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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God bless Sarah. She has handled the constant bashing from the media and the left very well. I can almost hear the sounds of libs thinking: “Why can’t our side have a Sarah Palin?”
Be afraid Libs; be very afraid.
Ya gotta love it.
And I might add she is reading her own notes–not something someone else wrote for her, right Barry?
It would simply be an existential impossibility.
If they did have a “Sarah Palin”, then they would not be “their” side…they would be ours.
True dat.
Hey, libs… PRESIDENT PALIN.
hahahahahah!
Eat it, libs!!!
Here’s what I posted earlier today on the open thread.
She can also pronounce ‘Corpsman’ correctly, no problem!
Shame she’s correctly pronouncing “McCain” so much these days.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
It’s hard to believe this is an issue. Did you catch the new ‘exclusive’ interview that Katie had today with Obama?
Yeah, he held yet another lecture session lamenting the concept that people might disagree with him. He didn’t say anything different. Bush’s fault, we have to spend money even though we are worried about the deficit, and people just don’t know enough about health care because that’s the only reason they can be against it.
Obama needs teleprompters to say the same thing all the time. Somehow he thinks saying the same thing one more time will make a difference.
Her detractors are constantly trying to make her out to be an empty suit. Although I believe she has made a fatal error in endorsing McCain, to attack her as being a phony is just plain stupid. You really have to want to hate her to be immune from her charms.
I really like her a lot and hope she succeeds. But I want her to succeed for us, not for the Gangs of McCain.
Maybe she was writing her notes on index cards, and quit halfway.
I always wish for a teleprompter blackout when Obowma speaks. He would be hopelessly lost.
Don’t most of the talking heads have an ear piece that they get info whispered to them? They act like they know it all. they can get info while on air. What is she doing that is so wrong?
The DUmmies are referring to it as a “redneck teleprompter,” which, I must admit, made me laugh.
All she had written there were four subjects that she wanted to remember to discuss. No notes on what to say. That’s because she speaks truth from her heart and doesn’t need help remembering what to say or how to say it. She’s the real deal. The phonies can’t stand it.
Pick up eggs, milk, bananas and some lunch meat.
I love it, the lefties are so damn scared…just gotta laugh at ‘em…guess I shouldn’t though, liberalism being a disease and all.
When the Libs only have the likes of Clinton and Pelosi to represent them, they will always be trashing Palin. She has them worried.
Maybe this should be sold as:
“Teleprompters for Dummies!”
Libs pickup at the smallest things and run like a herd.
It’s almost like, “La, La, La, fingers in the ears can’t hear you.”
“What they’ll say is it costs too much money but you know what? It would cost about..it it iiit it would cost about the same as what we would spend iiiif ooover the course of ten years it would cost, it would cost us…it it..uhuh, alright, OK, were going to. The, it would cost us about the same as it would cost for abouuut. Hold on one second, I can’t hear myself.”
–Barry Obama–sans teleprompter
Stupid hick never heard of Post-It notes, OBviously. Whatta dumb broad. Fer a hundred Gs, you’d think she could afford to bring her own teleprompter or an iPad or something. I mean, come on.
Gah, what a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick she is. Shoot, that’s been used already. How about “big tenderized sack of poopie in nylons?” I gotta come up with a good one for tomorrow’s show, something involving that kid she lugs around who’s allegedly hers.
Where’s my binky? I know it’s around here somewhere…
I must have missed her announcement to run for the presidency, when and where did she do that?
Obama’s hand:
KOR-MAN
I remember her acceptance speech at the Republican convention. Something happened to the teleprompter, but she was able to continue her speech with little deviation. Can Obambi do that? Several incidents show that he cannot.
Maybe “fearless leader” should take to writing on his hand too….
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If Sarah Palin were to walk across the surface of the Washington Monument reflecting pool–without getting her feet wet–the Left Wing Media would just accuse her of being too dumb to learn how to swim!
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But she is getting some valuable experience on how to ignore prattling fools and on how to stay “on message”. It will be real handy when she debates Comrade Obama or Hillary Clinton in the 2012 election–they will be toast.
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John Bibb
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Stop giving her crap because she’s “endorsing” McCain! She’s obviously only doing it out of respect for the old man and loyalty.
We’re about to take back BOTH houses of Congress. We can live with McCain for a few more years until he croaks, which will be soon anyway.
Having McCain as your starting quarterback sucks. But having him as the back-up third-string quarterback is pretty good.
Better yet, let’s kick him off the team!
If Sarah Palin does nothing more than make a couple of forgettable speeches on behalf of McCain, and does not get into the fight in Arizona-that is, she does not invest serious political capital there- she’ll survive.
Otherwise, it is perhaps time to also look at Sen. Pence and Sen. DeMint as possible replacements.
If you’ll look carefully at Obama’s palm you’ll see he has notes for all his speeches – “iDat”
Who’s more likely to have a tattoo—
a republican from a small town or a hippie from San Fran or Madison?
