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The First Amendment Lives!

By The Daily Dish
Sep 6 2008, 11:59 AM ET

We have a question and an answer! Over a week after a person who could technically be president next January was introduced on a national stage, the press has been allowed to ask one question and has received one answer. Drum roll:

Ms. Palin did not respond to reporters who shouted questions. But she made a single exception when an Alaskan television reporter posed a concern: Are you going to still be there for Alaska?

“I’m happy to be governor of Alaska,” Ms. Palin said, adding, “couldn’t be more proud, of course, of my position as governor of Alaska.”

This indeed is the level of questioning one expects from a third world dictatorship or a beauty pageant. And with today's GOP, we seem to be merging the two concepts.



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