Sarah Palin Flummoxes Her Own Tele-Prompter
Ana Marie Cox gets some great color from Sarah Palin's event today, where she rambled off her energy speech script so many times that her own teleprompter practically exploded:
Here, in Toledo, where she just gave a speech on energy independence, Palin's own independence took a literal turn: If there is any one place she has gone rogue, it is against her teleprompter.Visible over the shoulder of the press corps, the monitor that displayed Palin's speech shifted occasionally, as its operator struggled to pick back up after she drifted off in tangents, dropping in folksy-isms like urging some "tappin' into new ideas" and noting "special interests" -- "I've had to take on some of that," she said, "especially up there in Alaska, where they didn't want any shakin' up."
Her ad-libs are short on "g's."
Following along in the prepared remarks, another theme developed in the lines Palin delivered: herself.
To the statement, "So, we introduced the big oil companies and their lobbyists to a concept some of them had forgotten -- free-market competition," she inserted, a "when I got elected," as in, "So, we introduced -- when I got elected -- the big oil companies."
And when the remarks had her warning "energy security...demands of us that we shake off old ways, negotiate new hazards and make hard choices long deferred," she made the plea personal: "I do not want to hand this problem off onto my children or to your children."
Hmm. Someone just might be eying 2012, we wager. The rest of Cox's piece, which argues that Palin's rebellions against McCain's message are less about shafting McCain than they are about her general tendency to veer off script, is here.
On another note, does anyone else think it's kind of bizarre that at an event staged at a solar energy plant, Palin hit her "drill, baby, drill" line again?
Here's a sneak peak of what the special is going to be tonight - http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185304443/bctid1883548924
October 29, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I didn't think it was possible for your sense of humor to get drier. I was wrong.
She definitely seems interested in 2012. And I was willing to entertain the notion that she really was the quick learner Billy Kristol is so sure she is, but making the comments about 2012 that she did shows me she's all hat and no cattle. Or something.
October 29, 2008 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
All Carribou no Moose!
October 29, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have no idea what this means (ditto for "all hat and no cattle"), but I think you've nailed it!
October 29, 2008 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Carribou has low protein meat...Moose has higher protein content.
October 29, 2008 7:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
All mukluk and no moose.
October 29, 2008 11:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
All wink and no sparkleburst.
October 30, 2008 9:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
Now she's at least being open about being interested in 2012 -- should get interesting in the next 24 hours.
October 29, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Best Palin joke yet, a genius monicker:
Bible Spice!
(courtesy Thomas Yunck)
October 29, 2008 11:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn! I wish James Garner weren't in such ill health. I'm sure he'd love to do a few pot-shot ads about those presuming to be Mavericks!
October 29, 2008 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Didn't know he was doing so poorly. Sorry to hear it. I remember the old black-n-white Maverick TV series. Doesn't seem like it was that long ago.
October 29, 2008 8:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Romney isn't going to like this.
October 29, 2008 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
The 2012 competitors who thought it might be nice to get a few shots in early didn't know the fish would jump the barrel.
October 29, 2008 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
"ThinkProgress's" Wonk Room went through the entire speech and identified the portions that Palin ad libbed (and there was a lot) - http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/29/palin-big-oil-love/
What is really interesting is that she doesn't like to say "In the McCain Administration" but changes it to "In OUR administration"...
October 29, 2008 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
thanks for the link.
October 29, 2008 7:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's already said that she's out for 2012, "not doin' this for nothin'!"
Maybe someone should suggest that Palin voters might be better served by a McCain loss so their candidate can run in 2012.
October 29, 2008 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I took it that way as well. She is saying to her lunatic base keep off McCain so we can win 2012 on a new slate.
October 29, 2008 7:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
"A B C D E F ' H I J K . . ."
October 29, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Word salad.
It's not just for lunch anymore!
