Hey Big Media -- here's an idea

By Libby

The McCain's campaign strategy is pretty clear. Ask McCain and Palin no questions so they won't have to explain their lies. It's been 40 days since McCain has had a press avail and it's been 24 days since he unveiled his wind-up Palin VP doll and she has still not answered a single question in an open format. They weren't even going to let the national media into her drive-by photo op tour of NY today.

Big media is not happy. I don't blame them. They look like idiots chasing after their former hero while he completely blows them off after he got what he wanted from them. A big glam photo-op for his plastic fantastic running mate to build her phony metaphorical foreign policy creds, in trade for 30 seconds of eavesdropping time on those really excellent meet and greets.

So here's my idea Big Media. How about standing them down instead of letting you play you like a rube at at a Three Monte card game for the free air time? Call their bluff. It's so simple really. No press avail, no free press. Don't cover events where there isn't a press avail at the end, for any candidate. If it leaves you with air time to fill, well you could always do a historic retrospective of Keating Five or ask for McCain's health records. And while you're waiting for those you could convene panels of very serious pundits on the survivability rates of melanoma victims and the real life consequences of relying on metaphorical experience in crisis situations.

Just a thought. It's not like civilization as we know it depends on it or anything.