Is This How Sarah Palin Got Through College? She Uses Cheat Notes For Tea Party Speech
By Susie Madrak Sunday Feb 07, 2010 11:00amFrom Think Progress:
Tonight, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin spoke to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, TN, an event that was ditched by other high-profile Republicans who disliked its for-profit model. After her speech, organizer Judson Phillips asked Palin several questions. One of them was about what needs to be done when there is a “conservative House and a conservative Senate.” Palin jumped right in and said, “We’ve got to rein in the spending, obviously.” However, she then seemed to forget her next talking point and glanced down at her left hand, as if there were notes she had scribbled down. She went on to talk about “energy projects.”
Oliver Willis points out that during this same speech, she referred to Obama as "the guy with the teleprompter."
Really, I don't care that Sarah Palin read notes off her hand. So her ideas aren't logical, consistent and coherent enough to answer a question without prompting - is this news to anyone who's paying attention?
And will it affect her popularity one bit? No, it will not.
But it's the continued hypocrisy of conservative figures that irks me. I mean, she's disparaging Obama's teleprompter use in the same speech in which she's using cheat notes? Does her brain even have the function that would note that as a contradiction?
The real problem isn't that conservatives are hypocrites. It's that they're such shameless, proud hypocrites - and that they're so willing to exploit worried Americans who can't figure that out.
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The msm will ignore this nitwit reading the answers off her hand because the Democrats have no noise machine or will to do make this an issue
...the msm would ignore this nitwit. Period.
Really,go there and spend an hour or so.it is fucking unbelieveable.
I'm still trying to get my head around that.
but she obviously knew the questions beforehand as well.
I don't know what else to say. I'm in awe.
Just when you thought the bar of stupid could not drop any further, the quitta from Wasilla astounds us again with her crass idiocy.
when we have the Shelby 'PORK HOLD" over security appointments
!!? THis is exactly what the american people and the tea baggers are angry about --This continual do nothing partisanship!She is a quitter speaking to an audience of less than 600 in Opryland --Obama is the leader of the Free World and the Dems have a majority in both houses! Why give minutia power?
And an implied threat. Go along with the policies of the Democrats, no matter how conservative - or else.
Republican Sen. Richard Shelby puts a blanket hold on all of President Obama's nominees for profit
But Sarah Palin had a speech last night with the teabaggers and a bobblehead appearance on Fox News Sunday, so it's a little hard to argue that she isn't having an affect on the national dialogue and that's what we cover here.
http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2010/02/07/...
"Beginning Of The End: Sarah Palin Hijacks The Tea Party Movement"
"The movement that began as a people’s movement of angry independent, libertarians and conservatives will now be thought as the movement of people like Palin, Dick Armey, Judson Phillips, Mark Skoda, etc. Essentially, a wholly owned subsidiary of the “Official Conservative Movement” and the Republican Party.
This new tea party bears no resemblance to the one that began a year ago as a reaction to the collapse of our financial system and the subsequent bailout. ...
... These weren’t the people who were out protesting. This weren’t regular folks. This was the same old network of conservative hacks, flacks, publicists and hangers-on. This was Conservative Inc. "
LOOK AT THE HAND!!!!
They used to cheat and lie secretly, now they just do it in the open. I hope this makes their base think twice of electing these scoundrels.
"Think" and "Republican" are mutually exclusive terms.
they will grow a few brain cells and vote democratic.
wish in one hand...
most Americans are not good speech givers.
Most Americans will find the notes on hand endearing (it may even have been a stunt for that purpose.)
Most Americans will relate to it the same way they related to having a beer with bush at a BBQ.
Most Americans will take the lefts ragging on this trivial thing as elitist crap and will hold it against the left, not palin.
The stupid left is handing republicans yet another opportunity to distract from the issues of the day and make hay nonsense.