~
October 29, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
OT:
did anyone watch hardball tonight? holy crap, tom delay is a freaking maniac.
oh, and debbie wasserman-schultz (sp?) is so awesome that we need to invent a word for how awesome she is.
October 29, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Word. He was going for some reaaaaalllll crazy tonight. Very Michelle Bachmann of him.
October 29, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I couldn't believe it when he popped up -
He is batshit insane and what he thinks he's doing try to slink back into public life I do not know.
October 29, 2008 7:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
The guy has a very small brain, I mean ganglion. Most roaches do......
October 29, 2008 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
At least cockroaches are smart enough to stay out of the spotlight to keep from getting squashed. Tom Delay, not so smart.
October 29, 2008 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
At least cockroaches are smart enough to stay out of the spotlight to keep from getting squashed. Tom Delay, not so smart.
October 29, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fuck Chris Matthews, too. Why he or MSNBC would give Delay a stage is beyond me. The guy is a poster child for why one should stay away from powerful chemicals.
October 29, 2008 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good article and thanks for the info on her "major policy speech".
Basically reporters are not taking anything she says seriously because she has proven herself to be all style and no substance. There is no "there" there.
Folksy works if you are Will Rogers and have soemthing to back it up.
October 29, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
p.s. i HOPE TO GOD palin is the nominee in 2012. nothing like a cakewalk for re-election (i don't want to be jinxy or presumptuous, but an obama win is the only way she's running for prez in 2012).
October 29, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Archie Bunker once told Edith she was flitting around the house like a "ding-bat out of hell."
I've always liked that description. "Ding-bat out of hell."
October 29, 2008 7:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
ROFLMAO!!!!
You have to wonder if her speech writers aren't setting her up. I still think it was way interesting she hit on fruit flies to make fun of when that research was peculiarly on point to what she was talking about -
October 29, 2008 7:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where are the fact checkers? Or did she go "off prompter" during that speech too?
October 29, 2008 7:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
No matter how many facts they have it doesn't matter...she is full of Moose doo doo.
October 29, 2008 7:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
How can you fact check someone who doesn't use facts?
October 29, 2008 8:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
her speechwriters didn't put 'drill, baby, drill!' into her speech. palin put that in herself.
her speechwriters gave her this:
but palin went off script with:
October 29, 2008 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just a few days out from the election and it's now all about the Republican VP and not about McCain. Sarah just doesn't get the political etiquette thing or the protocol that says you don't concede the election until AFTER people have voted. This makes her a loose cannon for 2012. My guess is that she's actually burying her future on the national scene.
October 29, 2008 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why do I think see gasps "Drill, baby, drill" to Todd every 3rd Friday night of the month?
October 29, 2008 7:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
October 29, 2008 7:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right here! Right now!
October 29, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
12 more minutes!
October 29, 2008 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Could you blog Gods please start a new thread on the Obama Slam?
October 29, 2008 7:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
When can I see it online?
October 29, 2008 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN
October 29, 2008 7:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Correction msnbc.com
October 29, 2008 7:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm on the website. Where I go now?
October 29, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
4 more minutes
October 29, 2008 7:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where's the live feed? What's the button?
October 29, 2008 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
The McCain-Palin camp must be so happy that someone is going to take some of the air out of their gaffes!
October 29, 2008 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, it has barely begun and I'm already in tears.
October 29, 2008 8:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
O god he's good - "none of that grows government, it grows the economy for our people."
I love this man.
October 29, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Prepare to give your gag-reflex a workout. From the NYT today:
Find Joe's strengths? Not paying taxes must be right up there with not being a plumber and not being named Joe. A complete fucking fraud. The perfect mascot for McScum...
October 29, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Greg - thread on the Obama show, please?
October 29, 2008 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
You would think there would have been one!
October 29, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe he's waiting until we Left Coasters have a chance to see it. Don't know when AK and HI will get it (but I don't think their EVs are going to provide much influence in swaying the election).
October 29, 2008 9:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
TENA...I just about broke into tears too!
