Hand jive
Talk to the hand.
I was offline most of the weekend with family, so surfed over to Memeorandum tonight to catch up on the latest blog buzz. What have the left-wing blogs been raging about?
The ink on Sarah Palin’s hand.
The wall-to-wall coverage leads with “exclusive” investigative reports from a HuffPo “independent journalist and foreign correspondent.”
Plus: Breaking updates on the “crib notes!”
Seriously?
Seriously:
Founding Bloggers detects the snobbish left’s class undertones:
…the outrage on the left is being completely misunderstood by the right. Democrats don’t mind that she needed a few notes for her speech. They’re upset that Sarah used her hand, proving once again that she is an unsophisticated hick. Everybody knows that whether you taking to sixth grade classroom, or talking dirty to the First Lady, using anything other than a presidential level teleprompter is simply pedestrian.
Stephen Spruiell makes a similar point:
I’m not sure what substantive argument Palin’s hand-notes are supposed to underline, and I suspect it’s not an argument so much as an attitude. The attitude would be that writing on your hand is dumb and low-class. On the left, where this opinion of Palin already prevails, anything which reinforces it will be picked up and cheerfully passed around. And, to the extent that anyone not on the left notices this giddy snobbery, it will play to Palin’s strengths.
For example, one might say: “Unlike the guy who needs a three thousand dollar teleprompter to get out of bed in the morning, Palin speaks from concise notes like everybody else. And, like other busy moms, she sometimes writes notes on her hand.” The comeback is so obvious that, again, I really can’t figure out why Palin’s detractors are bringing this up at all. (emphasis added)
Reason #1: They. Can’t. Help. Themselves.
Reason #2: They’ll grasp at anything, anything at all to distract from their fallen savior and his ubiquitous crutches:
Reason #3: Better to fixate on Palin’s hand than the White House’s perpetual foot-in-mouth disease.
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Via Christinakb, Palin responds handily (not sure if this is a photoshop or not, but either way): Heh!
Jim Hoft verifies that the photos are real.
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Reader D e-mails: “It doesn’t get much greener than writing notes on your hand, does it? It costs a bit of ink and a bit of soap to wash it off. No teleprompter which uses energy. No paper which kills trees. The Left should be consistent and applaud her greenness.”
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I thought it was I one
*I watched her speech live and saw something on her hand at the time; Thought maybe she had slapped McCain or Grahamnesty on the nose after they had met with P-BO; Just sayin’.
Every time I see that I think peanut butter & onions. Don’t ask me why.
It is not a question not of loyalty, but how many peole will she turn off. She could easily ditch McCain, cite in quiet terms his niggardly treatment of her with respect to McCain’s post- election night show circuit, and be done with him…and have many more people on her side.
She made herself, not McCain. She GAVE him loyalty on the campaign trail, while his staff in part tried to trash her, and he did nothing about it. McCain is not senile, he knew and knows what he is doing. Where was his honor, Atheling?
I feel a Tammy Wynette song coming on…
Sorry, jangar, I’m not that talented…
Not that many. Believe me, most Americans don’t hate John McCain with the venom that folks on this blog do. They may not love him, but they will find it more strange if Sarah does not campaign for him than if she does.
Ok, Atheling, you’ve made your point. Good Night.
I would love it if this became a running gag for Sarah for the press to hone in on and obsess over. It would only draw attention to how well she can speak off the cuff with a few brief words vs. Obama needing a teleprompter to, say, announce a cabinet appointment.
I would love it if she wrote “Pronounced: CORE-man” at a military speech somewhere.
Next time she speaks, Sarah should set up two teleprompters that have a cut out of a hand on them instead of the screens.
HT to MLK Jr
Robert Gibb’s latest is hard to figure out. Either he is an idiot or someone who is advising him is an idiot. How does he think this makes HIM look?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/09/gibbs-scrawls-grocery-list-hand-jab-palin/
That’s good jang….