No Teleprompter Needed! Palin Writes Talking Points on Hand. (PHOTOS)
6 02 2010I thought it was kind of funny when Sarah Palin, in her speech to the Tea Party Convention tonight, criticized President Obama (who just did an hour and a half unscripted back-and-forth with Republican leadership) for using a teleprompter, while reading from her own notes. Apparently paper, the low-tech version of the teleprompter, means you’re brilliant, but don’t dare digitize the words lest you look unprepared or stupid.
But when Palin stepped out from behind the lectern and sat for a series of questions, she STILL didn’t need a teleprompter. The answers to the pre-scripted questions seemed to just flow right off her tongue palm.
UPDATE:
A much better picture has showed up on The Huffington Post.
Yes, Americans who want Palin for President, you can sleep well at night knowing your Commander in Chief has America’s priorities right at her fingertips. She’ll never forget that her three priorities as your president are: Energy, Budget Tax Cuts and Lift American Spirits. It’s a good thing she corrected that typo before policy was affected.
I’m still having a hard time believing that she was actually stupid enough to do this. I don’t know what’s stranger – the fact that she could not memorize six words, that she really doesn’t have any idea what her priorities should be without cliff notes, or that she thought she could read the palm of her hand in front of a room full of cameras without anyone noticing she was doing it. And then there’s the fact that she kept showing her palm to the cameras.
I never thought she’d be able to rival the Katie Couric moment, until now.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:33 PM
At least we now know how she was able to graduate finally from her 5th (or was it 6th? I’ve lost Track) college….Shhh. I’m sure her teachers won’t guess.
February 7th, 2010 at 7:38 PM
Of course she is a ditz. Rather than writing on her hand, she should have had her handlers speak into her ear electronically like most savvy politicians do. Alaska needs to get into the 21 first century, even if the message is aimed at the twentieth.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:29 PM
I looked at the room of these tea party people waiting for their leader,
Mrs Palin, and wondered if they forgot to pack their white sheets and
pointed hats. The KKK must be loving it! As for the hand, crib notes,
Mrs Palin has a background of being very sneaky.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:31 PM
I don’t know if I’m the only one whose noticed that from the beginning of her political career nationally, I found that her voice annoys the hell out of me. Its like listening to a fingernail on a blackboard. And it went downhill from that time on. Because it became apparent that she is just so “cute” and so empty and has nothing to say. She loves basking in the limelight and gathering the dollars that the baggers throw her way. They really think she wrote a book! Now she’s on her way to Texas to help Perry lose his bid in the primary against Hutchinson. And what was that hair all about last nite? To me she looked like she’d been ridden hard and put away wet. And lets not even talk about her taste in clothes, she almost had a skirt on. Scara is so transparent and has been from the beginning. She doesn’t walk on water, she really thinks she walks under water with a lit candle.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:46 PM
Not only could she not remember the 3 answers to the pre-screened question written on her hand, but she couldn’t get them in the proper order!
Makes me doubt she even printed them herself.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:59 PM
It was bad enough when Mrs. Palin was Alaska’s problem and we in the lower 48 were oblivious of her “charms”. Except of course the right wing opinion makers who shoved her onto McCain and into celebrity. That’s what happens when the little head rules the big head. May they rot in some media hell where an endless loop of “you betchas” echo in their ears through eternity. Now we’re all going to have her shoved down our throats for the foreseeable future because she’s become so marketable. Some might say, for sale. She sure is “um” industrious. I’m complaining and commiserating. God knows, we here in NY State cannot throw stones at your ex-governor’s glass house(s). Look at our winners. But I was in Alaska once and every Alaskan I met was smarter than this chick, more honest, more real. Our ex-governor hired a pro and your ex-governor looks like one. Ours was smart and yours needs hand printed Cliffnotes, literally. We all deserve better. It’s good to read what people with more of the “Palin experience” think about this regrettable phenomenon. But isn’t this prominence of the mediocre and ethically challenged depressing?
February 8th, 2010 at 12:08 AM
big freakin deal,grow up,with so much on the table,most of yo are idiots.
February 8th, 2010 at 12:42 AM
Saw Hillary talking early this morning on the new CNN show with Candy Crowley and couldn’t help but be impressed with the contrast between her and Sarah — Hillary was handling complicated foreign affairs questions with intelligent, insightful answers. Sarah would have called it “gotcha media.”
February 8th, 2010 at 12:50 AM
LOL I’d cry if I had the energy. Look at her followers. Isn’t that scary?
February 8th, 2010 at 1:00 AM
BuffaloGal said on an earlier thread:
She’s reading her speech. – She’s already screwed up 4 times and it’s only 7 minutes in.
She’s also having a breathing problem.
