In Maddow’s post-Palin analysis, she went after Palin for having phonetic pronunciations in the teleprompter version of her speech. Maddow actually said, “with the phonetic pronunciations of some of the hard words in the policy stuff is a reminder that this is the first time she’s ever talked about nuclear weapons; this is the first time she’s ever told a lot of these stories.”
Can you get more condescending? Oh, the pretty beauty queen can’t read the big words all by herself? Sexism? It gets better, however. Olbermann later had to correct MSNBC’s new star and let the audience know that it’s common to use phonetic spelling in a teleprompter.
Rachel Maddow: Not ready to read from her MSNBC teleprompter on day one.