“The Place for Politics” has felt more like “The Place for Palin” of late. You can’t tune in to MSNBC (or cable news in general) in the last day or so without hearing, at length, from Gov. Sarah Palin on the stump.

To which Andrew Sullivan says:

Until governor Sarah Palin gives a full press conference, it seems to me that the cable news outlets should stop running her stump speeches in full on television. The deal is: candidates get to broadcast their message if the press get to question them thoroughly. That’s how real democracy works - give and take. What the Palin-McCain campaign wants is all give and no take: an indirect propaganda filter and the outrageous precedent of no press conferences in presidential campaigns. This is an assault on democracy. It is closer to Russian or Georgian democracy than American. If cable news continues to enable this chilling process, they will become complicit.