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Palin 'Unlikely' to Meet With Prosecutor
44 — ... -- as an unusual claim. (Especially those of my colleagues on the convention floor at the time, reading along on the prompter with her, noticing her excellent and disciplined delivery, how she punched words that were underlined and paused where it said "pause," noting that "nuclear" was spelled out for her phonetically.) [...] "The teleprompter did not break," wrote Politico's Jonathan Martin. "Sarah Palin delivered a powerful speech last night, but she did not 'wing it'..." . http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/palin-and-the-t.html . I mean, c'mon. We've ...

Liiiiiiiaaaaars
Daily Kos — ... Pfft. Yet another lie. Yet another easy debunking. Yet another time to ask the question: why on earth would they even bother lying on this stuff? ...

Is Sarah Palin a compulsive liar, or is she actually delusional?
Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... on sticking to the obviously false claim about saying "thanks but no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere is beginning to look like a pattern. Tonight at a fundraiser in Ohio, she re-told an already debunked story about her teleprompter not working during her VP acceptance speech. That story was fed to righty blogs by McCain's people on the night of the speech, and flew around the world a couple of times before being definitively shot down by a bunch of first-hand witnesses, who were watching the teleprompter during the speech. ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... righty blogger Don Surber trying to soak the rubes by pretending to believe all this: How many times has Palin read off a Teeleprompter in her life? I'm guessing zero. So she winged it. How many times? Schmuck, she was a sportscaster. You can watch her reading from a prompter right here. **** UPDATE: Oh, hell, it's not just Joe McCain and Don Surber -- it's Palin herself lying about this now. Jake Tapper reports: At a fundraiser in Canton, Ohio, this evening, Alaska Gov. Sarah ...

Lying About Everything
Eschaton — We're in personality disorder territory.

Just Can’t Stop
Matthew Yglesias — Sarah Palin lies and claims she didn’t use a teleprompter while delivering her convention speech.

MORNING READ
News — ... . Palin's suggestion Monday that her teleprompter got "messed up" during her convention speech is treated with skepticism by Political Punch's Jake Tapper , who recalls a report that the teleprompter was working fine. And the math shows not only that McCain's claim that Palin didn’t request earmarks was wrong, it shows that Palin has asked for an average of about $1 million in earmarked money each workday as a governor, writes Daily Kos's ...

The Secret Campaign of Walter Mitty Sarah Palin
Obsidian Wings — ... by Eric Martin This is just getting outright bizarre: At a fundraiser in Canton, Ohio, this evening, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had an interesting description of her speech to the Republican convention. “There Ohio was right out in front, right in front of me," Palin said. "The teleprompter got messed up, I couldn’t follow it, and I just decided I’d just talk to the people in front of me. It was Ohio.” This struck many of us -- who, as she spoke, followed along with her prepared remarks, and noted how closely she stuck to the ...

Teleprompters and tanning beds.
Althouse — 1. Sarah Palin said "The teleprompter got messed up, I couldn’t follow it, and I just decided I’d just talk to the people in front of me" but maybe the teleprompter wasn't broken. What's with dissing teleprompters that may in fact be functioning properly? Hey, isn't this the oldest speakers trick in the book? I came here tonight with a prepared speech -- wave the papers around -- but then I saw you and decided to speak straight from my heart -- make a show of setting the papers to the side. It's a little cornball, but... whatever. Doesn't ...

The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin X
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — More absurdity: At a fundraiser in Canton, Ohio, this evening, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had an interesting description of her speech to the Republican convention. “There Ohio was right out in front, right in front of me," Palin said. "The teleprompter got messed up, I couldn’t follow it, and I just decided I’d just talk to the people in front of me. It was Ohio.” Is this true? Again, the strangeness of this lie is that it's easily rebutted by the record: McCain-Palin campaign ...

Liars
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... Meanwhile, I’m growing more confident in the belief that Sarah Palin’s main selling point as running mate is her ability to lie without blinking.  But as the link shows, she has poor judgment and appears to lie just for the fun of it.  I doubt anyone would really care if she read her speech off a teleprompter (she did, and it functioned fine), but she’s so enamored of the sexier story that she is sticking with it even though it outs her as someone who radiates contempt for the truth.  Or, considering ...

Every Time I Try to Get Out They Drag Me Back in...
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Political Punch: At a fundraiser in Canton, Ohio, this evening, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had an interesting description of her speech to the Republican convention. “There Ohio was right out in front, right in front of me," Palin said. "The teleprompter got messed up, I couldn’t follow it, and I just decided I’d just talk to the people in front of me. It was Ohio.” ...

Teleprompted lying, Palin-style
The Reaction — ... right-wing blogs -- like RedState, if I remember correctly, as well as Drudge -- were reporting that the teleprompter broke during Palin's convention speech and that she had more or less ad libbed it. The story was quickly shot down, including at the Politico, where Jonathan Martin, an eyewitness, reported that, in fact, the teleprompter was working fine. Well, the lie just won't die, and now it's Palin herself telling it, stating at a fundraiser yesterday evening: There Ohio was right ...

Palin's construction bonds
Political Animal — ... , "Her best skill displayed to date was delivering a speech off a teleprompter (not insignificant in politics, mind you) and she's apparently exaggerating that skill as well ." It occurs to me that first-time candidates for national office often struggle to get over the learning curve. Governors and senators will visit a coffee shop in Iowa City eight months before the caucuses, get confused about a policy detail, but improve as the campaign rolls on. They take their time, go through extensive briefings, and learn to get good. By the time the conventions are done, these ...

The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin X: The Teleprompter
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — More absurdity: At a fundraiser in Canton, Ohio, this evening, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had an interesting description of her speech to the Republican convention. “There Ohio was right out in front, right in front of me," Palin said. "The teleprompter got messed up, I couldn’t follow it, and I just decided I’d just talk to the people in front of me. It was Ohio.” Is this true? Again, the strangeness of this lie is that it's easily rebutted by the record: McCain-Palin campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds says no, and ...