Video: The media’s got a fee-vah and the only prescription is more Palin crib notes
posted at 4:52 pm on February 8, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via Media Blog, Breitbart, and Think Progress, a smattering of “insight” on the greatest political scandal of modern times: Sarah Palin’s crib notes. Of the three clips, the slo-mo replay in the CNN video is my very favorite moment, but Shuster’s “hmmm” and Mitchell’s hand-wringing over what public reaction would be had Mitt Romney done this (horrors!) are close seconds. Nate Silver’s point that writing on her hand plays into negative aspects of Palin’s image is fine, I guess — Obama’s silly “corpsman” gaffe resonated for the same reason — but I’m mystified by the hypocrisy charge. Goofing on Obama for being some sort of presidential Ron Burgundy with his teleprompter is now unfair because she used … a five-word list of bullet points?
It’s nice to see that Sarahcuda’s having fun with it, though. “Hi Mom!”
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rjl1999 on February 8, 2010 at 6:16 PM
You are wrong. Does that make you blind or a liar?
maverick muse on February 8, 2010 at 6:19 PM
I can see saying it was no big deal but why deny what was clear?
rjl1999 on February 8, 2010 at 6:23 PM
crr6:
You’re clearly not a lawyer as you claim. Lawyers present their cases, not go fucking awry when their ‘credentials’ are questioned.
In a case, any case, before the bar or the court, a lawyer doesn’t say “I went to Harvard Law School.”
You’re as fucking phony as a wooden nine-peso American coin with Obama’s picture on it.
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 6:24 PM
crr6:
You’re clearly not a lawyer as you claim. Lawyers present their cases, not go awry when their ‘credentials’ are questioned.
In a case, any case, before the bar or the court, a lawyer doesn’t say “I went to Harvard Law School.”
You’re as phony as a wooden nine-peso American coin with Obama’s picture on it.
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 6:24 PM
Her book’s closing in on 3 million in sales and she’s a highly sought after speaker and campaigner.
That’s irrelevant, according to you. I picture you putting your fingers in your ears screaming, “Lalalalalala I can’t hear you!!!”
Richard Romano on February 8, 2010 at 6:25 PM
Ridiculous? Teleprompters in an elementary school classroom, THAT’S ridiculous. Obama would’ve looked better with notes on his hands in that case.
ddrintn on February 8, 2010 at 6:25 PM
Next time she should write on her leg.
MMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
omnipotent on February 8, 2010 at 6:25 PM
Ummm no. Summa cum laude goes to the top 1%. Magna cum laude goes to the next top 10%. So unless there are only 4 or 5 people on Harvard Law Review, most of the people on there probably graduate magna cum laude.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 6:26 PM
No, it’s just a student.
ddrintn on February 8, 2010 at 6:27 PM
Uh, lorien is joking.
JAM on February 8, 2010 at 6:27 PM
Here ya go crr6, Obama’s study habits.
daesleeper on February 8, 2010 at 6:27 PM
crr6,
I’m not fancy Harvard lawyer like Obama (I’m not even a lawyer) but even I knew he totally botched his facts and understanding of the SCOTUS decision in Citizens United v. the FEC in his SOTU address.
If you’re falling back on ‘Obama’s got a law degree from Harvard etc’ as proof of how wicked smart he is when you could draw on his actual record as a ‘community organizer’, Senator, or President of the United States Of America I take this to mean you have no real proof.
gwelf on February 8, 2010 at 6:27 PM
Nice to see a pretty good Palin piece by allahpundit. And now back to your regularly schedule Frumian “she’ll drive away independents” linkage….
cs89 on February 8, 2010 at 6:27 PM
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 6:28 PM
Noting three bullet points that a speaker doesn’t want to forget to make is the same as total reliability on a teleprompter or an inability to think on her feet? Remeber when the president read his guest’s portion of a welcome speech and thanked himself for the warm welcome he gave his guest. Yes, please, I hope the Right gets someone every bit as eloquent as The Won.
Cindy Munford on February 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM
Yeah, it’s pathetic. Supporters of a middle-aged guy still pointing to his college years.
ddrintn on February 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM
Any grades in math beat any grades from Harvard Law, or any law school. I graduated cum laude, while having passed the doctoral entrance exam before I finished my BA. I left my doctoral work, some done at an Ivy (since you seem to care about that) to trade options.
But why would you even ask that question on an anonymous board? It seems fairly pointless.
As to any comparisons that you would understand, when The PRecedent releases his SATs and other standardized tests, then we can really compare. Given that The Precedent likely scored around 430 on his math section, such a comparison would be a total joke … which is why his scores have not been released.
neurosculptor on February 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM
crr6
Why are you ignoring me? Again, first you have to produce those “magna cum laude” grades of his. Only then can we compare.