I rest my case.
The left looks like a bunch of colicy babies on this issue. Fools.
Ever notice that the left makes an issue out of every non-issue, then proceeds to and make a non-issue out of every issue?
As Rahm would say, “That’s fn retarded!”
andOnly from the small, sick shrinking minds of the left could this tripe emanate.
Frakkin’ moonbats. Why is the Left kvetching? It’s organic, and a lot more environmentally friendly than a teleprompter. Probably used a soy-based ink, too.
“Teleprompter good. Crib Notes Bad.”
Typical illogical crap spewing forth from the corrupt, degenerate, socialist and reactionary parasites of the Left.
No wonder why the average American has such contempt for the Leftards.
After relentlessly trying to destroy Sarah Palin for well over a year this is all they have now? Wow. They truly are grasping at straws.
Sarah…. Get a jeweler to get that wedding band off of your finger and resized! It looks way too small and maybe contricting blood flow making that finger plumper than it ought to be. It also appears to be disfiguring your proximal phalangeal joint.
We have them on the ropes! When they’re reduced to whining about things like that, we KNOW they’ve lost!
Sure would be funny if SarahCuda wrote “WHAK” and “SMAK” on her left and right knuckles. Then let Chrissy Mathews, Katie Couric, et al, read them just before she blackens their eyes!
It’s a disorder. The “L” word will soon be banned from the lexicon, added to the alphabet soup of words banned by the pc crowd. Progressive okay.
Must have hit another raw nerve MM. Sure are a lot of missing posts in this thread. The trolls are up and at it early these days!
Rules For Radicals. He’s relentless.
3 more years of this crap!
#1. At least she wrote her own notes.
#2. At least she knows how to pronounce corpsman.
#3. Who gives a Huff…
WOW, and who didn’t write crib notes when they speak to large groups. Obviously the left doesn’t do much thinking.
She also had a written sheet on the podium.
Meanwhile, our dear reader, well he reads everything, and clearly knows nothing.
I don’t think ZERO likes the representation part of the whole governing thing. He is much more of a dictator than a leader.
I think this could be an “in your face” moment for Sarah. She really should get in the habit of writing something on her hand for every speech – something that will infuriate liberals.
“God Bless America”
“No Teleprompter”
Etc.
From this point on, she should write *something* on her hand…
Next appearance she should hold up her palm so they can get a good shot of Daniel Boone’s “D. Boon Cilled a. Bar on this tree in the year 1760″, that ought to send them into spasms of purple apoplexy!
The only “green” the lefties can muster in their attitudes toward Palin is the green of envy.
Much ado about nothing.
Next appearance with her palm up she should show them her middle finger.
I posted on the Sunday Open Thread that this attack on Palin is exactly why the Tea Party cannot have a “leader”.
Anyone designated as the leader will be targeted daily and any mistake or perceived mistake will be used to discredit the Tea Party.
The Tea Party must stay fluid and continue to add to the very loud growing voice of the American people. Force the socialst progressive democrats to attack a large number of regular/normal Americans if they want to discredit this group. Don’t give them one person/leader to attack and paint as a villain.
Palin and any politician would be best served to promote and support the Tea Party and never look to be a leader of it.
The Tea Party will force politicians to return to the idea of being public servant/followers doing the will of the peope, which goes against everything politicians are today as they try to become kings/emperors/leaders.
Who among us didn’t write little reminders like that on our hands/fingers when we had to give speeches in English class? Much ado over nothing!
I think she shouls write,
“God Bless America”. That should send the left over the edge of a cliff on fire, and who knows, maybe we will here that Oberdork explodes on live TV.
They can’t compete with her on issues, so they attack her hand.
Forget class…try a whole grocery list!
Paper can get lost, teleprompters can fail, but a hand tends to stay with you.
Sarah Palin is right where she needs to be…the main target of the left. They are showing us not only who they are, but also who they fear. And the best they can give us is a hand-job?
I think bullet points on her hand works great. I like the fact that she’s unwilling to spend the money of a teleprompter when a fine point Sharpie will get the job done.
Sarah was interviewed by Chris Wallace yesterday on his FNS show; she had him for lunch. He looked like a deer in headlights; every one of her answers was dead-on, and he knew it. Chris was hired for his interview skills and he does a good job (as did his dad on 60 Minutes – not bad for being a trained actor). Anyway, he never laid a glove on her.
Hmmmmm … will the left notice when the white house press corps (corpse) is unable to ask one question without reading from THEIR notes?
If the interview she had with C. Wallace, she was great, was the first one she had instead of Katie Coulic, McCain might be in the W.H. today. However, the country might not have seen how bad the liberals are for this country. Sometimes it takes a shock to the system to come back to life.
Scripted theater.
And this is why middle America loves her. 9.5 out of 10 people would do the same since we’re not as high falutin as the elites with their teleprompters.