October 29, 2008 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here it comes - Energy Independence. This and rebuilding the infrastructure are going to be the new WPA and I fucking love it.
He just won New Mexico if he hadn't already - he'll drill for natural gas. This state is sitting on god knows how much natural gas.
October 29, 2008 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Genius!
October 29, 2008 8:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol NM you say...
October 29, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Woot woot go Google
October 29, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
I hope a lot of people are watching = this is damn good.
October 29, 2008 8:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Google trends.
http://www.google.com/trends
It seems that people are searching about it online at least today.
October 29, 2008 8:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of joe the fucking plumber.....watch none other than sheppard smith of FOX destroy him today......
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/mccains-top-sur.html
October 29, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now I'm really wrecked. Here we go with his life.
October 29, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
OMG....THE "FATHER" PART! I CAN RELATE SOOO MUCH!
October 29, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Carpe Diem!
October 29, 2008 8:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
My brother's keeper...
October 29, 2008 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
And he always has reasons for why he does what he does - he has good reasons for picking Joe Biden.
McLame - do I need to say anything?
October 29, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is watching this tonight and he knows he is ROYALLY SCREWED!
October 29, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would love to think he is -
October 29, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Holy shit - I wish he'd let up on me - I just realized he wears wife beaters under his shirts. O my god! {SWOON}
October 29, 2008 8:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
DONT GET ME STARTED TENA....I asked him to marry me twice on blackplanet.com, but he hasn't responded.... :(
October 29, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn Obama, had to get a bucket to hold my tears!
October 29, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm going to need a bigger bucket.
October 29, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
A bath tub :)
October 29, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL @ ROYALLY SCREWED!
October 29, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does he ever say the wrong thing?
October 29, 2008 8:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
lol no kidding, i was just thinking, dam they are good at this.
October 29, 2008 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's nobody happier at this moment than my friend, Ralph Maxwell and his wife, Liz, the old veteran pictured with Barack at a rally in Fargo, North Dakota at minute 27 of this amazing program. "Infomercial" my foot. This is genius!
October 29, 2008 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain will be on Larry King to rebut.
October 29, 2008 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Too bad, everyone will be watching Rachel!
October 29, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or baseball. Baseball rather than softball.
October 29, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
can't WAIT to watch it! (wife is putting son down to bed ... DVR-ing ...)
October 29, 2008 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
BO. NAILED. IT
October 29, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seconded!
October 29, 2008 8:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIRDED!
October 29, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
+1
October 29, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm almost embarrassed at myself - I really love this man.
October 29, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where the hell did David Plouffe come from? Where did Axelrod come from? These people are fucking geniuses - I keep saying it - but goddamn!
October 29, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
damn...couldn't find ONE live stream....have to wait for youtube....
October 29, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't worry any longer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtREqAmLsoA
Obama-Biden'08: The best political campaign ever!
October 29, 2008 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama campaign already has it on youtube :)
October 29, 2008 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow that is quick! :)
October 29, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL @ CHRIS MATTHEWS..."What more do you want Black people to do???? He's done everything right...he's done everything he's suppose to do...and you still can't vote for him?"
October 29, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know - Chris is starry-eyed.
He has as big a crush practically as I do on Obama and he can't hide it.
October 29, 2008 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
He better be glad he's moving to the White House cuz he doesn't live to far from me and I will seriously stalk him.
October 29, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wouldn't cross Michelle.
;)
October 29, 2008 9:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
never be embarassed at LOVE....it's why we're all here.
October 29, 2008 8:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are such a love -
I hope we get to meet some time. You're welcome to come see me up here any time I'm here - and I'm here til Nov. 11-
and bring the kids.
October 29, 2008 9:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mark Halprin on CNN just now said, BO 30 min was, "EFFIN well done..."
October 29, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fundies are going to be up in arms about Barack reading Harry Potter with his daughter. Palin on the stump tomorrow "Barack is pallin' around with Wizards..."
