Two Speeches, Two Standards
September 4, 2008
by The Stiletto
|5 Comments
Did anyone notice that …
- During Sarah Palin’s speech accepting her party’s nomination for vice president, CNN and MSNBC kept cutting away to an over-the-shoulder shot that clearly showed the text scrolling on the TelePromTer? When Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech the week before, the cameras were trained on him and those Styrofoam Greek columns on the set.
- In their post-mortems of Palin’s performance, two of the Fox News panelists – Mort Kondracke and Nina Easton – both made it a point to state that Palin’s speech was written for her by veteran Republican speechwriter Matthew Scully? After Easton brought it up, Brit Hume jumped in to ask why the two panelists are making an issue of this when every candidate uses speechwriters.
- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s press secretary, Jim Manley, called Palin “shrill and sarcastic”? No doubt his boss was provoked by this line:
Harry Reid, the Majority Leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee. He said, quote, “I can’t stand John McCain.” Clearly what the Majority Leader was driving at is that he can’t stand up to John McCain.
- Nonetheless, no one in the so-called “Bush-McCain” administration characterized Obama (or his running mate, Joe Biden) as shrill when he attacked George Bush and John McCain during his nomination speech.
Just asking.
That’s an excellent point about the camera angle on CNN. I watched on CBS, so I was completely unaware of that.
I was shocked to see the teleprompter scrolling in the frame during Palin’s speech. Not that I’m particularly vigilant for that sort of gaff, but I’ve never, ever seen it before.
I heard a report that Palin’s teleprompter got way ahead of her and she had to give a significant portion of her speech from memory. She did a great job.
What I did here repeated from the Republicans referring to Obama and Biden’s campaign supporters is that for some reason they are “hysterical.”
That did make me laugh a little.
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