Posted on 02/09/2010 2:13:13 PM PST by Steelfish
Robert Gibbs Mocks Sarah Palin from White House Podium...When Imitation Isn’t Flattery February 09, 2010
Karen Travers reports:
It may not have been as dead-on accurate as the Saturday Night Live impression by Tina Fey, but today White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mocked former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) for seeming to rely on crib notes for a speech last weekend.
Answering a question about the Obama Administration’s stance on health care negotiations with Republicans, Gibbs stopped and looked at his left hand and said coyly, “Oh I wrote a few things down.”
“I wrote ‘eggs, milk and bread,’” Gibbs said. “But I crossed out bread, just so I can make pancakes for [son] Ethan if it snows. And then I wrote down "hope and change," just in case I forgot.”
Gibbs of course was referring to the heat that Palin took on the Internet this week for what appeared to be crib notes on her hand during her address to the Tea Party convention on Saturday night.
Photographs show that written on Palin’s left palm were the words “energy, cut taxes and lift American spirits.”
The word “budget” also was visible but was crossed out.
Palin tried to play it off the following day while campaigning in Texas for Gov. Rick Perry (R) with another message on her hand – “Hi Mom.”
Critics charged Palin with double standards after she poked fun at Obama Saturday for his frequent use of a teleprompter for speeches.
"This is about the people," Palin said Saturday, referring to the Tea Party convention. "This is about the people, and it's bigger than any king or queen of a Tea Party. And it's a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter."
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That was hilarious! Well done QLA!
No, they can't. They are arrogant and immature. In their echo chamber they think they all are very clever. They have no clue how they are coming off to the people. Not even approvals headed toward 40 have shaken their arrogance.
So Gibbs feels the need to classlessly mock Palin for her crib notes, but amazingly has already forgotten that the 0bummer had to use a teleprompter to talk to a class of elementary students... Hmmm... which one looks dumber?
I truly think the Left has a case rabies. I am just waiting for them to start foaming at the mouth and maybe catch a full-blown case of Turret’s Syndrome.
Gibbs “joke” was demeaning and sexist. Where is NOW, now???
Yes, they fell for it. Sarah pulled a Rush!
Yep..PURE GENIUS!! Now people will show up at events with stuff written on their hands. This will work for Sarah like the truck worked for Scott Brown. By the way, did you just see Glenn Beck take Joe Klein’s ass to school. It was PRICELESS!!
Do these people ever think about anything besides Sarah Palin?
I would have expected one word on each of Gibb’s grubbys: Change and Hands.
Gibbs is one of the best things we have going for us in this administration. Harmless to our side in all ways.
Gibbs and the Washingon press corps (that’s corps, not corpse) are so damn stupid that they don’t know their arrogant mockery will be greeted with anger. They are one bunch of stupid, arrogant fools. Here’s hoping that Gibbs and the rest of them lose their jobs. Then they can appreciate what the unemployed go through.
Wolf Blitzer made a big deal of Palin’s notes. Blitzer was on Celebrity Jeopardy, and finished with something like -$5,000. He thought Jesus was born in Jerusalem.
I think a neat reply by Sarah would be to tape pictures of teleprompters to her palms.
They are talking about the former Executive Officer of the State of Alaska for crying out loud.
In bowling and golfing I think they’d call the lowered expectation a “handicap”.
Maybe when Rahm used the R word he really was talking about Obama’s “handicap” - that Sarah Palin has to have half her brain tied behind her back and 20 Katie Courics climbing on her bak and lying about her every move just to keep the game interesting.
Steelfish, you make a good point. Does Obama think the press corps is press core? Or press corpse? Or does he agree with FR and use the term “presstitutes?”
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