Glamour girl delivers a man’s speech

This story offers a fascinating bit of insight into the world of speech writing and, as a side note, into the speech that Sarah Palin delivered last night. It was written BY A MAN for the Republican vice presidential candidate a week before the candidate was chosen, and was originally written to be delivered by an unknown MALE candidate. I guess that’s politics, or Republican politics at least.
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Can voters this year be sure they learned something about the real Sarah Palin from her GOP vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last night, considering news that it was originally written by speechwriter Matthew Scully over a week ago for an unknown male nominee? The commissioned draft was subsequently customized by Palin and a team of McCain staffers in the 48 hours leading up to its presentation.

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~ by bothwellsblog on September 4, 2008.