If there is a God, please let this story be true.

Sarah was sent by God to save us all in the End of Times, Roger. Geez, don't you know anything?

Well Kyle... maybe because she mocked Obama f0r using a teleprompter. Let the spin begin.

Kyle, if Obama had these notes on his hand would you be so charitable?

I don't know maybe its just me, but that woman was in serious need of a teleprompter last night... did you catch the slip up when she called Alaska the shining beacon of hope when she meant America... The notes on her hands just weren't enough...

I haven't written notes on my hand since junior high. Interesting._r

What's even funnier is that it appears that she actually crossed out something on her hand... maybe Gordon Osmond told her that it was misspelled??

Kyle,

Because it's because it is highly unprofessional. I forbid my students to do this when they do class presentations. Can you see someone who is asked to do a presentation during an interview doing this (by trying to hide it)? This person won’t get hired (in addition to be laughed at) if the interviewers find out, since it shows that the person does not know the material well enough to present it.

----but she still doesn't use a teleprompter! Right?

Stellaa, you are in fine form today. That cracked me up.

I think she needs to be sent in for reprogramming, there is obviously some short circuits. Repodding is what SarahBot needs.

I think she needs to be sent in for reprogramming, there is obviously some short circuits. Repodding is what SarahBot needs.

I think this is fake. A clever and plausible fake, but fake. Just like the documents showing that Bush was AWOL. The fake docs about a true event. The right used them to take down Dan Rather.

Who will be taken down by believing these images?

BTW, the crossed-out word is "Budget".

If there is a God, it will make her go away. Amen.
Rated.

I'm sure it's true. This is a woman who couldn't run a marble game, I'm sure, but instead, is running for president. A nation electing such a person, or a nation that allows the election of such a person, deserves what it will surely get. She's a puppet, folks, as was Ronald Reagan and the Bushmen (I couldn't resist "Bushmen", considering they're such racists!!!) doing the bidding of their corporate masters.

As a very intelligent man said to me recently, "This country is becoming surreal....a cartoon!" I agree!

What a country!!!

I'm going to go blue here, and say that all those conservative, tea-partyin' dudes out there don't really need Sarah Palin. They have their hands.

If it is true, and it could be... how the hell hard is it to remember "Energy," "Taxes," and "Lift American Spirit"??? It's not like she needed to remember some names, like, say, "Joe the Plumber."

Kyle,
What's the difference between using a Teleprompter (she does) and note cards (she also does)?

I'm sorry but I don't believe for a minute that if Obama had notes written on his hand to remind him what his core values are, you wouldn't have gone crazy.

False -- there would be no point -- it's well-known Sarah can't read.

Oh my. Sarah needs crib notes to remember the difference between countries and continents, and to recall why Korea is divided, but there is so too much factual information she needs to write out on her hand that there isn't room, so she is forced instead to write and use such gems as "Raise American spirits" so she can forgo any substantive discussion and rely solely on platitudes.

Obama has relied too heavily on teleprompters only because it leads Republicans to lie about what he knows and believes in a vain attempt to paint him as ignorant, but to compare his knowledge with Palin's is truly laughable. His week in questions and answer sessions should put that diagnosis to rest. He knows the facts. Palin doesn't know the facts and can't marshall the spin either.

Roger, I'm embarking on an erotica writing project and have been reading, writing, and viewing all manner of naughty things to immerse myself in it, and somehow everything has become imbued with sex. Your title "Palin Doesn't Need Teleprompter. She Has Her Hand" got manipulated in my head to become "Palin Doesn't Need a __________. She Has Her Hand, " where the blank can be filled with a number of different and interesting nouns. I came up with several iterations before I realized what I was doing. I thought you might enjoy that little confession.

The only help she needs from her hand is to get it to stop feeding her face for a second. She's blowin' up like a bean-bag on deep-fried Snickers! Fatty fat-fat, no presidency for you. OK? OK.

Wow, Dr. Piggly, that was offensive on so many levels that I can't imagine where to start in on you.

Raise American spirits sounds like a toast with Jack Daniels.

Wonder if she wrote exam question answers on her hand at all of the five colleges she attended....

Mentally, she still seems to be about 17.

She should have written on her hand when the subject in school was North and South Korea.

