Reporter after listening to Palin “speech”: “Oh my god, I feel like I just got off a roller coaster”

The wacky Wasilla word-salad-smith strikes again:

Thousands of people from California and around the world tuned in to FOX40.com to listen to a speech prepared by Sarah Palin Friday evening from the campus of California State University, Stanislaus. During that stream, several unfortunate events occurred that we hope to clear up through this statement.

First, FOX40 News was the only station streaming a live signal from CSU Stanislaus during Sarah Palin’s presentation. Friday, we were told by officials organizing the speech that we were not permitted to beam a live signal direct from the dining hall where Sarah Palin was presenting; instead, we were offered the opportunity to aim a FOX40 camera at a projection screen inside a room for assembled media down the hall from where Sarah Palin was due to speak. We were cautioned by the organizers of the event that there was an ongoing audio situation. We were faced with two decisions—to not carry a speech of local and national importance due to the low-quality methods we’d be forced to transmit, or to provide a signal by any means necessary. It was with the public interest in mind that we opted for the latter.

Second, following Sarah Palin’s address from CSU Stanislaus, several reporters could be heard making comments about the speech that some viewers considered inappropriate and unprofessional. Day by day, television, newspaper and radio reporters are asked to cover stories involving mayhem and misery, and occasionally off-color comments slip out on-air and online. Honestly, it’s happened on FOX40 News and on FOX40.com in the past during live presentations of news and events.

However, the comments overheard were made by reporters assembled from other newspaper and television outlets, and at no time was the voice of our photographer heard on the stream. It’s very likely that those reporters and photographers were unaware, or simply forgot, that there was one television station with an open microphone broadcasting to the world.

If you wanna suffer through most of Palin’s roller coaster (worst ride ever!), here you go:

Posted by Kevin K. on 06/26/10 at 08:30 AM • Permalink

I only watched a couple of minutes of this (here) and I thought with delight, and not for the first time, that she and her handlers must really be kicking themselves that they made all those Obama/Teleprompter jokes.  She is bad enough when she can just straight read from the screen, but to watch her try to memorize a sentence or two, spit it out while sort of making eye contact with the crowd, and then nervously look back down at her paper ... it’s just all too rich.  And it makes the upsy-downsy nature of her pseudo-hick accent even more ludicrous. 

Roller coaster indeed.

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