Saturday, February 06, 2010

Sarah Palin Teabagger Convention bonus clip. Is Sarah reading notes off of her hand?

This clip is from the Q and A session directly after the speech.

Watch at the 47 second point. Did she just look down to read something off of her hand?

Oh my god, she did!

What kind of wannabe political leader writes notes on their hand to help them answer questions? What is she in the seventh grade? And didn't she just bust Obama's balls for using a teleprompter?

Unbelievable!

Update: CNN has a closer look at her hand here.

91 comments:

  1. *gasp* Bimbostein can READ!!!

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  2. Anonymous8:51 PM

    Un-freaking-believable. How stupid does she think people are? Wait...don't answer that.

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  3. Anonymous8:52 PM

    Don't know for sure but at :57, 1:06, and 1:08 you can see the palm of her hand and it does look something is written there. If it's blown up to the size of the still shot you might be able to see the writing.

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  4. Anonymous8:57 PM

    She not only read a talking point off of her hand she also wiped away the evidence afterward.

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  5. Anonymous8:59 PM

    Please be sure to include the SNL clip from this evening where "Rahm Emanuel" apologies to Sarah Palin and goes off on one terrific rant!

    (Like the real Rahm, every other word is bleeped, and he is anything by kind to Sarah).

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  6. Gryphen, why does Palin using a cheat-sheet surprise you? Stupid is as stupid does! Palin would NEVER have agreed to a live interview, even in front of her loyal followers, without having seen the questions in advance. Did you notice she answered the questions immediately, and she didn't even say "all of them" not even once! But the question about the three things, that was a bit much for her to remember, so she resorted to the old cheaters trick (it takes one to know one) and wrote the three things on her hand. What a buffoon!!

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  7. Holy crap!

    While I was posting those videos below I got no less than a dozen comments and e-mails alerting me to this picture.

    Sometimes the damn internet is so fast I can't keep up.

    I am going to have to buy a t-shirt that says "I am blogging as fast as I can!"

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  8. Anonymous9:03 PM

    Idioplasm.

    She has an ink stain on her hand, probably from using a pen as she went through her notes.

    Can we get back to something of more substance - like her hair?

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  9. Anonymous9:03 PM

    I would also like to point out just how high Ms. Palin's skirt is hiked up. And, if you guys failed to notice it, she does lean forward and rub her leg several times, just to make sure that she sells her brand.

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  10. ENOUGHwiththetrainwreck9:05 PM

    she is a total horse's ass. and just to be mean - can she not remember her own "platform" that she has to check her cheat sheet?

    gads -- LOSER

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  11. kdusmdd9:06 PM

    Yes, she has cheat notes.....Check out CNN iReport.com......

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  12. emrysa9:07 PM

    so professional!

    great role model!

    gryphen now you gotta go find the snl skit from tonite of andy samberg as rahm emmanual "apologizing." way funny.

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  13. chancefavors9:13 PM

    OH...MY...GOD...NO!!!
    No jusus, no way.....

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  14. Anonymous9:20 PM

    Thank you for posting this. You know where I first saw it? On Roger Ebert (love him)twitter.

    http://twitpic.com/11ti7o

    His caption? "I cheated like this in the eight grade"

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  15. Anonymous9:23 PM

    Well, DUH!! How was she supposed to answer any questions otherwise?

    Plus, I think the leg-rubbing was to try and get the marker or ink off her hand before anyone got a good look at it.

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  16. ohyeahshecheated9:23 PM

    @kdusmdd
    Thanks for cnn ireport.com. The very first video report shows a close up on her hand- and there is definitely writing on her palm. It's great!

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  17. ohyeahshecheated9:26 PM

    Here's a link:
    http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-404680

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  18. chancefavors9:27 PM

    What the hell do they do?

    Pull her from under the bed, inject her with something and then push her out onto the stage?

    just how does this sh*t work?

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  19. Anonymous9:28 PM

    How piteous. She starts out real baritonelike and strong and gradually but surely she starts spouting off hitting the high shrieking noise. Unappealing. Also too she lost her place there.

