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No way.

So the teleprompter goes ape shoot and she still manages to pull it off flawlessly under more pressure than 99.9% of us can even begin to understand.

She has a gift.

I remarked over in our live blog on TMR very early in the speech that I didn’t think she was using the teleprompter for most of the speech. Sure, she did at times to make sure she delivered some lines right. Overall though, it was drastically different from the rest of the speeches.

Name one other speaker from tonight (or last night for that matter) that spent the majority of the time looking ahead or less to the side (seeing as the teleprompters were placed much to far to the sides).

This woman is a natural speaker. She also has an amazing ability to memorize. I swear she gave most of that from memory.

This babe has talent, brains, and true character. All she had to do tonight is be herself and people will love her.

It’s the same with McCain. You might not agree with either of them 100% of the time, but at least you know who they are and what they believe.

So congratulations to Sarah and the next Vice President of the United States!

“Broke” is MSDNC’s code word for “We took a pair of scissors to the power cord because she was making our candidate look bad”

This is amazing Erick… Very impressive. I thought something was distracting her a time or two. I wonder who was responsible for the teleprompter

This woman has the spunk we need. Great leaders do not seek office, it’s thrust upon them. This is going to turn out to be one of history’s greatest examples of that.

She just took a chunk out of Obama’s leg and spit it out, all while giving us that enchanting smile. What more can you ask for in a VP. McCain brings us the Strength and Courage to face the next day, while Palin brings the Spirit and Youth. If anything this ticket is the biggest amount of change in American History.

That’s the new headline on Huffington Post.
I’d link to it but I don’t want to kill anyone’s happy buzz with anger again just yet.
(Spoiler: She’s on video saying “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right.”)

Point is: Are they just taking all of Obama’s weaknesses and trying to pretend their hers?! Who do they think their kidding?

Claiming she has no experience didn’t work.
Claiming she’s out of touch also didn’t.
Claiming she went to a crazy church won’t either.
Claiming she was mentored by radical anti-Americans and slum lords could be next!

Wow she can remember a speech. Unlike Obama who stutters…at least he writes his own.

So he already is the next president is he? I guess you must’ve already fixed the election returns, typical Democrat sleazeball.

I am rather relishing the fact that Sarah Palin’s speech was the beginning of the end for Team Obama. She delivered a speech with the same spirit that I remember Ronald Reagan delivering a speech in. She was absolutely amazing. She glowed with love for this country and she will be loved back. Her approval rating is sure to go up and it is already at 61% which is not since the general public has only known her for a few days. I can’t wait to see her elected.

she seemed to be staring up partway through, as if trying to remember lines or something… I told the guy I was watching it w/ that the teleprompter must be broken.

don’t they carry out written notes to the podium as well?

That explains her looking at her notes now and then during the speech. I just figured it was the reporter / smaller campaign background habit of working from a paper speech rather than a teleprompter. Impressive.

Admittedly, I am a gull for good oratory. But, that oratorical prowess needs to be defined very carefully and meet certain standards. It must be delivered well, sincere, have meaningful content and purpose; not necessarily in that order. The speaker should have firm grasp of the issues, shown by an ability to make appropriate extemporaneous diversions to further explicate specific points.

Sarah Palin fulfilled a great deal of those objectives and should be applauded. On the other hand, Mr. Obama would be wise to take some notes, especially the part about sincerity, command and veridicality. Perhaps I am one of the few people on the planet not impressed or satisfied with good sounding platitudes, half truths and political rhetoric haltingly delivered in an overtly over prepared manner and lacking in sagacious, well founded principle or real world experience.

Those of us involved with a great deal of public speaking actually understand how great her presentation really was; kudos Sarah Palin.

why Mike and Rudy kept talking over the applause – if their speech texts were running away from them!!

Too bad that couldn’t have happened to Joe Biden’s running mate, Senator “Present,” to really expose who he is.

Good thing it happened to our people who know what they’re doing.

Do the masses realize that if you own a home and sell it, you will be subject to Obamas new, wonderful tax plan. THIS IS NO A TAX FOR THE RICH, BUT A TAX ON EVERY DAY AMERICANS.

This is the stuff he isn’t telling people.

Now, Sarah Palin needs to talk about health care, I see that was not mentioned once. And talk about John McCain’s plan for insurance company accountability.

When is the left going to understand the people reject government social programs which will remove American ingenuity. People will not have an incentive to move ahead.

I have never seen anything quite like what I witnessed last night.
The genuine article my friends, common sense straight talking fireball.
I am stoked!!!!

