‘Army Wives’ Actress Escorted Off Stage After Odd, Rambling Speech
- Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:00pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Actress Kim Delaney, currently starring in the “Army Wives” and formerly of “NYPD Blue,” had to be escorted off the stage at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Thursday after delivering a jumbled, odd, and confusing speech.
Delaney was attempting to talk at the Liberty Medal Award presentation for Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates. But something went horribly wrong and in the middle of the presentation a stage a voice came over the sound system and a man wearing a headset escorted her off the stage.
“As I try to comfort wives, husbands, families, fathers, children…loved ones, made good, what I’ve learned is the Constitution Center,” Delaney said at one point during the event. You can watch part of it below:
So what happened? Alcohol? Drugs? Well, according to CBSPhilly.com, the flub may have been the result of production confusion:
Following a series of apparent backstage production problems at the Liberty Medal award presentation at the National Constitution Center on Thursday evening, actress and Philadelphia native Kim Delaney seemed to make a valiant attempt to rescue the production by going on stage without introduction or teleprompter, but then delivering a stumbling speech.
An offstage announcer may have skipped over a section of his script when off stage whispering could be heard and the announcer suddenly said, “Kim Delaney…”
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But according to those in attendance, it appeared her teleprompter was not working, and Delaney appeared to struggle to deliver her speech, making long and awkward pauses between sentences.
You can hear some of the confusion in a recording obtained by CBS.
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Comments (108)
Cat
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 3:14pmIt would make sense if there was a teleprompter malfunction to stop talking and point that out to someone.
However, watching her lack of eye movement and body movement when she moves her hands, should tell us she’s having trouble concentrating.
Witnessed this when watching Janis Joplin in Memphis, Tennessee.
It was awful to watch, but Janis kept singing.
That was southern comfort and heroine doing its thing.
Not sure what’s going on with Miss Delaney.
Report Post »If it’s what I think it is, she should get help.
chips1
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 4:30pm“Honest, officer. I’ve only had two beers!!!”
Report Post »robert
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 5:05pmWhat people have to understand is she is illustrating all the normal thought patterns typical of the Hollywood crowd. In fact she probably represents what Hollywood would consider one of its finest minds.
Alec Baldwin is especially pleased with her. I‘m pretty sure he’s forming an exploratory committee to determine her chances if she runs for president in 2016.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 5:12pmAnother doped-up drug abusing life-hating actor.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 9:35pmWhat I cannot figure out, Is why America empowers these Hollywood goofs. They act like other people; they did not go to school and study foreign relations, politics, business….
they are art people. Art people are generally weirdoes. Stop putting them on stages to speak on topics that they have no business talking about.
Why not get Rosie o Fat Butt to lecture us on the ends, ways, and means of the Middle East? It is just stupid.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 10:56pm@RANGERP
Occasionally there are gifted people … When others view them as gifted.
Michelangelo di Lodovico was a gifted individual as was Leonardo de Vinci.
What the society saw of these individuals at their time, was minor, compared to their contributions to their personal lives as they viewed it from their view.
It doesn’t make any sense to anyone who is not gifted.
It does makes perfect sense to those who are gifted.
Begging another question …
Is Traci Lords gifted?
In my humble opinion, Yes.
Shake her hand once … She is a powerful human.
Report Post »Trail_Boss
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 2:15amShe’s trying to read a prompter. Definitely over medicated on something.
Report Post »WHoareyouanyway
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 8:46amShe is making a speech at the Liberty Medal Awards and you think she is a drunk, liberal USA hating drug addict. Disgusting.
Report Post »Tim Law
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 10:44amWe should always remember. Matthew 7: 1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 12:50pmTalk about beat. Who came up with this new anemic look anyway. What I refer to as the cue tip look. Starve yourself til you are skin and bones, then get fake boobs to look “sexy”. Nothing worse than skinny, flabby and fake.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:33pm@Cat
I do not get your statement, nor do I know any Tracy lords to shake hands with.
I was talking about the devient liberals idiots out of hollywood speaking on political topics/ We have free speech, and I choose not to listen to theirs
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:46pmThis sort of thing has been happening frequently lately even to credible people such as Judge Judy….very curious.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:45am@Cat
Report Post »You are really incoherent. Or maybe I’m just not “gifted”? Are you under the influence of some chemical yourself? Are we supposed to know who Tracy Lords is?
PatrickHenryFan
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 3:04pmLet the judgements go, pray for her
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 3:13pmagree…..who knows what happen here
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 3:53pmWho knows what the deal was. Either she was too stoned to focus on the teleprompter, or the thing didn’t work. Maybe both. She sure looked like she was stoned out of her gourd.
The problem I have is why bring in a fake anyway? If she believed what she supposedly had on the teleprompter, executing ad lib would have been simple.
