Thursday, September 04, 2008

The Mechanics of Palin's Speech   [Lisa Schiffren]

I've written a piece breaking down the mechanics of why Sarah Palin's speech worked so well last night, over at City Journal.  The speech was written extremely well to cover a bunch of bases and convey many points, consciously and subconsciously. But the real dazzle was in the delivery. Since Reagan, there just hasn't been a Republican who had any sense of how to dramatically weight a sentence to make it sound like a slightly exaggerated, dramatic yet natural version of real, normal speech. Sarah can do it perfectly. And that's what it takes to speak over the media, to the people. There just wasn't any need for the pundits to translate.

09/04 09:13 PMShare