October 29, 2008 8:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ha! Phuck the fundies-they were trying to get Potter banned from my library...yeah, thats "American"...
October 29, 2008 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nobody cares.
Plano, Texas, is a Dallas suburb that is very Republican as a rule. Well, about 4,5 years ago, when the Fundies were still in power, a school in Plano was holding a school-wide Harry Potter Day. One fundie mother flipped out and protested.
Every other mother in that school told her to sit down and shut up and she apologized publicly. Parents who aren't batshit insane looooove Harry Potter cause their kids read the books.
October 29, 2008 8:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's not just the fundamentalists. Atheist Richard Dawkins thinks Harry Potter is a bad influence on kids:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/richard-dawkins.html
On second thought, he's just a fundamentalist of another stripe.
October 29, 2008 8:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bingo!
Thank you for that - atheists are the fundamentalists of the nontheist world and 9 times out of 10 they proselytize as bad as fundies.
October 29, 2008 9:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
WTF?
As an atheist, I'm totally offended you would make such blatantly bigoted generalization of atheists. To compare atheists to Fundies? I've always respected your comments in the past Tena, but your comparison is just ludicrous. Atheists are grounded in reality. Fundies are not.
If you actually Read the quotes from Dawkins from the article in the daily telegraph that broke the story, it's obvious that the article totally sensationalized the matter and blew his words out of proportion. His actually quote is "I think it is anti-scientific – whether that has a pernicious effect, I don't know", in other words he only states the obvious, that it's not scientific, but any book he writes on the matter I'm sure will be researched and documented, being the scientist that he is. And he ADMITS not knowing whether it has a negative effect or not.
And who are you to rule out that it doesn't have a pernicious effect on certain children growing up in Fundy families? Or on children reading it in other societies where superstition and belief in witchcraft and voodoo is the norm. Dawkins advocates skepticism and education when approaching anything, and his research and documentary done on religious fundamentalism was spot on.
I'm always struck when visiting progressive sites to see how provincial supposed liberals and progressives can be towards others that don't share their opinions on issues dear to them. It's the reason I stopped going to Kos and coming here.
I'm sad to see that such a popular member of this community can act so small.
October 30, 2008 6:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
I generally agree with you Arias, but wish you'd been a little easier on Tena. I think that our goal is to educate people about atheism and I doubt that calling them small is a very effective way to do that to start that process.
It's understandable that a lot of smart people don't understand atheism - many of us have been closeted until recently - passing for religious, as it were -- the accepted norm in our society.
Obama says openly in his book "The audacity of Hope" that his father was an atheist and his mother was a "skeptic" so its doubtful that he judges people negatively based on their lack of belief in supernatural beings. I think his adminstration will be respectful of the many differences among americans, including differing religious beliefs or no belief at all - in fact I vividly recall him saying that somewhere along the campaign trail.
October 30, 2008 10:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Considering the statement by Tena that:
"atheists are the fundamentalists of the nontheist world and 9 times out of 10 they proselytize as bad as fundies"
I found this so outrageously offensive that I think calling her 'small' in this instance was actually being very very kind. 9 times out of 10? Please!!! Atheists don't go door to door proselytizing, never have. Show me an instance of an atheist proselytizing. Atheists don't engage in systematic stigmatizing and character assassination of non believers. Even in Dawkin's books and documentary on Fundies, if theists even bothered to actually watch them before making claims based on ignorance bout them, Dawkins merely goes around the world interviewing fundamentalists of all religions and allows the viewer to come to their own conclusions as to whether such attitudes have a negative affect on society.
To be compared with Fundies 9 out of 10 times appears is an ignorant appeal to marginalize atheists as people to be taken as seriously as fundamentalists, which I find patently grotesque.
October 30, 2008 11:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just remeber McCain is disfunctionally tied in the polls!
Be afraid and have a fishing tournament, or Bar-B-Q, or Beer Bust for your Republican friends on election day.
