Palin condemns robocalls, then records own

On Sunday Governor Palin condemned her campaign's use of 'robocalls' suggesting if she had her way the campaign wouldn't be using them at all. This from CNN's 'Political Ticker' section:

Palin said that if she had her way, the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee would not be flooding battleground states with automated phone calls tying Barack Obama to former radical William Ayers, as they have done over the last week.

Several top Republicans, including Senators Susan Collins and Norm Coleman, have condemned the tactic. Asked about those criticisms, Palin at first dismissed the matter as "inside baseball stuff" and said it's "some of the campaign top brass’s call on that."

But when asked if she would approve the use of robocalls if she were running the campaign, Palin said she’d probably chart a different course.

"If I called all the shots, and if I could wave a magic wand," Palin said, "I would be sitting at a kitchen table with more and more Americans, talking to them about our plan to get the economy back on track and winning the war, and not having to rely on the old conventional ways of campaigning that includes those robocalls, and includes spending so much money on the television ads that, I think, is kind of draining out there in terms of Americans' attention span.

"They get a bit irritated with just being inundated," she continued, "and you're seeing a lot of that of course with the huge amounts of money that Barack Obama is able to spend on his ads and his robocalls also."

Ultimately, the Alaska governor said she was not calling for an end to the automated calls, and she did not say if she had spoken to campaign officials at any point about the calls.

I find this interesting for two reasons. First, it leads me to believe that the public image I have perceived of the campaign keeping the press away from her AND Palin being kept from the press seems accurate. By saying she doesn't like robocalls she's directly breaking with the campaign's message that they're an acceptable tool. She's also implying that she's not involved in campaign decisions. If she was, and she really felt strongly about robocalls, one would assume she'd be actively working to prevent or stop their usage.

The second reason I find this interesting is this, 24 hours after telling the press she's not in favor of their use, a robocall she recorded was in use in battleground states across the country. I'm not sure how to view this other than blatantly hypocritical.