BREAKING: Sarah Palin “Winged” Her Speech Because of “Broken” Teleprompter

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 4th, 2008 at 01:00 AM |

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Image description Halfway through Sarah Palin’s speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.

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. The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani’s speech, explaining his significant deviations from his speech. [see the update below on this part]

Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory [and relying on her printed text, clearly looking down occasionally at the printed page], to deliver her speech without the teleprompter cued to the appropriate point in her speech.

Contrast this to Barack Obama who, when last his teleprompter malfunctioned, was left stuttering before a crowd unable to advance his speech until the problem was resolved.

Sarah Palin. Winner.

The Politico, which hasn’t exactly had a track record of accurate reporting, contradicts the broken teleprompter story.

But, MSNBC and Fox both report that there were problems with the teleprompter. They were, as I described them, that the teleprompter kept scrolling past Governor Palin’s stopping point during applause, forcing her to rely on notes and memory.

The McCain camp, last night, did tell me this happened during Rudy’s speech, but this morning is telling Fox News the teleprompter problems did not occur with Rudy’s speech, just Palin’s speech.

BTW, I’ve gotten one more clarification from the McCain campaign: by the end of the speech the problem had been resolved. But you can clearly see during the middle Palin looked at her text often.

And again, don’t miss this key point: compare her teleprompter malfunctions to Obama’s.

Tags: GOP Convention, Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Palin

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NewEnglander

nt
talleyrand

but if it was it only proved her indefeatable. How lucky are we that she is on our side?!
Bluegrassman

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.
simpson316

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.
lonebeagle

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!
bk
NohOne

“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”
dhannon_pdx
Moe_Lane

…I was so shocked that I had another drink.
MrMosis

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

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.
LennyNimoy

The one question I had tonight regarding Palin?s credentials for VP was ?Can Sarah Palin kill a Moose?? That important question was answered tonight by many commentators. I can finally rest now knowing that America is indeed safe – Apparently Palin can kill a speech as quickly as any wildlife roaming Alaska or Minnesota.

On a serious note -So far by the looks of this convention ? the Republicans would have trouble just trying to ‘change’ a flat tire. Giuliani had the best speech, but while it was amusing it had to many cheap punch lines. As for Palin, while it was at least a positive sign that she could complete a memorized speech, her delivery was pointed and contemptuous. If there was one thing she said that summed up her character it was her joke about ?What?s the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? ? – Lipstick.?. While being tough is a good quality, as a VP or President, being tough without using good diplomacy is belligerent and potentially disastrous. Palin?s delivery, words and facial expression exhibit an inexperienced pit bull indeed. Sure we need tough leaders ? but even a two year old can say ?No?. We need leaders who can make tough decisions, and yet converse in ways to create/maintain allies, resulting in a ?Yes, we can ? if we work together? mentality. After all, war and violence have been around since the beginning of time. Aren?t there any new ideas or alternatives left in the world that we can try? McCain is a real Patriot and Soldier for certain, Republican or Democrat – the McCain/Palin ticket is not the voice we need right now.
mom2oneson

nt
MrMosis

where did my text go?? FF 3.01 and disappearing comment text.
virgil
MrMosis

you’re toast.
Moe_Lane

Go get some sleep.
talleyrand

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!
Darin_H

like you needed an excuse!
somethingawful

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

Public speaking is not easy.
MrMosis

I swear they never give up! (or rescind orders)
gregtherepublican

that Obama doesn’t employ speech writers?

BALONEY!

Every politician has speech writers, even “the one”. If it wasn’t for Obama’s handlers writing his speeches and wiping his @$$ he would still be a “community organizer” passing out campaign flyers door to door and not running for president.
endgameazul

When you come face to face with the fact that Barack Obama IS the next President of the United States, and there’s not a goddamn thing you can do about it.

Cheers

P.S. The Reagan Revolution is now officially dead. Be sure to send Bush a thank you note.
virgil
gregtherepublican

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

Wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to you.

“The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.”

Arnold H. Glasow
endgameazul

Obama is going to win big, plain and simple. And the beautiful part of it is that your party has handed him the victory.

Deep down you know it’s true, and that, come November, you’ll be drowning in blue.
Moe_Lane

…profoundly unfamiliar with public speaking.
Moe_Lane

…but it’s been a long, productive day here at the RNC: I’m tired; and you’re not really interesting enough to wait around for you to get to your Special Time. So we’ll just call this a profanity ban and be done with it.
BookLover

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.
Martin_A_Knight

Y’all sound very shaken and stirred. Especially those of you registering as “Independents” and “Life Long Republicans” to tell us they didn’t see what they sure as heck saw or else they wouldn’t be here.

The long faces of your allies in journalism said it all.