Show me his grades, or STFU about it!
JAM on February 8, 2010 at 6:30 PM
volnation on February 8, 2010 at 6:19 PM
You fail to acknowledge the real effects that Ivy League PC and minority quotas had on enrollment while Obama was in school. Also, letters of recommendation from the “right” people go a long way in getting someone like Obama accepted. And he most certainly had his Marxist connections from Hawaii to the elites of Chicago who pulled strings to promote Obama’s career from Occidental through Columbia and into Harvard.
Until Obama publishes scholarly treatises on his own, he has no credibility. He was and remains only a community agitator with PC credentials that include invitations to address law students in Chicago. He was never a professor, having never earned tenure or any sort of professorship at any university. His record is fabricated, and his elections utilized fraud.
maverick muse on February 8, 2010 at 6:30 PM
Yeah, man. At about the level of “See Spot Run.”
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 6:30 PM
So, Obama has THE elitist credentials – a law degree from Harvard (he was even on the Law Review *swoon*) – but he needs a teleprompter to talk to a room full of people…yet the redneck sub-literate Palin only needs some notes scrawled on her hand to talk to an entire conference of people.
gwelf on February 8, 2010 at 6:31 PM
Why? You’ll just bail on whatever other candidate there is the first time there’s an SNL skit.
ddrintn on February 8, 2010 at 6:32 PM
I like you both but be honest, you think everything she does is stupid and unacceptable. Are you changing anyone’s mind?
Cindy Munford on February 8, 2010 at 6:32 PM
rjl1999 on February 8, 2010 at 6:23 PM
Palin read from her notes on the lectern.
Palin had words written on her hand.
Get on record regarding Palin’s message.
Otherwise you’re barking up the wrong tree.
maverick muse on February 8, 2010 at 6:32 PM
Dude, there’s like zero evidence that Obama ever tried an actual case. I think he made it to court once, (for ACORN) but was the trial lawyer’s gopher boy. Trust me, he does not have what it takes to try a case to a jury.
And of course that’s crr6′s deal. It never has any evidence for anything it says. But it’s a hoot watching it try. Like watching a monkey try to screw a football.
Good stuff.
russcote on February 8, 2010 at 6:32 PM
So you graduated cum laude from an un-named school. Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law.
You’re a nut on HA. He’s President of the United States.
Next.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM
Like I said, do your homework. Harvard used to pick editors purely based on their grades, with the highest GPA getting the presidency. That person was more than likely to maitain his high GPA and finish at the very least summa, if not valedictorian.
Your Indonesian imbecile was two steps below anything the law review had bothered to take before. This is because that was back when there were sit-ins to have minority representation on the faculty and law review and Harvard bent over backwards to appease them. That’s why a lowly magna ended up as precedent of the law review. And that magna was only because of affirmative action among the grades. In case you didn’t know, Harvard had also changed their grading system to make the grading much more subjective – to help minority students.
neurosculptor on February 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM
True. Mathematicians actually have to know things; they can’t get by on bullshit.
ddrintn on February 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM
And you’re a cowardly, lying idiot.
Next.
russcote on February 8, 2010 at 6:34 PM
Nuts at HA could do a better job.
Next.
ddrintn on February 8, 2010 at 6:36 PM
crr6
And apparently it is so prestigious to graduate w/honors from Harvard that they award them to 90% of their students. You’re a tool.
JAM on February 8, 2010 at 6:36 PM
crr6:
If I need an attorney, I’d pass by you. You can’t effectively present your own political case to us commoners, so how can you be expected to be a mouthpiece for a guy who needs a legal mouthpiece.
IF you’re a lawyer, you’re a bad one. I defended myself in a civil suit I instituted, choosing to go pro se. I beat a lawyer.
You, however–you’re not really a counsel, are you? If you truly are, you’re a terrible one. I can do better on my own than you could ever do for me.
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 6:37 PM
Do your own. You said Obama normally wouldn’t have even made it on LR. That is completely false.
“Lowly magna”? Most of the people on LR at Harvard graduate magna you moron. Again, stfu you have no idea what you’re talking about.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 6:37 PM
You’re a personal injury lawyer from Jersey who couldn’t even make cum laude at your toilet law school. You suck at life.
Write a blog post about that.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 6:39 PM
Bush graduated from Yale and was President of the United States – BOW DOWN TO HIS AWESOME INTELLIGENCE!