Oh well, Gates is an idiot anyway, she she didn’t hurt his uselessness any.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 7:12pmGood post!
To be honest, similar things like this happen to me sometimes since I had emergency brain surgery for a ruptured brain aneurysm 6yrs ago. It’s embarrassing! Sometimes people laugh at me.
Report Post »But it’s okay! I’m still smarter than a progressive or an over the top libertarian…………….
taxedout
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:46pmshe was drunk and that was extremely disrespectfull, when your asked to give a speach you don’t show up drunk….
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 3:02pmShe’s a shoe in to play Nancy Pelosi in the made for NBC movie
Report Post »vinnymac46
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:59pmblame George Bush, he’s everywhere…
Report Post »FlatFoot
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:56pmWell, she certainly looks and talks like she’s stoned out of her gourd. She also looks like she just finished having a romp in a bathroom stall.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:51pmI only had to watch half of it to know that the teleprompter she was reading from was having problems. Apparently “actresses” are untrained to speak in public or cannot ad lib an Award presentation. I assume, the only thing she knows about the military, or Army wives, is what she reads in a script.
Report Post »Trance
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 3:03pmShe was obviously stoned out of her brains.
Report Post »tequilamockingbird
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 9:42pmThat’s right, actresses are trained to memorize and follow a script. Some of them may be great at ad libbing — standup comics, for instance, are expected to ad lib according to audience response. I love Kim Delaney from her days at NYPD Blue! She did not slur her words or seem unfocused, just a deer in the headlights when the teleprompter failed. Which of us would do better? Who’s casting the first stone?
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:50pmAt least she made more sense than obama’s teleprompter…
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:47pmIt’s too bad that this happened. I hope she is ok.
Report Post »InformationSeek
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:38pmOh my, dry mouth!
Report Post »Endurance997
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:35pmSad! Very Sad! Doesn’t matter whether she is high or drunk – wrong place – wrong time!
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:54pmPraying that it was not a stroke.
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:35pmLooks like she can’t see what she is reading…
Report Post »What’s the deal with the personal attacks people…..
I’m sure there will be alot more, anybody wanna bet?
let us prey
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:31pmResist we much?
Report Post »She looked like a 2 bit ******. And stoned.
4truth2all
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:37pmWhy don’t you LET YOU PRAY before making dumb statements.
Report Post »Sorry,,, not judging you!
let us prey
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:39am4truth
Report Post »Prey?? Proofread much? You don’t know where resist we much came from?lol
Danola
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:25pmShe must have been using Obama’s teleprompter. She needed to look up at the ceiling and over the heads of the audience to read it. Or maybe she doesn’t read Arabic?
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:25pmClearly, she should run for congress…
Report Post »Gypsy123
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:23pmAll liberals all stoned all the time.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:22pmI think all high profile peoples whether they be celebrities, politicians, celebrity-politicians, should take speech classes in order to avoid embarrassing themselves when the teleprompter fails.
Report Post »rockstone
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:51pmOr join AA.
Report Post »warr9553
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:21pmthats why they all like obama because they are all stones on something
Report Post »addie
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:11pmMy guess is drugs! She looks terrible, like she just got out of bed and threw on clothes. She didn’t appear drunk, just strung out. Who is hollywood isn’t?
Report Post »Bullhorn Guy
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:40pmShe is clearly a prescription drug abuser. I would say some combination of Xanax, Valium, Oxycodone…maybe some methadone thrown in for good measure. Who knows, she might even take adderall or Ritalin. When you’re strung out, and the teleprompter isn’t working, that is a recipe for embarrassment.
Report Post »AubieKermit
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:09pmBurtation???
Report Post »TxMadMac
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:05pmIf you support a cause, you really need to come prepared. Don’t rely on teleprompters. Too bad for her. Obama would be mute without his. One of my favorite fanticises.
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:04pmDon’t worry dear this also happened to our POTUS, when his teleprompter has been drinking.
Report Post »nocomment
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:02pmPeolple involved with Hollywood acting tend to be a little ‘dingy’
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 10:52pmIf Hollywood were to disappear, The Cartels would be out of business.
Report Post »Obama’s biggest supporters….The “I Pledge” Guy’s….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0
flfshrmn
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 2:00pmI’m sure she has an assistant responsible for telling her how great she was and getting her put back together just in time to get her drink on after the awards show.
Report Post »The only thing she missed in that unintelligible bumbling was a wardrobe malfunction and a massive vomit session…….all of which would also be blamed on the teleprompter, of course!
TriforcePlayer
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 1:56pmWhat a shame
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on September 23, 2011 at 1:55pmDouble Fail.
The “obtained by CBS” link is broken (period where colon should be), and the link to the audio on the intended page 404s.
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