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Who needs teleprompters when a studio can simply insert canned laughter?

I’ve dealt with sound engineering for 30 years, as a film maker, interviewer, musician, working with master reel to reel tapes/decks at EMS Music in Seattle in the 80’s as a sound duplication engineer, or setting sound levels for my and other bands in live situations at shows. I won a Hollywood award for animation in 2000. I know sound. And it’s my opinion that audio portions of Sarah Palin’s March 2nd appearance on Jay Leno’s Tonight show were added or amplified, edited before broadcast to make it appear that Sarah Palin was more welcome than she was.

I know. I was there.

They added laughter where there was none during uncomfortable portions. Well, there was some laughter. Mine, of derision. During those pregnant pauses in her performance I was laughing long and loud, couldn’t help myself as much of what she was saying was utterly surreal, ridiculous, hypocritical - nonsense, spewed platitudes, pushed buttons. I was seriously thinking of leaving as it was getting hysterically unfunny.

After sitting through the taping of the show in the studio I can recount many portions where there was little or no laughter or response, but at the later broadcast they are smoothed over with applause and laughter that WERE NOT THERE at the taping. Groans, hoots, grumbling, or just dead silence - all missing.

Soon after leaving the studio I basically tweeted, “Hey, was in the belly of the beast, attended taping of Palin on Tonight show, she bombed.” Retweets abounded, let folks know that they could listen to my jeering laughter during dead spots in the interview, jokes no one laughed at, etc, and many folks cursed me for making them think about watching her on Leno that night. We all had a good chuckle - but I wasn’t laughing at the broadcast, because selective miking during a “live edit” or later additions made it appear as if I’d lied nearly as much as Sarah Palin does.

She's a natural for stand-up. Great delivery, teleprompter and all. On the other hand. who else gets their first gig on the Tonight show ? How long before she quits ?

Sarah used a teleprompter? The same thing she mocks the President for? Say it isn't so...

Please, God- may she be rendered mute.

There's no way the writer was influenced by confirmation bias. None at all.

...it appear as if I’d lied nearly as much as Sarah Palin does.

She's not lying. That requires cognition. She has nearly none. What she does is guess what an audience wants to hear, then spews it out with vigor. She has no worry about fulfilling her promsies...a demonstrable lack of staying power in office should tell us that. She ws for "ethics" charges, and used them with vigor, before she was against them, when they applied to her.

Please, spare us.

Sarah Palin with an Aussie accent

This is bullshit.

I have no love for Palin, but this is bullshit.

OK, I admit that the Aussie wasn't actually Sarah.

I wasn't wasting my time talking about you sorry.