"On the same day Barack Obama met with the conservative water carrier
Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, the McCain campaign made it clear that Sarah
Palin won't be talking to any of the media any time soon.

"In a jaw-dropping appearance on MSNBC Thursday, McCain aide Nicole
Wallace told Time's Jay Carney that the press wouldn't get a chance to
take shots at the hockey mom turned McCain running mate.

"According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American
people don't care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions
about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace -- in an
appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough's show -- the
American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve
to know) from Palin's scripted speeches and choreographed appearances
on the campaign trail and in campaign ads.

"Given the highly combustible mixture that is Palin's reed-thin resume,
radical right-wing agenda and mushrooming portfolio of scandals, Team
McCain's effort to field the first stealth vice presidential candidate
in history comes as no surprise.