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  20. Anonymous9:28 PM

    http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-404680

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  21. Anonymous9:29 PM

    Ummm, the teenage checkout girls at my local grocery store write special prices on their hands all the time. And Taylor Momsen never wears pants or even short skirts. It's 2010 and Sarah is speaking to an entirely different generation that you people seem to live within. Live in the world around you. It's Sarah's world.

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  22. chancefavors9:30 PM

    I bow
    I marvel
    A damn disgrace

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  23. Anonymous9:33 PM

    What a loser! She can't even do a Q&A without cheating! You know she had those questions in advance and she still couldn't answer them without the usual word salad and sneaking a peak at her palm. What will Faux News say about all of this?

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  24. Anonymous9:34 PM

    And then I go to Palingates & they are following Roger Ebert too!

    The web might not be as big as we think?

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  25. chancefavors9:38 PM

    *jesus*
    have mercy...

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  26. Anonymous9:46 PM

    Remember! The questions were pre-screened, which gave someone a chance to write answers for Sarah. And the interviewer was not some gotcha Katie Couric; he was feeding her the rehearsed setup.

    And, they want to put this woman on Fox News. Well, she fits right in with the rest of those people who don't know what they are talking about even with their blackboards and teleprompters.

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  27. Anonymous9:47 PM

    This bitch never fails to disappoint. Never, ever..

    She forever gives us something. Always, everytime..

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  28. chancefavors9:56 PM

    This is going to be a classic. Right up there with the Katie Couric interview.

    Sorry for so many posts, but I'm just too through. Just to outdone..

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  29. Anonymous9:57 PM

    For $500 per ticket you'd think the backdrop wouldn't have been so gharish. However, you'd be wrong. What an ugly background. Ugg.

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  30. chancefavors9:59 PM

    This bitch never fails to disappoint. Never, ever..

    She forever gives us something. Always, everytime..

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  31. Cheating, writing on her hand - it is exactly in line with the SNL skit tonite. It was hysterical and a perfect antidote to having sat through the torture that was her speech. In the skit, Rahm accused her of behaving like a 14 year old girl by using Facebook.

    Is this kind of cheating how she managed her way through all those colleges?

    She had the questions in advance. For God's sake, it is like cheating on a take-home open book test.

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  32. chancefavors10:09 PM

    TO ALL PALIN LOVERS

    If you have any dignity, there should been absolutely nothing left to say in defense of this woman. Shut up..

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  33. Aussie Blue Sky10:16 PM

    She did not "bust Obama's balls" as you put it, Gryphen. She SNIPED from a State far away from him.

    Sarah Palin would be too chickenshit to even be in the same room as the President while she's "answering" pre-screened "questions".

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  34. chancefavors10:17 PM

    The Lucy Ricardo of politics.
    She'll go down in history.

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  35. This isn't like "What's the ionization constant of acetic acid?", this was "What are your top fucking THREE priorities?"

    "Just a minute - I can't remember but I wrote them down..."

    I've got a tip for ya', S'error. When you hear Tea Bags sayin' you're just like them - that's not a good thing. It's not. It's really not.

    Holy shit.

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  36. 10catsinMD10:22 PM

    So anon at 9:29 compares her to a teenage check out girl at the local market! HAaaaa! What a loser, both of you!

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  37. Why is this 46 year old wearing a hiked up mini skirt for this appearance, and why is she stroking her leg while she is speaking???

    Worse she is talking about raping the land (drill baby drill!) while reading cheat notes, and doing this leg message move.

    Has she added the leg stroke to her repertoire of winking AND blinking???

    What the hell???

    Furthermore-- she had the nerve to ask how the hope-y change-y thing is working for Obama.

    How are the quitter-y tax evader-y things working for her?

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  38. 10catsinMD10:23 PM

    I want to see SNL to the hand read.
    Come one Tina, go for it!

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  39. Anonymous10:31 PM

    And let's not even mention how horrible she looked. Oh, let's do it anyway...she looked so very bad. Her big hair was a freakin' ratty mess, her face was thick and puffy (how long for botox to wear off?) and it looked like her skirt didn't match the jacket.

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  40. Anonymous10:33 PM

    and I thought standing in front of the turkey getting slaughtered could never be topped. Thank you Sarah you did it

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  41. Anonymous10:39 PM

    She's out of it. She's definately on something, looking at cheat notes on national tv. she's too high to realize what she has really done and she made it so obvious, sort of like a drunken stuper. What is she on?

