Ooooh, so that’s how she managed to finally get through college.

The bed head is a nice touch, too.

Predictably, Meatprod has leapt to her defense.

Aside from the hand decoration (a fuss heralded last night by some commenter I saw somewhere asking in genuine mystification why she kept wiping that same hand on any available surface after delivering the prompted line), irony is, as ever, a stranger to her all too predictable kneejerk “progressive” defenders, let alone those who are on the right.

Item: A $100,000 speech that slammed financial imprudence (penned by an ex-Al Gore speechwriter) that she apparently couldn’t even be bothered to look at, let alone read over, before delivering. - CONDESCENDING LIBRULS ARE SO HORRIBLE TO HER THAT THEY’LL HAND HER THE 2012 ELECTION ON A PLATE!!!!

Item: Trotting out the ultra-tired, crowd-pleasing teleprompter jibes, barely a week after Obama wiped the floor with the GOP without one, while pausing to find her place in her script. - HOW PETTY CAN YOU GET?!!!!

Item: Dragging her children unprompted into the “conversation” yet again to complain about some dastardly people somewhere focusing on them. - ZOMG WILL THEY NEVER LEAVE THEM ALONE?!!1!

Nobody rocks like…

(glances at note taped to back of guitar)

...Wingfield!

Hilarious reality-dawning double-back switcheroo from Dan Riehl here.

I realize that people always do that with politicians and public figures—project onto them what they want them to be.  So they think she’s a genuine truth-teller and conservative purist.

But it seems to me when stuff like this comes up with the IceBeggar you’d want to double check whether you’re right first before going so faaaaar out on the limb.  Reflexive defenses of her are just going to plunge into the arctic sea without an iceberg to cling to.

YAFB, all this speech is going to be remembered for now is HandPrompTerGate! Nothing else was new, and I’m sure that that wasn’t new, either; remember the wilted word-salad “I can see Russia” interview? She had notes in her lap for that one, too. That’s how well she did with notes.

What fun watching the dolts who’ve been shrieking President TelePrompter try to rationalize Governor Sharpie. After all, those are the only words we can be sure she wrote—and wait, is that even her handwriting on her hand?

That’s how well she did with notes.

Well, that Mrs. P, and it’s pretty clear that she was probably handed the questions in advance.  So last night’s how well she does with notes and an advance copy of the exam.

@Tom65: It’s even better than that:

Energy
BudgetTax cuts
Lift American spirit

She couldn’t even think it through before writing it on her hand…

Whover debates her would do well to challenge her to an outdoor debate, with mittens.

Or Mittens and mittens!

The Sarapologists are having convulsions. BIG DEAL. So she WROTE ON HER HAND.

What elephant?

After all, those are the only words we can be sure she wrote—and wait, is that even her handwriting on her hand?

Aha! Is she right-handed or left-handed?

I might have more patience with those yapping about what a non-controversy this is if they hadn’t spent the last two years cooking up controversies out of thin air while acting as point guard for their unvetted Todd Palin/neocon sockpuppet.

And if one of the “high points” of her speech (much cheered at the time no doubt by those on the high-dudgeon defensive) hadn’t been a flat-falling slam on the charismatic black dude with the teleprompter.

Hell, it’s got nothing to do with serious politics, but you’d have to lack a soul—or even a supralimbic central nervous system—not to laugh out loud.

And anyway, yesterday Wales got (rightly, sadly) pasted by England in the first rugby match I’ve watched any of on telly in donkey’s years, so somebody’s got to take the brunt.

I think myiq2xu has a legitimate point guys.

This is a non-story. If Obama did this, it’s not like those PUMAs would beat up on him for it.

Afterall, they’re all mute Asian scientists who use only logic and reason to come to political conclusions.

/snark

I have two journal articles I’m trying to work on today, and this hilarious shit isn’t helping one bit.

Sarah Palin is the most polarizing political figure ever.

Wait, did I say “polarizing”? I meant “stupid.”

Too funny.  We both leaned forward and said “is she reading her hand?” when she did that last night.  Due to combination of high altitude (we’re up in the mountains) and a couple glasses of wine I went to bed shortly after and didn’t get a chance to have the impression confirmed until this morning.  People are going to have a lot of fun with Sharpie-gate!  What’s really funny about the whole thing is how uncomplicated her answer was but she still had to look at her crib notes so she didn’t get it wrong.

P.S.  LOVELOVELOVE the blingee Mrs. P.

