Free Sarah Palin?

CNN anchor Campbell Brown bluntly asserts that it’s time GOP Vice Presidental nominee Gov. Sarah Palin is allowed to campaign like all the other Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates and not be given “sexist” treatment by the McCain campaign, which is aggresssively shielding her from the press conferences and typical candidates’ press interaction:

Brown is articulating what I’ve heard from several independent women voters. And she is giving the most concise statement yet of how many journalists view the effort to avoid Palin from being seen in anything than scripted settings.

That will change soon enough: she is being interviewed by CBS’s Katie Couric who despite the conventional wisdom can do pointed interviews and realizes the importance of follow-up questioning. Since she arrived at CBS Couric has been battling to get her ratings up and earn her stripes as an evening network news anchor. Look for a)Couric to pepper her with tough questions b)Palin to do quite well because as Browns notes, she is no pushover.

MORE ON BROWN’S STATEMENT:–The Tribune’s The Swamp–The Huffington Post
–LA Times Top of the Ticket
–The Huffington Post