(RE "just a fountain pen") Agreed. The image in the still that begins this thread plainly is a card or paper of some sort. The only defense that could begin to be plausible is that this card/paper was the one that the Commission staff pre-placed on the podium ... but the video, in context, strongly suggests that Kerry had just pulled the card/paper from his jacked pocket, not taken it from the podium "desk."
See my post #189 for my prediction of what Kerry's excuses will be. Oh, and also "my staff failed to tell me that there were cameras in back of me."