[wyowolf]

i saw the telepromter in a couple scenes, although i thought the speech was one of the best i ever heard and she delivered it flawlessly she did use the telepromter...

Frank

[kabar]

According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech.

No one is disputing that she didn't use a teleprompter. The point is that there were glitches that she had to deal with and she did it without missing a beat. Remarkable given the circumstances, i.e., 40 million viewers and the biggest speech of her life. This really is the stuff of legends. Tough, poised, and self-confident, Sarah Palin is a force to be reckoned with.

[txrangerette]

This says the teleprompter begin to run ahead of her about halfway through her speech.

Therefore she had to go on with her own pacing and try to remember what words she could, because the prompter had sped up ahead of her.

This does not say that throughout her speech she never used it.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

The teleprompter was online, but at about the half-way point, it pulled ahead of her during moments of applause, and became useless to her. Several of us have detected the exact point in her speech when it happened.