# Teleprompter, Wasilla-style **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 7, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071 "2010-02-07T22:54:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/61 "2010-02-09T02:47:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I listened to her speech, have a fair recollection except for those moments when seized with giggling fits. What struck me, what made me think she’s got better handlers than she did before was the way she finessed the issue of her absurd paycheck for the speech. She reassured her audience that it was all going right back into The Cause. Said it a couple times, as I recall, but with no more specificity than that - The Cause. > > And she skated. That’s pretty slick. > > I’ve heard it said that talented liars give details, but the really good liars never do. There is a lot of big money in back of her. They will do what they want while she wears pretty clothes. She would embarrass the whole nation. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/62 "2010-02-09T02:57:13Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > OK. Missed that. You shoulda made some notes. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/63 "2010-02-09T03:10:47Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > In Soviet Russia, the hand reads you! > > (or something like that) Maybe she reads her lips with the notes from her hand on her front porch? In Soviet Politburo, Party votes as One! Da…! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/64 "2010-02-09T03:13:16Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I listened to her speech, have a fair recollection except for those moments when seized with giggling fits. What struck me, what made me think she’s got better handlers than she did before was the way she finessed the issue of her absurd paycheck for the speech. She reassured her audience that it was all going right back into The Cause. Said it a couple times, as I recall, but with no more specificity than that - The Cause. > > And she skated. That’s pretty slick. > > I’ve heard it said that talented liars give details, but the really good liars never do. The beauty is that she will never be asked any follow ups on that within her conservative media green zone, and if anyone outside the green zone ever asks her what she did with the money, it will be turned into a “liberal media gotcha” attack on poor, poor Sarah. She can’t lose. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/65 "2010-02-09T04:03:12Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > This could only have been more hilarious had she used white-out or had “you betcha” written on her hand. She used all the white-out on her computer monitor. Thank you, I’m here all week! Enjoy the veal! ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/66 "2010-02-09T20:39:32Z")
As I posted in another thread. She was asked what the litmus test was for her endorsing other candidates, she responded But if they feel that they are taxed enough already and they make a commitment that they are going to do something about it and they just believe in the constitutional limited government that the federal government has to start abiding by,a lot of things, perhaps the details, the things at the periphery that I perhaps would not agree with every single aspect of their agenda that they would like to implement , they have got the basics down .I think it would be wise for us to be supportive. Sarah Louise is just right on top of everything. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/67 "2010-02-09T21:09:49Z")
A verb, Mrs. Palin, we need a verb. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/68 "2010-02-09T21:28:51Z")
That poor Monty Python guy, he must have to say it ten times a day! “No! No, we are bloody well not bloody related!” ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/69 "2010-02-09T21:40:15Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > [Sarah Palin reads notes off of her hand during speech.](http://www.oliverwillis.com/2010/02/06/sarah-palin-caught-reading-her-speech-off-her-hand/) > > This would be funny if 30% of the country didn’t want this daft bimbo to be our next President. What’s funny about it? Have you never made a last minute change to something? I teach classes 5 days a week and I have a written class planner that I operate from. And at least once a week, I’ll make a last minute adjustment to it and I’ll write it on my hand. Jeez. The libs are so totally scared shitless of Sarah Palin that this is all they can come up with? You guys sure didn’t utter a squeak when the clown that the majority of the people elected to the Presidency took his teleprompters into a 6th grade classroom. Hypocrites. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/70 "2010-02-09T22:06:23Z")
> [@sleeping](#): > > So, if she was to actually debate someone, all they’d have to do is make her sweat a little … and her talking points would dissolve, leaving her staring at the camera and wondering where she is? “Murphy, you are an elf… uncontrollably…” > [@JeffB](#): > > Coming this summer on Fox – _Are You Smarter Than Sarah Palin?_ It’d be like minting money for the networks: three seconds of the host saying “yes,” followed by 29:57 of commercials. > [@Lightnin](#): > > It’s funny… on the Right-leaning websites, they love to claim that the Left “hates” Sarah Palin. I hate her. But then, I hate just about everybody, especially the willfully ignorant. > [@Bricker](#): > > Never used my hand. I dunno, some of the arguments I’ve seen you make could be classified as masturbatory. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e95f7d/32.png) [@holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/holmes)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/71 "2010-02-09T22:10:47Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > What’s funny about it? Have you never made a last minute change to something? I teach classes 5 days a week and I have a written class planner that I operate from. And at least once a week, I’ll make a last minute adjustment to it and I’ll write it on my hand. > > Jeez. The libs are so totally scared shitless of Sarah Palin that this is all they can come up with? You guys sure didn’t utter a squeak when the clown that the majority of the people elected to the Presidency took his teleprompters into a 6th grade classroom. Hypocrites. 