McCain: Out of Touch or Did He Forget?

Is John McCain completely out of touch with his own campaign's decisions or did he have another senior moment?

From today's appearance on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer:

SCHIEFFER: When will you let her out to campaign on her own? When will she start having news conferences? When will she start doing interviews?

MCCAIN: As you know we just finished the convention. Within the next few days. I'm strongly recommending that she come on "face the nation" with Bob Schieffer. That will be the first of her 65 appearances.

SCHIEFFER: All right. We'll make a place for her here.

And a few hours later:

Republican vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin is offering her first televised interview to ABC News in the coming week in Alaska. [...]

A McCain-Palin adviser says an interview was offered to ABC's Charlie Gibson several days ago and that they expect it to happen in the latter part of the week in Alaska.

So, what happened? The options are limited here; either John McCain lied to Bob Schieffer, or he is completely unaware of decisions made about his own campaign. Or he forgot. Which is it?

And on a side note, why is the fact the a candidate for the vice presidency will be talking to the media next week even news?