[Vision2020] The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin X: The Teleprompter

[Saundra Lund]

The Atlantic

The Daily Dish

Andrew Sullivan

19 Oct 2008 08:53 am

 

The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin X: The Teleprompter

 

More absurdity:
<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/palin-and-the-t.html> 

At a fundraiser in Canton, Ohio, this evening, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had
an interesting description of her speech to the Republican convention.
"There Ohio was right out in front, right in front of me," Palin said. "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. It was Ohio."

 

Is this true? Again, the strangeness of this lie is that it's easily
rebutted by the record:

McCain-Palin campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds says no, and disputes any
notion that Palin was implying that she ad-libbed the speech by saying she
"couldn't follow it" on the teleprompter, so she "just decided I'd just talk
to the people in front of me." McCain-Palin spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker
says, "She was off the prompter at points."

 

Her convention speech followed the script perfectly. Tapper adds:

I should note that, after Palin's speech, some conservative bloggers
reported that sources close to McCain had told them that the teleprompter
had broken and Palin "winged it." "The teleprompter did not break," wrote
Politico's Jonathan Martin. "Sarah Palin delivered a powerful speech last
night, but she did not 'wing it'..."

 

But she's still repeating the lie.

 

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/the-odd-lies-17
.html

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