Teleprompter DID NOT break during Palin blah-blah

[DogPoundPup]

*Note...after the speech I personally saw a reporter 'from the floor' report there was a teleprompter break and Palin supposedly had to adlib...yadda, yadda, yadda Lie, lie, lies. Same-old, dame-old, same-old.
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Erickson writes that "the Teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Gov. Palin was in the speech."

This claim has been picked up on Drudge and could quickly enter into the insta-mythmaking about a speech that need not be embroidered.

Perhaps there were moments where it scrolled slightly past her exact point in the speech. But I was sitting in the press section next to the stage, within easy eyeshot of the Teleprompter. I frequently looked up at the machine, and there was no serious malfunction. A top convention planner confirms this morning that there were no major problems.

Erickson writes that the same malfunction happened during Rudy Giuliani's speech earlier in the night. Again, I watched the Teleprompter during this speech, and it worked without problem. Giuliani, as is his wont, simply decided to go off-script and add some new lines, such as one attacking Obama for his "bitter" comments.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/The_teleprompter_did_not_break.html

[BuyingThyme]

1. Nah... She was just confused by all of the crowd noise being filtered through the PA.

[ErinBerin84]

2. I've been hearing this meme repeated on tv by the repukes and MSM

guess they thought that Palin's speech wasn't good enough on its own, needed a PR boost.

[KittyWampus]

3. kick

[Supersedeas]

4. the Free Ride media is gassed up and ready for the long haul