Erick Erickson of Red State reports, 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.
Or, as Erick put it, “Sarah Palin, winner.”
Judging from the Washington Post, Daily Kos and the ususual suspects Gov Palin lied through her teeth during the speech, revealed Republican plans to ban abortions or make abstinence only required of public schools, cut the funding for special needs(which soon became Special Education among the reading challenged), wanted to secede from the Union while also being a flag waving jingoist and most importantly managed to insult Christians for violating the six things God hated while also planning on forcibly converting Jews and Muslims.
In other words a well thought out counterattack based on the popular kid’s card game of 52 Pick Up. All the while something, no matter how contradictory to the news cycle of ten minutes before, might gain traction.