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, has been giving campaign speeches alongside the Arizona senator since the GOP convention but has not sat down for an interview about her views.
A McCain-Palin adviser says an interview was offered to ABC's Charlie Gibson several days ago and that they expect it to happen in the latter part of the week in Alaska. Palin is the governor of Alaska and is expected to return home at midweek after more joint appearances with McCain.
I predict Charlie Gibson will ask Palin about how she will prevent Obama from taxing the typical middle class teacher/cop family who make over $200,000 a year.
This turns out to be a very shrewd political choice. Gibson is about as close to Fox news as you can get. He is a very wealthy man who is concerned about getting the McCain tax cut. You saw how he treated Obama during the democratic debate. This is going to be a puffball interview.
Then, it will be mission accomplished. Palin has made herself available to the press. All done now.
Update: Glenn Greenwald called this yesterday.
When they decide in a couple of weeks that Palin is ready to do so, she'll go and sit down with Brit Hume or Larry King or Charlie Gibsonor some other pleasant, accommodating person who plays a journalist on TV and have a nice, amiable, entertaining chat about topics that are easily anticipated. Having been preceded by all sorts of campaign drama about her first interview and the excitement that she's not up to the task, her TV appearance will be widely touted, score big ratings, and will be nice entertainment for the network that presents it. It will achieve many things. Undermining propaganda isn't one of them.