Agree and disagree. In this case, I'm with you. Often, she does need to respond. She need to make sure that before responding she considers whether silence is the best response. I suspect she does consider that decision, but I'll agree that she made the wrong call this time.
No, she made the perfect call here.
She gave the reporter to opportunity to let the Daily Caller be the one to publish her response with the request that they publish her reponse unfiltered.
She wants to minimize selective quoting and paraphrasing that can potentially distort her response. The writer of the piece went ahead and did that anyway and only nominally followed her directive.
Trust me. These guys know what they are doing when structuring a published piece. Putting the full response on the second page was a deliberate decision against the spirit of Palin’s request.
Like it or not, politics is largely propaganda. You never enhance your position by taking fire passively. George W. Bush gave us an eight year lesson in the futility of trying to float above the fray. His experiment with turning the other rhetorical cheek nearly destroyed the conservative movement. Never again.
Have to disagree with Moose and you on this one. This issue goes directly to her record as Governor and the issue was originally raised in National Review Online, a prominent conservative leaning publication and web site. If she has an interest in running for Pres., it is very important that the American people understand her record in Alaska, as well as her current policy positions and her political philosophy. She has been crucified in the media since 2008 on nonsense issues. To rehabilitate herself to the voters, she must make sure that her Alaskan record and current positions are accurately portrayed. She cannot allow them to be misrepresented or falsely stated. It could be argued that responding to something like Bill Maher’s garbage would be belittling. However, defending her record is not.