Posted on 02/07/2010 4:10:39 PM PST by kristinn
A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee today defended Barack Obama's reliance on a TelePrompTer while ratcheting up Hand-Gate by attacking former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for using notes scribbled on the palm of her hand last night at the Tea Party Nation convention in Nashville.
The Hand-Gate scandal was first reported by the Huffington Post and has been picked up by many other outlets including Think Progress, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.
The New York Daily News buried the attack by the Democratic National Committee in their article about Hand-Gate:
She also gave Democrats an unexpected gift when video of the speech caught her glancing at notes written on her left palm.
Palin's grade school trick means she should no longer ridicule Obama's use of a TelePrompTer for speeches, said Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan.
"Her hypocrisy has killed off the favorite silly GOP talking point," he said.
Palin had written on her left palm the words, "Energy, Tax Cuts, Lift American Spirits." The word "budget" was scratched out and replaced by "tax."
Obama was ridiculed last month for using a TelePrompTer to address 6th grade children at a Northern Virginia elementary school.
Obama's latest TelePrompTer gaffe was this past week when he repeatedly mispronounced "corpsman" as "corpse man" when speaking of a Navy corpsman serving in Haiti for earthquake relief.
I thought I saw her carrying 8 x 11 note sheets away from the podium last night when she finished.
I have written points to be made on my hand, too. This is a totally ridiculous comparison.
just perfect......I know a young lady who always writes stuff on her hand....she is beautiful, smart and very literate.....I guess pretty girls just write notes to themselves on their hands....
I watched the video and she looked only once at her hand for not longer the 5 seconds, if that long. And they bitch about it? That is laughable
That’s one of the best!!
I’m an RN and I am forever writing blood pressures, pulses, etc. on the palm of my hand. I think we nurses are pretty well known for this practice. And I do call it my “palm pilot”. Always gets a chuckle out of my patients!
That’s hilarious!
Rumor has it Obama has a teleprompter in the Presidential bedroom.
This story is backfiring like a speeding bullet.
This just highlites Obama’s weakness in having to use the prompter
and being fed what to say.
Democrats again showed their trivial-mindedness by ridiculing Gov. Palin's use of a speech outline which consisted of 6 words written on her hand. If this pettiness is the extent of their redicule of gov. Palin it truly is telling.
Note: no attack on the content of her talk only on a reminder. Boy they are scapping the bottom of the barrel. Next they will bring up her Beauty Pageant and down syndrome baby. They just hate everything about her. Next they will say she is breathing air that could go to a Haitian child with a broken leg. This is too funny.
Love it!
She writes three words on her hand and the left makes a big deal about it. So let me get this straight, she spoke for what, 40 minutes, no teleprompter, all she needed was 3 simple words written on her hand(If that is even true at all, I’ve seen photos of nothing on her hand) stupid liberal idiots. It was HER speech, idiots need to get a damn life already. They are obsessed with her because in 2012, they will have to refer to her as PRESIDENT PALIN..I guess the saying is true, if you can’t diss the message, diss the messenger. Liberals are kooks
I would like to see her play it up. Start writing messages to the media.
Lol, thanks TP!
I truly hope the democrats are running with this.
HUGE mistake.
Anyone who is familiar with giving a big speech uses this tool often, I've used it, and I was taught it. You decide what three things you want your audience to go away with. And to make sure you EMPHASISE the points to bring them home, you write them on your palm. When people are clapping, etc, you glance at your palm and see if there is an opportunity to emphasise on of the three speech points. If so, you hit one again! This is not some big "palm-gate" thing, it's what you do if you are good at what you do! Being in front of a 6th grade class with a 2 mirrored TelePrompTer demonstrates the mark of an amateur tho.
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