I take it then that graduated from Harvard was the last thing Obama did worth noting to convince people that he is smart or capable?
gwelf on February 8, 2010 at 6:39 PM
Oh, come on. Obama is and was a slacker summa cum laude. That crap is meaningless.
ddrintn on February 8, 2010 at 6:40 PM
Even Dem strategist Susan Estrich pointed this out last year during the campaign. She was the first female editor of the law review b/c she had the highest GPA in the class, but Obama got it b/c they changed the rules b/c he was “POPULAR”! Ooohhhh!!!
JAM on February 8, 2010 at 6:40 PM
Are most of them president of the review?
Give me a break. And if you don’t think his grades got an extra goosing (in addition to the affirmative action bump he got automatically) because he was the precedent of the law review, then you are just too dumb for words – like your Precedent.
neurosculptor on February 8, 2010 at 6:40 PM
HA’s serial drive-by slanderer, impugner, and liar touts his law prowess and academic excellence to those he demeans and holds in contempt.
So delicious.
daesleeper on February 8, 2010 at 6:40 PM
Unless some of the things she wrote on her hand were:
“Be sure to give a shout out to a medal of honor winner”
And then 20 items down write:
“By the way some people were shot in a military base”
I’m going to give her a pass on it.
DrAllecon on February 8, 2010 at 6:41 PM
A true lawyer, an Officer of the Court, would never post as you did. He would present a genuine case.
Why are you endlessly missing the nature of your profession? Lawyers enter their profession because of their nature. Your nature shows you’re not a good lawyer at all, assuming you are an Officer of the Court in the first place.
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 6:43 PM
That’s not as pathetic as the fact that his supporters still bring it up. LOL
ddrintn on February 8, 2010 at 6:43 PM
When it comes to Bury you would graduate ‘magna cum guzzler’.
thomasaur on February 8, 2010 at 6:45 PM
Hey, curr, here’s help on your homework. From the New York Slimes article about the precedent of the law review:
You can look into the changes of the grading system and other “accomodations” that Harvard made in their attempt to appease whiners who wanted to be given things they didn’t earn or merit.
neurosculptor on February 8, 2010 at 6:45 PM
Now who’s got the temper temper…son? I gotta tell you, you are just adorable when you’re trying to insult someone. Unfortunately, it’s a sub-cum laude effort at best. Not unlike your myriad attempts at rational thought.
Back to the books for you son!
russcote on February 8, 2010 at 6:45 PM
Clearly she is incompetent.——-Arianna
This Wasilla Hillbilly could never compete with the stunning intellect of Obama and Biden. How did this Alaskan trailer trash ever get a platform?—Olbermun
She is definitely the Betty White of politics……..she can’t play with the big boys.—-Arianna
I loved Betty White as Aunt Bea—-Olbermun
******* fantasy about email between Arianna and Olbermun******
PappyD61 on February 8, 2010 at 6:46 PM
Hey, Patriots: crr6 changed the thread to HIM being a lawyer with more Constitutional knowledge than the rest of us. He had ‘credentials’, from Harvard.
So, how about it? We hijack the thread and make it all about crr6? How about some fun?
Libs hijack our threads all the time, so let’s indulge them this time. crr6 is now the point. Anyone want to play?
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 6:46 PM
5 words written on the hand versus every word you will utter, including hints about where to put emphasis, wait for applause… and you think the first is worse?? Sorry, I think someone who can’t even make brief remarks at a meeting without having everyword scripted for him so he can read it is much, much worse, by an meaningful measure.
ProfessorMiao on February 8, 2010 at 6:46 PM
Yes but did any of them get a Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing? How about you???
Ladywolfnl on February 8, 2010 at 6:48 PM
Now you’re just grasping at straws. You have no proof his grades were bumped…in fact nearly every law school class is graded blindly.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 6:48 PM
Heh…that Nobel Prize is Obama’s career in a nutshell.
ddrintn on February 8, 2010 at 6:49 PM
I am always up for that game. Although to be honest, it’s not really a “game”, per se, because we just wind up going upside crr6′s head with baseball bats while he flounders in the fetal position wildly flailing a badminton racket.