AND daisydem said:
BuffaloGal: I am not watching. Is she drugged? This was my supposition that tonight she would be taking something.
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I admit — I could only take it for a little while …….. too much needless slamming of our President, and too much vile talk about how those evil bloggers are lying about her.
BUT, BuffaloGal and Daisydem, I had the same thoughts as you. She could hardly breathe and talked very fast in an automaton sort of way (yeah, fingernails on a blackboard too). My first impression was some kind of upper, one that pumps adrenaline and makes your heart beat too fast.
You could tell she practiced reading the speech, but one could also tell that she probably didn’t write the thing. Certainly didn’t sound like her own.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:04 AM
After I stopped laughing at Palin’s Tea Bagger speech, I wondered how anyone could still admire her after the degrading performance she put on last night. Joan Walsh of salon.com described Palin in terms that even Palin’s non-intellectually curious fans could understand: “mean and dumb.”
—-Walsh: “Wow. This was the Palin we saw at the 2008 Republican convention, the snarling pitbull in shimmery lipstick. I know journalists aren’t supposed to use words like mean and dumb, but I can’t help it. Palin is one of the meanest people on the public stage today. She wallows in it. She loves it! Also? Possibly one of the dumbest. But mean works, and so does dumb. And so do lies, and there were many mean, dumb lies in her speech.”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2010/02/06/palin_speaks?source=newsletter
Now, combine Joan’s observations with popular conservative Charles Johnson’s observations last week on his blog “littlegreenfootballs:”
—–Johnson: “Since I began to break ranks with the right wing noisemakers, I’ve been receiving an average of five hate mails every single day, often more. (snip)
The amount of hate mail I’ve received from angry right wingers is far, far beyond anything I ever received from angry Islamists, or even from angry CODEPINK leftists. And the level of venom and vitriol is pretty amazing. Many of them exhibit cowardly stalker-like behavior, using proxy IPs and fake email addresses to hide their identities, and putting titles on their hate mails that sound innocuous to “trick” me into reading them.”
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/35702_We_Got_Mail!
His hate mail is “far, far beyond anything” he’s received from any other group. Mere politics seem to have very little to do with the hate and venom coming from extreme right wingers.
Putting it all together……the picture that emerges is that “mean and dumb” appeals to the mean and dumb. SP gives them what they want. She speaks their language. She strokes and stokes their anger and meanness. She walks their moral “low road” instead of the high road….. and by doing so she validates their meanness and dumbness. That’s the answer to my question of how anyone could still admire her after that performance she put on last night. It’s that simple.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:05 AM
Hope this isn’t a repeat. Pretty scary, and really makes one think about the possibility of white supremacy getting feet in the door of traditional politics:
a few snippets from The Guardian (British):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/05/tea-party-united-states
“Prejudice and principle brew at tea party meet”
“Tom Tancredo, a former Republican congressman from Denver in Colorado who ran for president in 2008, …..” “invoked the segregationist methods of the southern states, saying that Obama had been elected because “we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country”. Southern segregationist states used to prevent black people having the vote by setting them restrictively difficult qualification tests, a historical allusion lost on few of the delegates present.
“Tancredo went on to call on delegates to launch a ‘counter-revolution’ that would ‘pass on our culture based on Judeo-Christian principles. Whether people like it or not, that’s who we are.’
“That remark received a standing ovation from the audience.”
February 8th, 2010 at 1:19 AM
@110 leenie:
“Okay folks, on your right we have the teabaggers’ (or ziplocks, as I like to call them)”
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heeheeheeheehee!
what a great term.
February 8th, 2010 at 5:21 AM
Sorry if someone has posted this already, but Democratic Underground has a hilarious thread of stuff written on Palin’s hand. Photoshop extraordinaire!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×7663090#7663627
February 8th, 2010 at 9:25 AM
#141 How about Sarah Palin (R, Sharpie)?
#150 Beautiful.
February 8th, 2010 at 10:39 AM
Lee323: “Mean and dumb” is just right. It’s like you read my mind. I’ve repeatedly thought, witnessing Palin’s antics, that she’s one of those people who have just the right mixture of stupid and mean that they’re always into it with somebody, and it’s always the other person’s fault.
Her delivery style–that voice wavering up and down like Mary Tyler Moore’s, hitting the high notes with barely restrained hysteria, saying someting especially bitchy and then pausing for reaction with an “ain’t I cute?” smile on her face like Ann Coulter–is typical of hystrionic personality disorder. I wish I could see a high resolution shot of the back of her hand, because people with HPD tend to have gravelly skin on the backs of their hands.
