OBAMA'S speech got a few hours of coverage. Palin's speech has been getting coverage for DAYS!

[jenmito]

McCain stepped on Obama's speech by announcing his VP pick the morning after Obama's historic, SELF-WRITTEN speech. Since last Friday, not only has the media been talking about Palin and what she'd have to say in her speech, they've (of course) been talking about it non-stop since last night. If McCain doesn't get a HUGE bounce out of all that, we can rest assured he'll lose despite the hype.

[tekisui]

1. Palin press has been far from postive. I think we will see a dip for mcpow.

[jenmito]

3. Ever since yesterday she's been hailed as "the Conservatives' Obama."

:puke:

[tekisui]

6. She appeals to the fundies.

No moderates or Independents. Certainly no Democrats. No minorities or women.

She is hardly an Obama.

[jenmito]

14. Exactly. n/t

[LSparkle]

2. I needs to get MORE coverage -- of all the LIES IT CONTAINED!

Joe Klein started the "truth-squad"-ing ... let others
follow suit.

[jenmito]

4. Yeah-THAT was good. I hope others DO follow his lead and aren't

bullied by Palin's speech-writers last night.

[quiet.american]

5. Well, DU certainly did its part in jumping on the Palin bandwagon. nt

[kayell]

7. It helps when your party essentially owns the media nt

[Roxy66]

8. Why didnt the Dems have their convention after the GOP?

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

10. Curious about that too.

nm

[Flying Dream Blues]

11. I believe the party in power gets to go last by tradition...nt

[BuyingThyme]

9. Palin's speech is getting similar treatment here.

[samuraiguppy]

12. I'm thrilled

that they keep showing it. The more people exposed to this hoe the more people will hate her. And they will be excited to vote against her. Everyone hates a mean onoxicous shrill woman. the people who like her are the ones who would never vote for Obama no matter what.

[jenmito]

13. They just reported 37 million people watched her speech on tv last night.

I hope they get that same impression.

[samuraiguppy]

15. as far as I am concerned

that is 37 million votes that we have in the bag.

[jenmito]

17. I sure hope so!

She was so mean and sarcastic with no plan for HER ideas.

[WinkyDink]

16. Peeps love to gawk at disasters! Hee!

[onenote]

18. huh? its been 18 hours. And the discussion for the last week wasn't about her speech.

In terms of lead in, there was plenty of coverage of Obama's historic speech leading up to it, and it was mostly positive (except for the silliness of the greek temple crap). Most of the lead in for Palin since she was named hasn't been about her speech, its been about her lack of experience, her pregnant teenager and other issues.

Yes, she's getting more post-speech coverage. BUt that's not surprising given that (a) pretty much no one had ever heard her before (unlike Obama, who has been campaigning for a year) and (b there isn't any big news coming out to bounce that coverage off the "front page" like there was with McCain's announcment of Palin.

Just notin' the facts. Frankly, the coverage of her speech has been better -- pointing out the misstatements, characterizing it as an "attack" speech -- than I expected. Not great or even good, but better than what I feared it would be.