Posted on 09/15/2008 6:39:39 PM PDT by kristinn
“Country Club First” read a lonely protestor’s sign, lampooning the McCain campaign’s Country First mantra, as the Sarah Palin motorcade swung past. On Monday afternoon Gov. Palin and her entourage tooled through neighborhoods still without power in storm-stricken Stark County, Ohio, where she attended a fundraiser at the Brookside Country Club.
The governor’s first “funder” raised just under $1 million. Gov. Palin raised questions among the traveling press — confined under police guard for most of her three-hour visit inside a club boardroom — by telling her patrons the Tricky Tale of the Teleprompter Triumph.
As recorded by a reporter allowed to observe the 35-minute fundraiser appearance, this was the first time Gov. Palin herself relayed the story of how a fouled-up teleprompter forced her to ad-lib big swaths of her acclaimed acceptance speech at the Republican Convention Sept. 3.
But that story has been largely debunked. Reporters who saw the equipment that night say –and the party has not denied — that any teleprompter issue was minor at most. In the days after the event it was touted — on a hush-hush, off the record basis — by top Republicans as a way to show how swift-thinking is their newest star, despite her avoidance of any and all unscripted moments on the trail.
Gov. Palin’s telling was a Canton crowd-pleaser: “There Ohio was right out in front, right in front of me. 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,” she said. “It was Ohio.”
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Elizabeth Williamson is just the latest female journalist who is so obviously jealous of Sarah Palin she hardly knows what to do.
Rudy Giuliani had trouble with the ‘prompter, too, Liz.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Even if the teleprompter mess up briefly, it still would mess you up. You’re simultaneously talking and reading from it so when it get’s messed up even for a sec, you’d lose your whole rhythm.
Even if the teleprompter mess up briefly, it still would mess you up. You’re simultaneously talking and reading from it so when it get’s messed up even for a sec, you’d lose your whole rhythm.
Riiiiight.
Any “debunking” by the MSM regarding Sarah Palin is suspect and needs a “debunking” of its own.
Wouldn’t believe them if they had pictures.
Not only that but it was obvious something was going on and if you go back to the live thread you will see that a lot of freepers caught it.
Yeah - Todd is a Buckeye fan! I didn’t think the Palin family could go any higher in my estimation, but he just put them over the top!
As soon as I read that in the blog posting, I knew this was a liberal hit piece. They just keep repeating the lib talking points.
Et tu, WSJ. Liberal reporters are such lying, in the tank, liberal b@st@ards.
Funny, I thought people who were given copies of the speech noted differences in it.
Thanks for your good work, love your reports.
Obama is a Nitally Lions Fan.
“The Wall Street Journal’s reporters are liberal. Their editorial staff is conservative.”
That pretty much explains it.
There was a point in her speech that I noticed she’d started looking down at her notes, which she had not done up to that point, and I wondered why. Then I heard about the teleprompter trouble and that explained it.
That’s a man, baby
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