Why give kudos to Palin when Matthew Scully wrote the speech?

Question

Wild credit goes to S.Palin for giving the speech someone who met her a week ago wrote. Isn't that plagerism in school? Why honor that? There weren't more than 5 words with more than three syllables.

We could get ANY idiot from Alaska to read that!

Answer 1

I was wondering if that teleprompter were to malfunction if she can give a speech like that in her own words.

Answer 2

The speech writer didn't know all the facts when he penned, "I opposed the 'road to nowhere.'"  If she's really responsible for the speech, then there's something stinky in Denmark.

See question 22.

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Answer 3

For the same reason that you give an entertainer credit for singing a song that they didn't write. It is the performance and delivery that counts. The speech writer could not have delivered it the way she did just as a lot of really good song writers are not performers.

Answer 4

because its what she wanted written.  she wanted to say it, she thought it and believed it, she delivered it.  she most likely stood by and knew what he was writing.  h**l even obama has had a couple done that way (not during campaign i dont think), it doesn't mean obama is an idiot and doesn't mean that he doesn't mean what hes saying.  its just easier, especially in a busy, and a nervous schedule.  h**l, speech writers are awesome, if you have a bunch of words you want to put together in a sentence, they will fidn that right word to make it all flow.  

Answer 5

Why honor that?

You Libs are following a Teleprompter Mascot for god sakes.  

Answer 6

Well to be fair, a lot of politicians use speechwriters.  And considering how little notice she had of being the VP pick combined with her busy life (dealing with family issues on top of trying to stay out of jail barely leaves a woman time to go shoot herself some moose, let alone write speeches) it's easy to see why she took the easy way out.

She gets points for delivery.  Most of that speech was written before the VP decision was made with bits about her personal life added later, so the kudos are really for being a good puppet.  

Answer 7

She gets Kudos for the poise and delivery.  Very FEW people would be able to read from a teleprompter and deliver a speech to millions of people under pressure without sounding dry, robotic, or "like they were reading from a book."  Even individuals accustomed to speaking to audiences of fewer than 1000 find it challenging to address a venue 10 times the size not withstanding a televised audience.

Almost all public figures use speech writers.  Obvious reasons are simple:  most public figures don't have time to craft a "great" speech even if they are capable, and most public figures want an "expert" to craft a speech even if they are fully capable of doing a good job.  It's just like my approach to trim carpentry.  I'm fully capable of doing a good job putting up crown moulding in my house, but an expert carpenter would do a better job and has the time to devote that I don't have.  So your suggestion that she's not intellectually capable of writing her own speech has no merit.  Also on the syllable count...you usually write a speech based on the audience you are trying to reach.  It would be foolish to use lofty rhetoric, verbosity, and "big words" just for the sake of sounding intelligent when large chunks of your audience may miss the meaning.  That's public speaking 101.

A couple other quick notes.  Palin's critique of Obama was delivered in wry sarcasm and wit.  It's difficult to craft that in a speech and not have your candidate come across as Rush Limbaugh and it is difficult to tell how much of that was coached into Palin for delivery or impromptu.  Also, as someone pointed out, Obama is a walking ad campaign for teleprompters and has done a horrible job speaking off script (bad enough that he reportedly received coaching during his recent "vacation" on how to speak without the aid of a teleprompter).