1. Dude, she looked at them during the question and answer part of the event. 2. They were her core beliefs, if she needs to look at her hand to remind herself of them, that’s just…sad. 3. She looked like a freaking high school kid, trying to cheat on her Spanish test and getting caught…sadder, still. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/72 "2010-02-09T22:45:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **Lightnin** ’ > It’s funny… on the Right-leaning websites, they love to claim that the Left “hates” Sarah Palin. Try to keep up with the **Clothahump**. “The libs are so totally scared shitless of Sarah Palin” I heard this during the last election campaign too. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/73 "2010-02-09T22:48:44Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > You guys sure didn’t utter a squeak when the clown that the majority of the people elected to the Presidency took his teleprompters into a 6th grade classroom. Jeez. The cons are so totally scared shitless of Barack Obama that this is all they can come up with? [Obama used the teleprompters while reading a prepared speech to reporters](http://www.aolnews.com/the-point/article/what-the-obama-school-teleprompter-photos-really-show/19330300). His chat with the 6th-graders occurred prior to that, in a different classroom, without teleprompters. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/74 "2010-02-09T22:57:06Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Jeez. The cons are so totally scared shitless of Barack Obama that this is all they can come up with? > > [Obama used the teleprompters while reading a prepared speech to reporters](http://www.aolnews.com/the-point/article/what-the-obama-school-teleprompter-photos-really-show/19330300). His chat with the 6th-graders occurred prior to that, in a different classroom, without teleprompters. Wow, that’s quite a shock, that the Right wing media and blogosphere have spread a false story! I’m shocked! Quite! I’m especially shocked that our fine, upstanding **Clothahump** appears to have posted without fact checking first. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/75 "2010-02-09T22:58:52Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > What’s funny about it? Have you never made a last minute change to something? I teach classes 5 days a week and I have a written class planner that I operate from. And at least once a week, I’ll make a last minute adjustment to it and I’ll write it on my hand. So you’re saying that Sarah Palin made a last minute change to her post-speech Q&A session to include “energy, tax cuts, lift America’s spirits”? ---
**Author:** ![Cort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/77aa72/32.png) [@Cort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cort)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/76 "2010-02-09T22:59:58Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Jeez. The libs are so totally scared shitless of Sarah Palin that this is all they can come up with? You guys sure didn’t utter a squeak when the clown that the majority of the people elected to the Presidency took his teleprompters into a 6th grade classroom. Hypocrites This whole “Scared of Sarah” meme is just a stupid right-wing cant and it’s complete bullshit. I think I speak for every liberal on the boards when I say the only thing that scares me about Sarah Palin is the possibility that she might _not_ get nominated for President in 2012, thereby denying Obama a cakewalk victory. The woman’s a slackwitted Creationist bumpkin and the only people who like her are people who’d cut their throats before voting Democrat anyway. What on earth is there to be scared of? > [@Clothahump](#): > > You guys sure didn’t utter a squeak when the clown that the majority of the people elected to the Presidency took his teleprompters into a 6th grade classroom. Hypocrites There’s nothing wrong with using notes _per se_. There _is_ something wrong with using notes if, like Sarah Palin, you make fun of people who use notes. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/77 "2010-02-09T23:06:59Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > You guys sure didn’t utter a squeak when the clown that the majority of the people elected to the Presidency took his teleprompters into a 6th grade classroom. Hypocrites. Why would we utter any squeak? Are we the ones who spent most of the last year cackling “Look at the dummy using his dumb speech aids”? No, that would be you, and it’s just priceless to see your hypocritical fumbling attempts to spin the Wasilla Palm Pilot after all that criticism. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/78 "2010-02-09T23:15:56Z")
> [@Cort](#): > > This whole “Scared of Sarah” meme is just a stupid right-wing cant and it’s complete bullshit. Shhhhhh! Scared! So scared! Wish she’d just vanish and stop her devastatingly effective tactics! get with the program Cort! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/79 "2010-02-09T23:38:06Z")
Right, right Please, no. Not Sarah Palin, anyone but her. Please don’t throw us in that briar patch. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071/80 "2010-02-09T23:45:51Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Right, right > Please, no. Not Sarah Palin, anyone but her. Please don’t throw us in that briar patch. We all know that she’s an idiot, but we also know that is not necessarily a dealbreaker for a large swathe of the American electorate. Dubya served two full terms. Seriously, let’s not tempt fate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teleprompter-wasilla-style/528071.md?page=5)