In an MSNBC interview yesterday, Nicole Wallace, a spokesperson from the McCain campaign told Time magazine's Washington bureau chief Jim Carney that Sarah Palin will not speak directly with the media. Here's the exchange:

CARNEY: We know now that Sarah Palin can give one hell of a speech. She's a natural, and that's no mean feat. But what we don't know yet and we won't know until you guys allow her to take questions...can she answer tough questions about, you know, domestic policy, foreign policy, those sorts of...?

WALLACE: But I mean, like, from who? From you?

C: Yeah from me, or...

W: Who cares? No offense...

C: Who cares? I think that the American people care.

W: I mean, I think the American people can see her... I mean who cares if she can talk to Time magazine. She can talk to the American people. They want to say how am I going stay in my home, she can answer that question.

C: The American people need to know, just like they need to know about Joe Biden, Barack Obama...

W: That she can talk to you?

C: Not that she can talk to me, but that..

W: I don't get it! I'm going back to bed! I mean...

C: That she knows things about the domestic and foreign policy that vice presidents need to know.

W: Right, right but, but here's the thing. I mean...the media

C: It doesn't matter if it's me. But somebody's got to ask the questions. And she's got to answer them.

W: The media called this ...the media did something to this family that I've never seen..before in my life! And I think that she took the stage last night and... and you know, she... she made her own points. She ... she put this discussion, and this race, and this convention in her own terms. And she didn't do it by talking, with all due respect, to people like you. She took the stage and talked to the American people about things that they care about...how they're going to stay in their homes