This Couch Potato Pundit is laughing my, erm, face off today. I was cheering for Campbell Brown the other day when she raked Tucker Bounds, McCain-Palin spokesman, over the coals for sidestepping her direct questions. Every time I see that clip I wonder how Bounds still has a job–could he have been any more obtuse?! Talk about a PR hack needing PR lessons!
But in an astounding and highly amusing response, the McCain campaign has cancelled John McCain’s interview with Larry King saying that Brown had crossed the line in her questioning of Bounds. The LA Times quotes another McCain spokesperson as saying,
After a relentless refusal by certain on-air reporters to come to terms with John McCain’s selection of Alaska’s sitting governor as our party’s nominee for vice president, we decided John McCain’s time would be better served elsewhere.
Um, okay.
Did I miss something? Are we back in the 5th grade? This response doesn’t leave me hugely confident in the McCain-Palin approach to diplomacy… If Putin asks some hard questions are they just going to say, “I don’t like your tone so I’m not talking to you ever again, you big ninny!”?
And I’ll be watching with anticipation to see how journalists respond to this, especially Larry King. Nobody messes with Larry! 
This has been an exciting election year so far, but it’s clear that the standard tit-for-tat hazing and taunting is once again the standard operating procedure. I’d rather not cuss, so I’ll just say “Yuck” and move on. At least until the next time one of the campaigns reverts to grade school mentality.
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