Sarah Sighting

By Dana Brown / Washington Bureau Producer

This morning, Sally Kidd, photographer Eric Jensen and I were working our way through about 50 live shots.  We were knocking them out, one right after another.  Then, we had a quick break, so I peered over the edge of the skybox to see what I could see.

That’s when I saw her.

Cream colored skirt suit.  Tall black pumps.  Hair perfectly pulled into that now famous up-do.  The glasses.  The smile.  The whole bit.  Could it be?  At 6:30 in the morning?

Sarah Palin?  The Republican nominee for Vice President?  Right before my eyes?  I was in desperate need of caffeine, so I wasn’t 100% trusting my own judgement.  Sally and Eric turned and looked as well.

It WAS her!  Eric and I jumped to get our cameras. (our digital cameras – Eric’s fancy shmancy television camera was of course perfectly framing Sally’s live shots)

We snapped a couple of shots as Sarah Palin toured the stage where she will speak at the GOP Convention tonight.

Palin Takes the Stage

 

Word certainly traveled fast.  Within minutes, the media swarmed the stage.  She is after all, “the big get” right now as we media types like to say.

The Media Gathers Around

She stepped up to the microphone.  Are you ready for her words this morning?  I heard them with my own ears…. “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.”

Yep.

Mic check.  It worked.  You can bet the Xcel Center will be booming when her voice hits that microphone tonight!