Did Sarah Palin Have Tea Party Speech Crib Notes On Her Hand?
And so the 24/7 media jumps into the fray. Some images of Sarah Palin at the Tea Party Convention have now emerged that she probably wishes didn’t and some others that won’t spark debate but, rather, provide more context for the environment in which she made her speech.
THE FIRST GROUP qualifies a bit of an eyebrow raiser. Did Palin have crib notes on her hand? It looks that way. GO HERE.
So does this mean those who keep using the Obama teleprompter line will ignore yet another politician who seemingly needs to be promopted? Answer: You can go to Vegas and bet on it.
But the REALITY IS: both Obama and Palin know most of what they’re going to say and it is not a sin to use a teleprompter or use crib notes. And those who criticize them know that as well. (The late Bob Hope in his later years reportedly would have cue cards when he gave a short monologue at a party.) This whole “issue” is an attempt to denegrate someone who is of a different party. (The Obama narrative is now a tired cliche after his widely praised performance before House GOPers that was on live TV). Will Palin still use the teleprompter line, along with her supporters? You betcha. Such is the nature of political “discussion” that sarcasm and ridicule in speeches is at a premium, even if it is a bunch of this.
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” I am rather new to this blog but I have noticed Joe's writing has a tendency to favor the liberal side of issues”
I personally would say your right as far as his opinion but the hysteria about the possibility goes way overboard and is embracing to me as a conservative. Joe is usually clear when he reports and when he comments. While there may be some bias in his choice of stories, if there are just facts and no commentary people need to stop whining. No quicker way to turn people off and what, do we want to act like liberals?
While there may be some bias in his choice of stories, if there are just facts and no commentary people need to stop whining.
I was responding to his Comment not his article. The comment appeared to me to be whining on his part as if we were forcing these poor ( probably paid ) writers out of blogging by our nasty comments. I respond I don't whine. Joe's a big boy I'm sure he can take some well intentioned criticism just as I can.
In the Middle West, people of AKE's heritage are called dumb Swedes because they don't talk very much. Little do the Midwesterners know how utterly stupid Swedes get when they talk too much.
To see Palin condescended to by a total witless moron is amusing, to say the least.
You know as well as I do that I am more intelligent than her. Hell, you are more intelligent than her. Drop the act.
Will any of you Tea Party people not admit she had the notes on her had because she new the questions before hand. Don't give me the “standard” teleprompter answer. Answer my question and then tell me why she needed crib notes. (PS I voted McCain/Palin) wish I could take it back.
You mean like the long-winded rhetorical exercises in fatuous language tricked-out out to appeal to pretentious bores that Obama reels off three or four times weekly?
LOL, now you're gonna get Sully started down a whole other path of delusional self-destruction just as he travelled last summer when he predicted that the divorce papers between Todd & Sarah would be signed “tomorrow.” Like that song from Li'l Orphan Annie, it just keeps on keepin' on, the tabloid blather. I read the National Inquirer for the real news nowadays, & Sully for the trash-talk. [Plus the View of course, mustn't forget the lib's daily instruction show.
Hell, you are more intelligent than her.
That may be going too far, Axel.
The fact that you consider yourself “intelligent” by reciting paint-by-the-numbers liberal brainfog smoke rings is pretty sad. I haven't seen one out-of-the=box observation by yourself on the several threads you've been posting on. And as for intelligence, it comes in all forms, including emotional intelligence, where Sarah has you lapped about twenty times, as far as you come across on TMV. Ditto for Andy Sully-van, whom she's lapped even more often. Also, ethical & moral may be departments where she stands out better than the occultation of Obama's many hidden & underreported ethical and moral lapses. [Where are his State Senate Campaign records and why did they disappear? Ditto for Obama's senior thesis at Columbia on US-Soviet Disarmament?] Why are her e-mails combed like national security documents while Obama's record is hidden in plain sight by the MSM, which simply doesn't follow up any negative stories on Obama? And of the four, Biden is the dumbest person to run for national office last year, judging from his almost daily gaffes and factual errors [especially on foreign policy, where he was on the Foreign Relations Cte for thirty years!!!] Obama is slick, but he'll do a 180 just months after he makes a big foreign policy announcement. Obama has little moral and ethical intelligence beyong the high-flying words he unpacks by the trainload.
Kathy, you are one of the least intelligent commentaters allowed on any blog, so don't push your luck. You are a badly-dressed DNC talking point and not much else.
Saint Sarah, Queen of the teabaggers had crib notes for her friendly fawning Q & A; she had notes for her “speech”. IF she can't keep notes in her head for a softball Q & A, how can anyone believe she has the intellectual capacity to negotiate with the likes of Ahmadinejad. This is before stating the obvious to all but conservative/teabaggers, the hypocrisy of criticizing President Obama for using a teleprompter, yet she has crib notes on her hand like a 6th grader, geeez. The fact that you all can't see anything in this says much more about you all that us.
So much so FAUX news couldn't take it and had to cut away to save their viewers the horror.
Rolling on the floor laughing my arse off; you provide great comedy. I must come here and read your stuff more often….
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She had what 4 words written down? Your spastic illogical rant tells more about you than anyone else. Grow up.
I said my peace, I'm not going to sit in on your circle jerk
who cares?
How 'bout them Saints! Was that a great Super Bowl or what?
