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Viewing Tool Provides Scrutiny of Debate Footage
The New York Times has an interesting tool for reviewing the debate. Alongside the actual video, there is a transcription (which you can click on to go to that section of the video), a search tool (that counts the number of usages by each candidate), a topic segmentation view, and even a fact checker that links to corrections.
Probably, most of her responses were taken straight from John McCain's debate last week. I have to say I'm surprised that so many in the MSM seem to think she did a good job. Even the NPR coverage was favorable towards Palin. I thought she was extraordinarily stiff, and had to work really really hard to fit her scripted answers to Gwen Ifill's questions. She was hanging on for dear life.
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Well factcheck.org gets their stuff out the next day, which is pretty good since they put together source material and also put the claims in the context of the whole campaign.
CNN has a searchable, text-based transcript here.
I count six "maverick" instances by Palin.
"Anyone who [rips a CD] is probably engaging in copyright infringement." - David O. Carson
She set expectations so low. I didn't watch the debate, but my friends who did were really depressed afterwards, because they expected her to humiliate herself again. She delivered a controlled, heavily scripted, marginally competent performance, which is exactly what VP candidates are expected to do.
Come to think of it, controlled, heavily scripted, and marginally competent is exactly what VP candidates are expected to be, so if she keeps this up, she won't hurt McCain at all. Unfortunately.
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