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  42. Rich resources warehoused under God's green earth????

    Waxing poetic about the total destruction of the planet.

    Get the hook!

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  43. point #3 from her hand (h/t Guardian UK)
    I think, kind of tougher to put our arms around, but allowing America's spirit to rise again by not being afraid to kind of go back to some of our roots as a God fearing nation where we're not afraid to say especially in times of potential trouble in the future here, where we're not afraid to say, you know, we don't have all the answers as fallible men and women so it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again. To have people involved in government who aren't afraid to go that route, not so afraid of the political correctness that you know – they have to be afraid of what the media said about them if they were to proclaim their alliance to our creator.

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  44. I cannot wait for the SNL skits this will generate.

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  45. Anonymous10:50 PM

    She's been given every advantage. Every benefit of the doubt. And still, she f*cks the f*ck up. She's just not worthy. Not deserving..

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  46. Anonymous10:53 PM

    Well, I thought it was just me. I thought maybe she was looking at her Blackberry at first.

    Oh, and the rubbing her legs thing. She just kept doing that and I didn't even watch the entire Q/A.

    Hmmm, maybe the deal was we'll give you the questions and you don't charge us a fee?

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  47. Anonymous11:01 PM

    I paid $549 and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt!!!

    For their attendance, they got gift bags!!

    A TPN t-shirt (Tea Party Nation)
    A TPN fanny pack
    Some printed pages;
    A form to order more t-shirts; and
    About an 8" Red plastic TPN Megaphone

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGUE0_tJ3o

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  48. scarlet/oregon11:05 PM

    From Politico tonight:


    "Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton said Palin hasn’t seen the questions in advance."

    If this were the case, why did Palin's hand have the answer written on it?

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  49. Anonymous11:17 PM

    NOT VETTED BY CNN

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  50. Anonymous11:33 PM

    DUMBFUCK Bush didn't even do this

    or didn't get caught

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  51. Why does she even need to stoop to something as 19th century as hand notes?

    With her new Country Western Grand Ol' Opry big hair she could easily hide an earpiece. Then Todd could give her the answers live rather than writing them on her hand and coaching her in advance.

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  52. Anonymous11:35 PM

    " Anonymous said...
    I would also like to point out just how high Ms. Palin's skirt is hiked up. And, if you guys failed to notice it, she does lean forward and rub her leg several times, just to make sure that she sells her brand."

    9:03 PM
    DON"T THINK SO... DEM CRABS CRAWLIN" DOWN PALIN"S LEGS!!!

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  53. honestyinGov11:41 PM

    Gryphen,
    I'm sure you must realize.....she wrote her ' cheat sheet ' on her hand with the same Sharpie she brought from Hawaii. So... was she trying to be an " Incognito " President..? It must have worked... because no one...RECOGNIZED HER as Presidential material.
    Thanks Sharpie.

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  54. Anonymous11:41 PM

    As the beads of desperation builds up on her brow sarah Palin takes a peak at her left hand and it says, "Can I call u Joe?"

    "Dang it" she says to herself... I'm readin' the wrong hand!

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  55. Hi Bristol, your mom is a complete fraud.

    Todd

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  56. Could someone please keep that scary lady away from me? Please help me.

    Trig

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  57. Right up there with the Turkey Pardon.

    I posted on this at PA and at fdl's Sentinel. Gave you a hat tip, Gryph...

    May be the divine intervention the CW hoped for, but I doubt it.

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  58. Someone said she had pulled out her version of a palm pilot....jeez. my kids are learnin lots from this Repug nightmare...thanks for the laughs. she never fails to engage us-freak show klan antics and a new version of political/personal dishonesty. she has dragged professional women back decades. what a disgrace, no wonder only Piper is seen with her, the others are onto their mom. how many wasilla folks and others are grifting on the payroll of state etc jobs because of palin favors or bribes?! she tops murkowski.

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  59. Anonymous12:48 AM

    It's plain and simple Sarah Palin is a retard. She isn't even aware that she will go down in history as being the most moronic, fake, comic half-term Governor of Alaska.

