Last night, I couldn’t sleep, and watched the rerun of the speech in my hotel room. I was relieved – Palin’s speech was very bit as good on television as it was in the hall.

And to give a smidgen of credit where it is rarely due, Keith Olbermann’s first words were actually, “She clearly gives a great speech.”

Matthews first noted that he thought Palin was designed to bring in Hillary voters, but she’s nothing like Hillary, and never thought of the New York senator… “I think people will like her.”

Olbermann did mention Tracy Flick, Reese Witherspoon’s character from Election…

David Gregory said very strong, very well received.

But later in the evening on Larry King, the snide brigade came out. Ed Schultz, who called Palin a bimbo, said, “So she can read a teleprompter. Big deal.”

Jamal Simmons began by saying “it was a pretty good speech,” but later added, “She read it well off the teleprompter. They wrote a good speech for her.”