Without a teleprompter is amazing.
The real question is how does a teleprompter break like that?
How often does it happen?
As for Gov. Palin’s church, does her teach race hatred, ascendancy of one race over all others, or require a special ethnic theology?
If the Huffpo thinks Gov. Palin’s views are shaped by her church, I think they should fer sure revisit the racist, bigoted hate-filled ‘church’ that Obama found so homey for 20 years.

The more I am in Love with her, What a Conservative, Beautiful GUTSY Woman

Sarah Palin keeps impressing me. Seems as though nothing can faze her.

Wow!

I never dreamed we would get our own Barack Obama. Here he is and he is a woman! I can’t wait to vote for this woman in the next 4 elections. Go Sarah Go!

Jenna
http://sarahpalinforum.net

Do you mean “Populist Candidate” maybe or “Popular”? A country can be populous, meaning having a large population.

I would prefer to vote for her 3 times, hoping McCain will resign after one term and let her carry on!

I’d say the crowd was pumped to see Sara.

An awesome presentation.

I look forward to her career.

Hard to predict the future, but after 8 years of McCain, she would be tough to beat as next Pres.

Hillary v Sara “Barracuda” Palin. Man what fun that would be.

Bill

….as I listen to it again. I was sooooooooooo nervous for her last night it was hard to enjoy the speech.

The next 2 months are going to be such a fun ride now.

the speech writers! The Buuuuuuush speech writers! Waaaaahhhh!!!!

“Sources close to the McCain campaign” apparently haven’t heard of Tivo. FF to 6 minutes before the end of the speech (“they’re the ones who are good for more than talk…”) The functioning teleprompter is clearly visible very close to Palin, perfectly in synch AND pausing for applause. What surprised me is that they needed to tell her where to pause midsentence by inserting ellipses.

Its obvious Erick has never seen a television set. There were no less than 3 prompter screens – two to the side, and one directly in front, underneath the ‘head-on’ shot. It’s a huge projection screen so they can read it from across the room. To say that “it’s obvious she was winging it because she was looking at the camera” is the epitome of stupidity.

Regardless – there simply is no way this could have happened, Erick. The teleprompter they were using last night runs a ‘shadow script’ in the background. If something goes wrong, the operator hits a button and the script switches over to a completely different OS and they keep on trucking – seamlessly.

Also – as clearly stated above, TiVo will easily show this trumped-up B.S. story about Palin for what it is. I know when I was watching last night, I saw the prompter copy 3 or 4x and each time – it was in lock-step with what she was saying.

Now could someone please address her lies about the bridge to nowhere, her ability to have a balanced budget while she was mayor, and her well-known love of pork from Washington?

Its obvious Erick has never seen a television set. There were no less than 3 prompter screens – two to the side, and one directly in front, underneath the ‘head-on’ shot. It’s a huge projection screen so they can read it from across the room. To say that “it’s obvious she was winging it because she was looking at the camera” is the epitome of stupidity.

Regardless – there simply is no way this could have happened, Erick. The teleprompter they were using last night runs a ‘shadow script’ in the background. If something goes wrong, the operator hits a button and the script switches over to a completely different OS and they keep on trucking – seamlessly.

Also – as clearly stated above, TiVo will easily show this trumped-up B.S. story about Palin for what it is. I know when I was watching last night, I saw the prompter copy 3 or 4x and each time – it was in lock-step with what she was saying.

Now could someone please address her lies about the bridge to nowhere, her ability to have a balanced budget while she was mayor, and her well-known love of pork from Washington?

This is what a broken teleprompter sounds like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc6wQMVHhic

Any chance somebody can “donate” the Teleprompter in question to Obama’s campaign? It’s comedy gold waiting to happen…

…. that Sarah seemed like she got better about halfway through the speech?

I think something like that, specifically about being more natural with the applause lines, was said during the LiveBlog.

I also noticed Rudy seemed to sound better later in his speech — perhaps no teleprompter allows them to be more natural?

If so, I’d ditch the teleprompter completely if I were Sarah.

Check out a funny “Nobama” parody song and video at: www.myspace.com/rogerweber

Politico has called you out on this one, Erick:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/Theteleprompterdidnotbreak.html

You people are delusional. Oh, and to the point that Palin is some kind of reformer? not so much.

“the teleprompter kept scrolling past Governor Palin’s stopping point during applause”

Since the scroll was clearly controlled by a human, they apparently gave the job to the worst case of ADHD they could find.

“by the end of the speech the problem had been resolved.”

And also by the middle. And in between the middle and the end. As demonstrated. Maybe another “clarification” is in order.

Perky Palin
voice so shrill
wants an old man
who wants to drill.

Perky Palin
beauty queen
reads a prompter
sight unseen.

I think it may be true.

I watched the speech again and you can see her start to no longer look at where the tele-prompter would normally be.

Take a look:

Sarah Palin Speech at PoliticalIQ.com