ABC News' Steven Portnoy reports: In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.

Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an attack that threatens a candidate's free speech rights under the Constitution, Palin said.

"If {the media} convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."

However she feels about the way her story has been told in the press, Palin told WMAL she is not discouraged.

"It's sort of perplexing to me, because I'm a practical person and plainspoken also, but just cutting to the chase and calling things like I see them, just like most Americans. But this has not left a bitter taste in my mouth, the bitter shots taken by the mainstream media and by some of the elitism there in Washington," Palin said.



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She's an idiot. I really can't believe this woman is a candidate for VP. It's mind boggling.

She wouldn't survive in DC. She'd have a meltdown and end up driving her SUV through a crowded shopping mall or something.

LOL.

What an insult she is to American government.

Hopefully he'll at least be able to use some normal judgment if he's elected. McCain would be in charge of some pretty important things, like Supreme Court nominations.

Think about that.

He chose her to be VP.

TheMeeper Wrote:
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> LOL.
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> What an insult she is to American government.
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> Hopefully he'll at least be able to use some
> normal judgment if he's elected. McCain would be
> in charge of some pretty important things, like
> Supreme Court nominations.
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> Think about that.
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> He chose her to be VP.


His own people are calling her a "whack job," "a diva who doesn't trust anyone, including her own family," and saying she lacks "any knowledge of international or national issues." McCain is willing to gamble the future of this country on this "whack job" in order to win. That says more about his character than any speech or commercial.

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She's a Hockey Mom from Wasilla, Alaska, a town of 9000 pople, what do you expect?

She said it on ultraconservative Chris Plante's show. The
hard hitting question was something like, "How do you feel about the Main Stream Media and what they are saying about you."

Then we get the bombshell.


I nominate Chris Plante for the Rush Limbaugh/Michael J. Fox Award for Excellence in talk Radio.

Palin shouldn't be allowed to do interviews. She sank the McCain bus!