Palin's meeting with Karzai: 29 SECONDS!

Posted by wendyka

Posted: September 23, 2008 - 11:46 am

Earlier in the day when the McCain campaign refused to allow anyone except camera crews in her meeting the networks revolted. Threatened BY ALL MAJOR networks (CNN, NBC, CBS, FOX etc) to boycott and not even take pictures. then they gave in and allowed one CNN producer with the camera crew.

This is his report:

"McCain-Palin campaign officials shifted course Tuesday after being informed by television news organizations that they would not broadcast footage of Sarah Palin’s meeting with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai Tuesday in New York — the Republican VP nominee’s first with a foreign leader — if a reporter was not allowed in to observe the pair.

CNN, which was the pool network for the event, informed the campaign of its decision. The network was then told a CNN producer would be allowed in the room to act as a media representative, just minutes before the photo op was scheduled to take place. However, print reporters and wire services were not allowed to observe the meeting, as they have been able to do at similar McCain events in the past.

The press only caught a brief glimpse of the vice presidential nominee. Palin was seated in a large chair a few feet from Karzai, with a table in between them. Seated slightly behind Palin were campaign foreign policy advisers Steve Biegun and Randy Scheunemann, who are accompanying the governor in her motorcade today.

As the pool entered, the Afghan president appeared to be telling Palin about his young son, who was born in January 2007.

Palin, her legs crossed and at one point patting her heart, was leaning in eagerly and smiling. Karzai, wearing his traditional clothes but without his trademark karakul hat, was also grinning while discussing the child. His remarks were mostly unintelligible as the noise from the clicking cameras drowned them out.

“What is his name?,” Palin asked.

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

“Oh nice,” Palin responded.

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

After 29 seconds observing the meeting, CNN and other photographers covering the meeting were escorted out of the room.

Later, McCain-Palin press representatives chalked up the restrictions to a “mix-up, a miscommunication among staff.”

The full pool — a print and wires reporter, along with a television producer — was then allowed in to observe Palin’s meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for 15-20 seconds.:

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4 September 23, 2008 - 5:34pm | Frozentech

The press got 29 seconds out of 2 hours ?

LOL. Well that's probably all they needed to know. Looks like her initial 2 hour brief from Admiral McConnell, Director of National Security, went over 2 hours, and scheduled 30 minutes with Henry Kissenger went over 1 hour, along with the briefings by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Tomorrow maybe the media will get a full 30 seconds on the meetings with Georgian President Saakashvili, Ukrainian President Yuschenko, and Iraqi President Talabani, I bet the media will get something from Bono, after her meeting with him in the afternoon, before she meets with the Prime Minister of India.

I notice that while Obama did go around the world to meet leaders of other nations, they seem to be coming here to meet McCain and Palin.

September 24, 2008 - 5:16am | wendyka

Cambell Brown on CNN delcares "Sexim! Free Sara"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/23/campbell-brown-rips-mccai_n_128782.html

She says to McCain camp "stop treating her like she will wilt like a flower if reporters ask her tough questions" "She is tough, she is strong enough to handle it"

It is CNN, they are not biased. Don't let the Huff post address fool you.

September 23, 2008 - 7:26pm | billtaylor

they are coming for the

they are coming for the meetings at the UN moron. So why not meet with someone whose total foreign experience involves seeing Russia from her front porch. Why is Palin still afraid to face the press? Why won't Palin state who she supports in the Alaskan House and Senate races?

3 September 23, 2008 - 3:24pm | thomja

I'm done

This is pointless to argue about her........

September 23, 2008 - 3:35pm | Equal_Opportunity_Hater

thomja

Thank you for playing, as a consolation prize you get a swift kick in the arse.....g'day!

2 September 23, 2008 - 1:42pm | belmontrose1

The Press Got 29 secs.

Read the story, the Press was allowed in for 29 seconds. Then they took their ball and went home, like the spoiled children they are.

What a load of Crap your posts are.

September 23, 2008 - 1:59pm | rfn

Many of us have asked....

How much the Obama campaign pays this professional blogmistress. We still don't have a firm figure but if they get what they pay for it obviously isn't a great deal of money.

1 September 23, 2008 - 12:09pm | rob12000

I know you

really wanted to see this, but understand that He is a foreign leader. Not an attraction in a zoo. I think it is fitting not to allow this to turn into a three ring media circus. McCain was correct in treating Karzai's meeting with Palin this way. You don't make him part of our political shenanigans.

September 23, 2008 - 6:40pm | phantomenace

Rob, shenanigans indeed!

"You don't make him (Karzai) part of our political shenanigans"
REALLY?
Maybe you wouldn't, but McCain certainly did. This was nothing but a charade, a cheap attempt to legitimaize Palin's foreign policy credentials.
Yet not allowing reporters to listen in (or moderating the rules of the upcoming debate) makes a mockery out her candidacy.
John McCain alone will be responsible for the spate of jokes about Lieberman's ventriloquism and the Madam Trussauds photo ops.