I want to screw her too but that doesn't mean I think she has the qualifications and the ability to be the leader of the free world. Wake up… she's the reason why John Mccain lost the election. If the Tea Party wants to be taken seriously(and I hope they do) they had better find a serious canidate. Not just a MILF puppet.
The extremists on the fringe will always be with us.Steve Forbes said today and I agree with him that when S. Palin resigned her public trust as governor she sunk any future national aspirations. The United States will elect a loser but not a quitter. She is all about securing her income now and no one will ever convince me differently. She had a taste of champaign and caviar and, believe me, she liked it. That husband of hers will never be able to bring in money. She's stumbled onto a gravy train and she aint getting off. When it's crunch time, the jingoistic Palinists will shove off just as she will. As far as losing the election for McCain, well, she didn't help, I agree. It pains me greatly to say it but George McGovern could have beaten John McCain. After 8 tears of W, Rove, Cheney, Wolfie and Rummy who hijacked the center right of the Republicans, it was all over but the shouting. I have a great respect for Sen. McCain but it just wasn't to be. Hey, it's Mardi Gras. Kick back, put your feet up have a sazerac. Think about Sarah Palin a tight leather outfit. Llaissez les bon temps rouler!
I know you teabaggers revel in your ignorance, but her name calling President Obama for using a teleprompter, then in the SAME event she uses crib notes like a 6th grader is called IRONY & HYPOCRISY and a total lack of self-awareness, whether you understand it or not!!!!!!
I get enough crap in my inbox, to bad there isn't a spam filter here…………
Mrs. Palin read her whole speech from either an inpodium telepromter or a written script.
There is nothing wrong with that.
What is wrong and pathetic is criticizing others for doing the same,.
So continues the teabgger's hypocrisy; they can dish out the bull shyt but can't take facts.
Don't you think someone who has aspirations to be president could remember “energy, tax cuts, lift America's spirits…”! Pretty pathetic stuff!
“Don't you think someone who has aspirations to be president could remember “energy, tax cuts, lift America's spirits”
Yes and I really don't think she would have a problem remembering those things. Most likely it was just a way of settling down her mind before a big public appearance, getting her thoughts in order, like Joe said, a bit of a security blanket. So? What's pathetic is acting like it matters. I've never been a Palin fanboy, I don't think she is some inspirational leader that will “save” America. I also don't think she's an idiot and the idea that she is so incredibly stupid is so transparent and just blatantly wrong as to make you people look like loonies and Zealots. I don't care if you like her, but the foaming at the mouth hated is just weird.
my issue is i dont like hypocritical politicians. I feel Palin writing notes on her hands would not be revelant if she was not always attacking others. I am looking at the facts… the fact is she had a prepared speech at the tea party convention so she had a hard copy instead of a teleprompter. She clearly knew the questions to the QandA the washington post has a picture of her on thier website with answers written on her hand before she started speech. I am more concerned as to why Palin needed to write her core beliefs down on her hand. In addition im concerned about her double standards and what she stands for or against. I feel she will run for office again but she has a whole bunch of work to do.She didnt not impress me with her convention speech very partisan…i honestly feel the whole tea party movement is partisan. i am not understanding why they had a tea party convention filled with partisan speakers that are to the far right. Can somebody explain… maybe there are answers
All politicians seem to be hypocrites these days and I agree it sucks. The republicans are trying to absorb the tea party movement but it isn't so much a republican movement as a anti govt movement if you will. Since Dems are in power anything said against them would go over good at one of these events. It isn't necessarily pro Repub as much as anti Dems. Now it may get co-opted by the time elections roll around but ………
EEllis: “Or do like most politisians and ignore the actual questions and twist it around into whatever she wants to talk about. So?”
The actual question was: “When we are successful and we have a conservative House and a conservative Senate, as soon as that happens, what do you think are the top three things that have got to be done?”
And then Palin answered: “We’ve got to reign in the spending obviously and not, you know, raising extremely high budgets and then say okay we’re going to freeze a couple of programs here or there. That doesn’t do us any good really. We’ve got to start reigning in the spending. We have got to jump start these energy projects that again we’ve heard so much about because it’s ridiculous that we have the sitting warehouse under god’s green earth here in the United States of America. Rich resources, oil and gas and our coal and all these conventional sources of recourses we have got to actually walk that walk to allow them to come to development.
And then I think kind of tougher to, kind of tougher to put our arms around but, allowing America’s spirit to rise again by not being afraid, not being afraid to kind of go back to some of our roots as a god fearing nation where we’re not afraid to say, especially in times of potential trouble in the future here, we’re not afraid to say, you know, we don’t have all the answers as fallible men and women so it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again.
To have people involved in government who aren’t afraid to go that route, not so afraid of the political correctness that, you know, they have to be afraid of what the media would say about them if they were to proclaim their reliance on our creator.”
Please, tell me how she twisted that question?
“Please, tell me how she twisted that question?”
I didn't say she did, but that she could of planed on hitting her talking points regardless of the questions.
EEllis: “I didn't say she did, but that she could of planed on hitting her talking points regardless of the questions.”
So it was just pure luck that the three talking points on her hand was the answer for one of the questions in the Q&A? What's the chance of that happening? I think I know why she couldn't stay after the Q&A, she wanted to buy a lottery ticket as fast as possible…
The more likely reason to why she got the answer to the question on her palm is that… she knew the question beforehand. (pun not intended)