Still won't work and this is not a distraction for the "Left" just some really really good fun, always is when it comes to Palin, she knows how to deliver! Blanket Statement saying Most Americans related to Bush and his beer soaked BBQ's, nice try again, and speaking of elitists, have you ever listened to Bushs Mother? Talk about East coast elitist. Palin is an elitist, don't fool yourself! She stays at the Four Seasons when she's in Manhatten sipping martini's with the rest of the elitists. She also dines with that other elitist Bill Kristol. So please, try something new!
The comment has nothing to do with palin and everything to do with how easy it is to portray the left as arrogant - you're "good fun" is what the right will easily portray as elitist arrogance. Just keep it up and wait. reality has nothing to do with it - its all perceptions.
there are 2 palin views:
1) people similar to her who relate to her doltish simpleton victimization
2) people who see her as a pathetic goof
You don't reach either one by ranking on her: the first take it personally as if you're ranking on them (which you are), the second take it as being a bully on a pathetic fool. Either way the left loses - they should just STFU about her. She destroys herself all the time.
it's not ok to pick on the victim that is Sarah or her followers. Just sit back and relax and not appear to be a bully as you put it! I won't STFU about this woman. She is a dolt and she's not a victim, and if you listen to her she screams arrogance and narcissism. The Left as you call it loses nothing here by criticizing her.
In the words of Dr Dean, YEEEEEEEEEEEeeHAAAAAAAaaa.
Yeah, and most Americans don't run for the office of VP.
Most Americans don't run and get elected to the office of Governor.
And most Governors don't quit and walk out on their constituents.
Most Americans don't profit from said activity.
Most Americans don't end up on Faux Nooz selling themselves to the highest bidders.
And most Americans wouldn't have even tried to pull that st00pid stunt off.
She's so cute when she cheats. "Americans" eat that up.
Most Americans in public office can be good speech givers.
Most Americans will find the notes on hand immature and stupid.
Most Americans will relate o it the same way they related to having a beer with Bush, an admitted alcoholic.
Most Americans will take the rights dismisssing this major flaw as elitist crap and will hold the right.
The stupid right is handing democrats yet another opportunity to distract from the issues of the dayand make hay nonsense.
Even among Republicans, only a minority believe "she has the ability to be an effective president." Forget about the best available, only 43% of Republicans believe she has the minimum qualifications.
Those numbers decreased to 29% of independents and 11 percent of Democrats.
While her "base" will no doubt rally in defense of their Dulcinea, "most Americans" will still recognize her as a beauty queen runner-up.
Quick run to the aid of Sarah Palin, meanwhile, accuse Obama of not being able to speak without a teleprompter. Lame.
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinge...
Politico has a story about President Obama's use of teleprompters. Actually it's not so much a story as a contrivance, and grist for the right wing mill.
The nut of the Politico story:
Obama's reliance on the teleprompter is unusual—not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.
Emphasis on Obama's use of teleprompters has long been a right wing (and, I suppose, pro-Hillary) anti-Obama talking point, the implicit criticism being that since he's such a good speaker he should be able to work without prepared remarks. Inability to do so, one supposes, is supposed to indicate that he is merely an empty vessel—an actor reading someone else's fancy words.
Not surprisingly, conservative bloggers have picked up on the report. One speechwriter-turned-blogger wrote:
... at some point people may begin to wonder why the most gifted orator to hit the White House in some time hasn't taken the training wheels off.
Let's be clear on the criticism here: The president uses prepared remarks. Horrors.
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Btw, let's not forget how Obama schooled the entire Republican House of Reps without lifting a finger much less looking at his hand for notes.
"Btw, let's not forget how Obama schooled the entire Republican House of Reps without lifting a finger much less looking at his hand for notes."
When you have the ability to know the intricacies of the interrelations of many subject vast and wide as Obama, it does lend itself to straying from the subject and go into a tangent into non-directly related issues. So he uses prepared remarks to keep himself on point, not to remind hisself to say ENERGY.
"I must say energy to the pre-screened questions that were gone over with my team, and I was told every convievable ACCEPTABLE response. ANd YEt I am still too fucing stoopid that I had to write it on my hand."
