Palin Uses A Crib Sheet

Malerin said:
I would make fun of ANY politician caught doing this. In fact, I've never heard of any politician looking at notes on their hand during an interview. It's ****ing hilarious!
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This.
 
I'm shocked, SHOCKED that the media isn't covering this conspiracy. It's obvious that Sarah was set up - as the following evidence clearly demonstrates. This photo was shot immediately prior to Palin taking the stage at the Tea Party convention:

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How did Biden get backstage in the first place? Talk about dirty hands!
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
I'm still skeptical of the story. The videos sure look damning, but I'm still not 100% convinced. It makes no sense.

What good would these couple of words do for her during a Q & A? ....
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Hard to believe she's that dumb, isn't it, given she's an intriguing speaker. But seeing her look at her palm and seeing how basic the crib notes were leaves only one conclusion in my mind, she is that dumb.
 
KingMerv00 said:
Is she denying it? Was it live TV? Was it captured on multiple cameras from multiple TV stations including Fox News?
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And it's not the notes as much as it was that camera which caught her taking a look at the hand before answering the same thing written on it to Chris Wallace.
 
Meadmaker said:
It is exactly as relevant, which is to say, not at all.

Yes, people talk from notes. When giving a presentation, I often have index cards on a lectern to remind me not to overlook certain key points. If I didn't have any place to hide the index cards, I could see putting them on my hand.

Unless I could afford a teleprompter.
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It's not the issue. The issue is what it was she needed to write down and actually look at during the interview.

Do you need a note to remember your most basic tenants?
 
Shalamar said:
I really doubt this would be an issue if she also hadn't just blasted President Obama for Teleprompters... ...
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That didn't help, but I think the absolutely incredibly basic thing she needed to have written down and actually had to check before answering Wallace is the real issue here.
 


Watch it and judge for yourself if this particular hand note was something a person qualified to run for President would need.
 
ANTPogo said:
They called him wishy-washy and weak (at least before the first Gulf War), but not stupid. And as has been pointed out, Nixon was never considered stupid either...not any more than Dick Cheney is considered stupid.
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Personally, I think Bush was truly stupid as far as Presidents go, but I know a lot of people disagree with that. Cheney and Nixon were definitely not stupid.
 
Ladewig said:
The MSM may not be everything that I want them to be, but I am going to need some evidence before I subscribe to your claim that the media labeled G.H.W. Bush as stupid.
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I don't think the media ever went that far. Maybe Olbermann and a few others pointed out Bush gaffs on a regular basis, but the majority of the time the media seemed to give GW the benefit of the doubt.
 
Skeptic said:
The problem isn't that Obama uses a teleprompter. It's that he seems lost without one, which is quite a problem for a man proclaimed as one of the greatest speech makers of all time. (Not that, so far, this great speech maker had given us one memorable quote -- "yes we can" doesn't count -- but I digress.)
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It boggles the mind how people can completely distort the world as they view it.

I recommend you watch the above clip of Palin looking at her hand in the interview, the Couric-Palin interview where Palin couldn't answer basic questions, and the latest Obama meeting with the Republic Party members regarding the health care bill and other recent issues of contention where Obama clearly had a command of the issues.


If you have the same attitude after viewing those three things, then Wow, just wow, you'll be a classic example of distorting reality to fit your preexisting views.
 
Skeptic said:
The problem isn't that Obama uses a teleprompter. It's that he seems lost without one, which is quite a problem for a man proclaimed as one of the greatest speech makers of all time. (Not that, so far, this great speech maker had given us one memorable quote -- "yes we can" doesn't count -- but I digress.)
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El-wrongo. Obama doesn't use teleprompters during any of his interviews, nor did he use one during his little "Question Time" with Republican senators. He didn't use a teleprompter during any of the debates with any other presidential candidate. He certainly didn't seem "lost" during any of those times.

Contrast that with Sarah Palin, who felt ambushed by Katie Friggin Couric's question about what newspapers Palin reads. I mean, even if she doesn't read them, she should at least be able to name a few.

And if Sarah Palin gets a show on Fox.... What does she read off of? HMMMM? Could it be... um.....


ETA: Someone beat me to nearly all of this same stuff, but that just goes to show how utterly obvious this argument is, and how kneejerk Skeptic is.
 
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Brown said:
... If this same sort of thing had happened to Reagan, he would have gone ahead and given the wrong speech.
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Do you actually believe that?

Reagan was as good an extemporaneous speaker as you could find. And the ideas he put forward were as much his own as of his speechwriters, aides, etal.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
It's not the issue. The issue is what it was she needed to write down and actually look at during the interview.

Do you need a note to remember your most basic tenants?
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I know, dude! Your basic tenants should appear on the lease!

And on a slightly homophonical note, your basic tenets should be easy to remember too.
 
AlBell said:
Reagan was as good an extemporaneous speaker as you could find. And the ideas he put forward were as much his own as of his speechwriters, aides, etal.
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This was NOT true during his presidency. His ability as an extemporaneous or impromptu speaker took a serious turn before he became president. During his presidency, Reagan usually worked from a script and did not depart from it. When Reagan DID depart from his script, the result was often clarifications or retractions from the White House, if not outright shameful gaffes.

There are quite a few books about Reagan that discuss these incidents:
  • Reagan read part of his stage directions as part of his speech and never noticed it.
  • Reagan read a speech in which the word "paradigm" was used, and it was a word he'd never heard before. He pronounced it "para-dijum."
  • Reagan, when speaking unscripted, repeated false stories, including stories about welfare abuse and capital punishment in England.
  • Reagan used the same off-the-cuff remarks, almost word-for-word, in different interviews.
  • In remarks he composed himself, Reagan addressed a gathering of Medal of Honor recipients and recounted the tale of another recipient, but the tale was false (it may have been based upon an amalgam of a movie plot and a WWII scuttlebutt, but it was not a legitimate Medal of Honor story).
  • Reagan got thrown a question he could not answer and stood there doddering until Nancy prompted him on how to answer it.
  • Reagan could not ask intelligent questions and asked people to give him written copies of their presentations so that he could go over them at his leisure. (He did this when outgoing President Carter tired to brief him on the important issues he would be facing.)
  • During the debates, and especially during the debate with Walter Mondale, Reagan showed he could not answer extemporaneously. (Before his debate with Carter, Reagan's folks obtained a copy of Carter's playbook so that their guy would have scripted responses to what Carter was expected to say.)
And there are many more. In the latter days of his presidency, Reagan gave up giving news conferences because he couldn't improvise at all. In the scripted speeches he gave, he often seemed lost and confused.

Now, his official biographer noticed these trends as well, and attributed them in part to the shock to Reagan's system that came from the assassination attempt early in his first term. But Reagan was slipping even before that. On his first day as President, Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill mentioned Grover Cleveland's desk, and Reagan responded that he (Reagan) had played Grover Cleveland in a movie. Stunned, the Speaker corrected Reagan, saying he had portrayed Grover Cleveland Alexander, a baseball player, not Grover Cleveland, the US president. The Speaker would later say publicly that he could not discuss anything with Reagan off the cuff, and that Reagan was the least informed on every subject of any president he'd ever met.

Would Reagan have read the wrong speech? Hell yes. Even his own people thought he would have, if he'd been in the position that Clinton was in.
 
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