But, to the point of the blog (certainly more literary than political), Beah’s reluctance to grant open interviews now seems more telling than merely suspicious. It is unfortunate because his story was so compelling when it first appeared, albeit not extremely well written.

“It was less than two weeks ago when Sarah Palin astonished her traveling press corps by lifting the curtain (literally) and journeying to the back of her campaign plane to answer reporters’ questions for the first time after 40 days on the campaign trail. But the candidate who has been criticized for having a bunker mentality when it came to the national media can now lay legitimate claim to being more accessible than either Joe Biden or Barack Obama.”

“In the past two days alone, Palin has answered questions from her national press corps on three separate occasions. On Saturday, she held another plane availability, and on Sunday, she offered an impromptu press conference on the tarmac upon landing in Colorado Springs. A few minutes later, she answered even more questions from reporters during an off-the-record stop at a local ice cream shop.”

Let’s face it, if I were Obama and my vice president has said, a) that FDR went on television to reassure voters during the Depression; b) that the US, “along with France” kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon; and c) that Obama never said he would sit down unconditionally with Iran, I’d tell him to put a sock in it, too.