Posted on 02/08/2010 7:34:24 AM PST by kristinn
Andrea Mitchell, identified by NBC News as the network's Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, this morning joined in the attacks on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin over the 2008 Republican party's vice-presidential nominee's use of notes written on her hand during an appearance at the Tea Party Nation convention in Nashville this past weekend.
Appearing on MSNBC's the Daily Rundown, Mitchell lampooned Palin by holding up her hand with scribbling on her palm while castigating Palin for criticizing Barack Obama for his reliance on TelePrompTers.
Co-host Chuck Todd, who can usually be found on his knees in front of Obama, surprisingly tried to defend Palin by saying, "We've all done notes."
Mitchell was having none of that, though and insisted this was a capital political offense.
attacked yesterday by Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan for having the words, "Energy, Tax Cuts, Lift American Spirits" written on the palm of her left hand during her Tea Party appearance.
Palin responded to her liberal critics yesterday by writing "Hi Mom!" on her left palm during a campaign stop for Texas Governor Rick Perry's reelection bid.
Does anybody have any pictures of Andrea Mitchell before she got all the chemical face peels? Her face was so rough looking it looked as if she had chased a fart through a keg of nails.
How would you have felt if she had written the same words on an index card, placed it on the podium...where it was found later by a member of the media, photographed and reported?
You would probably believe that making a big deal out of that would be silly. Wouldn't you?
But the fact is that many professional public speakers are advised to make brief notes exactly like this -- reminding them of the three specific themes they want to reinforce at every opportunity. One standard method is an index card on the podium. But many speakers choose to use the hand notes, so they don't lose eye contact with the audience.
In other words, notes are a standard technique of public speakers. And hand notes are just as valid a vehicle as index cards.
The fact that the ignorant teleprompter reading newshags like Andrea Mitchell don't know this shouldn't inflame your sensitivities.
Hand-Gate?
HAND-Gate??
HUH.
Mitchell, go home and stroke Alan or sumthin’.
Are you serious? Good grief, man! I write notes on my hand for Flyball tournaments- and that’s for working with dogs!
Hey, smart ass Mitchell!.....Crib notes on your hand cannot compare to the whole speech rolling by for you on a teleprompter....IDIOT!
OK, I admit I haven’t had a lot of time on FR the past few days... did Sarah really have “crib notes” written on her hand? One thread I saw (briefly) had “Hi Mom!” scribbled on Sarah’s left hand....?
Well we know he would have had assistance to do it :)
But let's face it, we would have had a field day.
Andrea Mitchell’s memoir, Talking Back.
Rottenberg, a former Philadelphia Magazine and Philadelphia Weekly editor, writes in his piece headlined, “The Unexamined Life: Andrea Mitchell rewrites her past:”
Rottenberg writes:
About her first marriage: In the early ‘70s, when I knew her as a fellow parent at Greenfield Elementary School in Center City, Mitchell was married to Gil Jackson, a black man who worked in the public affairs department at Smith, Kline & French (now GlaxoSmithKline) while struggling to launch a career as an independent film producer. An interracial marriage to a man suffering from a very malignant case of multiple sclerosis cannot have been easy for a young Jewish woman barely out of college, yet Mitchell (as far as I could tell) loyally stood by her man while also caring for his two sons from a previous marriage — so conscientiously that I presumed the boys were her own. The marriage broke up shortly before Mitchell left Philadelphia for Washington in 1976, and Jackson subsequently died.
But Talking Back doesn’t mention Jackson or that marriage at all. On the contrary, Mitchell seems to bend over backwards to erase its memory. For example, she mentions her role as godmother to the three children of her NBC News colleague Judy Woodruff, commenting that “In many ways, they and my nieces and nephew have become surrogates for the children I never had.” But she did once have children, or at least stepchildren. She simply declines to acknowledge them here.
Isn’t Andrea Mitchell married to somebody in the White House or a big wig in the DNC? I know she is not totally innocent.
The Liberians have a description for a woman of Mitchell’s age and appearance: “dried out.”
Sitting here laughing! That’s great! :-)
She wrote a note on her hand, just like thousands of people do daily for an infinite number of reasons.
Do you want her to watch every single thing she does through the lens of the media and try to second guess them?
I'd rather she live her life and do what she does, right or wrong, then live by what others say she should do.
Alan Greenspan (he’s soaking in the tub)
I saw her hand. She had her topics listed, that's it. If she had put the topics on a card, they would be complaining about that. It looks like she did the entire speech from memory, and they are complaining that she put her topics in the order that she wanted to speak about them?
But BO, needs to bring a teleprompter to a kid's school in order to give brief remarks to the press? This is just fine, but Sarah lists her topics on her hand, and this is major?
Breitbart is correct, their business model doesn't suck, they suck.
Yes, no kidding, it’s ridiculous.
You nailed it.
Reagan-esque, anyone?
Well, Isn’t this the grease trap calling the wedding dress dirty!
Ha! Talk to the hand.
Clementy just had to get Daniels name out there. I think he’s an Indiana GOP operative. No one outside of Indiana had heard of him.
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