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Palin's Palmprompter: How Sarah sneakily consulted her notes during her $100,000 appearance at Tea Party rally
She chided Barack Obama for his frequent use of the teleprompter - but Sarah Palin proved she is not above using a handy reminder over the weekend.
The former vice presidential candidate was speaking at the first ever national 'Tea Party' convention on Saturday when she sneaked a quick - and not so subtle - peek at notes written on her hand.
The embarrassing moment was caught on film during a question-and-answer session after Mrs Palin gave a rousing speech to activists at the rally in Nashville, Tennessee, on the weekend.
It came just minutes after she gave the keynote speech to the convention, during which she said in reference to Mr Obama: 'This is about the people ... and it's a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter.'
Mrs Palin, seated on stage, used the microphone she was holding in a clumsy attempt to disguise the fact that she was peering at her crib notes.
Close ups of the video footage showed that she had written in her palm 'energy', 'budget cuts' (with the word 'budget' then crossed out), 'tax', and 'lift American spirits'.
The questions had been pre-screened, giving the former Alaska governor time to study up on the answers.
She was ridiculed by bemused political commentators and on the Internet. 'I guess the next time meanie liberal elites like Katie Couric ask Palin what she reads, she can say, "My hand,"' blog Politicsusa.com wrote.
Gawker.com was even more baffled by the incident: 'Did this woman seriously write notes on her hand to assist in the answering of questions she was given in advance? And did she do so minutes after criticizing the President for being fond of his teleprompter? *FACEPALM*.... This is just straight up EMBARRASSING.'
However the blip did not appear to dent her popularity at the event, where organisers had paid her $100,000 to speak.
Lending a hand: Palin delivers the keynote speech at the Tea Party convention in Nashville on Saturday night... her notes clearly visible on her left palm
A coy Mrs Palin appeared to use the event to pit herself as a serious challenger to Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential campaign.
When asked on stage about 'President Palin', she would only smile - prompting the crowds to start changing 'Run, Sarah, run!'
And in an interview with Fox News later on, she said it would be 'absurd' for her not to run if given the opportunity.
'I would be willing to if I believe that it's right for the country,' she said.
However she did insist that she was willing to support competition in the race for the Republican nomination, saying she wanted the 'cream of the crop to rise'.
After Saturday's convention it seemed clear that Tea Party activists - a hard-right conservative core of Americans who effectively derailed Mr Obama's health reforms last summer with grassroots protests - are in favour of President Palin.
'I believe in this movement ... America is ready for another revolution,' she said as the crowd roared its approval.
'This movement is about the people. Government is supposed to be working for the people.'
Then noting Democrats' recent electoral losses just a year after Mr Obama was elected on promises of hope and change, she mocked: 'How's that hope-y, change-y stuff workin' out for you?'
She repeatedly mocked Mr Obama as being soft on terror - and made it clear she has him in her sights.
She slammed his 'lack of experience' during the Fox News interview.
'In the campaign, we tried to bring attention to the fact that Obama had really not a lot of experience,' she said.
'And I do say that my executive experience, as an administrator, as a team manager if you will was, and so was John McCain's as a matter of fact, was stronger and we had more experience than Barack Obama did in terms of managing huge multi-billion dollar budgets and thousands of employees ... and that hasn't changed.
One of the 600 activists at the convention. Palin encouraged activists to get out and support candidates who shared their values
'I think that President Obama with all due respect, his lack of experience is really made manifest in the way that decisions are made in the White House today,' she added.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Mrs Palin, Republican candidate John McCain's running mate, was derided by Democrats and in much of the press for her own lack of experience - particularly in areas of foreign policy.
Many Conservative critics claimed it was her lack of experience that hampered Mr McCain in the battle against Mr Obama.
This is so silly. Palin jots down 5 key words on her hand for a 45 minute speech, meanwhile Obama loads multiple teleprompters with the full text of a much shorter speech to an elementary school, and you guys somehow equate the two?
