The subtext is, "she's just a pretty woman in a skirt who can read. Let's not jump to any conclusions, however, that she can think." Perhaps we are supposed to be reminded that she was once a sportscaster with a 1980s hairdo. I don't recall this particular dismissive observation having been leveled at all, much less repeatedly, against Obama, who indeed used a teleprompter during his celebrated acceptance speech - a speech that was also written beforehand. The one-sided insinuation game here really reeks. And, frankly, it has every impression of being a smear job based on cultural assumptions about dumb, pretty girls.

UPDATE: It turns out that the Sarah's teleprompter may have been malfunctioning - and she was unfazed. Go figure!! Now she'll be attacked for being too smooth, I'm sure - like all those pretty girls who seem too polished...
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