Last week, McCain's campaign staff restricted the national press corps to 38 minutes of access to the candidate. Not 38 minutes per press conference, not 38 minutes per day, but 38 minutes for the entire week.
Moreover, most of the access consisted of McCain reading a prepared statements. The media was allowed to ask him questions on just one occasion all week, and that came on Friday afternoon -- hours before the Olympics were set to start.
Certainly part of the issue is that they would rather McCain talk with local reporters who are generally less combative. And they also feel that McCain's tendency to shoot from the hip hurts their ability to control campaign message.
But I also suspect they are afraid of a repeat performance of his peculiar "blanking" incident eight days ago in Panama City, Florida.
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