October 29, 2008 8:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was so moved by Obama's ad.
Didn't like the McCain commercial during Olbermann, but hey let them waste their money.
McCain is not ready for president...EVER!
October 29, 2008 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree, Debra. That McCain ad did not belong there.
October 29, 2008 9:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
McScum's "inexperienced... not ready... *yet*" ad followed by the Palin wink-wink ad makes me literally laugh.
Obama ad was full of positive vibe. It was beautifully done.
October 29, 2008 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah - great vibe - that's it.
:)
October 29, 2008 9:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rachel Maddow, "He had me at the waving wheat." haha Me tooooo.
October 29, 2008 9:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's see what Rachel has to say.
October 29, 2008 9:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Obama commercial was just right. Not a three hankie, or a one hankie, but a two hankie. Lot's of nice people with classic American stories and Obama himself, who is always a soothing and inspiring presence. The guy you want in the WH at 3:00AM.
October 29, 2008 9:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where can I see this on line?
October 29, 2008 9:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here ya go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtREqAmLsoA
October 29, 2008 9:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dang....jinx! LoL
October 29, 2008 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
:)
October 29, 2008 9:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here you go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtREqAmLsoA
October 29, 2008 9:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
meh. i'm a crazy left-winger, so i'd love watching obama take a shit for 30 minutes. but i didn't get all worked up over it, from that perspective.
i think it did what it set out to do, and VERY well -- say to the undecideds, "i'm not a whack-job stalinist who's going to destroy the country. i understand you, i care about you, i'm going to fight for you, i'm going to keep you in mind constantly when i'm president."
again, it did its job well.
but i'm a hardcore lefty who gets more moved by new hampshire-type speeches.
AGAIN, though, i'm not who he was trying to reach, and i think he NAILED it with respect to those who he was trying to reach. but i didn't cry.
*** shrugs and apologizes for being a wet blanket, potentially ***
October 29, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
NO problem ...idiots are idiots...Keep peeing in your blanket.
October 29, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
you're an asshat. and a fucking douchebag.
what are YOU doing for his campaign, asshole?
i gave my opinion, and you lash out. i've given every fucking weekend for the last 6 weeks to him, knocking on doors. i'm giving up 16 or so hours on election day to be a fucking lawyer for him at the polls in VIRGINIA.
what have YOU done?
fuck you, asshole. you give people like me a bad name.
October 29, 2008 10:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
No problem. I cried enough for both of us. And my daughter reports that even my son-in-law shed a few. You're off the hook,nova, we've got ya covered.
October 29, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I cried enough for 3 people, so I covered some dry eyes, too.
October 29, 2008 9:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I thought Obama was on the Daily Show tonight???
October 29, 2008 9:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd be surprised if someone hasn't already made this point, but here goes.
When this is over, assuming that the outcome is as expected and Palin goes back to Alaska, she's not going to be a heroic figure to most of the Republican party. McCain will take the blame for losing by having picked her for VP and she'll be blamed for accepting. On top of that, the portion of the GOP that isn't enamored of her--that would be the greater part--is going to remember how she turned against her own running mate's campaign to try to kick off one of her own before the first one was done. She's pissing off a lot of very powerful and well-entrenched and well-funded Republicans. Their party is likely to move towards the middle and leave the lunatic fringe--Palin's base--out in the cold. If they want to, they can wreak havoc with her.
One other thing to bear in mind. Palin has finally begun to be vetted. Alaskans learned a lot more about her in the last two months than they did during any of her previous campaigns, most of it pretty bad stuff. She's been trotting her phony, folksy act around the country and I'm guessing it's not what the people of Alaska are used to seeing. They've probably never seen her quite as catty and nasty and snarky before, either. We'll see how it goes when she starts having to face a steady stream of ethics charges in person. This should be fun.
October 29, 2008 10:25 PM | Reply | Permalink