The Central Tabulator

Huffington Post

Seth Colter Walls

September 11, 2008 03:59 PM

As if to quash the emerging news narrative that John McCain is afraid of the press after going a full month without holding a press conference, the Republican nominee’s campaign made the candidate available last night to a local television station in Maine.

If they thought McCain would come under less intensive fire than he would from the national press, however, the campaign was mistaken. Rob Caldwell, a dogged reporter for WCHS, pressed McCain repeatedly on Gov. Sarah Palin’s qualifications for the vice presidency. And while answering, McCain made a number of factual misstatements. Source Article