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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cute Robert
Now, make a 45 minute speech using those palm notes...as Sarah did.
Every time 0 plays back to Sarah he enchances her stature and diminishes his own. It goes with being President. He can’t see that?
Shows what kind of children we have in the White House running our country. Don’t these idiots realize SHE DID IT ON PURPOSE and the morons actually fell for it. What Gibby did today is prove what most American’s know. They don’t give a damn about us, they mock us. This is what they do behind the scenes at their little gatherings with other Elitists, they laugh at all of us and think we are all stupid and they are geniuses
What a Dick.
Whadya mean "tried," Karen? And you missed "Loggers rock." It worked like a charm.
Everytime they do this, they illustrate how important Palin is. Else they would ignore her.
I see how every media outlet is now picking up on this. Thinking they’re really mocking Palin, when all they’re doing is playing into her hand.
But, after 4 days, has’t the har-de har-har run it’s course on this mocking? And don’t they realize it only draws more attention to the 800 pound teleprompter in the room?
Typical. Just what you’d expect from a Kenyan Man-Child and his lackeys.
Will ABC give the same amount of coverage to the Bush “Miss Me Yet” billboards that are going up in this country?
All those food items are 'white'. That's his left hand of racism! eheheehehehehehe!
They must think that they are being clever. Everyone who gives speeches uses notes or a teleprompter. Sarah uses them. I don’t even care that Obama uses one when delivering a speech. The problem with Obama is that he cannot string three syllables together without the teleprompter. That is what these idiots do no seem to understand.
So the master READS his speeches from a hidden screen, but Sarah writes several key words on her hand, and the entire leftist wacko bunch goes crazy over it.
Reminds me of their glee when they made fun over Dan Quayle over his questioning of the spelling of a word.
Leftism is truly a mental disorder.
Sarah is living in their heads.
“The people who sent us here expect a seriousness of purpose that transcends petty politics,” Obama said after the meeting, as he made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room.
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