September 23, 2008 - 7:46pm | rob12000

cheap indeed

it costs hardly anything to fly to New York and meet the world. Gotta love these fiscal conservatives, they're already saving money!!!

September 23, 2008 - 3:11pm | Ioseb_Besarionis_Dze_Jughashvili

So...

since you said this "You don't make him part of our political shenanigans". The whole Damn thing doesn't count for squat in regards to Sarah's FP skills since it's not political. Right?

Maybe they could have met at *$'s for a cuppa.

September 23, 2008 - 3:24pm | Equal_Opportunity_Hater

Iose_Besarionis_Dze_Jughashvili or whatever.........

I can see Russia from my house......

September 23, 2008 - 5:22pm | Ioseb_Besarionis_Dze_Jughashvili

So you...

know all there is about it and every other country in the world also? Does this knowledge seep through your skin from proximity?

September 23, 2008 - 5:21pm | Frozentech

that's funny

'Cause Stalin was Georgian.

You guys did all realize that was Stalin's birth name, right ? I know Ioseb did, but he never did respond when I tried to pass him secret messages in Russian in Cyrillic, I figured the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was falling down on the job.

September 23, 2008 - 5:53pm | Ioseb_Besarionis_Dze_Jughashvili

Yep,

I saw it. Used babelfish to decode it and then decided that ADN would get pissed at me/us for making them figure out what the Hell we were talking about. Plus I'd imagine somewhere in the small print that nobody's ever read there's a clause for "Engrish Onry". ;-)

September 23, 2008 - 6:14pm | Frozentech

I never read the small print

Maybe I had better LOL... I know I read the fine print on financial contracts.

September 23, 2008 - 2:29pm | riverlee

Could she think about dressing more respectfully, too?

Rob- you said in another comment that you thought the McCain people minimized the time allowed any press to be in the room during Palin's talk with Karzai in order to show respect to this foreign leader. I think an additional way for Sarah Palin to show respect to this man would be to wear skirts that at least cover her knees when she sits. I know that the McCain campaign people control every single detail of her appearances, including what she wears and how she looks, but I only say, please, she should be respectful in the way she dresses. Just kind of make it a habit. Because some foreign leaders, especially those from the middle east, have a different idea of respectful dress.

I'm NOT saying burkas, so there's no need to go there. I'm simply saying it would be nice to see her dress more respectfully and professionally. There's no need to wear skirts above the knee and open toes shoes in important meetings, as she seems to do in every photo I have seen her in.

September 23, 2008 - 6:46pm | kattyjones

riverlee

Excuse me, but Governor Sarah Palin dresses very professionally.

I think her interview went well with both men today.
The other meeting lasted over one hour with Henry Kissinger.

MCCAIN/PALIN 2008

September 24, 2008 - 12:03am | jerrylee907

NO CLUE!

You have no clue on how the meetings went because actually nobody really does. The media wasn't allowed to be there. Except for the 29 seconds of oops!
The McCain/Palin team only wanted still photography.

Then the media actually fought back. They all were about to leave and not give them any media attention! Then it was all a misunderstanding again in the Palin administration. PLEASE!

During ALL meetings, at least one crew are allowed to be in the room to film and then that crew shares it with the others. It has been like this since Regan!

So don't sit here and pretend like you (of all people) know what happened in the meetings!!!

Your a joke!

September 23, 2008 - 2:29pm | rfn

And not only that,

that woman wears SHOES!

Total disrespect. Supposed to at home, barefoot and pregnant. Doggone uppity women these days!

The meeting was in The U.S., not in a backward Middle Eastern nation. Here U.S. standards apply.

September 23, 2008 - 2:35pm | riverlee

Oh Great Poo-Bah, tell us, please. :)

And what, oh great Poo-Bah, do you know of U.S. standards of dress for women when in professional meetings? Just what are these standards you speak of? I never said anything about what WE, (since I am a woman) wear at home. I only mentioned skirts slightly below the knee would be more respectful, even in an American meeting.

September 23, 2008 - 2:56pm | rfn

Ah, but does your husband

let you wear shoes?

September 23, 2008 - 3:05pm | riverlee

You are so funny, my dear Poo-Bah.

Oh, you are so funny, my Grand and dear Poo-Bah. I have a wide selection of shoes from mukluks to sandals, and occasionally I go barefoot, which is my own idea. My husband cares not. It's all the same to to him. :) He loves me totally regardless of what is on my feet or not on them.

September 23, 2008 - 4:23pm | rfn

So you show your disrespect

for him by running around the house with shoes on?

September 23, 2008 - 2:54pm | thomja

Sarah, sarah, in a bun

all meat, but no tongue.

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