Truemors
I felt compelled to ask the governor about the U.S. incursions into Pakistan that had been in the news recently. My parents urged me not to, but I thought she might respond in this informal setting.
The Temple University student who encountered Palin in an outing with his parents recounts his twilight zone experience that made headlines the next day.
She did, and I soon found myself in a back-and-forth that was well-documented in news accounts over the next several days. Our exchange drew a lot of attention because Palin said the United States should pursue terrorists into Pakistan's territory - agreeing with Barack Obama and differing from her running mate, John McCain, who had roundly criticized the Democrat for that stance.
A call from a reporter the next day alerted him to the reactions swirling the internet, including one which rumoured that a journalist had disguised himself as a student to somehow trip up Palin.
Now that I was deep within the Twilight Zone, my reaction was to laugh and search the Internet. I soon discovered that McCain had been asked about the Tony Luke's incident the next morning on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. He retracted Palin's statement and assured the viewing public that Palin agreed with him, not Obama. The exchange also came up in an interview with CBS's Katie Couric, during which McCain and Palin dismissed my question as "gotcha journalism."
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