The LA Times, against the wishes of the John McCain campaign, has been hounding his mother for an interview. Their trying-to-be-cute-about-it piece is up now. An excerpt:

I concede, with only a tinge of embarrassment, that I’ve been captivated by that world traveler, grandmother, freeway speedster and potential First Mother of the United States, Roberta McCain. But after months waiting in vain for a formal interview, I’m beginning to believe that her son’s presidential campaign really isn’t interested in getting Roberta McCain and me together for, as the man likes to call it, a little “straight talk.” “They’ve got me muzzled,” Mrs. McCain, 96, said when I phoned the other day. She added with a chuckle: “Now don’t you print that. . . . I really don’t like to be interviewed.”

I guess this means it’s okay for reporters to start calling Obama’s grandmother and trick her into giving on the record quotes that were surely meant to be off the record.