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  60. Say NO to Palin in Politics1:13 AM

    9:03, an ink stain, good grief get a life and wake up. She needed a cheat sheet, which she seems to try wiping off on her leg and skirt.

    She only had to refer to it on the big major question of what 3 things would she do first if she was President. Gah, too much to remember? lol

    She blew it, just like the Curic and Charley interviews, she is not equipped or qualified, accept it.

    If you feel sympathy for her needing to write talking points down on her hand, then I think you bess take off the blinders and find a more qualified and more honest candidate.

    She is a con who has a very good knack at charming and bullshitting people.

    I won't even go other failings, just leave it at politics.

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  61. Anonymous1:24 AM

    The Teabaggers $300 handjob.

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  62. Say NO to Palin in Politics1:24 AM

    Awe, but Scarah just wanted to show she could take on questions kinda sorta just like President Barack did with the whole repub congress but in a smaller controlled arena, only she can't, and she didn't, because she has no substance.

    Just give it up already. Sit down, and shut up, it's time.

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  63. Anonymous1:25 AM

    Loved the handling of the stage-prop kid at the end !

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  64. Say NO to Palin in Politics1:26 AM

    She's had a really shitty week, lol, and all her fault. No excuses Scarah and Toad.

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  65. honestyinGov1:33 AM

    10catsinMD said...
    I want to see SNL to the hand read.
    Come one Tina, go for it!
    10:23 PM
    --------------------------
    10catsinMd.... we must think alike. I praised SNL for the Rahm clip they did tonight and then told them to put together a speech clip for next week. I already emailed them. Everybody else should do likewise.

    http://www.nbc.com/contact/general/?__status=1

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  66. Anonymous1:51 AM

    The negative write-up at FOX amazed me! I think Rupie and Ailes are her only fans there.

    The palm notes are already viral. HuffPo has a blow-up and the words are Energy, Budget Cuts (with a line through Budget), Tax, Lift American Spirit.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stefan-sirucek/did-palin-use-crib-notes_b_452458.html

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  67. You can actually plainly read the words on her hand: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/7/834684/-HandPromter-Hilarity:-Read-The-Words-on-Palins-Hand

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  68. Anonymous3:10 AM

    She has to be careful. Turn her wrist the wrong way and Palin would pronounce she supports liver spots.

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  69. LoveAndKnishesFromBrooklyn3:38 AM

    Yikes. I have to admit that the hubs and I could only take about 1:30 of Sarah's shrieking at her Baggie pals before we changed the channel. We had a long day of shoveling snow yesterday, so I thought I'd catch up on the festivities today--and now THIS. I haven't read all the comments so far, but I'm betting that those paddling around in the Sea of Urine are spinning this one by saying how natural and endearing it was (well, "endearing" is too big a word for them), and how they all used to write crib notes on various body parts in school. How cute.

    Me? I'm thinking this iconic Palin image of her teleprompter paw would make a great T-shirt--just replace the talking points with a bogus nuclear code, and add the tagline, "Do you REALLY want this hand in government?" Or something. It's early.

    And after watching for a minute or so, we both thought she had definitely tossed back a few before speechifying. She looked, uh, well...her new nickname around here is "Dee Ranged."

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  70. Anonymous3:52 AM

    Here's a pic on CBS. I think it shows here left side mouth droop rather well. lol

    http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2010/02/07/image6182968.jpg

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  71. Anonymous4:22 AM

    I think it's about time Todd Palin steps in and starts giving the speeches. If he can govern a state, surely he can recite a few simple talking points without the need for crib notes and cheap drugs.

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  72. Anonymous4:51 AM

    It reads "Left"

    The other one "Right"

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  73. Anonymous5:04 AM

    Hoken: Bravo!!

    To Anon: botox doesn't make one puffy, that is filler swelling. botox only freezes a muscle, and I fear they shot some into what was left of her brain!

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  74. Anonymous5:34 AM

    And better yet, she has to read off of her own cheat sheets for PRE APPROVED questions!! She can't remember her pre-approved questions??? Sarah, you just keep proving all by yourself that you are very much the simpleton we all knew you were. What a MORAN. (misspell intentional!)