THERE is NO way to spin this shit as good.
You're exactly right.
See when an elitist uses a teleprompter it means something because he's really, really smart (and condescending). It means something because he thinks he's better than the average American. But here he is not being smart enough to not be told what to say.
Then we have Ms. American Heartland who isn't an elitist. She's as dumb as the average American. She needs to use notes just like the average American. Therefore she is good like the average American - not evil like the elitist.
Or something to that effect.
Seriously, these wing-nuts can do no wrong as far as their wing-nut fans are concerned. She could eat live babies on live TV and they would praise her because the baby deserved it. The baby's great-uncle is forty generations removed from Bin Laden and therefore the baby is a terrorist.
"Ask yourself: how has "elitism" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their lives to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes time to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth—in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn't seem too intelligent or well educated." Sam Harris
yes, elitism is not a dirty word
I tried this in the 9th grade!
Her hand scribble contained the sum total of all the substance she has to offer. It was gibberish, of course.
Actually you could argue that a teleprompter is transparent and out in the open, whereas notes on your hand are secret and trying to fool unsuspecting people. I say that if you can't remember what little information you can write on your hand then you have a serious intellectual problem. I guess we already know that, though....
The teleprompter shtick is getting old... let's see Palin face the DEMS like Obama faced the GOP recently and see how well she does sans crib notes or prompters.
And it's amazing to watch her and her group of nit-wits ramp up their stupidity almost daily.
I'm thinking that after having to pay her $150K to be there, a teleprompter just wasn't in the budget any longer.
Sophomoric cheating...and the zero information dumbasses in this Nation want this completely unqualified no-talent to be President.
Ignorant bastards would vote for Manson over Obama.
Walked out with a notebook. Nope, she had to try to appear smart.
Yeah, epic fail. But this gives us a look into her mentality.
And I'd say insecurities too. She doesn't want to appear the way she really is. Lacking the mental capacity to make mental notes and to remember them. It not a crime to have attention deficit disorder. Actually, I think more people have than don't.
But, if you're going to try to push yourself off as some kind of smart, intellectual leader type. You should have at least the brains when you go on tv to not end up looking like an idiot.
Meanwhile the crowd chants, Sarah,Sarah.
Oh well. This can only help if she decides to run .
I'd have had some respect for her had she come out with a notebook, assuming there was something intelligent written on it.
Ssh. If they find out, they'll just do more of it.
Seriously: hypocrisy in conservative figures isn't a bug for their supporters, it's a feature. Once you adopt the authoritarian mindset, and you accept hypocrisy as an expression of aristocratic privilege, you eventually come to view it as a virtue, not a fault. The fact that it irks liberals to see it is just gravy.
Morals are an absolute for all human beings. There are no two set of morals, as much as cynics would like to believe that.
That she does read some items. This is actually a nonstory. Even her hypocrisy is old news.
I am a chauvanistic pig but I thought Palin suffered discrimination when Ophra asked her about her hair. When are they going to start talking to male politicians about their toupees?
John Edwards, John Kerry and Bill Clinton come to mind, in very well-publicized incidents.
What a fucking loser. Everything, anytime this sorry bitch goes on the National stage she fucks up.
Imagine her in the White House.
Sarah Palin is hardly the first politician to use "playing the victim" as her main weapon (h/t HRC). As the Lance Manion link argues, this will likely only endear her to her devotees.
Looks more like the logo for the band Kiss (see the jagged letter S?). Wasn't Palin into some wierd kind of religion where they strapped her down and exorcized her demons, or something like that? Maybe she worships Satan, like Kiss did. I've always had trouble spelling the word "weird."
It disturbs me greatly when I look at a site I admire so much, like Crooks and Liars, and see this sort of crap. She doesn't have any notes on her hand! It looks more like a bruise, or an injury, or something. Liberals and progressives have serious business to attend to, and when you buy into this tripe you cheapen our message, and you adopt the tactics of our enemies, who I happen to believe are the enemies of everything America does and should stand for. So what if there ARE notes on her hand! WHO GIVES A FLYING F***!! Not me. (Am I allowed to spell out that word here without getting zapped?) [Deleted. Knock it off-Sitemonitor] Leave being a moron to Palin, and shut up about drivel like this.