She has her name, address and telephone number written on her other palm in case she gets lost.

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AUGH!

Roger,

Andrea Mitchell talked briefly about her cheat notes written on her hand on the Today's show this morning.

That wink she does? She had someone tattoo "You Betcha" and "maverick" and DemoCan'ts" and "kill the witches" on the inside of her eyelid

Will the Obama teleprompter meme never die? Didn't anyone else see him mopping the floor with House Republicans at their retreat?

I think Palin's low-budget teleprompter is hilarious. It could only have been approved if she had used white-out or had written "you betcha" on her hand.

Why is this a big deal? Anyone who has done any public speaking has their method of staying on track. Some use note cards, or write it on their hands. Some like Obama uses a Teleprompter. So what it is part of the process. This is especially true of people who give dozens of speeches or talks to different groups of people.

Actually I meant "it could only have been IMPROVED". Apologies for the typo.

You know guys, you are being led down a path that you should turn away from...quickly. Trying to demean any public figure for a mistake, a blunder, or even putting three "reminders'" to focus on during a presentation before millions of people, is done all the time by speakers. Idiots who did have an original idea in their head would ridicule Reagan for using "index cards", the right ridicules Obama for not being able to speak coherently without a teleprompter, and Sara Palin is subjected to relentless and vicious personal attacks by the left. So the gal had three points on her hand...and I am assuming its true. So what? Is that how superficial you people are that you can't debate her talking points with any elequence, so you rant about her and do what liberals have done for years, attack their target with personal attacks, mostly aimed at their intelligence level. You see, liberals feel that they are so superior to those of us in the great unwashed in brain power...they don't really have much else that their perception of themselves to give their lives any meaning.

It makes no difference if the person is republican or democrat. Harry Truman was called all sorts of vile names by members of HIS party who could not belive that a "haberdasher" was now sitting in the Oval Office...along with Ford, Reagan, Bush, and especially Sarah Palin.

In this new day of video recordings of almost every bodily function, much less public speeches...I don't think this is a very intelligent path to follow...although I can see where people with little else to be happy about in their lives might take some glee from these childish games.
You really don't want to start a "blooper" contest, or stupid comment contest...you could be opening pandora's box.

Stick with the issues if you have something to say....

http://www.barackobamavideos.net/obama-bloopers-and-blunders

Kyle, Joe- and anyone silly or blinded enough to ever defend Palin's amateur hour antics (she's just getting rich folks, the American Way! surprised? don't be stupid!) through the false premise that Obama is inarticulate- well, if you just can't stand educated people what is the draw to Salon? Redstate.com is right there waiting to verify your distortions with paranoia and propoganda, so why put yourself in front of educated aware people who are forced to laugh in your face?

Newsflash, Obama is considered the best orator of our generation. The right knows this well, after all he came out of "nowhere" to mop the floor with them in the election. What a conservative means when he/she says, "Obama needs a teleprompter ...) well what they really mean is, "Damn our Black Hawaiian Fearless Leader sure is good, we've got no answer for him, lets make up some stupid stuff for the UNEDUCATED miscreants to gin up on. That is what it is.

IMUA

Palm Pilot Palin -- and she can't even remember *not* to gesture with the "note hand" in front of the camera. Good grief.

Not sure why this is a problem. Well, except that those three things she wrote strike me as so memorable. I mean, if she had written the complicated name of someone important or an obscure date she was going to bring up, or even the official title of the TARP bill or something, then I would get it. Although I have no problem with the concept of crib notes (even in the context of her mocking Obama for the teleprompter, which really is a different thing), I do find it kind of hilarious that she needed reminding of these apparently basic precepts of her own political philosophy.

@ Will... please don't compare her to Chauncey Gardiner. Poor Chauncey. He doesn't need crib notes. He "just likes to watch."

At least Chauncey Gardner was a simple man with simple thoughts. His reticence was perceived as wisdom. And his simple wisdom was telling, interesting and meaningful. One of my favorite movies and favorite roles of Peter Sellers.

Now, if only the cameras had caught that "666" on her forehead.

Lainey said it: "I do find it kind of hilarious that she needed reminding of these apparently basic precepts of her own political philosophy."