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  75. Anonymous5:48 AM

    The idiots are still trotting out the tired old "Oh, yeah? Well, Obama needs a teleprompter everywhere he goes" line.

    Hey dumbasses! Obama took on the Republicans and did it all off the top of his head.

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  76. Anonymous5:51 AM

    Okay, seriously now: Sarah Palin is REALLY a high paid performance artist. Right? And this is irony? Right?

    She can't truly be this outrageously pathetic.

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  77. Anonymous5:53 AM

    I think Palin's "I will live and I will die for ..." was supposed to be the line the bots will rally around. Palin's target audience isn't high on the scale for critical thinking. Cribs notes (and the blogger reaction) will get sympathy from them.

    The Palin promoters are just going to have to find a workable interview scenario. Palin has flunked the grade schoolers q&a (what does the veep do?), Katie Couric, Veep Debate, Turkey Farm backdrop, Oprhah, and now the Tea Bag Ball.

    I think they should try Palin out with a large touch screen with multiple choice answers (fill in the blanks is TOO hard).

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  78. Anonymous5:53 AM

    iCrib is a good one, as is Hillbilly PDA.

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  79. Anonymous6:01 AM

    i would think what was written was, "dodge the question, say youbetcha, wink."

    bill in belize

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  80. will someone just yank her by the hair, PLEASE?

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  81. Anonymous6:27 AM

    AP photo as to exactly what was written on her hand. Link goes to DailyKos.

    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/7/834684/-HandPrompter-Hilarity:-Read-The-Words-on-Palins-Hand

    Again, what a MORAN.

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  82. Anonymous6:41 AM

    Hoken 10:19
    LMAO!!!!!!
    Flashback to AP HS biology with half the class getting caught at finals with the Krebs cycle scrawled on their hands. (not me).

    JUST Her top 4 priorities. Yee gads!!
    Thanks for the laugh!!

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  83. Anonymous6:59 AM

    Hoken, yeah, ditto.

    This self-proclaimed Energy Expert (it's all about Fungible Commodities and the molecules taken out, such as. . .) couldn't even trust herself to remember her boilerplate talking points.

    O.M.G.

    On behalf of the teabaggers, I want their money back.

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  84. I have watched many many speeches and interviews over the years, and I don't think I ever saw anyone refer to notes written on their hand!

    Until now. Mentally, O'Palin is still in Jr High school.

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  85. Sarah just "single handedly" gave Jon Stewart, SNL, Jay Leno, etc. their material for next week.

    She chides President Obama for using a teleprompter while she has the answers written on her hand. This stuff can't be made up. Totally hilarious!

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  86. Uncle Joe8:35 AM

    Also too she was very, very wasted.

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  87. Anonymous9:03 AM

    She must have suffered some severe traumas to have such impaired short term memory loss. Or it's the soda pop which apparently can drill baby drill holes in anything. Say, it might be better to drink nice cold water instead for the time being, say ruh. She's not up to running anything including her home right now. She needs some time to heal. Evidently.

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  88. Anonymous9:30 AM

    Everybody pay attention: She always, always, ALWAYS cheats! Her daddy taught how how when she was little (how to get out of playing in the band by bandaging your hand and pretending you got hurt in the game that you single-handedly won!) Only, now...she is not that good at not getting caught.

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  89. Anonymous9:32 AM

    Gag me with a spoon! She has taken the winky, winky come-on from the presidential campaign to whole new level.

    I would love to give her credit for trying to wipe the cheat notes off of her palm, but I don't buy it. She starts stroking herself before she reads her hand. This appears to be well-planned from the beads disappearing into her cleavage to the skirt hiked up around her thighs. How much did she get paid for this?

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  90. Did anyone get a shot of her right palm?

    "See other hand."

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  91. I just remembered something:

    Lol...remember the story told about Sarah when she was college?

    The one about how, when someone pulled the fire alarm, the girls were told that a residue of dye would be left on the hands of the guilty one...and Sarah looked down at her own hands?

    These days, Sarah is doing her best to pull the proverbial Tea Party fire alarm... and we now have pictorial proof of her checking her hand for signs of guilt.

    History has a way of repeating itself...doesn't it, Sarah?

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