Palin Tells Debunked Teleprompter Tale (WSJ)

Palin Tells Debunked Teleprompter Tale

Elizabeth Williamson reports on the presidential campaign from Canton, Ohio.

“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.”

Like the Alaska jet put on eBay and her pit-bull opposition to pork like the Bridge to Nowhere, the T.T. of the T.T. is great theater, but not quite, not entirely, true.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/15/palin-tells-debunked-teleprompter-tale/

first, how on the money is that! The whole Idea of the Country Club Set makes me want to puke, just like Psycho-Sarah!

as opposed to A FUCKING LIE..

They are handling her with kidgloves, she is being treated different because she's a woman.. It's called SEXISM, and a double standard..

That gives me such hope. Looks like Wall St. is eating their own in their economic free fall.

Did I read that correctly? The travelling media was "confined" by the police while Caribou Barbie went and schmoozed with the disgusting ladies of the Country Club? Sounds like the media is getting tired of their bullshit tactics. They're human, after all!!

Never met a story she couldn't twist to make her self look bigger, better, smarter until she imploded one day..sad really, she told one too many. :nuke:

... when it was being echoed by the idiot talking heads on MSNBC.

overcoming a teleprompter hiccup to parrot someone else's speech is not pulling kids out of burning buildings.

Only in the age of retardation would anyone even actually take pride in reading/remembering one's lines.

I've had to memorize entire scripts, I was never sure why I was supposed to be impressed.

Just in time for Christmas - the lying Sarah-non-sequitar doll.

Pull the string and she lies and makes no sense.

What a yahoo.

not at her tush.