Teleprompter reflected in Pain's glasses

[Liberal_in_LA]

Video at link

Palin, meanwhile, spent several days in seemingly stunned silence while the nation learned that she had put out a piece of campaign literature last year targeting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for defeat, and put a symbol on a map of Giffords’ district that looks very much like a target or a view through a gunsight.

Today Palin is out with a weird, rambling, incoherent statement on her facebook page in which she expresses no regrets about anything she has ever done or said but accuses her critics of hitting her with a “blood libel.” (The blood libel, literally, is the claim by anti-semites that Jews murder Christian children because they need their blood to make matzos or for other religious observances.)

Then she made it worse by reading the statement aloud on camera in the most zombie-like performance she has ever given. To her followers, a big part of Palin’s appeal is that she seems sincere, down-to-earth, unscripted. She used to make fun of President Obama for reading too often from a teleprompter. But here she is, reading the weird platitudinous ramble from a teleprompter and doing it badly. (You can even see a reflection in her glasses of what I presume to be the teleprompter, but mostly it’s the deer-in-headlights-reading-words-someone-else-has-written look that undermines her reputation for spontaneity.)

http://www.minnpost.com/ericblack/2011/01/12/24810/tucson_tragedy_what_it_means_for_pawlenty_and_palin

[eleny]

1. Can you see Russia in there, too?

[madmax]

3. can always count on you for a laugh,. nt

[malaise]

11. DUzy

:rofl:

[Tesha]

15. "My God -- Her head is so empty that ... it's full of stars!"

[Fumesucker]

30. Why do you think she is known as "Lady Starbursts", eh?

[WhiteTara]

2. as they say

Sarah is a piece of work.

[livetohike]

4. I guess she decided to suspend with the you-betchas for this

serious :sarcasm: speech. Got rid of the folksy, cutesy winky-dinkies too. She looked horrid in the shots I saw. Older and scared, imo.

[patrice]

5. self delete

[sunnystarr]

6. If it takes a teleprompter to stop her shrill voice

then I'm all for her using many many many of them.

[truth2power]

7. Her tone sounds like someone reading a fairy tale to first graders...

It grates on the nerves. x(

[patrice]

8. That absolutely screams "PHONY!!!" very obviously a PERFORMANCE. nt

[OregonBlue]

9. At least now we know she can read.

[csziggy]

22. So the next time an interviewer asks her what she reads

The answer is "the teleprompter"!

We need a teleprompter smiley.

[patrice]

10. About the only thing other than a teleprompter those bright squares could be would be a window, but

the flat lighting does not look like that which would come from windows behind the camera.

It's probably a teleprompter or a computer screen with her text on it.

[Historic NY]

12. She couldn't even get the flag placed in the right position.....

its supposed to be on the left (her right) when facing an audience. I looks awfully phony against the fireplace.

[patrice]

13. Right on. Something pretty strange about that background. I couldn't quite place it. nt

[HubertHeaver]

26. My guess: She was in front of a green screen and the background

(fireplace and flag) is a composite.

[patrice]

27. It looks awful flat, doesn't it. Is that one of the St. Theresas on the mantel?

[tblue37]

31. Certainly that flag is a photo rather than a real flag. Look at its folds. nt

[Heywood J]

28. It looks like a matte painting or a green screen. (NT)

[Initech]

14. Somewhere in Wasilla, a village is missing its teleprompter.

[Historic NY]

16. maybe a flag too...

[Initech]

24. With writing on it?

[foxfeet]

17. Not enough room on her hand for notes?

[japple]

18. She reminded me of some of those religious educational films

I was subjected to in my youth.

[silverweb]

19. Couldn't watch.

I lasted part way through her first sentence, but had to stop the video. The sight and sound of her makes me ill.

[Javaman]

20. and yet she probably still writes on her hand. nt

[demodonkey]

21. The background is fake too; the flag doesn't mesh quite right with the fireplace...

...funky green screen or something....

[divine_truine]

23. She reminds me of someone who has narcissistic personality disorder...

She is truly showing her own sickness by playing the victim & making this about HER...and doing a horrible job at that! She is fortunate that our cheap network msm is covering her ass...but for how much longer?

[Ezlivin]

25. Did she give up reading halfway through?

She's not much of a finisher.

[rufus dog]

29. Her avid followers will claim....

Those are just windows into her beautiful soul.