But, for purposes of liberal target practice, I must say he does present a nice, big bullseye.
russcote on February 8, 2010 at 6:50 PM
When you’re writing your second blog post on me, try to leave out some of the posts where I completely own you, alright? I wouldn’t want your reader to see them. Especially considering she’s your mother.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 6:50 PM
Hmmm, George W Bush graduated from Yale and from Harvard (MBA!) and he was President of the United States so using crr6 logic Bush is supremely intelligent and capable…but I’m sure a lefty will never admit this.
gwelf on February 8, 2010 at 6:50 PM
I love Gov Palin and while this crib note thing is overblown, couldn’t she at least write down her thoughts on 3×5 cards rather than tatooing her hand with the seven forbidden words? That’s tacky and it’s not like she couldn’t afford a legal pad or a piece of stationery to write this out on. This is not what one would expect from a potential high government leader and maybe that’s ‘elitist’ but writing things on one’s body is strange and unnecessary in the modern age and plays into the leftwing media’s view of conservatives as knuckle dragging cavemen/women.
eaglewingz08 on February 8, 2010 at 6:51 PM
What’d you go to a multiple choice law school? Do they even have those outside of Guatemala?
russcote on February 8, 2010 at 6:53 PM
So, logically and using the rules of evidence, what is graded blindly is invalid.
How would, being such a Harvard man, like being graded blindly and you failed the course?
You’d run screaming like a five-year-old that it was all ‘unfair’.
Who the fuck do you think you’re kidding? Probably those under three, those who you can manipulate to believe you were treated ‘unfairly’.
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 6:53 PM
Au contraire. I have solid proof. Proof that everyone has access to. Just listen to the idiot speak. He has no idea what he’s talking about. About anything.
in fact nearly every law school class is graded blindly.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 6:48 PM
LOL. Like I said, go check out how Harvard changed their grading – to help minorities, specifically.
neurosculptor on February 8, 2010 at 6:53 PM
Yeah….she should’ve used a Notebook!
C’mon, there’s no friggin’ difference. Notes on the hand, notes on cards….either would be ammo for some inane attack or other.
ddrintn on February 8, 2010 at 6:53 PM
More importantly…. its 5 words SHE WROTE HERSELF…
vs entire reams of TOTUS speeches, written by an entire staff of writers…
We have no idea how much of those speeches are Barry… and how much are Rahm… or a plethora of other leftist politicians…
Romeo13 on February 8, 2010 at 6:53 PM
Wait…where are those?
I wouldn’t worry about it son…my mom’s laughing at you too.
russcote on February 8, 2010 at 6:54 PM
That one takes the cake. Biggest Teleprompter mistake evah. I will try to get the youtube vid for that later.
Geochelone on February 8, 2010 at 6:54 PM
Yeah, there’s Obama’s stunning knowledge of legal precedent. Simply stunning.
ddrintn on February 8, 2010 at 6:54 PM
So you live with her, I see?
Nice.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 6:56 PM
Heh. It’s funny how the “Constitutional scholar” hasn’t been able to get one Constitutional issue correct. He couldn’t even get the Honduran Constitutional issues correct.
Harvard must be very proud – as proud as they were when that moronic suit of theirs about military recruiters on campus got immediately thrown away by the SCOTUS in one of the most embarrassing courtroom smackdowns in recent memory.
neurosculptor on February 8, 2010 at 6:57 PM
crr6:
I’m out to hijack this thread to make it all about YOU.
You say you’re a grad of Harvard Law School, yet you have never shown in any of your posts you’re possibly a lawyer in any manner.
Correct me, please!
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 6:57 PM
He was rejected from Texas Law, which is ranked lower than HLS.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 6:58 PM
You see the crazy thing about the “intarwebs” is that you don’t have to be right next to someone for them to read what you write. We’ve come a long way from looking over someone’s shoulder on the bus.
Or, at least, some of us have.
russcote on February 8, 2010 at 6:59 PM
I doubt very much that any Obama writes any of his speeches (and I wouldn’t expect him to, either, he doesn’t (or shouldn’t) have time for that). But his delivery often leaves the impression that he doesn’t even know what’s in them – that he had minimal input in their preparation, and didn’t take the time to learn them before cranking up TOTUS. Truly pitiful.
ProfessorMiao on February 8, 2010 at 6:59 PM
An old joke:
onlineanalyst on February 8, 2010 at 7:00 PM
So your mom follows your posts on HA?
Nice.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 7:01 PM
Good, listening to people like you and Obama is beginning to make me think that law school pickles the brain.
ProfessorMiao on February 8, 2010 at 7:01 PM
she used paper notes during the actual speech and a little crib note during the Q&A….BFD folks…move on
cmsinaz on February 8, 2010 at 7:03 PM
And he had the balls to fly the F-106. He did that.
But YOU didn’t graduate Harvard, did you?
Even if you did, I rather buy a beer for a fighter pilot than I would a lawyer.
Tell us, ace–ever square down in front of the barrel of a gun? Ever get out of your ‘comfort zone’ and face a 50/50 you might die in the coming 2 seconds?
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 7:03 PM
She’s running rings around them and they don’t even know it.
