Just like Edward R. Murrow or something. Like totally:
Shortly after Sen. John McCain tapped Sarah Palin as his running mate, Brown directed pointed questions to Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for McCain's campaign, about the qualifications of the little-known Alaska governor.
She asked about the qualifications of the vice presidential candidate! The muckraker!
As the Los Angeles Times pointed out: "Tensions -- and voices -- rose after the anchorwoman told Bounds that she was just 'trying to get someone from the campaign to explain what foreign policy experience [Palin] has.' Bounds repeatedly skirted the question, choosing instead to criticize Barack Obama's lack of executive experience."
"It's surprising," Brown said of the ensuing controversy when we spoke by phone last Thursday afternoon. "It's what we do. I'm a journalist. My role and responsibility go beyond a job. It's a duty, an obligation. We're here to ask tough questions in a responsible way."
Brown was later quoted as saying, "Oh my god, I don't know where that nonsense about 'tough questions' came from. I must have forgotten to take the industrial-strength Xanax distributed to all members of the mainstream media each morning. Sorry 'bout that."
McCain's campaign said Brown's interview of Bounds had been "over the line," and it canceled McCain's scheduled appearance on "Larry King Live," according to a report on the Huffington Post.
This is the crazy-ass, topsy-turvy, Twilight Zone, mirror-universe hell we're living in today.
Perhaps the first order of business in the McCain/Palin White House will be the issuing of an executive order that any journalists asking questions in the press room be taken out back and shot.
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