San Francisco Chronicle: "Free Sarah Palin, Day 46: Five minute call with reporters, no follow-ups"

[KansasVoter]

Flash! A first for GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin this weekend -- a telephone call with reporters.

Three reporters, exactly, all from Alaska -- for all of 5 minutes and 30 seconds. No followup questions allowed. Here's the transcript and a link to the audio.

There's just one word for this kind of approach from a major party candidate for vice president, one who has yet to give a formal news conference or appear on a Sunday talk show.

Shameful.

Palin used her brief minutes to insist -- as she has repeatedly -- that with regard to the Troopergate investigation, she was found not guilty of any unethical activity.

''Well, I'm very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.''

Not true.

Independent investigator Stephen Branchflower's report released on Friday found that, while that Palin was legally within bounds to fire public safety commission Walter Monegan, she had "abused her power'' by violating the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.

The report noted Palin ''knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda, to wit: to get Trooper Michael Wooten fired.''

Will reporters get to challenge her on that?

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=31414

[Poseidan]

1. her actions were legal?

So were the actions of Nazi's.