Heh heh … Y’all are in for a fight. And we’re going in like we’re five points behind and gaining every day.

See you and your “Community Organizer” in November.
mjbk24

Right, Because MSNBC controls the teleprompter at the GOP convention. Maybe you should be blaming FOX?
mjbk24

That was not love for her country, but hate for Obama, not that I would think you could tell…
Martin_A_Knight

… differentiating between “hate” and disagreement.

So please pity poor mjbk24 here – it’s really not his fault.
KeyWestConservative

I used to make a living by speaking in public and I want to tell you Sarah Palin is a natural born, gifted speaker.
bags64

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?
JamesLBurns

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.
Rod_Patrick
Achance

before, at least not in her political career. She might have used one when she was a TV reporter. We don’t have them in the Capitol, so all her State of the State and Budget speaches to the Legislature and People have been done from notes and memory.

I’ve heard her speak many, many times at functions of varying degrees of formality from reports at Monday morning staff meetings to major gatherings. You could definitely tell she’d had the assistance of a good speechwriter(s), but other than that, that was simply Sarah Palin.
TexasTom

line of inquiry. Compare and contrast the influential congregations of Gov. Palin and Community Organizer O’blablah.

God bless America…
G-D- AmeriKKKa…

Run with it commies….Sarah and John dare you…
Marcus_Traianus

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.
Strelnikov

Salve Marce!

Many thanks for your comments: Quintilian, the Roman rhetorician, would have been pleased, and maybe even Cicero, with her modern Catilinarian last night.

I just checked Drudge for overnight TV ratings: too early, but I am wondering if there were not even more people tuned in than the 38 million for Big Brobama’s speech.

NBC this morning was halfway impartial in their reporting: Meredith Vieira was almost enthusiastic in giving a summary with the usual clips.

But, of course, then they spoiled things with Old Squinty Eyes (i.e. Biden) lying about the tax cuts for 95% of Americans: and speaking of rhetoric, that bit of agitprop needs to be exposed better by the McCain Campaign.
blooch

a couple of times during the speech. She was probably aware that there might be a problem with the Teleprompter after Rudy finished, so I’ll bet she was ready to adapt and improvise with her printed text.

If the Teleprompter fritz was a dirty trick, you’d think the mole would be savvy enough to wait and spring it on her. Either they didn’t have that level of conrol over the Tele, or they’re amateur saboteurs who compromised their mission because they lacked discipline.
Trelaina

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

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.
terryingeorgia

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.
mdc

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!!!!
hunter

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.
hunter

to your voting day, November 5th.
This is such a sure thing for you Obamatons.
I am sure you blammed by now, but seeing a truly Obamatized person up close is so entertaining.
Hey, don’t bogart that joint, my friend. You have lots of pals to share it with.
PaRep

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

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

Wow!
jzlouisII

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
Strelnikov

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!
bill_gross

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
loosegoose2287

….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.
Moe_Lane

Sneering at other commenters here is a privilege, not a right.
Replicant10000

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

“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.
Zzeddius

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?
youthgrunt

indicate that it got off and then they got it synched back up.

If I were writing my own speech and wanted to make sure that I paused, I would put ellipses in it myself. I think you are overreaching there.
Zzeddius

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?
TomOConnor

This is what a broken teleprompter sounds like.

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

..If you knew the first thing about Erick you would realize that he has been on Fox multiple times, has his own radio show and will soon be seen on CSPAN….no go back to your DKos where you belong…don’t piss in our pool and we won’t swim in your toilet.
Chewey

Actually, it doesn’t say that at all. It says “half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech.”

The prompter was also visible, in synch, at 12 and 16 minutes before the end of the speech. Three points after the halfway mark, always in synch and pausing for applause. Let’s face it friend, this item is provably inaccurate.

I’m not blaming anyone for using visual cues – they underlined words on the prompter to indicate emphasis as well – just saying it was surprising to me.
NightTwister
bk

Obama is the best TelePrompTer reader of all time, therefore he deserves to be President. Does anything else matter?
youthgrunt

Why putting queues in the text would surprise you. I would be surprised if they were not present–for ANY speaker using a teleprompter. Heck, for any method of notes (paper notes or queue cards).

Regarding the teleprompter, you are overstating that the assertion is “provably inaccurate”. It may be inaccurate, but unless you have video of the teleprompter throughout the entire speech, you cannot prove your statement. There are only 3 points during the speech that you have referenced. It was, what, a 40 minute speech?

What did surprise me, though, is just how often there were tv shots that included the teleprompter. They usually keep that out of the video.
Neil_Stevens

I know you fascists all think of the people as sheep that need a Leader to end political division and just take over, but do you have to be so crass about it?