February 8th, 2010 at 10:58 AM
She’s getting fat. Will they still love her when she tops 300 pounds and looks like a blimpo.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:20 PM
Sarah has to be the laziest pretend-politician in this country. Good grief, she hasn’t studied anything or learned — even accidentally — anything all year, in spite of it being delivered to her on a silver platter. Everything is a repeat, over and over.
This complaint about Obama and the teleprompter is so old news, not used anymore especially since he ad-libbed the take down of the rethugs on their “retreat”. She really lacks a part of the reasoning brain that puts 2 and 2 together and assures you it is NOT 7.
To Sarah, the Constitution means lawlessness?? What a leotard.
Incidentally, no one gets to usurp to a word as their very own, ( i.e. retard) so one can use it to lay claim to being “assaulted” when you were not — when someone uses that word you pretend that you own. I own the word “fat” and anyone who uses that is assaulting me? gedouddahere
The Tea Party speech fell flat on it’s face, hardly getting applause in some places. 600 people isn’t that much of a gathering, they probably didn’t break even on the deal if 1/3 of the proceeds went to Scara off the top.
She didn’t look prepared, had to read too much of the inserts that she hadn’t written and didn’t even understand, that her delivery was jerky and her tone, oh gawd her tone, awful.
It was a low grade FLOP in front of a low grade gang of low-brows.
The next day, she says: “Here I am on TV with Mike Wallace!” …when she was talking to Chris Wallace…dumb dumb dumb.
Her “upper” stash got a work-out this last week end, going to have to get more, it’s running low after all these appearances where she couldn’t begin to keep up without using an upper. Speed talking anyone? Those uppers and resultant downs are going to take their toll Sarah.
It’s very telling that she looked half dead in her speech, such lackluster performance, such lazy rhetoric. The next door she is heading for is marked “exit”. Kick that door open Sarah, barge right through.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:59 PM
Poor ex-governor Winky McQuittyPants. Now she’s REALLY, REALLY A Queen. Queen of the Tea Gaggers. She can wear a little tea pot for a crown, a tea spoon for a sceptor and a tea bag for her orb.
Question: What is palm of Palin’s hand called?
Answer: A HillBilly Teleprompter.
Therefore, too, also, again, then too, again, also.
February 8th, 2010 at 2:20 PM
Even with knowing the questions beforehand, and the answers written on her hand, she still couldn’t make out the answers she’d written, had trouble reading them! And then she couldn’t put them into sentences without stumbling. Are you kidding me Sarah? Now instead of wearing glasses that you don’t need to obscure your off-kilter eyes, you’ll have to wear glasses that you DO need, or your cheatin days are over…also…there.
It was too perfect, trying to bury Obama for his teleprompter and then waving her cheat sheet hand in front of the camera so all could see?! Shocking, the level of her stupidity.
The next day she said Obama could win in 2012 IF he declared WAR ON IRAN!!
She fell flat on her face with that appearance, you couldn’t really call it a “speech” it was a rambling toss up of talking points that she couldn’t deliver because they didn’t compute.
The $100,000 hand reading at the tea leaves cup? Sarah it is tea leaves you read at the tea party, not hands.
With less than 1000 people to hear her speech, she looked completely deflated before she began and she wanted to bail the minute she was done.
Ahhhh, great week end for her lame duckness, practicing her swan song in public.
February 8th, 2010 at 5:04 PM
Her supporters still think she is peachy. Everyone does this according to them. Name one. Name one single politician at any level who has done this in a televised performance. Heck why single out those elite politicians…how about dog catcher or a local wiccan being interviewed on a public access channel? How about a ten year old girl scout or high school athlete. NO ONE DOES THIS ON TV YOU MAROONS!!!!Does stumbling through a bad speech, thumbing through her notecards, make her more folksy and real then someone using a teleprompter? That is basically some notecards you dont have to look down to shuffle. She is mean, snarky, unpleasant, and dumb. Ignorance…meet arrogance.
February 8th, 2010 at 7:55 PM
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February 8th, 2010 at 8:57 PM
So if, heaven forbid, she actually does become the commander-in-chief, is she going to write the code to the nuclear football on her hand as well? I sure hope she doesn’t sweat.
February 8th, 2010 at 9:42 PM
Now I’m glad my computer and TV have been down for four days and just got fixed today, so I didn’t watch either of her speeches. I can only stand to listen to her voice for about a minute anyway. The writing crib notes on the hand is so high school, and even then only the intelligently challenged (I’m being PC) students did it. It hard to believe there are so many of them around and, worse, they vote. I understand a sign at the Texas event for Governor Perry read “Home Scholers for Perry.” There are no real regulations regarding home schooling in Texas, so I think it’s a Perry plot to maintain his base.
February 9th, 2010 at 9:17 PM
Laingirl. You are so funny. I laughed so hard, I almost ruptured!