Yes, the words are there. A larger, clearer picture is here.
If you do not see hypocrisy in slamming Obama for using a teleprompter while reading notes off your hand, well....
:)
"She doesn't have any notes on her hand!"
OR?
"So what if there ARE notes on her hand! WHO GIVES A FLYING F***!!"
Make up your mind.
on her hand, those are notes! Apparently you're missing the point! This is not drivel, funny yes but drivel no. The woman wants to be taken seriously, in fact demands it...and this is what we're left with. She has a strong voice, can't speak in complete sentences, lies and distorts the truth ..... I don't think we're being moronic....thank you very much!
If you can't see the words there, check out this link from the huffington post. It' has exactly what the words are!
It says Energy, Budget scrated out and Cut taxes, lift America's spirit. If you listen to her rehearsed answers they're exactly in that order.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-sirucek/...
This woman is not stable.
Would you rather have a President who gave a speech at the United Nations or an address to congress by using a teleprompter or one who read notes from their hand?
. . . and works for the interests of people over corporations. So would most people. Of course, when neither candidate qualifies, the teleprompter vs. "notes on hand" debate can always substitute for substance.
Obama slammed the Supreme Court decision while Republicans cheered it so, if you want a President who upholds the rule of law, you've already got him!
Palin should be stripped of her rights to speak. She is dangerous and should be locked up. Dissenters should be put in work camps if they can't go along with the agenda.
But that's ludicrous and you know it. Stop trying to put crap like that up to make the left look bad. That crap won't wash.
You must be a teabagger.
She has the right to say whatever she wants. We encourage it. She never fails to look st00pid.
I don't want Palin to ever shut up because every time she opens her pie hole( other than to breath )she says something that is either akin to blabbering or just something ST-O-O-O-PID!Thanx Sarah keep up the hypocritical stupidity!
...while using a Palm Pilot and fucking notes on her Goddamned hand! You can't justify such hypocrisy...unless you're equally stupid.
is 'equally stupid'
Oh, man, that would be sweet. Once they're in the gulag we can re-educate them until they are cured. Maybe a little torture to reinforce the manifestos.
We can sell the property and guns we strip from them to Peking, or maybe Hanoi, and redistribute it to our comrades, the Cadillac Driving Welfare Cheats.
Niiiiiiiice.
So may trolls today. Was there a workshop on this at the Tea Party convention?
Whoosh...
Yes, I know you were being sarcastic.
...that this stupid ass woman embarrasses you too.
Btw asshole, no one here has suggested suppressing this sorry bitch's first amendment rights, however we have every right to rebut her lies and bullshit.
. . . then Palin should be quite safe. I don't think she's varied from the Corporate line in her entire, um, "career."
Yeah ... That's the ticket!
What a rogue!
*wink*
Yeah you do. C'mon, don't bullshit me.
And it's OK that you care. Sarah Palin is beloved by a lot of the tea party goons and we all love to hate her. Nothing wrong with that.
Just cut the 'oh I could just as easily have NOT posted this, but...' nonsense.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/funnypictu...
He made a feigned attempt to ambush at Willis' blog. I figured he'd at least make an attempt to show here.
A teleprompter is not an indication of intelligence, but of memory. A smart person can read a teleprompter just as well as a dumb person. It is a device used to enhance a speaker's ability to make eye contact with his/her audience.
On the other hand, grade-school crib notes scribbled on one's palm is highly indicative of the failure to master a subject. It is considered CHEATING in an academic sense.
Also, as has been pointed out, why would Palin have 'reminders' that conveniently fit a question she was asked? Did she ALSO know the questions beforehand and the notes were because she's dumber than a sack of hammers?
that sums Sarah up in a nut shell!
