LOL! Chuck Todd is trying to Spin Tonight's speech as bigger than Invesco

[MadBadger]

Really Chuck, Really?

[mcctatas]

1. I think they have some kind of a contest between the talking

heads "Whoever can polish this turd the shiniest gets a free trip to go moose-hunting with Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin"

[SoxFan]

6. LOL

[redqueen]

10. Or maybe

they're setting them up for a fall?

Hype it up so much that it's guaranteed to be a dud?

:evilgrin:

[Motown_Johnny]

2. More riding on it, If she fucks up this ticket is dead.

[mzmolly]

3. Ratings my dear watson

ratings. ;)

[ErinBerin84]

4. ugh, I saw that too.

"The most anticipated speech, even more than one that occurred in a football stadium!"


Um, Chucky T. Remember how the media had extremely HIGH expectations for Obama's speech, expectations that he on most accounts, met and even exceeded? I'm sure that the bar will be much lower for Palin.

[Bad Thoughts]

5. Is he speaking of quality, magnitude, or just importance? eom.

[redqueen]

7. Expectations... expectations... I expect it to be the best speech EVER!

[Skidmore]

8. He's just spun himself into the ground...referred to today as "Palin Day"

and said that McCain is the name that just happens to be at the top of the ticket but its her convention.

[BeyondGeography]

9. Gawd...he's trying to earn hugs from Jack Welch at the Xmas party

[Turn CO Blue]

11. Actually, I approve. Build it up to monumental expectations!

The Repubs wanted it to play so that if she even showed up and didn't fall flat that it was the speech of the century! They set the bar so low that they called Fred Thompson's speech a grand slam. (That man is so boring, he seems to bore himself.)

[Chan790]

12. Hype it higher...

higher still.

If this gets hyped high enough and enough people tune in, then when she finally speaks it had better be Obamaesque or else it's over for McCain. raise the hype, Raise the expectations. Raise the expectations, drown the pretender.

[ComplimentarySwine]

18. But what if it is *IS* actually Obamaesque?

After all, doesn't she have an entire TEAM of people telling her what to say via the teleprompter?

[4_Legs_Good]

13. I think it's that EVERYTHING is riding on this speech

While Obama's was important, tonight's speech is a necessary home run just to stay in the game. If she doesn't deliver, it's over, and it's over big time.

If she does, McSame/Palin get a shot at the White House.

It's a serious rating grabber when expectations are so low, but the importance is so high.

David

[ITsec]

14. Busses...

They're probably driving around downtown St Paul with busses picking up the homeless. They'll just throw a cheap suit on them and funnel them up in the nosebleed seats in exchange for a free meal after it's over.

[C_U_L8R]

15. Lets see how those TV ratings work out for ya Chuck

Fortunately we have a way to quantify the bluster and bullshit

[Overseas]

16. Rick Davis and the JSM III team had to rewrite the VP's speech from scratch.

Not anticipating that McCain would choose a woman as his running mate, the speech that was prepared in advance was "very masculine," according to campaign manager Rick Davis, and "we had to start from scratch."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090301176.html

[Bobbie Jo]

17. No matter how she does, it doesn't change the facts.

NOT. QUALIFIED.