25th
Some Brilliant Advice To John McCain: Send Sarah To Keith Olbermann
For John McCain to recover, he needs to regain his Sarah Palin-induced highs. And for that to happen, Palin herself needs to bloom again. Right now she’s going in the other direction. Sure, she can rally big crowds in Florida, and that’s awesome, but outdoor rallies don’t really scale. She’ll hit 60,000 voters that way, but won’t get the whole country buzzing. It doesn’t help that she’s been shielded from the media, and her three interviews (boring Charlie Gibson, uber-partisan Shawn Hannity, and irrelevent Katie Couric) haven’t done anything to help her.
The solution: Go on Keith Olbermann. It’s brilliant. Olbermann is the only media entity more hated by the right than the New York Times. And given his tempermant, he would not be able to keep the beast inside. He’d try to go after her mercilessly, as if it were his god given obligation to make her look like an utter idiot. Even if he had some sense of how it might play, he wouldn’t be able to restrain himself from asking obnoxious question after obnoxious question.
There’s no way Palin could fail at this. She could not answer a single question and come off looking amazing. If she provided decent answers (and she could be trained easily, because Olbermann’s questions would be so predictable), then that would be all the better.
So Maverick, this advice is free… Buck up, and don’t run away from the media. Run to the media — let ‘em give you their best shot. They won’t know what hit ‘em.