Blam.
mikefisk

Any chance somebody can “donate” the Teleprompter in question to Obama’s campaign? It’s comedy gold waiting to happen…
29Victor

This here Newsweek story disagees with you (after they get done drooling over “The One”).

Here’s another awe-filled article, this time from Time magazine. They mention that he employs “wunderkind wordsmith” but stresses that he doesn’t really use him (???) and this guy says that “[Obama] is the best speechwriter in the group” but Time calls the group “advisors” instead of speechwriters.

Yes Virginia, Obama employs speechwriters, it’s just that his supporters (like yourself) and the media do there best to ignore that fact so it doesn’t tarnish his image.
Moriah

…. 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.
frosties

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

Politico has called you out on this one, Erick:

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

during the speech and I thought to myself that someone was running the spool at a very rapid rate. Then I thought that there are so many surrender-monkey Dems in MN where I lived for four years that someone had sneaked through Repub security to try to wreck Sarah’s debut.

Then I remembered that the Repubs are not known for their competence in teleprompters. Obama is totally flummoxed by ordinary questions from the likes of Larry King, who asks the softball type stuff. Hemming & hawing so badly that my guess is that McCain can kick his butt in debates.

Giuliani could give a stem-winder without a teleprompter functioning well. Supposedly Clinton had the same thing happen once & performed well [Bill, that is.]

She aced it anyway and gave one of the most remarkable political speeches I’ve heard—better than Checkers by tenfold and a non-whining knockout.

Somebody in the RNC hierarchy should be fired, alright. Along with Noonan & Murphy, both left behind by history. Luckily, Sarah is as sincere & straightforward & skilled in speechmaking as she is in moose-dressing out in the woods. What a find! Annie Oakley & a certified expert in energy problems, which she proved on CNBC with Bartalomio interview recently.

Plus her husband is part Inuit/Eskimo, whatever. The oldest son looks like a recruiting poster. Look out, Iraq!
Raven

Obama employs them for foreign policy advice
daveinboca

during the speech and I thought to myself that someone was running the spool at a very rapid rate. Then I thought that there are so many surrender-monkey Dems in MN where I lived for four years that someone had sneaked through Repub security to try to wreck Sarah’s debut.

Then I remembered that the Repubs are not known for their competence in teleprompters. Obama is totally flummoxed by ordinary questions from the likes of Larry King, who asks the softball type stuff. Hemming & hawing so badly that my guess is that McCain can kick his butt in debates.

Giuliani could give a stem-winder without a teleprompter functioning well. Supposedly Clinton had the same thing happen once & performed well [Bill, that is.]

She aced it anyway and gave one of the most remarkable political speeches I’ve heard—better than Checkers by tenfold and a non-whining knockout.

Somebody in the RNC hierarchy should be fired, alright. Along with Noonan & Murphy, both left behind by history. Luckily, Sarah is as sincere & straightforward & skilled in speechmaking as she is in moose-dressing out in the woods. What a find! Annie Oakley & a certified expert in energy problems, which she proved on CNBC with Bartalomio interview recently.

Plus her husband is part Inuit/Eskimo, whatever. The oldest son looks like a recruiting poster. Look out, Iraq!
daveinboca

during the speech and I thought to myself that someone was running the spool at a very rapid rate. Then I thought that there are so many surrender-monkey Dems in MN where I lived for four years that someone had sneaked through Repub security to try to wreck Sarah’s debut.

Then I remembered that the Repubs are not known for their competence in teleprompters. Obama is totally flummoxed by ordinary questions from the likes of Larry King, who asks the softball type stuff. Hemming & hawing so badly that my guess is that McCain can kick his butt in debates.

Giuliani could give a stem-winder without a teleprompter functioning well. Supposedly Clinton had the same thing happen once & performed well [Bill, that is.]

She aced it anyway and gave one of the most remarkable political speeches I’ve heard—better than Checkers by tenfold and a non-whining knockout.

Somebody in the RNC hierarchy should be fired, alright. Along with Noonan & Murphy, both left behind by history. Luckily, Sarah is as sincere & straightforward & skilled in speechmaking as she is in moose-dressing out in the woods. What a find! Annie Oakley & a certified expert in energy problems, which she proved on CNBC with Bartalomio interview recently.

Plus her husband is part Inuit/Eskimo, whatever. The oldest son looks like a recruiting poster. Look out, Iraq!
Raven

nt
Chewey

The “queues” surprised me because so much stock was placed in the brilliance of her delivery. With a marked up script like that, half the women I know could have done as good a job walking in cold.

Read the story again. “According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks.” As I’ve mentioned twice now, the prompter was clearly pausing for applause. The tape doesn’t lie. It’s clear that Palin wasn’t “winging it” by any definition of the phrase. I know being wrong is a pain, grunt, but seriously, pick your battles.