I think the utter simplicity of what's written on her hand, as well as the amateurishness of scrawling on your hand with a marker before giving a high profile speech is what's so striking here.

And it's relevant because she's become known for...being simplistic and amateur. It's confirmatory evidence of what people feel they already know about her. It's relevant because she's positioning herself for the presidency.

Now, let her surprise people by dazzling with off-the-cuff remarks that show knowledge and wisdom that we haven't seen from her, and that would be the real shocking news. But so far, Palin's utterly consistent. She takes pains on her physical appearance. But when it comes to learning about issues and facts or apparently even her own talking points...not so much.

This is the equivalent of her walking out onstage with her wet hair in a towel. It's beyond unprofessional - it's amateurish at an adolescent level. No corporation in this country would want to hire even a mid-level executive who did this at a speech or presentation. Why should she be seen as competent to run a country?

I had a friend who used to refer to that as her "Palm Pilot".

Kyle, please. Obama took spontaneous questions from the Republican house at their retreat in Baltimore a little over a week ago without a teleprompter or prepared talking talking points, and he ripped them apart because he knows what he's talking about. Palin wouldn't even put herself in that situation. You can watch him take questions from the GOP for an hour and a half here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5BE9_x7xTo

But since you won't watch that because it will challenge your ill-founded assertion that Obama can't speak without a teleprompter and using a teleprompter is bad for some reason, even though pretty much every president has used them for the past twenty years, you can watch this minute and a half video of Palin looking at her freaking hand when answering some sycophantic question about her agenda if we had a conservative congress:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcVMTZkTZQ

She really can't remember energy, tax cuts, and lifting American spirits? Seriously? That's her entire spiel, and she needs to write it on her hand? I don't think any of us have ever seen a mainstream politician with notes written on their hand before, and there's a reason for that.

As for how Hannity and Beck will spin this, there are two options:
1) They won't mention it at all. Too damaging, like Obama's Q and A at the Republican House retreat that Fox cut away from.

2) They'll spin it into a "poor Sarah attacked by mean liberal bloggers" story. They'll assert that her writing on her hand makes her just like us, and that those mean liberal bloggers are just out of touch with every day folk and probably sexist.

Hey Rodger: first of all, congrats on the EP.
Second, since my earlier comment seemed to have disappeared and since I know you don't delete (it's the technology probably), I know what this shows her detractors but it will mean nothing to her supporters. What would convince her supporters that this woman is not (take your pick) ready/qualified/appropriate/learned enough/wise enough to be President?
It's not that I don't find fault with her (oh I do), it's that I can't discern the best way to combat or at least dilute the unthinking enthusiasm her supporters display.

I pulled up her speech and watched her as she entered the stage, you can clearly see that there is ink on her left hand. The fact that she wrote notes on her hand doesn't concern me, however it is the words that she chose to write down. ENERGY, TAXES, LIFT AMERICAN SPIRIT, these word's have always been the intrinsic elements of many politician's speeches when addressing the American public on key issues that effect them on a daily basis. If Sarah Palin has to remind herself of the fundamental's that are most important to the American people by writing them down on her hand, I think she should go home and break out her binoculars and keep an eye on Russia from her back yard.Rated!

@Kyle "I would actually think a lot more of him because I would then believe that he might even have thought about what he was saying before he saw it on a teleprompter."

I don't believe this. I betting you just loved the speeches Reagan gave; the ones that were written by Peggy Noonan. Reagan did a great job of acting thoughtful, while reading a teleprompter where even the audience could see the text scrolling. In fact, I think it was introduced during his administration. And I hardly think that Obama needs to think about the names of the members of his science and technology council (he was announcing them when his teleprompter failed, which is what started this nonsense about the use such device.) For the most part, Obama does think about what he's saying, which is very measured and considered; I think the issue is that you don't like the way he thinks. By your own admission you'd rather have emotion than thoughtful. Palin comes off as a phony to me, just as Bush did. But then, I work in the film industry, so I'm very good at recognizing the insincere. And if Obama was using note cards, even if written by someone else, and got them out of order, it would be seen as not befitting a world leader.

She has her hand.

But we have our finger!

This woman almost became the US's vice-prez? Thank God I live in Canada... where no one knows our politicians.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/06/palin-hand/

At approximately 50 seconds in, when she starts to answer you can clearly see her read her hand. CLASSIC! I didn't know she could read or write.