This, like really most of the attacks on Palin, is lame.
re: Sarah Palin, or the Queen of self-ownage !en>frfr>en By mamud Comments: 9154, member since Mon May 21, 2007
On Tue Feb 09, 2010 05:58 AM
Tzipi Livni n'est pas trop mal. Mais surtout, elle a un atout qu'on retrouverait difficilement chez cette grosse pute de Palin: quand elle était dans les services secrets israéliens à Paris, elle a participé au dessoudage de plusieurs dirigeants palestos. C'est donc une bonne mère de famille: elle se débarrasse des ordures!
This is so silly. Palin jots down 5 key words on her hand for a 45 minute speech, meanwhile Obama loads multiple teleprompters with the full text of a much shorter speech to an elementary school, and you guys somehow equate the two?
This, like really most of the attacks on Palin, is lame.
Fully right!
When one see Sarah Palin's pissed off critics you understand that she is very likely to be a smart woman!
Hope she will not give up!
re: Sarah Palin, or the Queen of self-ownage !en>frfr>en By achilledetroie Comments: 7346, member since Mon Apr 17, 2006
On Tue Feb 09, 2010 06:29 AM
WineandCoke wrote:
For the loons, stupid is the new smart...just like for neocons, their draft-dodging cowardice was the new patriotism.
Don't seek much logic there.
I don't know but you could be a toilet cleaner or/and a junked libtard spongious brain! It sounds priceless when you speak of stoopid since libtardism is pure and plain stoopidity
re: Sarah Palin, or the Queen of self-ownage ! (karma: 2)en>frfr>en By WineandCoke Comments: 17122, member since Wed Apr 16, 2003
On Tue Feb 09, 2010 07:17 AM
I don't know but you could be a toilet cleaner
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So you look down your nose at some people because of the jobs they perform? Or perhaps at home, you don't bother to clean your toilets?
Can somebody please explain to me how this is supposed to be some sort of self-ownage of Palin ?
I think it's sweet. And she's apparently able to give a whole speech with 6 words scribbled onto her hand, while Obama needs to read his whole ghost-written speeches from teleprompters, word for word, in their entirety. What a contrast.
re: Sarah Palin, or the Queen of self-ownage !en>frfr>en By achilledetroie Comments: 7346, member since Mon Apr 17, 2006
On Tue Feb 09, 2010 07:36 AM
WineandCoke wrote:
I don't know but you could be a toilet cleaner
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So you look down your nose at some people because of the jobs they perform? Or perhaps at home, you don't bother to clean your toilets?
You are right!....by chance!
Sorry for the toilet cleaners !
A conservative toilet cleaner is smarter than any libtard and even more than national-SSocialist frongSSh.
re: Sarah Palin, or the Queen of self-ownage ! (karma: 4)en>frfr>en By Johnny_Ola Comments: 4857, member since Sat Apr 28, 2007
On Tue Feb 09, 2010 09:03 AM
Well this pretty much does it for me. I tried to like the woman, because I like her central message. But this chick is NOT EVEN CLOSE to smart enough for being POTUS. Having notes written on your hand is bad enough, but to have 3 incredibly basic concepts written on there, I mean, WTF! At least in 7th grade you might have written the definition of mitochondrial DNA or something hard to remember like that.
This is final nail in the coffin for her as far as I am concerned. The first was when some radio guys called her up and pranked her. It was so blatantly obvious she was being had, the idea of her being POTUS is scary.
The sad thing is, I'd STILL rather have her in charge than Obama.
re: Sarah Palin, or the Queen of self-ownage ! (karma: 4)en>frfr>en By Umfug Comments: 4978, member since Mon Jan 30, 2006
On Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:13 AM
She is the Lefts straw woman. Anything to divert attention from Obavez's complete and utter failure will be thrown out there right now. Why is she even on the news? Was her speech that important to the nation? I notice that they did not play any of her speech, only this silly story that means absolutely nothing.