Wow! Energy, taxes and lift the American spirit. Those are tough talking points to ACTUALLY REMEMBER!! Good thing she had a hand. What a pathetic jerk.....
Why does she seem to make Dan Quayle seem so smart:
I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
Dan Quayle
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle
I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.
Dan Quayle
I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
Dan Quayle
I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Dan Quayle
Hell, she makes Duh-bya look smart. Could you imagine the Sarah Palin Presidential Liberry? What would there be in it? A copy of "People" magazine and a hand print?
Dan Quayle actually said those things? Too funny!
this is the single funniest thing i have seen in a long time....i can't stop laughing.
That's how Palin operates! This "thing" is s-o-o-o stupid that I highly doubt she has the intellect to understand what she says because what sane person would make a crack about Obama using a teleprompter while, at the same time, they are answering questions with the aid of crib notes printed on the palm of their hand! So help me, I've NEVER seen ANYONE do this in all of my 64 years on this earth and her sheep will defend her use of these notes til their dying breath!I really hope " Failin' " Palin lives to be 120 years old because I want generations to get to know what a hypocritical moron this woman truly is!
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WTF is she saying!
Sarah Palin got through college?
Pics or didn't happen
"Look at
othurother hand"Q: Which hand does Sarah read?
A: ALL of them!
have used the same person that wrote her book to write on her right hand.
I didn't think she could use html.
... she can't spell.
the WhiteOut kept flaking off ...
In high school I'm sure she wrote her crib notes on her inner thigh like that girl in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
http://www.issarahpalinstillretarded.com/
I still can't figure out how it's possible that Palin hasn't been laughed back to Alaska.
It doesnt' take a rocket scientist to see right thru her. It's astounding that she has any popularity or that ppl revere her and see her as a leader!
that goes with her pesecution complex.
if she were REALLY into that 'family value/stayathome/staypregnant/submittohusband stuff..she would have her ass at home taking care of the lovely little boy. You know, her 'fashion accessory' for photo-ops)..unless, of course, Bristol is the caretaker...after all...........
So, just WHO IS taking care of that Special Needs little guy?
OMG hahahaha
To bad she did not get to use her presidential speech oops I mean her VP speech..all that writing (also and to) with her fine point on Trigs diaper..gone to waste.
Grandma Palin you need some work done on that wrinkled neck..kinda sagging there showing your age!!!
Beauty fades but dumb is forever...
Not hard to imagine what would happen if a prominent Democrat was caught out like this.
Who can spell 'unelectable'?
know what the left hand is doing." (Sarah Palin, circa 2010)
I come back from vacation to find out the left is now scrutinzing hands to make some sort of political point.
This was common practice in our debate team in HS & college.
Have anyone not ever written a phone number on their hand to remind them later to write it down?
Guess you've got nothing else. Palin continues to flumox the left.
Buy popcorn stock.
Hamburger with mustard.
Need one say more?
During her shitty, fact-less, lie saturated speech this dumb-ass woman criticized Obama for using a teleprompter while she had notes written on her hand and used the assistance of a Palm Pilot.
Now if you don't understand the hypocrisy in that you are either a hopeless teabagger trying to defend this idiot or a stupid troll who decided to sneak your worthless comment in after everyone left presumably to watch the Super Bowl.
Either way, defending cheating and deception makes you an asshole.
Who can't name a newspaper, can't name a founding father, and apparently can't remember the key points for a scripted question (or, at the very least, the points she feels are essential to mention).
The only reason I'd write a number on my hand is if I had no paper. So you're telling me Sarah had no 3x5 cards? A post-it note? This isn't a high school debate team, pal - this is a woman who aspired to one of the highest offices in the country.
Surely, you are not arguing that a high school student could do the job just as well?
The only thing the left may be flummoxed about is why the right thinks she's INTELLIGENT.
i don't like this video. i think it has the opposite effect to what was intended, certainly with anyone who has the slightest doubt whether to dislike her or not. this just humanizes her. half the people in this country aren't any smarter than her and they hate elitist, fancy pants, no-it-alls.
i just think name recognition and money could actually land this woman in office in 2012. and the more we pay attention to her and nitpick at her shortcomings the worse off we are for it. she should be ignored. ridicule was fine before, but for note cards or a word or two on her hand? it's too much, any normal person who has done public speaking certainly wouldn't fault her for it.
There's nothing we can do about the ignorants who will support her regardless.
Ignoring Palin and her lies and bullshit is exactly what these crazies want. CNN interviewed some Independents after Palin's dog speech and they unanimously rejected her divisive fact-less, solution-less attacks.
Well I would argue that we needn't address the bullshit of the likes of her, but treat her as irrelevant. Also, that these kinds of attacks invoke sympathy and will actually bring her new supporters.
Right now all she wants is attention.
Well I certainly hope you are right. But, I don't have that much faith in the American public's judgment.
... both as a planetarium lecturer and as a volunteer docent on a decommissioned aircraft carrier.
For the former, I'm standing in a darkened room, but I still sought to make 'eye contact' with my audience, internalizing most of the script. Lectures about the seasonal sky were routinely given entirely from memory.
Working on the carrier, the only notes I kept were for the 'trivia' about the ship: her exact commissioning and decommissioning dates, length and beam, etc. None of the other docents used notes, either. We were expected to know our material and present it effectively.
So given that Sarah has been in the business of giving speeches about the 'real America' since 2008, how is it that she is STILL clueless and lost a year and a half later? A reminder to mention energy and the economy? My GOD, it's not like these are issues that are far from people's minds. Why the heck would you need these as bullet points on your palm unless you're so abysmally unprepared and inept that you can't remember them from one instant to the next?
Intelligence is essential to good leadership. POTUS must have a working knowledge of numerous subjects. They must be able to listen, comprehend, and think.
Sarah is flunking on all of these points.
But why slam someone for using a teleprompter which most politicians use and then very visibly have notes written on your hand?
If she needs that, fine. But most people when they are giving a speech have some sort of notes. Teleprompters are simply high tech notes. Why should anyone care. That is why Bush always looked like a deer in the headlights. He was reading the prompter and was not good at it. Obama is good at it. Big deal.
All TV news people use them. That is why it is called "reading the news." You can't memorize everything. Memorization takes time.
It isn't the fact that she does it, it is the fact that she is a hypocrite about it.
Considering the fact that her sentences are so incredibly tortured sometimes maybe she should ask the President to recommend a teleprompter for her to use.
We have real problems. Just remember this: Palin's husband, the secessionist, was really running Alaska. That is very very scary.
... to enhance your ability to make eye contact. Anchors have scripts in front of them. Reporters in the field have their notebooks, which often contain facts they have compiled within the last few hours, not bullet points they've been pushing for nearly two years.
We're seeing the same anti-intellectualism that brings us Creationism and some of the wacky-ass American History that the teabaggers promote. THAT's why it needs to be called out.
if Palin's latest challenged offspring was fathered by "The Dude" or from her extramarital affair with "The Dude's" business partner?
I got this from 9thdistrict @huff
Palin with the nuke codes written on her hand:
http://tilt-o-rama.com/palinnuke.jpg
I know this is probably crude and in bad taste but.....aw fuck it! Henceforth I shall refer to the quitta from Wasilla as Sarah Handjob.
almost looking forward to the next presidential election. The comical entertainment factor will be off the scale.
one element is missing but soon to be corrected, missing uniforms for all Palin's followers and Christian Soldiers. A lot of black on red displayed and heavy on the leather. I can see them now pouring from the trailer courts and back hill country carrying Palin images on banners with some symbol to promote just like the Nazi movement. Late night rituals in keeping with the KKK. " Death to the Liberals" will be the chant throughout the land.
...why the Hell did Palin have to sneak and do it?
You trolls here apologizing for Simple Sarah's deceit and faithless cheating have no honor and will get what you ask for.
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