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Sarah Palin’s Teleprompter Broke!

By SusanUnPC on September 4, 2008 at 11:07 AM in Current Affairs

I DVR’d Morning Joe (the only MSNBC show I can stand), and just heard them mention, in passing, that Sarah Palin’s teleprompter malfunctioned. So I popped over to Memeorandum.com, and it’s the top story. Clearly, Sarah — in the most demanding and momentous speech of her LIFE — did not need this, but did she rise to the occasion or what?!?!?!? Obama, in contrast … well, read on:

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

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.

Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory, 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.

Can you imagine speaking before tens of thousands of people — and to millions via their TVs and radios — and having the equipment break down?

I wondered why she was checking her text. Now we know.

She continued to deliver the speech “from memory”?

Most significantly: DID any of you get any idea that she was having to scramble since the machine broke? No. I didn’t either, except for her glances at the written text.

Now that is poise. That is class. That is grace under intense pressure.