The McCain campaign knows how to pick its Florida journalists. Yesterday, it permitted Sarah Palin to speak for eight full minutes to WFLA-Tampa reporter Keith Cate. Cate asked not one follow-up, pressed Palin on not one detail, and challenged her on not one of her answers.
On the other hand, he did allow her to run out the clock with non sequiturs, garbled irrelevancies and fat chunks of her stump speech. Click the image to watch this journalistic fluffing:
