Right-wing media jump to defend Palin after "crib note" criticism
Right-wing media figures have rushed to defend Sarah Palin from criticism that she apparently wrote "crib notes" on her hand during her Tea Party Convention appearances by claiming, among other things, that it's a "non-issue" and that having notes on her hand was "folksy," "down to earth," and "just like busy moms."
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Right-wing media defend "busy mom" Palin's "crib note[s]" by claiming it's "folksy" and "down to earth"
Fox & Friends: Palin was "folksy," "down to earth," and "it's an exact opposite of reading off the teleprompter." On Fox News' Fox & Friends, after co-host Steve Doocy noted that the "left" was criticizing Palin for apparently using crib notes while she took a "shot at the guy who uses a teleprompter," co-host Gretchen Carlson replied, "I think she did it on purpose. Yeah, because I think it's an exact opposite of reading off the teleprompter. Reading off complete script written for you with every word in a sentence, and here she's just taking crib notes on her hand. It makes it look as if she can just talk off the cuff and that she just jotted down a few couple notes before she went off to give a big, long speech." Later, co-host Brian Kilmeade called it "folksy," and "down to earth." From the February 8 edition of Fox & Friends:
CARLSON: I think she did it on purpose.
DOOCY: You do?
CARLSON: I think she did it on purpose. Yeah, because I think it's an exact opposite of reading off the teleprompter. Reading off complete script written for you with every word in a sentence, and here she's just taking crib notes on her hand. It makes it look as if she can just talk off the cuff and that she just jotted down a few couple notes before she went off to give a big, long speech.
KILMEADE: I am jealous.
DOOCY: I think she did -- I think she did it because she probably does it a lot. I do that all the time.
KILMEADE: I personally am jealous, because I used to get in trouble if I wrote on my palms because my mom explained to me the ink would get through my pores and I would die. So I stopped doing that in the fifth grade.
DOOCY: Really?
KILMEADE: Why doesn't she just -- there's nothing wrong with if she had a card. Just jot a card down -- energy, taxes, hope, whatever it is. But -- then no one has a problem. But to sit there and look at -- do the interview and then look down at her hand, I think that is -- it's, like you said, Gretchen, before, folksy, absolutely. Down to earth. I can identify. But if you're going to write it on your hand, why not just say, staffer, can you hand me a card? And then it would have been OK.
CARLSON: Like I say, I think it was on purpose. But anyway, we may never know.
Gateway Pundit's Hoft: It's a "non-issue" for the "TelePrompter-less former Governor." On Gateway Pundit, blogger Jim Hoft wrote: "On Sunday the left went bonkers after they discovered that the TelePrompter-less former Governor Sarah Palin wrote notes on the palm of her left hand for her speech to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. The far left absolutely freaked over this non-issue rather than focus on her brilliant speech knocking the Obama Administration's horrid record on economics and national defense."
NRO's Spruiell writes in defense of Palin: She "speaks from concise notes like everybody else. And, like other busy moms, she sometimes writes notes on her hand." Stephen Spruiell at the National Review Online blog The Corner wrote of the criticism: "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." He continued, "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."
Politicians are different. And one who mocks someone for using a teleprompter shouldn't be having to write notes on her hand about straightforward issues like this.
She's not a kid cheating on an exam in school. She was supposed to be talking about her core political beliefs. That's the failing I think this shows - Palin is very shallow, and doesn't have deep knowledge. This is a flaw that she's shown repeatedly.
Yeah but Unprecedented B has to use the prompter for Sixth Graders?!
While you're at it tell the Harvard educated B that it's Corpsmen, not Corpse-men...Just trying to help.
First Obama is inept for using teleprompters, then we have pictures of Palin using them, and now there's some sort of minimum age requirement for the audience?
It wasn't a question and answer session he was using it in, you doofus. It was for his prepared remarks for the press. Do you get some perverse pleasure from providing evidence that you're so highly politically partisan that you can't think straight?
Why is that?
He was easily accepted into the undergrad program at UT - that was one of his safe, back-up schools.
Otherwise, its just one side pointing out Obama saying dumb stuff and the other saying Bush is the idiot. Stupid isnt it.
Yes, it is rather stupid.
Oh, and that link is to Mr. Instapundit himself.
1) He did NOT use the teleprompter for the address he gave for the sixth-graders. Massive FAIL. Maybe YOU need to go back to sixth grade. Most of us educated people know to verify stories before we run with them. Factcheck knocked the teleprompter meme out of the water last week.
2) This distain for teleprompters is ridiculous. It doesn't make sense for the President to have to waste time to memorize speeches - so they are written down. He can be looking at his speech on paper, or he can be looking at his audience. I mean, this is why people memorize speeches, so they can be looking up instead of reading their notes. Using a teleprompter is the right and proper thing to do! It's ludicrous to suggest that there's something wrong with it when one considers the alternatives!!!
3) So, likely he'd never seen the word written before, and didn't know how it was pronounced. Omigod. What a shock. My son, who taught himself to read when he was 3, pronounced "character" with a "ch" sound at the beginning, because "character" isn't a word that one says in common conversation very often. He also pronounced "opponent" like "opposite". He'd heard "opp-o-site". He'd never heard "o-po-nent", so he pronounced it like it looked to him. You can bet that Obama will never mispronounce it again! He made an error. It's not comparable to Sarah Palin needing crib notes to remember her 'core values' like tax cuts and energy issues! Why would she need a reminder to talk about those things unless she's ignorant and a talking head without much of a brain INSIDE that head?
Bottom line, Sarah Palin sees Russia from her house and will need to read notes on her palm to know what to do if there was a breach. Huh? Yeap, this is ONE crucial credential to have when running for President as a Conservative, Right-winged Republican name Sarah Palin. Uh, oh. LOL.
I don't get it either. MSM and other pundits use it all the time, and it's okay for them? Why is it not okay for the president when giving a speech? Presidents and other speech-givers have long used notes when giving speeches, so what's the issue with moving into the 20th/21st century and using teleprompters?
2) The issue is that he can't seem to handle giving a speech WITHOUT a teleprompter.
3) It's nice that you equate Obama with your 3 year old. It's terrible when a supposedly college educated person has a hard time with simple words. Do you really think that Sarah writing a few notes on her hand for a speech she didn't need a teleprompter for really compares to the Commander-in-Chief mispronouncing titles of people in the military? I'm beginning you doubt your initial assertion "Most of us educated people" that you are included in that group.
On what planet?
And Sarah Palin stupidly used a written copy of her speech - that's really ignorant, in this day and age, to insist on a paper copy of a speech, so that your audience sees the top of your head every few moments.
When he spoke to the children, there were no teleprompters.
BTW, what did you think of the teleprompters St. Palin used on the campaign stump in 2008?
At least Obama doesn't need crib sheets to answer simple pre-screened questions ...
The fact of the matter that you would like to distract us from is that Palin was not giving a speech she was answering pre-selected questions(she knew the questions before hand)from a partisan audience that paid from $350-$550 to hear her. She's scribbling notes on her hand to questions she's been preped on, while critcizing the President for using a teleprompter and the hyprocrisy is lost on you? Hehehe! P.T. Barnum's maxim still rings true every second.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." -- G.W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
Now, the GOP is backing away from talking with Obama in public about healthcare on the 25th.
Wrong as usual, T Boone.
When Obama spoke to those Sixth Graders, he did not use the teleprompter. It was there for when he read a prepared statement to the press.
Please get you facts straight, M'kay???
[kɔr] masculine body; mort (dead) body, corpse; military corps; prendre corps take shape; le corps diplomatique the diplomatic corps; le corps électoral the electorate; corps étranger foreign body; corps expéditionnaire task force; corps médical medical profession
Notice the difference between c-o-r-p-s and c-o-r-p-s-e. Only in reference to a dead body is the -pse annunciated.
So do you annunciate the H in Hors as well?
At least vet your sources before you use them as proof.
" --TBone
So what's your point, that the president is also the one who types in the teleprompter feed?
Though with her notes on her hand she has sewed up the junior high vote.
Sarah's new slogan "Talk to the Hand"
A little piece of free advice, Mr. humjob: if you're going to criticize and insult people for their communication skills, make sure that you have your facts straight, and do it in something that at least distantly resembles proper English. Otherwise, you come off as an arrogant, uninformed, mush-mouthed, critical thinking-impaired Rushbot ditto head.
It keeps you from having to choose between wasting time memorizing a speech or reading from the podium and not being able to look out towards your audience. Neither choice is the best option is the best one if a teleprompter is available!
It is DUMB to NOT use a teleprompter.
It's even dumber to not understand that it's dumb to not use one.
Of course, who knows what things would be like nowadays if he actually thought for himself instead of having everything scripted for him...
It's the way it's always been done, but somehow you fault Obama for it?
Thanks for showing us that you aren't being sincere.
My pastor didn't use telepromters during his sermon, instead he started from the pulpit and then moved around and made a point to stop and have direct eye contact with is audience. I know other people and past President's used teleprompters - I'm not denying that. I was simply stating that watching him go back and forth drives me crazy!
It's not my fault you and others haven't thought through the criticism of using a teleprompter!
And mispronouncing corpsman? An easy mistake to make.
And I have no idea why you think that it'd be HARDER to mispronounce it since he was reading it - that's WHY he mispronounced it - because he was reading it, and he wasn't just repeating someone else who was saying it!
You DO know that there's a p and an s in the written word corpsman, right?
I'll never forget my core beliefs though. That's what Palin wrote down, supposed core beliefs. For a scripted Q&A!
I just can not even begin to understand how she doesn't know something that she has been repeating ad nauseum for over a year and a half.
Thats why she isnt interviewed by anyone other than Fox. The hard questions wouldnt be given to her in advance, and she wouldnt be able to WRITE THE ANSWERS ON HER HAND!
It's amazing the silliness that the media covers these days, not to mention those watchdoggers that monitor it.
It goes to the hypocrisy of Palin and her followers. We have big problems in the country and her side has no solutions, only slogans which can be condensed to fit in their palms.
Palin is divorced from the issues and has no grasp of reality. In her reality things like seeing Russia from Alaska, becoming a born-again virgin, and quitting the only real position of responsibility she ever had as a springboard to the Presidency of the United States are all possible.
I wish her great success. I hope the Republicans nominate her to run for President in 2012. I can't think of a better way for them to enable a second term for President Barack H. Obama...who may not be all many of us hoped he would be but who is a damn site better than what we've had for some time and, given another seven years of opportunity, might actually figure out what it is that the majority of Americans expect from a President and how to deliver that to his country.
They're covering the rightwing media making excuses for Palin.
No legitimate news organization makes excuses for ANY politician!
This is not rocket science, but you're so determined to try to TURN this into a discussion about what she wrote that it's clear that it scares you for us to discuss how FoxNews shouldn't be making excuses for a politician!!!
It is the Stigmata, this is how she receives her talking points, they are of divine origin!!
By the way, I was impressed by The Who's tribute to you yesterday.
It doesn't MATTER, not one bit, WHAT she did that they are creating excuses for. What she did is irrelevant!!! It's their excuse-creating that's the problem. It's their defending a politician for ANYTHING that's an issue. It's ANY media coming to the defense of ANY politician on either side of the aisle that would be the problematic behavior for a legitimate news organization.
Thanks for your continuing efforts to show us how scared you are of us addressing the topic of FoxNews and others doing what no legit news organization would do!!!
It's FoxNews and other rightwing media sources defending her and making excuses for her!
But her writing notes on her hand SHOULD be an issue for any of her fans.
She was being dishonest. She was pretending that she didn't need any reminders, so she didn't have any index cards, but she did need reminders - reminders about her core talking points, as a matter of fact. You should care about her dishonesty.
It's telling that you don't care about her disingenuous behavior.
Pathetic.
Fox and friend, hannity, rush, Beck, run the risk of backing themselves into a corner by demonizing such a large segment of our political discourse and ideas. By attacking so much with such a broad brush, the run the risk of looking like hypocrites when they need a teleprompter or think that something might require a progressive type of intervention. Of course, looking like hypocrites is nothing new for these bunch.
They are the very definition of hypocrisy.
It's not proper for them to defend her. That's not their job!!!
But thanks for showing us that you still don't know what this site does and why. The research posts are for factual research and information when there is stuff in the media that furthers the conservative agenda.
Covering for Palin furthers the conservative agenda. It IS an issue when that happens.
Are you new here?
Thanks for showing us how scared you are of us talking about this issue, despite your assertion above that these people doing this behavior are supposedly small fry and not worthy of any attention!!!
Someone who was not talking about the actual topic of this article is scared to talk about that topic.
The fact that this thread has over 200 comments isn't a sign that we're scared of ANYTHING your side of the aisle has to offer! It's a sign that we're very interested in doing all we can to protect our nation from people like Palin and her supporters. You act like that concern is because she's so 'good'. It's because she's so very, very bad.
Just look at those here who find anyway to defend SP despite all the facts. I'am afraid that the noise machine they have created along with the unleashing by the Supremes of limitless money by corporations into our political system will drown out the peoples voices and their needs.
The Republicans don't believe in HCR,or SS, public education,DOE or any of that yet they were able to sell a segment of this population to go against their own self-interest. "Keep government hands off my medicare!" Then they have the nerve to NOW come out with their plan for America and what is it? Privitize SS, cut Medicare and ration care for grandma.People are searching for answers and alot of what their getting is demagoguery parading as solutions. The voices of those who point the fingers at the disenfranchised and poor,the middle-class are heard far more often than the voices talking about the greed and robbery of Wall St. Even though we won the election those who would want to us to march backward in history seem to be screaming the loudest and that is the danger I see in Palin. She is scary because her ignorance is celebrated and defended instead of mocked and ridiculed. The mantra of "states right"(once the clarion call of the segregationist and the seccessionist)have garnered an ear again,and nativism is on the rise and despite the efforts of those with good will the policies we get are so watered down the effects are slow to realize and not deep enough to solve the problems again creating more room for the scoundrels to plan and manuever in the interest of their corporate pimps. Glenn Beck,Sarah Palin and others are able to gain audiences because of the uncertainty in peoples lives. Histroically demagogues have used national histrical antagonism to mislead and divide the people. In Europe and particularly in Germany Hitler blamed the Jews and the Communist for the ills of the German people. Is it any wonder that here in the good ole USA with our particular history of subjugating the native americans,enslavement of the Africans, and the manifest destiny that saw us take over half of Mexico aka.,the Southwest and California ,the progressive movements that led to the new deal and labor reform that ACORN,progressives(trade unionist)and people of color are being targeted as the anvil dragging America down? The fear I have is not in the superiority of the arguments and solutions being proposed by the like of Palin et.al., but in the abilty of those with money and power to figure out ways to fool and divide the people into accepting policies contrary to their own interest. The old axiom of "figures don't lie but liars can figure" comes to mind.
And I doubt if you ever will.
Exposing the public to factual information that debunks rightwing talking points is NOT 'defending' Obama. It's defending the truth.
BTW, you are aware that Palin usually uses a teleprompter or she has the typewritten speech on the podium in front of her like she did the other day, right? So did Bush and every other modern president. So do the folks like Hannity, O'Reilly, et al, who use this very, very tired meme.
You think every issue they report on is a non-issue, that is your major complaint in almost every post. But you see this is just 1 article @ a site that has over 30 articles daily about different topics involving conservative misinformation.
Phony, staged, contrived: GOPper House members.
Extemporaneous, articulate, and in comand: PotUS.
That's a good thing. If they can read it, and not make it sound like they are reading something, then they have more time to do the jobs they are supposed to be doing, rather than spending time memorizing a speech!!!
The reason they either memorize a speech or use a teleprompter? So they are looking out at the audience or the TV cameras. It's the same reason that everyone on TV uses cue cards or a teleprompter for prepared remarks.
It's been this way for decades. It's not a new thing that's being done in reaction to the 24/7 news cycle. What politicians used to do is waste time memorizing speeches. Once teleprompters were perfected, they stopped wasting that memorization time.
The person who needs to stop with the kneejerk reactions would be you.
The 24/7 news cycle didn't affect this. Politicians used to memorize speeches or read directly from their notes on a podiums. Then, once teleprompters were perfected, they started using those. It was not a reaction to a 24/7 news cycle.
It's not my fault your conclusion that it was a reaction to cable news wasn't a reasonable conclusion to come to. If you ignore that politicians used to memorize speeches so they could look at their audiences, then it might be a reasonable assumption, but given ALL the known facts, it's not. Too bad, so sad.
They take advantage of that technology so that they ensure they smoothly get across all their points.
So, want to take back your false talking point that they're used to mitigate problems due to the 24/7 news cycle?
Yeah, I figured you wouldn't admit your error.
And, if I was a right-winger I would stop using the entire teleprompter theme. That was put to bed pretty well during the Q&A session when the Republicans came armed with their talking point questions and Obama shot them down like clay pigeons. You may want to find another line of attack if you want it to attach.
It's an invention of the right to try to make their right-leaning poll numbers have more import. Too many people had figured out that Rasmussen Reports couldn't be relied upon.
Actually, between 1/29 and recently, his approval went up, and then went back down again due to the influence of the Tea Party convention. That's shown on Rasmussen. He's up, overall, on Gallup, up until then too.
Do Fox Newzies even bother checking facts before they type here? Do they think we're just softball debaters like they talk with every day at the water cooler?
Face it. Obama is smarter than you and it makes you angry.
Any reasonable idea they have has already been incorporated into the current legislation - as Obama so politely explained to the slow kids in class. And, still they refuse to offer any support. They refused to support the stimulus, yet pose for pictures when the stimulus funds projects for them and their constituents. Do you not think the moderates in this country cannot see through this?
The Republicans are clearly only interested in obstruction. Party over country. Each and every time. If you cannot see that, then you need to stop getting your info from hate radio and Fox News. They are letting you down. The fact that all you can ever point to is trivial nonsense of complete insignificance like you have never seen his 5th grade report card and he uses a teleprompter for the State of the Union speech and he has not stopped at each person's house to allow them to inspect his birth certificate (which are arguments you could make for every damn president in modern history) just shows how shallow and inept your side is. You have no arguments of substance. I suggest you find some or else enjoy the political wilderness.
Frankly, I find it refreshing to have a President that thinks in complex sentences and lets that show. Speaking absolutely and decisively all the time may appeal to those for whom soundbites represent the bulk of their political understanding. But for those of us who understand that the issues facing us today are complicated and require complex solutions, this president is like a breath of fresh air.
I guess this is why we get so many sound bites from our politicians - look at all the people who apparently don't recognize an intelligent, thoughtful remark when they hear one.
Or, it could be refered to as the teabagger version of a palmpilot.
H/T to Daily Kos where I orginally saw these terms.
Besides, she had already been briefed on the question to which these three items were responsive She couldn't REMEMBER these three things which were supposed to represent her opinion? That's just sad.
As for the speech, she was reading it from the podium. She looked down REPEATEDLY during the speech.
That she doesn't use a TelePrompTer to deliver an important written speech is beyond idiotic. To suggest otherwise is to reward incompetence.
Imagine Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase trying this folksy approach, the common man touch. Would the Tea Baggers (and Faux Noise) gang give Dimon the same compliments?
Imagine Steve Jobs of Apple reading from a piece of paper at the iPad announcement. ROFLMA! Professionals like Jobs rehearse like a demon so they can do it from memory using Keynote slides for cues. If you ever suggested Steve, or any CEO, do a Palin to be more folksy you'd be pulling your head out of your ***hole.
It's political theater to choose to use a paper copy of a speech instead.
And it's dishonest to put keywords on your hands in the hope that no one will see you cheating a glance at them.
The poor Woman can't keep simple thoughts in her Head & her own Brain Static at Bay.
"Oh i think she did it on purpose" Gretchen, When you defend a Fool you by default become the Fool.
Gretchen Carlson, "Ted Kennedy is a Hostile Enemy of the United States" maybe it's time for Gretchen to go back to School.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
...where was his TelePrompter when he completely owned the Warpublicans one-on-one?
Oh, that's right- there wasn't one, because the notion Obama requires a TelePrompter is a lie, unlike the fact that Palin is so dumb she probably had to write down "Alaska was the 50th state- it's not a country" on her hand.
Would you prefer a more modernized type of crib-note, such as a 'teleprompter' to use in front of every audience, including 6th graders?
Two problems with that, what if the teleprompter failed, think of how foolish someone could look? or even if it did, to not know how to pronounce a word like 'corpsman' because you don't know what you are even talking about?
And teleprompters require electricity from those meanie coal-fired or nuclear powered plants, so what of the presidents's carbon footprint enlargement and personal affront to algore as he flies on his private jet somewhere in the world?
Speaking truth to/about progressives with a shout out to all those Haitian 'corpse-men' in their native creole tongue.
*crickets*
Just as I thought, proudconartist...
Was anyone looking at ralm's palm when he uttered his now infamous f***ing r******d leftists (now that should have the *'s in it!)???
Glass houses, ManicheanMan... glass houses.
When Rush used the NOUN "retards" or was it "retarts" in misquoting Rahm he was insulting the mentally challenged.
Now is that too Nooooanced for you?
I like the way Steve Colbert sums it up in this video. I think you'll like since he uses her reasoning in calling her a "F--king Retard." Enjoy:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/09/colbert-sarah-palin-is-a_n_454744.html
You don't know what you're talking about.
Once again.
Stop making yourself look like a silly partisan apologist.
As in: "The fire extinguisher retarded the flames that was starting to engulf the house."
A legitimate use of the word that one can argue was in the same context as Raum's
Now for the rest of your list -
Teleprompter - OK, as Doll said you cant expect a president to memorize every speech.
Writing on hand - see teleprompter comment
Rahm - not bad, stupid
Rush - mocking what comes out of the mouth of liberals IS funny.
Birthers - bogus
Tea-party - Unfortunately it appears headed for doom if they are going to go the route of the birthers.
Tancredo - waaaay to far to the right for me (and another sign that the tea-party movement is headed toward the fringe.
Putting those notes on your hand, so you look like you don't need notes when you really do? Dishonest.
Putting 3 of your core beliefs on your hand to cheat from, meaning you can't even remember these things? Pure ignorance.
Comparing that to using a teleprompter? Trollish.
Making even the most simple of concepts easier for conservatives to understand.
He not only didn't look foolish, he... well, you know the rest.
Debunked nonsense. Almost all the links go to a town hall meeting, where there WASN'T a teleprompter, and to a link from The ONION!
What a loser you are. You are the one who made an accusation. MMFA provided evidence that one recent alleged example of what you claimed had happened never actually DID happen.
If it's bogus, you would have shown how it was bogus. But it's not bogus, and you know it, and so you make an ad hominem attack against MMFA. We know, when you can't debate the facts, people of your ilk make personal attacks.
The fact is, Palin is a joke. She can't remember 3 simple talking points before a q and a that she already knew the questions?!?
Let's compare that to Obama at the GOP retreat where he kicked their butts. Or at town halls during the q and a.
Obama is miles ahead of Palin on every issue and intellectual level. Grow up. Seriously.
And you know what, I'd rather have a president who can pronounce "nuclear" correctly. I think that is a more important term...
How does your post make any sense whatsoever? My guess is that it doesn't need to. Republicans have been doing just fine ever since they discovered that talking points don't have to make sense to be effective.
Do you REALLY think that Obama EVER thought that there were 57 states?
What's true? He was thinking about having visited 47 states out of 50, and 57 popped out of his mouth.
He KNEW that there are 50 states, and he knew that he had visited 47 of them, was fixing to visit the 48th, and wasn't going to get to Alaska or Hawaii since those states weren't really competitive and it took too much flying time to go to either place during a hectic primary season.
He knew way too much info for this urban legend to hold water, and yet YOU think it's the best comment of the day? Wow. How can you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning?
But I forget a minor misstatement is the equal of ignoring a warning that terrorists will attack the United States in right wing world.
You look foolish repeating tired old NON-CONSERVATIVE talking points, phony conservative.
Massive FAIL. Obama didn't use a teleprompter in front of 6th graders. Factcheck.org debunked that right after the bogus charge was made.
Two problems with that, what if the teleprompter failed, think of how foolish someone could look?
If and when teleprompters fail, they use their written notes, and lose the ability to look at the audience throughout the speech. It's better to have that problem very rarely than to waste time memorizing every speech!!!
or even if it did, to not know how to pronounce a word like 'corpsman' because you don't know what you are even talking about?
So, he had never seen that word, and didn't know how to pronounce it. He'll learn from this mistake, and won't mispronounce it again. It's not a slight against the actual corpsman - it was a mistake. So what? He's not perfect. We're not the ones who say he's the messiah, remember - that's your side's false portrayal of us! It's YOUR side which is dishonestly trying to protect Palin's image here, remember!
Debunking a rehashed talking point is necessary and required. It's not my fault people like your buddy here repeat debunked talking points. If you can't figure out why various troll posts which repeated debunked talking points need to be refuted, then you aren't nearly as smart as I give you credit for. Of course you DO know why I repeatedly refute the same dumb talking points over and over again, but your personal animus is so great, it compels you to attack me over stupid stuff in ways that you KNOW are disingenuous!
And when I EVER think I need your advice, I'll let you know.
Actually, if he is anything like me he probably WILL repeat the mistake anytime he is READING the word. I'd bet even money if he isn't looking at it, he says it correctly and if he is looking at it, he mispronounces it. I do exactly that with that particular word. "p"s and "S"es are not usually silent in our language so some of us who are strong phonetic readers have a hard time not voicing them in this particular case.
Listen to the "hear it" audio on this page. LOL
BTW - in many dictionaries there is an alternate pronunciation listed that voices the s but not the p.
I would suspect that if that word is ever in a speech again, he'll practice reading that word.
In any case, it's not a big deal. It's an understandable mistake, just like my three year old boy reading about opponents in a Nintendo Power magazine and pronouncing it "op-oh-nent", like opposite, because he'd never heard anyone say the word "opponent".
You should have heard the way he said "piranha plant"!
Tao- I pronounced like WoW with a t at the beginning.
and
Macabre- I pronounced it Mah-cob-bray.
I had similar moments of embarrassment.
I have said it correctly when using it - but pronounced it e-pi-tome (like dome) when I was reading it out loud last year.
Abacus. I pronounced it uh-back-iss. I still have to stop myself and think before I pronounce it.
Archipelago. I pronounced it ar-chih-pih-lah-go. This can be blamed on my early reading of Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy.
Also, "misled" - it looks to me like the past tense of "misle" -- I pronounce it "mizzled" and wonder what it means . . .
And now I will always pronounce archipelago as if it rhymes with Key Largo :)
He mispronounced it more than once during the prayer breakfast. Is that what confused you - did those multiple errors during one event make you think he did it on another occasion?
Here is your link Doll. It is at the 7 min. 30 sec. mark Eat crow.
Otherwise, like I said, once he is made aware of it, it's likely that he won't make the same mistake again!
Until someone tells you that you're making an error, no one can't fault you for making the same error a second time. You somehow KNOW that he was made aware of his error back in Jacksonville, but made that same error again?
And what crow do I need to eat? I TRIED to find another example of him doing it BEFORE I asked YOU why you didn't provide the link you should have.
Remember, you're the one who made the accusation and did nothing to back it up!
And Obama HAS pronounced "corps" right, multiple times. So it's just corpsman that he has never associated with the war movies with someone shouting "coreman, over here"!
But this recent mistake WAS pointed out to him. So, he'll learn from this mistake.
You didn't provide ANY proof that he knew about his previous error, and without that proof, you got nothin'.
And when I need to use YOUR interpretation of my behavior as my guide, I'll shoot myself.
Instead, she wanted to pretend that she didn't NEED any reminders, and so she wrote some things on her palm, and snuck a couple of glances at her hand to ensure she covered the important things!
That pretense should bother her fans. Instead they defend her.
Funny, I don't recall the Republicans or Fox or their minions raising a ruckus when Senator Jim Bunning, who has lost both literal and figurative miles on his fastball, used a teleprompter in a debate!
Having said that, it does not look professional when you write it on your hand. Had she had a few note cards with her, Palin, would have looked more competent.
Just my professional opinion.
1. Writing on one's hand strikes most as crude and juvenile.
2. She was attempting to skewer Obama for his use of teleprompter.
Having said that, it does not look professional when you write it on your hand. Had she had a few note cards with her, Palin, would have looked more competent.
Just my professional opinion.
Remember, there are few people who are good at 'ad libs' (e.g. comedians Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters), most are not and require some form of 'reminder'.
Also, The Onion did a great spoof of the whole telepromptergate....
Or are their standards more elastic than that?
Facts. They really have a nasty habit of getting in the way of a good message.
The fact that she used this strategy to subtly make her point points to just how brilliant she is!!!
She read her speech from a written manuscript.
The stuff that was on her hand was for a scripted Q&A session!!!
And the fact that any other posters would uprate this post that so clearly shows how out of the loop you are is evidence that your side isn't very sincere or trustworthy.
So what takes more intellect....reading from a teleprompter word for word or looking at a word written on your hand and then discussing the subject?
BTW, she didn't "discuss the subject," that was her ANSWER.
Obviously Sarah was speaking extemporaneously. She only needed three words to jog her memory for a 45 minute speech. Obama could never do this - he lacks the intellect.
Obama's overconfidence would do him in.
Sounds like you are about as bright as Sister Sarah.
Those "core principles" of hers was WHAT SHE WROTE ON HER HAND!
Actually for Palin, speaking from the heart means spitting out endless conservative cliches. Anyone who has followed conservative and christian politics could speak from the heart like Sarah Palin.
It is easy: Say your family is the most important thing in your life. Then say your country is the most important thing in your life but that you hate the government. Then say your small town background is the most important thing in your life. Besides it makes you more viruous and a real American. Then say a few things that show that you have the good heart of the common man, unlike all those well informed and educated elitist. Then say you support God,country, and the military unlike liberals who hate America and want to take everything away from everyone. Finally let them know that you do normal everyday things like hunt, follow sports teams and play with guns.
No, Sarah speaking from the heart is tired and old but fits well with the Fox news/glen beck worldview of good guys bad guys. Keep it simple so that you make everyone feel good about feeling good. Don't confuse people with all those damn details.
One question - How many State's in the Union?
Here is the link for dolly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
He KNEW that there are 50 states, and he knew that he had visited 47 of them, was fixing to visit the 48th, and wasn't going to get to Alaska or Hawaii since those states weren't really competitive and it took too much flying time to go to either place during a hectic primary season.
Thanks for yet another partisdan apologist explanation.
I'd love to hear your 'explanation' on this one from Obama while discussing a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people - "In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed."
Go ahead, I can play this stupid game with you all day.
I didn't say anything about your ignorant punctuation error, but it is pretty ignorant to think that plural words require an apostrophe. It's pretty ignorant to make an error and confuse possessive formatting with plural word formatting.
What I typed IS the explanation. Go find the YouTube video of the event. He was really tired, and was doing exactly what I said he was doing. To suggest that he was unaware of how many states we have is yet another example of an ignorant thing to say. For some reason, some trolls like you get pleasure from negative attention that proves how ignorant you are.
And again, another accusation from you without a link? One would think you would have learned, but nope, you're too ignorant to get a clue it appears. Maybe you should look it up, and find out that it was, yet again, another time when he misspoke - he never thought that 10,000 people died. How do you look at yourself in the mirror after being so dishonest?
I know Obama isnt stupid but I LOVE feeding examples of him looking stupid back to the people who shovel out intellectual drivel and view themselves and their views as superior and those with other views as stupid.
Because you like links doll....here is a favorite of mine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxxGUeZtno
And a new one http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/02/09/miss-me-yet-billboard/
It was ignorance of how to write plural words. An error would have been putting in a semi-colon instead of an apostrophe - but NO punctuation was called for.
And no one looks "stupid" when they make a misstatement like Obama did here. They look like they made a mistake, like we all do at one time or another.
This has nothing to do with people judging others with differing views "stupid". If people (like YOU) thought that people with differing views were stupid, or LOOKED stupid, well, that's the wrong way to behave.
But in this conversation, you are the only one exhibited that behavior - suggesting that they are superior and that others (Obama, in this case) look stupid because they disagree with him politically!
Glass houses suck.
I think that says it all, Mainiace. You argue for something you know is not true for the sake of simple-minded politics. You do not care what the truth is nor what is best for the country. You only care what is best for your "team". The red team. Cause Rush says it is so. You can flip from one side of an argument to another. You have no true principles. You only defend the far-right at all costs. Party over country.
This entire thread denegrated down to 'who is the bigger idiot'. My team is not "Republican". To late for them. What Obama is doing is not "good for America", in fact it is downright un-American. Before you jump on me, GW did some downright un-American stuff to. I am done with Dems. vs Repub. "My team" will consist of people/politicians willing to uphold the constitution, reduce the size of government and allow the engine of this country, our economy and our people to succeed again. Pardon my pettiness in pointing out some instances in which Obama appeared foolish....just throwing a little back at the people who throw it at me.
But thanks for continuing to ruin your reputation!
Now as you joyously celebrate the error that reasonable recognize as a misstatement attributable to a brain cramp, do you *really* think Obama beleived that there are 57 states?
I know it's tough times for adolescents and those that think like one. Unappreciated and misunderstood...there,there...it's going to be ok. Now go do your homework or no TV. Hehe!
You are just as stupid as Bobby "Let Mr. Rogers exorcise your demons" Jindal fan.
So forgive him his statements. He is on par with Trig on cognitive skills.
If you want to see extemporaneous, give the videos of Obama wiping the floor with the GOP congressmen last week. That's the real reason why Cornyn said that the Senate would not do the same thing.
The three words weren't for her speech. She had that all written out in front of her on the podium and read the majority of it verbatim, like she usually does from teleprompters. The three words were her responses to a question regarding her beliefs. The questions had been pre-screened and she knew what questions were going to be posed. She had to write a cheat sheet for her beliefs ON HER HAND. That's what a teeny-bopper in junior high school does.
Personally, I think you are being intentionally obtuse just for the hell of it. Have fun.
Stop it, man. You're killing me!!!
Besides, I see not one of you Palin apologists have even come near to addressing the fact that Obama spanked the GOP without a teleprompter or notes.
Mike Pence also schooled him. The GOP absolutely got the better of him.
Really you cons should try to be more consistent,either the president can give a good speech and nothing else or he's stupid and can't talk straight . You cons need to learn to walk,what your arguments amount to is more akin to hopping. You go from point to point ,no matter if they contradict each other or fail to logically connect,you just hop from one to the other. Walking would be like puting one foot(point) infront of the other balancing(logically connecting them)in a logical progression. The problem though with you cons(that post here)is that you would have to make sensible arguments not regurgitate soundbites,like the President said 57 states. Drop the Beavis and Butthead thing.
You are really stupid and blind. Keep telling yourself what you want to hear.
When you factor in that GOPpers had days to prepare with message guru Luntz, his mastery was all the more impressive.
Which takes more intellect?
Reading crib notes from one's hand, notes that describe what supposedly are some of your core values and beliefs, in a friendly, scripted Q&A session?
Or
Shooting down multiple false talking points from your political opponents in a massively successful way without any notes at all?
Obama’s gonna kill us
How do I know?
'Cause my Todd he told me so
He's my source of policy
He's all I need - don't ya see?
Obama hearts terrorists
How do I know?
'Cause my Todd he told me so
My ear bud died - damn battery!
Thank Todd! - my palm was his Plan B
You've got to to put those words to music, drafted.
However, I do not feel that Palin's cheat notes are something to dwell on. At first, I was in shock because of what she had written on her hand, but I think that in the bigger picture, do you know how frightening it is to stand up there in front of all of those people. What if she blanked for a minute? It was back up and she's being scrutinized now for playing it safe. I do think that her speech was not as meaty as I would have liked it to be, but she did for that short amount of time lift the spirits of those in the room, so who cares what anyone else thinks, the people there loved her!
This is the response of a syncophantic true believer.
You believe in what someone says but not who they are or what they do? So you'll vote for someone who "says" they'll cut spending but ignore the fact they do the opposite. No wonder people vote for Republicans.
Huh? Who they are? What does that mean and why does it matter?
And, you pretend to have watched her speech and yet you state the crib notes on her hand were for the speech. If you had actually watched any of it you would know that she had a written speech in front of her at the podium. Actually watch the speech. See the papers in front of her? That is the speech she is reading. The crib notes were for the informal Q&A session afterwards. She wanted to appear as if she did not need notes for it. Probably because Obama had just done a Q&A session with the Republicans and wiped the floor with them. But, you can actually see her reading her hand to refresh her memory for her stock answers like "Energy" and "Budget or Tax Cuts". Try to keep up.
"she did for that short amount of time lift the spirits of those in the room, so who cares what anyone else thinks, the people there loved her!" - Nemmino
So what? That crowd loved Tancredo too. That does not mean we should reinstate the poll tax or literacy tests at the polls. Or do you think it does? I mean the people loved it, right?
p.s the market has been going down ever since the electin of Scott Brown, GO FIGURE.
It's ridiculous the lengths the right goes through to justify her behavior. First, during the campaign, they criticized Obama's lack of experience, then they nominate someone with even LESS experience, and say "Uhhh, but she has EXECUTIVE experience." Then they criticize his use of teleprompters, Palin gets caught with notes on her hand, and they say "Yeah, but it's not feeding her every line."
I wish they would just admit "You know, she's just not that savvy. Let's move on to someone a little more polished." Then they'd never again have to contort themselves into a pretzel defending her.
CARLSON: Like I say, I think it was on purpose. But anyway, we may never know.
What a silly statement. Of course will find out the truth. Sarah Plainy Simple will come out and say that Carlson was right, she did it all on purpose to make Obama look stupid.
I doubt many of the folks here are all that familiar with the best selling Book of all time. Read the Book of Esther and tell me that you don't see obvious parallels between Queen Esther and Sarah Palin. They are both wise and righteous leaders.
As I recall, Esther was the Jewish wife of the King of Persia who dissuaded him from enacting a policy that would have been genocidal to her people. I fail to see the parallels to the Quitter from Wasilla. Can you elaborate?
thanks
"Possibly better than Reagan." Oh, my sides!
When you start out by saying "I usually agree with the criticisms on MMFA...", it loses you credibility, and doesn't help your point at all.
And try to improve your reading comprehension. This isn't about what she did at all.
It's about how it's inappropriate for any media to create excuses for a politician!
It is the Stigmata, she is receive her talking points from . . .
Just to compare Sarah and Barack, one would find that Sarah comes out ahead. More experience in government; able to speak without being fully scripted; she believes in life for all; she doesn't want the government to take over our lives; she can speak to and understand real people; she can listen to the American public; and she is NOT a narcissist. The Republicans had the wrong person run against Obama.
Right now she's raising scads of dollars for various conservative candidates for the fall elections. That, combined with the observation that the American public seems also to be turning against the Obama Socialist vision of America's future, bodes well for Sarah Palin and America. Most of the mmfa folks here will have a lot to be talking about during the next 9 months and probably well beyond.
Wow, there are so many things wrong with that statement.
More expirience in Gov.: Palin was the mayor of a small town (even though its a position of authority, a mayor's job is no different form the dreaded Comunity organizer.) She also resigned from governorship amids a bunch of scandals.
Able to speak without a scrypt: Funny you ignore the Republican-Obama convention, where unscrypted answered coherently all the republican questions. And how she needed to write notes in her hand her cliched "Values".
Life for all: Chances are that she believes in death penalty, being a "pro-lifer" and all.
Government to take over our lives: That's just the same talking point consevatives love to make. Learn new words will you?
She can speak and understand real people: So people in cities and blue states are not real? Why is she suddenly Miss humble with such an elitist belief.
NOT a narcisist: Nah, she is just an elitist self-important woman who only believe that she and people like her should be the only ones whose voices are heard. TOTALLY NOT NARCISSIST.
WALLACE: How hard do you think President Obama would be to defeat in 2012?
PALIN: It depends on a few things, say he played — I got this from Buchanan — say he played the war card. Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decide to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel–which I would like him to do. That changes the dynamics of what we can assume will happen between now and three years. Because I think if the election were today, Obama would not be elected.
WALLACE: You’re not suggesting that Obama would cynically play the war card?
PALIN: I’m not suggesting that, I’m saying if he did, things would dramatically change if he decided to toughen up and do all that he can to secure our nation and secure our allies. I think people would shift their thinking a bit.
Now that is some confusing double-speak I'am not suggesting but if he did.
If he did what?
SP: toughen up and do all that he can to secure our nation and secure our allies. I think people would shift a little bit.
Lets see what is the thing that would secure our nation and secure our allies?
SP:Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decide to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel–which I would like him to do.
What a confused unskillful contradictory rant.
After you name FOX news, who else is there?
Radio talk hosts are not the media.
Then what are they? Just one of the "folks"? What a stupid comment to make.
I wonder how long it's going to take her before she gets tired of being used -- and using them? She's in it for power, and so are they.
Should really be nasty-ugly. Can't wait!