Palin, Amid Criticism, Stays in Electronic Comfort Zone By JIM RUTENBERG and KATE ZERNIKE
Palin, Amid Criticism, Stays in Electronic Comfort Zone ...
Under criticism that her political rhetoric had helped create a climate for political violence, Sarah Palin addressed the issue in trademark fashion: via e-mail to the conservative commentator Glenn Beck. “Our children will not have peace if politicos just capitalize on this to succeed in portraying anyone as inciting terror and violence,” Ms. Palin wrote to Mr. Beck in an e-mail that he read Monday on his radio program.
Mr. Beck said he received the message over the weekend, when Ms. Palin and her aides were otherwise ignoring requests for comment about the Tucson shootings from members of the mainstream news media.
Such unconventional political communication has served Ms. Palin well in the past two years.
By managing her image almost exclusively through Twitter, Facebook, a reality television show and appearances on Fox News, Ms. Palin has managed to become both ubiquitous and insulated, and to emerge as one of the most formidable Republicans considering a presidential run next year. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/us/polit...
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