Gibbs Scrawls Grocery List on Hand in Jab at Palin

[Damocles]

Are you still going to try and claim she gave that entire speech off only the notes written on her hand?

No. I don't contend that. She had notes on paper. However, I do contend that she referenced her hand rather than her notes twice while giving the speech and that when referencing her hand during the interview it messed her up rather than helping her.

Notes help during a speech, they become a distraction when your responses need to be off the cuff...

 

[Damocles]

Actually, it shows that she mentioned her first priority, which is budget cuts. After that it's your conjecture. You have no idea what the woman is thinking.

Actually she spoke of "reigning in the spending". Had she actually been using the notes she may have messed up and said "budget cuts" rather than "tax cuts"... I may need to watch the interview again.

 

[Bonestorm]

Because it may have been overlooked:

Damo:

Do you still pretend that the things written on her hand were not her response to the question regarding her top three things that need to be done once conservatives take back Congress?

 

[Damocles]

Okay, watching it again... she says "reign in the spending" then references her hand to get "energy" and "american spirits rise"...

 

[Yurtski]

Yurt has me on ignore!

 

[USFREEDOM911]

Yes. But that detracts from the speech. Nobody is talking about what she said, they are talking about notes on her hand. Whether we think it is important or not, her message was lost because of a simple distraction.

But, wasn't that the point that the detractors wanted to focus on.
If it wasn't the writting on the hand, it would have been something else.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

Yes. The video shows her looking at her hand once, and actually getting distracted from it. Like I said. That same moment is captured in another thread. It also shows her not looking at it again like that and attempting to rub off the notes on her nylons... (again an unnecessary distraction from the message.)

It also doesn't show the speech so that we do not see how she actually looked directly at her hand (not even hiding it) during the speech.

Either way, the reality is crib notes like this are not unwarranted, can actually be a distraction and really didn't help her out much. I would avoid writing on my hand in the future if I were her. (Or I'd make a point of doing it as a jab at those who find it the mostest importantest thing ever...)

She should write on her hand, for her next appearance:

"Can you read me now"

LOL