JellyToast on February 8, 2010 at 7:05 PM
crr6
Still waiting for proof of his “magna cum laude” status…come on…I thought you might have an inside track on those grades from Axelturf. Or you shill for free?
Prove it, or STFU!
JAM on February 8, 2010 at 7:05 PM
Is this really your argument: Obama is the best of the best because he graduated from HLS? You have yet to name anything he’s done in the real world to warrant considering him worthy of such hallowed regard.
gwelf on February 8, 2010 at 7:07 PM
Jesus Christ…keep up swifty. You really are slow.
Did I say monkey screwing a football? I apologize to monkeys and footballs. I meant mentally deficient hyena trying to screw a watermelon.
And, in case she’s reading this now…Hi Mrs. Crr6! Thanks for smoking that cocaine-laced blunt before getting pregnant! We’re really enjoying its contributions!
russcote on February 8, 2010 at 7:07 PM
Obama’s also got really crisp pant creases! Anything else besides the degree?
gwelf on February 8, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Geez man. I’m actually beginning to feel bad for you now.
So what else does your mom keep tabs on? Does she approve each of your posts?
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 7:10 PM
You’re a phony, a total liar.
You’re not a lawyer, and your claims of graduation of Harvard Law School are just bullshit.
Since Harvard is so great, you would have demonstrated its greatness by being an Officer of the Court. You have not at any time.
So, there are two things, then: Harvard Law puts out fools who don’t grasp the law and, in their way of doing things, make Harvard Law lose any level of credibility.
Or, Harvard Law is biased, and as such disregards the Constitution. That make it illegitimate far as American law is founded.
You are either a product of Harvard Law, or its embarrassment.
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 7:11 PM
crr6
***YAWN*** Go back to the minors at Kos, junior.
JAM on February 8, 2010 at 7:13 PM
When did I claim that? I get it, you just want my attention.
Well buzz off, you’re creeping me out.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 7:15 PM
No your mother does. She doesn’t like you either.
russcote on February 8, 2010 at 7:16 PM
Well, she’s proven herself to quite shallow, and on the low end of intelligence. All in all, the perfect recruit for Obama’s communist hordes.
Her comments lack depth and insight. She does regurgitate talking points well though … so I can see how she managed to finish school. Sadly, no original thinking is evident in any of her comments.
darwin on February 8, 2010 at 7:17 PM
Can’t say it better than that.
On a positive note, I see that lying shitbag cur6 is still here.
Lanceman on February 8, 2010 at 7:17 PM
zzzinnggggg!
Well I’m calling it a night on that note. It’s been fun as always russ. Please don’t spend too much time writing about me tonight.
And I know it was a rough thread for ya. But keep your chin up. At least you’re not Liam.
crr6 on February 8, 2010 at 7:19 PM
You’re so sweet you should be feminine!
You made your claims (quoting you isn’t required though you’d love that for your game)
You made claims, and they don’t stand. Get over yourself. You’re a shown (in many ways) to be a liar.
When you are willing to give all you have to the poor, to feed the hungry by your own choice out of your own pocket, will I find YOU, personally, to be valuable.
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 7:21 PM
Few liberals bring me as much joy as you do crr6. But come on back if you ever wanna try again!
russcote on February 8, 2010 at 7:21 PM
Consider the fact that she never states where she allegedly goes to law school.
Chip on February 8, 2010 at 7:23 PM
Are you going to eat tonight?
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 7:23 PM
I think that lorien was being sarcastic and making fun of the news media for their foolish focus on a non-story.
onlineanalyst on February 8, 2010 at 7:24 PM
If you have supper tonight, are you going to take part of that outside, to feed just one hungry person from your own plate?
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 7:25 PM
Will you, when a woman asks 50 lousy cent for a cup of coffee on a cold morning, unlimber your wallet for $2 more so she can have breakfast, too?
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 7:27 PM
You know, if everyone gave crr6 the silent treatment, it might go away.
misterpeasea on February 8, 2010 at 7:28 PM
I have two simple points:
1) The television media gives the news via a teleprompter. I’d like to see them try and do it with out them. In fact, give the news with notes on their hands.
2) Ronald Reagan used note cards when giving speeches. His speeches are much better than Obama’s TOTUS. (And much better than Sarah Palin’s speeches)
Conservative Samizdat on February 8, 2010 at 7:29 PM
Shes as manufactured as Obama.
What an embarrassment.
TheBlueSite on February 8, 2010 at 7:29 PM
I can agree, but I have more intensity calling a lib on her own standard. Liberals are their own embarrassment.
Liam on February 8, 2010 at 7:30 PM
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