I bet she writes "TGIF" inside her shoes (Toes Go In First).

Giving a good speech is a skill and "real" American people, Joe and Josie average, are not meant to admire people with such skills which might be considered "elite." That is why the right will spin this, if it is true, to Palin's advantage, painting her as one of the average people, trying her best, up against that slick Harvard guy.

Sarah Palin is polished in her appearance and she has a manner which appeals to a large number of people but she is not professional or informed. She is also not honest. She is a better looking Rush Limbaugh, out for fame and fortune, willing to do or say whatever it takes.

Hmmm - ok - these notes could have been written on an index card or other notes without anyone even caring if she brought notes with her...did she say she needed no teleprompter or notes in a previous claim? - unless someone who I want to read, like you, Roger - brings Palin to my attention, I pay her no mind or consideration so I have no idea what context her notes on hand may have in significance.

I was wondering if that was just a photoshopped image, but if it's genuine -- JEEZ! :)

I write notes on my hand too. Like phone numbers I don't want to forget and addresses. Energy, Taxes and and lift American Spirit? Maybe we should have an open call on the 3 bullet points we'd all write on our hands on a day to day basis.

Mine would be: take vitamins. Dentist. Taxes [as in call our tax guy].

She already is a hoax.

You gotta hand it to her...

Leslie B: Whooo, hoooo! "And away we go!"
Everybody: This woman couldn't HAND-le a beauty pageant, and she needs to update her cliches. "Is that working for you?" just doesn't work anymore.

C'mon, really. How much different would she be than Obama? They're all slaves to the economy and war and banks.

PeeWee Herman could be President.

Jeannette, you are my heroine.

Wow, Sarah goes old school.

I mean both pre-technology and the kind of thing one does in the fourth grade.

I think that...just a minute...had to look at the bottom of my hand...

uh where was I?

Only 6 words on a hand for cheating. Are those the only six she could spell correctly or knows? Oh, it's the six G.O.P. bullet points that we've all talked about!

The only thing funnier than this would be if she were to have written the notes backwards across her forehead and then pulled out a compact in the middle of the speech and act as if she were touching up her make up.

I've been known to write stuff on my hand from time to time. Grocery lists are easy to lose, but my hands aren't. I think that a shopping list is one thing though, and key points of your early election platform are quite another.

Hey Roger the hypocrite, I am also perplexed as to what the problem is? If she were the "Incompetent in Chief", would we cut her slack for using a teleprompter while taking a crap like you do Obama?

I hope she writes crib notes up her arm as long as she looks me in the eye when talking to me unlike Barrak Hussein.

Hey Philos, you Moose Twit. A teleprompter was used throughout the career of the god of all G.O.P.'s Ronald Raisin. So it was okay for him to do so but not "Barack Hussein" huh? I asked my 9-year old what is the first thing that comes to your mind with writing words on your hand and he said, "cheating". Without knowing the context. We all know that your party's shit doesn't smell but I am getting tired of stepping in it.

Palin has yet to make the crucial absolutely boneheaded and insulting mistake of calling the armed forces corpsmen (pronounced "core-men") corps men. Maybe Obama should have had phonetic spelling written on his hand.

No matter how you cut this one, Palin could have read pig latin off her husbands back and it would have been less of a boner than Obamas mind bending slip up.

Dear Sarah,

I have a wireless prompter that I'm not using anymore. Let me know if you want to borrow it. It shows a bit of a bulge, but if anyone points it out, just claim biased media, etc, etc.

Not that I need to tell you that!

Best Regards,
GWB

Hey butt wipe wish he were a serious music fan kindofblue, you couldn't be more wrong, but what else is new. Reagan wrote most of his own speeches and did more for the American people than Barrack the America hater Hussein Obama will ever dream of doing.

I will make a $100.00 dollar to your favorite charity bet with you. You pick the bet.

1. Obama is a one term president.
2. If Israel chooses military action against Iran, America turns her back on Israel it by virtue of Husseins political grandstanding and support for Iran & Islam.
3. On American soil, there will be another terrorist attack which costs innocent civilian lives on Obama's watch, and because of his lax policy.
4. The unemployment rate will not go below 9% before 2012, and does go below 9% just in time for the election, but it still won't help.