And the Palin Defense Force is already out in droves this morning.

“How does this hurt her with the average American compared to the professional politician reading off a teleprompter?”

I can’t imagine Hillary Clinton looking at that last dollop of doofus frosting on the Frozen Dingbat cake without barking laughter.

And what will Palinistas tell their daughters!

A TelePrompTer is what a professional speaker uses.

Notes on your hand are what you use when you’re trying to cheat your way through a geography test.

Sarah Palin is a fucking retard.

Oh, it’s OK.  Sarah just gave me permission to call her a fucking retard for the rest of her miserable life.

Fucking Retard told Fox News that when Rush calls people “retards” it’s not offensive because he’s a humorist and not a politician.

I’m not a politician, so let me say again, Sarah Palin is a Fucking Retard.

Oh, and people with cognitive impairments?  You now get to wear the “Sarah Palin threw me under the bus” T-shirt.

you’re trying to cheat your way through a geography test.

Name three countries with Atlantic coastlines.

United States of Alaska America
Russia
Europe

This device has served Governor Sharpie well!

Mrs. Polly, I’m eagerly awaiting some hilarious telepalmter photoshops.

What a bizarre person. The scary thing is, she apparently believes her own bullshit.

Necker, the old saw is that the best liars believe their own lies. She absolutely believes most of what she says, and her divine mission justifies the little awkwardnesses that crop up, including charging Alaskans for staying in her own house and eating her own food, using state resources to hunt her enemies and fly her children around, what have you.

But, she’s not a good liar!  She lies transparently, clumsily, and for stupid reasons!

There is just a large population in this country whose politics are rooted in spite.

Riehl’s rabidly desperate straw-clutchers keep things classy:

When Obama’s teleprompter is broken, he writes his notes on his hands, except he’s never able to read them because he’s an idiot and writes the notes in black ink!

That is, when they’re not still refusing to believe the evidence of their own lyin’ eyes:

You have GOT to be kidding! On the linked AP site,there are several clear shots of her hands: palms open, backs of the hand, her typical hand gestures with hands clasped, pointing with the open curled hand (check the pics) - and there is CLEARLY NOTHING on her hands! Are you trying to smear her because you think she is stupid? Sounds like an MSM redux.

How sad that Dan R feels the need to spread this cockamamie horse-hockey about a conservative woman. Are you a Hillary fan? That might explain it. Otherwise, get a clue. You are NOT helping by spreading garbage. It is as CLEAR AS DAY on the AP photos. Geez.

And reality paging Mike Myers:

... Obama’s problem is that he talks too much, in too many venues, to have time to rehearse what he’s going to say. As a reader of speeches on theteleprompter he has no equal. As a speaker? Well let’s say that Ms. Palin is at least his equal.

How sad that Dan R feels the need to spread this cockamamie horse-hockey about a conservative woman. Are you a Hillary fan? That might explain it.

Nah, Hillary fans LOVE Palin because they’re ideological twins, dontcha know. Palin = Hillary + hip waders + Jägermeister.

Mike Myers and a number of other Obamaphobes are doing their best to forget the 90 minute Q&A Obama did, without notes or teleprompter, in front of a hostile audience of Republican legislators, where he wiped the floor with them.

After that, a lot of Republicans thought he talked too much!

Are you a Hillary fan? That might explain it

There’s some of that good Teabag/wingnut Hillary hatred that so many of the Hillaryphiles didn’t believe would have materialized had she won the nomination.

But, she’s not a good liar!  She lies transparently, clumsily, and for stupid reasons!

Now, now. Lying for more money than most reaLAMEricans earn in eight years is not a stupid reason. And those aren’t crib notes on her hand. It’s a reminder not to burst out laughing at the rubes who paid to hear her molest the English language.

Could someone please tell me if Violet Socks has posted on this over at Reclusive Racist Leftist?  I’d check myself, but I’m in a public place and I don’t want to start swearing at the top of my lungs and smashing my head against blunt objects.

Not after the last time.

I would like everyone to ponder this simple fact.

The question for which Sarah needed to crib was essentially this:

What are President Palin’s top three priorities when she takes office?

She still isn’t prepared to answer that question, and our Lamestream Media treats her as a credible candidate for the office.

You may now commence weeping for the late great United States of America, dead man walking.

Could someone please tell me if Violet Socks has posted on this over at Reclusive Leftist?

