Charlie Gibson Lands Palin Interview

By Elyce Taylor -- September 19, 2008

It looks like Americans just may have their questions answered. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has agreed to do an interview with ABC's Charles Gibson. It will be her first television interview since John McCain chose her to join the GOP presidential ticket. McCain adviser Mark Salter says Palin and Gibson will sit down for multiple interviews in Alaska over the course of two days.

 For over a week Democrats and the press have been asking why Palin has had no contact with the news media. Scoring the interview is huge for Gibson. He also had the only sit-down with McCain during the recent Republican National Convention. During that interview he asked McCain no questions about Palin's family.  It was a decision Gibson said that he had struggled to make. Many of the stories being reported during the RNC concerned Palin's personal life, specifically her 17-year old daughter's pregnancy. ABC News spokesperson Jeffrey Schneider said he did not think Gibson's decision not to ask McCain questions on that topic had anything to do with him getting the exclusive interview with Palin. Either way the attention has turned to how Gibson will behave toward Palin and how Palin will do answering unscripted questions. Palin's rival, Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden had challenged her to do interviews on NBC's "Meet The Press." Biden said "eventually she's going to have to answer questions and not be sequestered. Eventually she's going to have to answer questions about her record."