Many moons ago, I started reading blogs and shortly thereafter I started reading them. I became discouraged because I read many writers, far more talented than me and the ease with which they elucidated the very points I wanted to make but so much more elegantly and completely that I just gave up. Gerard of American Digest was one such writer. His facility with prose and his ability to evoke emotion was remarkable. I linked to him once with my nascent blog and he was kind enough to reach out to me and thank me for the link. I literally had zero readers. Just like now. But that was the measure of the man. He took the time to reach out to me and genuinely thank me for the link. The closest I ever had to meeting the man was meeting Morgan in person. Morgan and Gerard were friends. They had an evident mutual respect for their respective works. I never met Gerard, didn't know the man personally but having read his work I had a sense of the man. He's dying now. If
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At one point, crowd signs blocked the TelePrompTer altogether, one official said, prompting her to ad lib one of her best lines of the night: “You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.”
It called to mind President Bill Clinton’s 1993 health care address before Congress. When he began speaking, the TelePrompTer was loaded with a previous speech. It took several minutes to get the right speech up, and Clinton spoke from memory.
Asked if something like this ever happened during the Bush administration, a Republican who worked in the Bush White House shook his head and offered a glance that suggested, “of course not.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/04/palins-teleprompter-troubles/