The teleprompter did not break - Sarah Palin, White House '08

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... Politico's Jonathan Martin has already said that there was no malfunction, but you don't have to take his word for it. See for yourself.

Erik Erikson’s Pants Are On Fire
Comments from Left Field — Intent on lowering expectations after the fact, Erik Erikson pulls one claim strictly out of his backside; Sarah Palin had to wing her speech due to a teleprompter misfunction. Even if it were true, I wouldn’t be all that impressed. I would expect someone who had been coached for the past few days on nothing other than giving that speech to be able to deliver teleprompter or not. Even still, I wouldn’t call it a comparable speech delivery to Barack Obama’s historic speech on race delivered in Pennsylvania earlier this year which was given without any teleprompter whatsoever, and Bill Clinton himself has delivered some solid ...

A perfectly functioning teleprompter
Political Animal — A PERFECTLY FUNCTIONING TELEPROMPTER.... Watching Sarah Palin's speech last night, I made a note: "Not bad with the teleprompter. Obviously reading, but better than McCain." It takes speakers a little while to get used to teleprompters, and it looked like Palin's extensive practice paid off. But that, apparently, isn't the story. Erick Erickson, a Republican blogger, citing "sources close to the McCain campaign," insisted this morning that Palin's teleprompter suffered a " malfunction ...

Making Their own Reality
Newshoggers.com — By Cernig Lies about bridges, about earmarks, about military command, about good governance - and now lies about teleprompters. RedState blog started the rumor that Sarah Palin "winged" her speech after the teleprompter broke down but the rumor simply isn't true. Jonathan Martin at Politico writes: Perhaps ...

What to Expect From McCain’s Speech Tonight
Balloon Juice — ... LOL. Missed this one. Apparently the folks over at the fact free zone at Red State are pretending the teleprompter did not work for Palin last night. They are, as they are on virtually EVERYTHING, wrong. ...

Sweet Tap-Dancing Jesus
Comments from Left Field — ... In the spirit of, ahem, bipartisan comity (h/t Joe “Benedict” Lieberman), I’d like to extend a sincere and heartfelt thank you to America’s Mayor™, Rudy Giuliani, for going off-script and overlong with his opportune (if disturbingly vicious) red meat feeding frenzy of a stemwinder. ...

Abramoff-- Four More Years
DownWithTyranny! — ... Last night Sarah Palin's vicious harsh and hate-filled speech-- put in her very willing mouth by the same ideological misfits that have been running the GOP for two decades-- generated a great deal of money, ...

Palin and the Teleprompter
Political Punch — Obama Challenges McCain's New Definition of the 'Fundamentals' That Are Strong | Main Palin and the Teleprompter September 15, 2008 8:42 PM 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 script -- as an unusual claim. (Especially those of my ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — APPARENTLY, LYING RUNS IN THE McCAIN FAMILY Immediately after Sarah Palin's convention speech, right-wingers floated a story -- soon picked up by Drudge -- that her teleprompter broke down midway through the speech and the gutsy gal was reciting the speech from memory. Politico's Jonathan Martin -- who was there and could see the teleprompter -- shot that story down immediately. He said flatly, "The teleprompter did not break." That should have been the end of that. But hey, when has the McCain campaign let the truth stand in the way of a good story? Now Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspaper has published a piece under the ...

Teleprompted lying, Palin-style
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings Oh, look, it's another lie from Sarah Palin. Some 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 ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — FUNNY, JOE McCAIN LIKED THE TACTICS OF HIS BROTHER'S CAMPAIGN A MONTH AGO The Baltimore Sun is reporting that Joe McCain, John's brother, is ticked off at the way the campaign is being run: Frustrations inside John McCain's camp boiled over on the eve of Wednesday night's presidential debate as the candidate's brother unleashed an e-mail blasting the campaign's "counter-productive" strategy. "Let John McCain be John McCain," wrote Joe McCain in a missive sent out shortly before midnight Monday. "Make ads that show John not as crank and curmudgeon but as a great leader for his time." McCain's younger brother was sharply critical of ...

Going Rogue, Chapter 4
Lawyers, Guns and Money — Oh, fucking hell. It's the presidential campaign. I'd forgotten about this part. Fortunately for me, there's not much to say, really, about chapter 4 that hasn't already been written about a thousand times already. We have to endure more bullshit about Bristol's pregnancy, the wardrobe "controversy," Katie Couric, and the teleprompter in Minneapolis, which she continues to insist malfunctioned so badly that she was forced to deliver her convention speech from memory. There are a few moments of levity -- as when Palin groans about not being allowed to give more substantive answers during debate prep, or when she receives a friendly visit from Holy Joe Lieberman before ...

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