With Barack Obama (or throughout the DNC) you never once saw an over the shoulder shot of the speaker showing the telepromoters. But with Sarah Palin, it’s almost like a called shot. “Shoot the prompter. Shoot Palin. Shoot the audience. Back to the prompter on two.” I do not know who ran the video pool, but two things were apparent. They were going to make this teleprompter an issue. It began in advance with warnings from Katie Couric that Palin’s speech would be “totally scripted.” See Couric’s blog here. This as if to say nobody else’s speeches were scripted. The idea here is to indicate that Palin was somehow more of a scripted stooge than everyone else. Exactly which team of video producers did the Republican feed, it wasn’t very good. There was no HD feed on the Dish Network while there was an HD feed for the Democrats, for example. And this tagging of the prompter seemed totally chickenshit, for want of a better word.
Then today CBS brings up the latest rumor about how Palin may have had an affair with her husband’s partner. None of the other networks or any other major news source ran this item. Rarely does the MSM quote from the Enquirer and tend to bury the story unless it is forced on them. Obviously CBS is in the Obama camp and it’s pretty obvious.
McCain Camp Knocks Down Enquirer’s Palin Rumor – From The Road
John McCain’s campaign threatened legal action against the National Enquirer today for running a story about McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, allegedly having an affair with her husband’s business partner.
CBS was using visuals to accurately report on the speech.
From what I understand, Palin wrote almost nothing in the speech and then spend a week doing nothing but rehearsing it.
Now, the media will need to show Palin in a bubble surrounded by shields and force fields keeping her away from any unscripted events.
Thomas,
Right Wing radio has a 90% lock on the market and they CONSTANTLY CARP AND WHINE that they are outsiders.
Evengelical leaders get regular, exclusive access to the Whitehouse — and the CONSTANTLY RAISE THE FEAR FLAG that America is hostile to Christianity.
Talk about a culture of victimhood!
This “story” is part of a planned campaign by the RNC. It began with Republican surrogates and bloggers making the entirely made-up claim that Palin’s teleprompter broke in the middle of her speech and that she “winged it” brilliantly. That claim is demonstrably false; just part of the normal Karl Rove strategy of “going viral” with some completely false idea.
So now the Republicans are attempting to distract from that by claiming CBS is “biased” as it demonstrates that Palin’s teleprompter was never broken during her speech.
#88
Even if 90% of political talk radio were right wing, political talk radio is a small subset of all radio programming which is itself a small subset of all the other media forms like television, newspapers and magazines which are predominately liberal. It is the equivalent of saying the ocean isn’t salty because you poured a bucket of fresh water into it.
90, Thomas,
Everyone knows that the oceans are no longer salty. So many of the right wing nuts like to walk on water that they had to keep it fresh so when they fall in they won’t get salt stains.
WTF with that Patriot thing back in #86. It makes no sense. Maybe it lost something in translation from Wing-nut to English.
#91
Rather than translate to wing nut so that you might understand, perhaps it would help if you simply learned to converse in English.
If you followed the NFL, the reference would be obvious. No one would consider the Patriots an underdog, even if they wished you to believe that, just as no one would believe the claim that most of the media does not have a liberal bias.
#84 Mr Confusion:
The article simply supports the fact that you are wrong: He doesn’t write his own speeches