McCain Allows Only Five Live Minutes For Joint CNBC Interview With "Rogue" Palin (VIDEO)

It seems that after weeks of conservatives begging the McCain camp and the media to let "Palin be Palin," the McCain campaign is working harder than ever to make sure that doesn't happen. John McCain and Sarah Palin managed to come together today for their first joint "live" interview as reports swirled that Palin is going "rogue."

Between McCain's points and questions from CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, Palin only got a couple lines in -- easy answers on nuclear energy and oil prices. Bartiromo cut off the interview at the one question that could actually create some of those "rogue" answers: "I'd like to ask you how your partnership is going, and how unified you are, actually!" After that line, Bartiromo tossed to anchors, Mark Haines and Erin Burnett, who were forced to explain that the awkward cut-off was because the McCain camp would only allow five live minutes. Watch:

Despite the negatives for the campaign, Palin's recalcitrance has helped her shred the Caribou Barbie stigma for a more independent aura. Pundits are even starting to wonder whether she's gettng ready for a 2012 presidential bid.

Maybe that's why the McCain campaign allowed so little of today's interview to be live. The rest will air at 4pm and 7pm EST. The network will also be airing excerpts throughout the day.

Comments

[SENATORCALLENBOWE]

WHAT A JOY :) BEING TOLD HOW MUCH U CAN SEE THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE UN-SCRIPTED :)

[Passenger57]

Five minutes is all the "live" memory she has...afte­r that,she crashes,McCain burns,and Obama/Biden sweeps up the ashes.

[Krankil]

On the debate with Biden she was complaining of not having the opportunity to talk straight to the american people without the FILTER of the mainstream liberal media. I knew that she was lying. But I also knew that a lot of her target audience sympathized with her. To me her statement meant I want LIVE interviews .. but I knew she was lying because I know she was just playing the refs and she doesn't want LIVE interviews. Today she proved it. Just 5 minutes! Sorry gotta go.

[beckpod1]

I hope they eat themselves alive...it would be just a fraction of the horror we as the american people have had to face with the horror of Palin being VP! Thanks Johnny boy....tim­e to go home with Cindy and face her wrath for embarrising her almost everyday on the campaign trail for your verbal gaffs..I bet it was hard for her not to roll her eyes in public! But all of you were willing..r­eady...and able...to put us through hell!!!

[thepalinator]

Oh, ha ha ha! The way McCain does that crazed blinking thing whenever he's being interviewed with his Mavericka and she starts talking (usually, having interrupted him). It's the best!

[HedgeBaby]

Never having done a lick of honest blue-collar work in his life, McCain has NO IDEA what labor unions are about and why they are good for this country, so he should just shut up about them. I wish some sharp reporter would corner him and ask him point blank why he wants to keep on pushing trickle down economics on our country when the last 8 years have proven IT DOESN'T WORK. Obama wants to raise taxes on ONLY 5% of the people, and those 5% SURELY can afford it - after all, during the last 8 years those 5% of people got richer and richer while the poor got poorer and poorer through the application of trickle down economics. Nothing trickled down, because the greedy bastards kept all the money and charged us poor suckers more and more while giving us less and less. TIME THEY GAVE US OUR MONEY BACK!!!!!!!! - they have made in interest alone much much more than they got from us, so the very wealthy MOST CERTAINLY can afford a 3% tax increase, and I will have more money to spend on American products if I pay less taxes. McCain and Palin not only don't get it - they don't care!!! She's worth almost $1million and his wife is worth $100million - OF COURSE THEY don't want to pay more taxes. Anyone who thinks the McCain/Palin ticket cares about the little guy is a tremendous fool.

[CologneCitizen]

Exactly !! This "trickle down economics" sounds like picking up the crumbs from the dinner table of the rich. People generate taxes with the work of their own hands. And this "wealth" has to be spread. in fact it is one of the important tasks of the administration of a country. At least in Germany where I live this is done for the last 60 years. And believe me, we are NOT A SOCIALIST COUNTRY.

[medici]

Reaganomic­s/Dubyanom­ics purpose is to make the wealthy exponentially wealthier and to keep the middle class and poor in their place.

[Mewcatone]

Thank you for saying what I've been saying to my Republican friends for months. I did my first college paper on the failure of Reaganomics (got and A on it by the way) and I can tell you that Reaganomics didn't work then, it didn't work when Bush tried it and it won't work for McCain either. Trickle down economics is a scare tactic used by wealthy Republicans to keep their taxes low and their income high. In fact only a certain amount (very little) trickles down to the middle class. And the idea that only the wealthy can create jobs and stimulate the economy is ludicrous. If that were the case our country would be in pretty good shape economically right now with all the wealth that was made on wallstreet. I agree with CologneCitizen the only way to truly generate more taxes is by getting citizens to work. The way to do this is to create more opportunity, be it education, jobs etc, not just for the wealthy, but for everyone. That is what governments role should be.

[Mantan]

Come onnnnnn, HuffPo- where's the interview post "closing bell"???
This is phonier than a Fox News update.

[Gmoney1]

Two retards - what is he her father - and by the way, is Cindy his nurse - 99% of the time, this man shows up with Nurse Cindy or Palin the diner lady -

[Passenger57]

The way Palin's been acting lately, I think she's crushing pills and sprinkling them in McCain's food. Check your food,John - and while you're at it, check your back for heel marks - she's using you as a stepstool for her political future!

[Happylib]

The body language between those two on that last question was just as akward as the McCain's body language when they are pretending to hug and kiss. Is there a single thing about this campaign that is genuine? Please, let these next 6 days move quickly...­this is like torture! (Not like the real kind of torture that McCain fought against, then flip flopped and accepted out of fear that the Republican whack job base would get angry, and thus lose him the nomination­.)

[BluesDogLefty]

real mavericky

losers

[Bigjonsey]

I only have one word to describe this.... PATHETIC

[CBS]

Maybe he was just being kind.

[bob8788]

Are these people that stupid?, is the McCain campaign that stupid my god, I ran a better campaign when I was in freaking elementary school, running for class president

http://www.barackobamacans.blogspot.com/

[ObamAtomic]

Charles Chaplin as my friend!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJOuoyoMhj8
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[hortonhearsawho]

Could we not just give these two pistols turn them around and have them do the ten pace turn and shoot thingy ? The only chemistry they show, so......