I really hope this didn’t come from the McCain campaign, because they would know that it’s not true, and they should know how easy it is to disprove.
streiff

Erick’s story has now been confirmed by several news sources. You are simply and demonstrably wrong.
bcmcknight77

Yeah, great reporting. Too bad throughout the speech you could periodically see her teleprompter and it was fine.

I guess you guys felt bad that Obama can walk on water, so you’re trying to build your own messiah. Too bad all you got was a MESS.

LOL @ Palin Pick. Thanks for November!
Chewey

Several news sources have confirmed that McCain’s campaign said it. I believe that, but I have also shown that it’s not true. If you believe that I’m demonstrably wrong, why don’t you start by pointing out which statement of mine is wrong, then try some demonstrating.
joeyess

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

We should not be kind in the condemnation of the DNC running-dog lackeys? attacks on Sarah?s credibility: after all, It’s All They Have. It just sux to be a Democrat right now: no real ideas, no fathomable spirituality, and no safety nets under the platform. Surviving the media warthogs is the least of Mrs. Palins? worries, I think, because the cattiness of the femi-nazi is just getting warmed up. Next, from the worst of them in The View, we?ll hear that her shoes don?t match her skirt (by the way, did you notice that at the GOP acceptance speech last night that a pantsuit was not present?) or, perhaps the media darlings will endlessly discuss the temerity her second youngest daughter displayed to kiss and play with her baby brother when she should have been listening to the speeches: but then, after all, It?s All They Have.
McCain/Palin ?08
See You at the Polls!
Chewey

“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.
jsteele

… he can transmute lead into gold.
stang

I know sixth graders that can formulate a better argument than you can.

Next time you want to argue a point here, at least have a point to make. Okay?

?I’m not intending to imply insult or judgment here but I am curious to know in order to be able to respond to your posts in an appropriate manner, so please forgive what appears to be, but in fact is not intended as, an insulting question: Are you stupid??

Melinda Shore
Chewey

“You’re wrong” without details is getting tiresome. I’d certainly be interested in a legitimate response.
stang

That is your point, isn’t it? A simple yes or no will do. Yes, you say?

Like most lefty cowards, you don’t even have the cojones to come right out and say what you really mean, do you? No, you think think you’re clever enough to come here and insult us with insinuation and inference and that we won’t get it until we’ve fallen into your cute little rhetorical trap. Not even a nice try.

Have I ever told you how much I despise you lefties and your cowardly, dissembling and pitiful attempts to manufacture controversy out of thin air?

You’re the limpest, wannabe troll we’ve had blow through here this week. At least the real trolls that come through here, shout out their crap and vanish into the night. But nooooo, you have something that’s “provably inaccurate”. Weak, real weak.

You clearly don’t take hints, so I’ll make it crystal clear for you. You’re not as clever as you think you are, we ain’t buyin’ your offhanded accusations and so-called proof, so GET LOST!

?Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.?

Frank Zappa, Jr.
streiff

You wanted a legitimate response, I’ll give you one.

The world is full of freakin crazies. They believe that 9/11 was a government plot. That the Jews control the world (or the Illuminati, or Opus Dei, or the Freemasons). They believe in secret executive orders that do nefarious things.

The thing that unites them is the idea that the fact that they make a claim makes it incumbent on the non-freakin crazy majority to take the crazy claim seriously and refute it.

That is not the way the world works. Your inability to accept facts is your problem, not mine. And, you’ll eventually discover it isn’t a problem of the site’s either.
Chewy

My only point was that this story was inaccurate. In the absence of any substantive response beyond “McCain told other news outlets the same thing,” it seems that no one here has anything to offer beyond petulant insults, so I’ll happily take your suggestion.
Chewy

…would have sufficed.
bs
streiff

between “I can’t” and “you’re a freakin looney tune.”

Go away, tiny fellow.
blooch

Or else it peeled off during the retreading process.

Is escargot chewy, too?
NYneedsRED

So True, I have this problem with a lot of co-workers and friends. I need to keep my views to myself, or I am harassed all day at work through email or even just going outside on break.

Had one friend flip out on me because I’m pro-life. We were roommates 2 years and I never once tried to preach my views to him. Then one day he found out and you would think I punched his mother in the face with his reaction.

Quiet simply, simple minded creatures.
redtrash

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

Perky Palin
beauty queen
reads a prompter
sight unseen.
Rod_Patrick
Rod_Patrick

Even Obambi rocks!
Rod_Patrick

Even Obambi rocks!
albertgarrido

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

RS

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BREAKING: Sarah Palin “Winged” Her Speech Because of “Broken” Teleprompter

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