Not yet—just the standard shite: “Obama is evil,” “The super bowl is oppressing me with cheerleaders,” and “Cupcakes!” (or, in this case “Snow pictures!”

Not yet—just the standard shite: “Obama is evil,” “The super bowl is oppressing me with cheerleaders,” and “Cupcakes!” (or, in this case “Snow pictures!”

Hmmm.  Maybe the bloom is finally off the rose.  Or maybe there’s another tortured Annie Oakley analogy waiting in the wings.

She still isn’t prepared to answer that question, and our Lamestream Media treats her as a credible candidate for the office.

I’d say you nailed it Allan.

Well blingeed Mrs. P.

Thanks, Necker. Just wanted to get out ahead of the crowd. Pretty much all her ideas can be boiled down to fingernotes. Did I forget anything?

Superplusgood Blingee, indeed, Mrs. P!

Meanwhile, over at Ranch Riehl, they’re still slugging it out, with the cavalry now in attendance:

So, let me get this straight. She has 6 words on her hand, no teleprompter and spoke for over an hour and took questions. Obama can’t even have a press conference without preslecting the questions from the press and calling on certain reporters, and then reading the answers in some cases. You are kidding me, right. Is THIS all you got? Cause it’s gonna be a fun year.

Er. Oh, OK. Since I can’t figure out where to start, I give up. How do you feel about Macs v. PCs?

“Obama spoke extemporaneously when he met with the republicans. Even Bush used a teleprompter and still smashed the english language.”

But unlike your honeyboy Bambi, dumbass, Bush knows how to pronounce “corpsman”.

And that unpatriotic mispronunciation will see the Kenyan impeached yet. You betcha.

ZOMG, Brit, I hope the conflict at Reihl doesn’t go NEWKEWLIR!

Could someone please tell me if Violet Socks has posted on this over at Reclusive Leftist?

Ahh.  Do I dare disturb the universe….?  Oh, what the hell…

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Well, that was—bracing.  Can Violet get it through her crazy head that thinking Palin is stupid is not the same thing as thinking all women are stupid?

Oh, of course not.  She’s let the crazy in to stay and save her from the scary black man.

FWIW, I don’t think Palin is “stupid.” She has an excellent lizard brain. She’s excellent at sniffing out prey.

She is too lazy to bother studying, though, much less working day-to-day at a job, and she’s ignorant as a doorknob. But boy, can she deliver a pre-written rant from notecards, as long as it’s good n’ mean!

The fact that ex-Governor Sharpie needed CliffNotes for her own priorities is one the Sarapologists would love to forget.

The fact that ex-Governor Sharpie needed CliffNotes for her own priorities is one the Sarapologists would love to forget.

I’ve lost count of the number of wingers who’ve given the impression that her ihand was the sum total of her notes for her entire speech—which is either extremely silly of them, or plain dissembling to obscure the fact that Ms. Palin’s priorities are obviously not enough of a priority for her to be able to write them on her hand accurately, let alone recall them when asked (the same wingers also have selective amnesia over Obama’s off-teleprompter Pasting Of The GOP, but I can understand them wanting to repress that memory).

And in any case, corpsman. Also.

Oh, I agree that she’s got a plentiful supply of low cunning—but her complete lack of knowledge and inability to reflect on things count as ‘stupidity’ in my book.

There was a woman that I knew very like Sarah. She was vapid, uninterested in so much as glancing at a news broadcast, and yet had a tactical sense for rising within any organisation through a combination of well-placed flattery and backstabbery. She was also a wickedly good bridge-player, unsurprisingly.

One might call it “low cunning.” But it’s some kind of intelligence, if not a pleasant kind.

I have a friend who calls willful ignorance “pignorance.” Nothing to do with Governor Sharpie at all, you understand! Just putting that out there. (%;3

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Hey—nice do! Is that a Bumpit?

Rumpit, actually. Goes well with anything, including Scraps of Sadness.

I can’t decide if Sarah actually is dumb or she is just so self absorbed that any thought beyond “how does this (insert idea or activity) benefit Sarah?” can’t get a toehold in her brain.

It didn’t surprise me that she needed palm notes to answer a question about what her priorities as a national leader would be.  Who has time to think about that?  There’s no money in it.

Love the post. I wonder why she has budget crossed off. Is it because her socialist plan for distributing the wealth of big oil to the citizens of Alaska is planned as a remedy for our economic woes in 2012?
With a paintbrush in his paw, Bugs Bunny would ask, “Would you like your palm read?”