Watching the power go out on Obama’s teleprompter is like watching a fast food clerk trying to figure out how to give change when the intelligent cash registers go out.
I’d like to think she has a wicked sense of humor, and if this isn’t a photoshop it proves she does. Plus, throwing out the zinger that she hadn’t ruled anything out says she likes to mess with people too.
Caught her interview with Chris Wallace yesterday. Boy, has she come a long way since 2008. Sharp Sharp Sharp …
Did y’all see the ad at the bottom of the huffpo’s page. There is an ad for Palin 2010 T-Shirts. LOL
Oh yeah….”WHO DAT”!!!!!
GEAUX SAINTS!!!!!
Slightly off-topic, but a funny story…
When in Korea I (an O-5 at the time) had to convey a “TOT” (time on target) for a classified mission from the command post. This ‘execution’ had to be done in the presence of the O-6 wing commander (two-person thing) and I wrote the time on the back of my hand rather than on a piece of paper I could misplace (my job kept me VERY busy — I felt as though I was ‘juggling feathers in a blizzard!’).
The command post controller (an O-4) sternly noted I was writing down classified information (I had written “B:1030″ — go figure how THAT is classified). I reassured him I would take care of it, then turned and picked up one of the SECRET stamps on the desk and stamped the back of my hand. I then turned to the wing commander and said, “The only problem is I have to shred it and burn it at the end of the day.” The wing commander burst out laughing and told me to “Carry on!” and we strolled out of the command post leaving the controller sputtering and stammering!
How has the hook at the end of your arm worked out for you since that day?
Just have to remember to scratch my eye with the correct hand!
President Obama would never write anything on his hands. He doesn’t like to get them dirty.
However, Barack’s hands should have something tattooed on them: “The Buck Starts Here”
I was going to respond, “Good point,” but decided I should not offend.
Well, if Sarah is going to do that all the time, then I volunteer to be her speechwriter.
Wow; what happened to, like, every other post?
Are the lefties going demented over anything Palin again?
*sigh*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Something about Palin just drives the Left and Riehl NUTS. I love her all the more for it.
The real “Palin Problem” is that there is no replacement for her. Just as the democrats are dead without Obama, and do they ever know that, we would be really suffering without Palin. The names that are mentioned as possible substitutes, none of them come close. Maybe real soon now we will all be rallying behind XYZ (you tell me the name), but somehow I strongly doubt it.
As for the McCain situation, this is one of those no-win situations that politics delivers on a regular basis. If she had blown him off, people would be saying how personal loyalty means nothing to her after all that he did for her . . .
I agree it will be interesting to see just how hard she campaigns for him, but again she can’t win. If McCain loses, everyone will say her political influence is over. If he wins, everyone will say she is a traitor to conservatism and that her political influence is over. Notice a pattern here?
Personally, I would rather hide under my bed for the rest of my life that chose a career in politics. And that’s sad because I might have made a much better candidate, but she is the one who is running and she is the one who can win. Nobody else. We better learn to live with that.
Don’t forget about Michelle Bachman.
Anybody who has ever given a speech knows that unexpected things happen. Teleprompters, which are read word for word, or paper notes, which are used as reminders, fail. Teleprompters, as was the case during Palin’s acceptance speech, failed so she ad libbed. I have shuffled papers when giving a speech and then had to look for the shuffled paper I needed – embarrassing. One thing you can’t do is lose your hand – although I suspect that the critics will say the Sarah can be confused between her left and her right hand.
The liberal fascist’s aversion to Palin is that she is just like those people who occasionally tour the capitol in the summer, who “stink up the capitol”. You know who those stinky people are: those voters.
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.
How did they ever restrain themselves from calling it retarded?
If the only thing that liberals have to criticize about the speech is the crib notes on her hand, then they must be conceding that the content of the speech was correct.
I heard Palin actually has to change her underwear once a day too! eeeeuuuwwww!
What do you want to bet Rahm and Val have the NSA using government resources to decode the notes… Look for Jack Bauer to have her in a choke hold threatening to break her fingers if she doesn’t divulge the whereabouts of the dirty bomb.
How many of us remember the piece of string around the finger as a reminder? It was usually for bread/milk at the store, but a good idea if you didn’t want to be in “the doghouse”.
Obama writes notes on his hand too, to remind him to read the teleprompter.
Her interview with Chris Wallace was excellent.
“Talk to me” (the hand)
Arianna nevaaah writes on her hands daaahling.
Absolutely not. Pence and DeMint are legislators, not executives. We don’t do well when a Congressman goes to the Oval Office.
Second, why the brain drain from Congress? They are doing well where they are and they should stay where they are needed.
This silly whining about Palin obliging McCain is just that. What would be the public perception if she refused? She would be considered disloyal and backstabbing. This is a question of honor.
It’s only in some people’s minds that she’s in any trouble over this. Believe me, the rest of the country does not look at it that way.
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”.