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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It’s rich – and mind-numbingly hypocritical – that a media dependent on phonetically spelled cue cards to conduct their broadcasts and reports on a president whose every word is scripted on a teleprompter would call out Sarah Palin over her use of such an innocuous mnemonic.
FYI, according to Conservatives4Palin, that writing on her hand, “Hi Mom” is not photoshopped – she actually wrote it.
On Obama’s hand:
“I won”
TanyaB, #93 –
You’ve inspired me!
http://snappedshot.com/turbo/1024-EXCLUSIVE-Obamas-Hand-Note-Revealed.html
Wow!!! How dare HOTUS upstage TOTUS.
If TOTUS breaks Obama resorts to saying ‘Uhhhhh, Uhhhhh, Uhhhhhhh”.
If HOTUS breaks Sarah continues to speak brilliantly.
The good news – he’s now carrier qualified.
The only loyalty she owes is to this country. That’s pretty inconsistent with any loyalty to John S. McCain. Besides, what does she really owe him? It’s not like he picked her out of charity. He needed someone to boost his sagging poll numbers. She doesn’t owe him a damn thing.
I used to give fundraising speeches for the school I graduated from, back in the late ’80s. The only thing I did was write some notes on index cards; easy to keep in the pocket. I could ad-lib, but the cards kept me on course. Thank goodness for Dale Carnegie training, years ago.
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I too gave a lot of speeches and used the index card approach. But, as with any prop, things can and do go wrong. For example, if you drop the index cards or don’t have a podium to use, then it becomes all too obvious that you are using a prop.
I got carrier-qualed the hard way:
Set two 4×8 sheets of plywood end-to-end on two-foot high studs and make a large mud-pit at one end. Cover plywood with slick fabric made slicker by wetting it with soap and water.
Run full-steam at said platform (approaching from the end opposite the mud-pit) and fling oneself onto the carrier deck, face down with legs bent at the knees. As you approach the end of the ‘deck’ attempt to catch the ‘cable’ (usually a fire-hose) held by the cable crew. If the cable-crew likes your landing, they leave the cable in place for you to snag — if they don’t like your landing, they raise the cable and off the end you go, into the mud-pit!
Repeat until exhausted or sent to the flight surgeon to have your chin stitched closed (I got away with only five stitches and this was the ONLY injury I had when making landings cold-stone sober!).
And just like that, a new conservative political fashion trend is born…… the “Hi Mom” sharpie hand tattoo.
These are the same unhinged moonbats that said George Bush had a secret radio transmitter in the back of his coat during the debate where he defeated John Kerry. But what I find most amusing of all is the depths of fear and terror the left has of Palin. And it’s not going to end anytime soon. She’ll be antagonizing the Andrea Mitchell’s of the world for at least the next two decades…
I have heard that Sarah wrote 7 words on her hand, I’ll bet they were: “Remember, the p in corpsman is silent”.
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….