Controlling A Free Press

We know that Palin refuses to have a press conference, or to allow even follow-up questions from Alaskan reporters on Troopergate, when she simply flatly denied reality. Now she has persuaded the secret service to bar reporters from even interviewing her supporters. Milbank:

In cooperation with the Palin campaign, they've started preventing reporters from leaving the press section to interview people in the crowd. This is a serious violation of their duty -- protecting the protectee -- and gets into assisting with the political aspirations of the candidate.

This is how Palin treated government troopers in Alaska: as her personal tools. She despises a free press and accountability and transparency. She set up secret email accounts in Alaska, lied repeatedly to reporters, has declared basic factual requests for records impermissable, and proposes to dispense with the filter of a free media. She is Putin in make-up. And McCain is in danger of becoming Medvedev.