Et Tu, Breite?
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This is really starting to annoy me… and I’m not even a huge Sarah Palin supporter:
Palin spoke Saturday in Nashville and photographs and video show she had “energy,” “tax” and “lift American spirits” on her hand. During one question, she looked down at the palm of her hand for a cue.
In her speech she mocked Obama’s use of teleprompters.
Yeah. That’s what her speech was about! I thought it was about the president’s socialist policies, but I must have misheard.
Even supposing it’s true that she mocked Barack H. Obama’s use of teleprompters — she may have, but if so, it was fleeting enough that I don’t even remember — I am nevertheless astonished that even Andrew Breitbart cannot distintinguish between using a note or two, whether on cards or one’s hand, and reading word for word from a teleprompter. Worse, he read a speech obviously written by somebody else, which the president had not even troubled to rehearse. (Else somebody would surely have told him how to pronounce the word “corpsman.”)
This AP squib, which Breitbart chose to run with the anti-Palin slam intact, as much as says, “What a fool and a hypocrite she is — she mocks Obama for reading from a teleprompter, yet she herself had to glance at an occasional, one- or two-word note!”
Right, Andy; it’s exactly the same thing. What a putz; not Palin, but whichever gnome at the Associated Press wrote this piece… and whichever bright-eyed Breitbart editor passed it along.
