Making Their Own Reality

By Cernig

Lies about bridges, about earmarks, about military command, about good governance - and now lies about teleprompters.

RedState blog started the rumor that Sarah Palin "winged" her speech after the teleprompter broke down but the rumor simply isn't true. Jonathan Martin at Politico writes:

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. 

Which hasn't stopped Drudge, FOX News and others catapulting the propaganda. Yet another example of the Right making its own reality divorced from the one the rest of us live in.

Steve Benen asks why the Right would bother with this kind of stuff. John Amato has an answer for him.

Has anyone heard anything about how the Republicans will try and fix the economy so far during their Convention? Not a peep. They practically hid the fact that it IS a Republican Convention. And as Rick Davis says:

“This election is not about issues,” said Davis. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”

It’s a party of no ideas because the old ones do not work. They are good at attack dog politics, which is what Davis means.

They're smearing as much lipstick as possible on a very ugly and vicious pitbull.

Comments

[smintheus]

I think the answer to why the McCain camp spread the teleprompter myth is that there's a basic flaw in the rapturous right-wing reviews of Palin's speech: She didn't write it. Matthew Scully did. In fact, apart from a few paragraphs of personal stuff it was mostly just boilerplate GOP schtick. It could have been delivered by almost any Republican attack dog.

But if Palin had to "wing it", then suddenly they give her a reputation for being clever and able to think on her feet, and even imperturbable. When all she did was deliver a speech well from a teleprompter.

I commented a bit about this over at unbossed:

http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=2250