Kyle, Kyle, Kyle.

You are a nice person but not very perceptive. She had to write "Mom, Apple Pie, and God Bless the USA" on her hand to remember her talking points? Sheesh. This will turn out to be a hoax to trashtalk the "liberal media"? (I know, it wasn't you that said it. It's a much more perceptive theory than your "Obama-teleprompter" response. Sorry, I still sort of like you.) Double sheesh. Could be true for all I know. God knows they will have to get awfully creative to promote this woman as a serious and capable politician on the international stage. Looks like ink on her hand though.

What should be lifting American spirits is that those of us in the rest of the world have recently been able to consider the possibility that a majority of Americans are not morons, because in a time of trouble they elected someone who isn't one. If SP gets as far as a Republican candidacy, we will have to rethink that--because we'd like to think that even Republicans and their fellow travellers, when they get together and "think" things over, are not a bunch of moronic lemmings.

Good luck, America, and good night.

Philos, are you 12? I'm sorry, I mean no disrespect (hyuck, hyuck) but you sure do write as if you are... Now go and don't read whatever magazines, newspapers and books it is that you and Palin don't read...

Will, you should watch "Being There" again. Palin is the un-Chauncey Gardner. Chauncey was existential. He was too simple to have pretense. Chauncey was as superior as everyone else thought because he was not nullified by pretense. And remember, at the end of the film, Chauncey did actually walk on water.

Palin never fails to outcool her critics.
Or outhot.
Or something.

NBC just showed Palin referencing her hand notes.
Those were the three priorities she "thought" most important.
So important she needs to write them on her hand.
They were also the answers to a set-up question.

Palin serves best as an Idiot Indicator. Those who think she's smart or makes sense are pegging the Idiotometer.

Those Idiot "conservatives" sure make the other .001% of conservatives look stupid.

However, this incident points up what is probably her lone skill...hand jobs.

"Hey butt wipe wish he were a serious music fan kindofblue, you couldn't be more wrong, but what else is new"

WTF?????????? Seriously. C'mon. You're 12 aren't ya?

I was away from computer all day... so thanks to all of you for your comments.

Philos, note cards and teleprompters are the same thing. Ironically she read her "zinger" on the teleprompter, off of her note cards.

As for writing on her hand... she needed to write Energy, Tax, Lift American SPirits? These aren't complicated answers... this is what she talks about every day!!

Yes, I admit that I am partisan, which makes me a hypocrite at times. I have been guilty of cutting Bush less slack than he perhaps deserved.

What I don't do, and you and others on the right do, is outright LIE that the "hand note" issue is no big deal.

If Obama had done that you would have had a total shit fit... just like you, Gordo, and others have done over the mispronouncing of Corpsman.

I think that Obama should know how to pronounce corpsman and I think that Palin should be able to memorize the 6 words that represent her core beliefs.

Thanks all.

haha.. maybe she crossed out that word because she spelled it wrong. haha or maybe she spelled it right. :p
on huffpost they're reporting it was her "core beliefs"... riiiiight

ok, I figured it out. its levi johnstons phone number.

How or why does one need a reminder of her core values? I mean aren't these just a little important or important enough to be in the forefront of her mind? This woman's mental capacity is the size of a Salvation Army dumpster of donation rejects.
R

I'm tempted to say that she dazzled the crowd (and two or three of the twits posting here) hands down, but that would be false.

And for you folks who will defend anything she does, the crib-notes-on-the-hand business would have been only a little amusing had she not been so sanctimonious in criticizing Obama for using a teleprompter, just as Clinton, Reagan and the Bushies did. And of course the Palinites won't take as an example Obama's Q&A with the Republican caucus. Right, they probably watch Fox news so can't be expected to know it even happened.

And for Kyle D who thinks that Palin is more "real"...only in the sense that the number of folks who are as ignorant and hypocritical as Palin certainly outnumber the folks who are as intelligent as Obama. That's not actually a good thing you know.

LOL
thanks for the laugh!

C'mon Kindofblue, put your money where your mouth is.

You're going to love the fact that the BBC has picked up her little handy thingy and has a video of her blatantly looking down at her hand. Her stupidity has gone global.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8505701.stm