As a Toastmaster and one who frequently has to give public presentations, I'm even more impressed now.Halfway through Sarah Palin's speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.
According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech. The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani's speech, explaining his significant deviations from his speech.
Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory, to deliver her speech without the teleprompter cued to the appropriate point in her speech.
Contrast this to Barack Obama who, when last his teleprompter malfunctioned, was left stuttering before a crowd unable to advance his speech until the problem was resolved.
Sarah Palin. Winner.
The lady has one more cajone than McCain and more than the obamessiah and hairplugs combined.
look at 29:02 and 34:14 the prompter is working just fine. There are other places you can see it working as well but I didn't write them down.
ReplyDeleteAt 34:14 you can even see that it is stopped for applause.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/09/03/sot.palin.entire.cnn