

I have to give credit to McCain's team being able to get Lipstick lady to see so many world leaders. The best thing these leaders to do is not to see Palin.

[voteABC]

Palin's a con artist, plain and simple.

"McCain/Palin: Putting the 'con' in conservative" at http://abcparty.org

[LondonTownNY]

IN 29 seconds Sarah Palin could be exposed as someone who should have been smoking cigars in the Clinton White House. Let's be perfectly clear, the SEXISTS are running the McCain Campaign because they obviously feel that Palin is incapable of answering questions.

[Ajita]

Campbell Brown? Is that really you?

[Beca]

Yes! You get it too! So I am not going totally crazy, thanks LondonTownNy!. For a moment there I thought I was going nuts with all this gaslighting comming from the McCain camp. The sad thing is that Palin either is way too stupid to see that she is being used for her boobies and pretty face, or she knows she is being used that way but doesn't care because for her the power is worth anything including setting women back 70 years. Either way, it is disgusting. The McCain camp knew exactly what they were doing in selecting her, a not so bright power starved starlet who is fine obeying the "you are to be seen but not heard" mantra of the McCain camp. They get her nice expesive clothes, her own personal hair stylist, her own private jet, and all she has to do is repeat the McCain mantra and read from notes she is given, she does not have to think for herself one bit. She never has to answer questions, all she has to do is look nice and middle-Americanish. Wow what a deal.
Hey by the way, where are the Palin's tax returns? why haven't we see these yet? Or are those also being hidden from us until after the elections? i wonder who is caring for the 5 month old infant! Mommy and daddy certainly don't seem to have the time for that sweet little baby, now do they!

[bartonfink]

mmm, boobies

[WolfLady]

Hey, didja hear? Sarah Palin's IQ test just came back.
The results were negative.
~WolfLady~

[drzoon]

LOOK.... I AM A COMEDY PROFESSIONAL!

and guess what? that my little "wolflady" friend.... was really really funny.

but you know what they say.... "if its going to be funny.. it has to be true!"

[Beca]

Hah!!! that is really good WolfLady!

[majorteddy]

Sorry Fox===you gave an interview to Obama . McCain is gonna punish you for that Bro.

[oliviainit]

Kim Jong Palin