Andrea Mitchell Calls Out Sarah Palin Over Hand Notes

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MSNBC The Daily Rundown - 8 February 2010

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/08/andrea-mitchell-palin-notes



MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Mocks Sarah Palin By Writing ‘Cheat Sheet’ On Her Hand

On MSNBC’s Daily Rundown this morning, Andrea Mitchell reported that “one of the most interesting things” from Sarah Palin’s appearance at the Tea Party Convention this past weekend was the notes written on her hand. “Very clearly,” Mitchell observed, “were some cheat sheets.”

Mitchell then mocked Palin by displaying her own hand, which had some handwriting on it. Holding up her hand for the camera, Mitchell joked that she wrote some things down “just in case I didn’t remember” what she wanted to say:


Mitchell’s joke then segued into an interesting conversation about the press corps’ treatment of Palin. Host Chuck Todd — seemingly wary of taking a jab at Palin — attempted to defend her by arguing, “We’ve all done notes.” Mitchell responded by astutely noting Palin’s hypocrisy in attacking Obama for using a Teleprompter. “So she takes all these snarky shots at Barack Obama,” Mitchell said, leaving Todd to complete the sentence, “she undermined it a little bit.”

“If Mitt Romney had notes on his hand, wouldn’t we take it pretty seriously?” Mitchell asked. Todd responded, “She has different rules.” Watch the segment:

[adigal]

1. Just too juicy to ignore!!!

Even Andrea, the corporate tool, called her out on this.

[Divine Discontent]

28. Chuck Todd - "undermined her (argument) a little bit" - really Chuck??? You piece of rat crap.

It exposed her nakedness for all to see... CHUCK! what an apologist for Palin's clear example of hypocrisy!

[hisownpetard]

35. Chuck Todd is such a smug Rethug cheerleader. "We've all done notes." But do you know anyone else

who wants to run for President who can't remember THREE SHORT ITEMS
in a row? And how about the fact that those were her pre-determined
answers to the question that hadn't been asked yet?

What about that, Chuckie Cheeze?

[peacetalksforall]

2. Thanks for posting - I hadn't seen the cupped hand. It's so obvious.

She didn't have Rove's presence for quality preparation.

[tsstranger]

25. Typical

Caribou Barbie is an idiot. That's why she appeals to the ignorant, inbred, racist, America-hating TeaBaggers.

[graywarrior]

3. And yet, the media keeps spotlighting her over and over and over and over

:puke:

[LuckyLib]

11. So true. Endless obsession with a vacuous know-nothing. Meanwhile, ignoring really important news.

[Dollface]

23. The Paris Hilton of Politics

[whathehell]

4. Notice that instead of calling her out, Chuck Todd claimed she "had different rules"?...

WTF?..."Different Rules" my ass.

[PerpetuallyDazed]

5. There most certainly are...

And this is how her base will get over it. I think Dodd was speaking to hypocrisy, making more of a tongue-in-cheek statement.

[wake.up.america]

7. SO we concentrate on her "hand" written notes instead of her

hypocrisy and lack of substance. That's what she wants - a distraction from the fact she has nothing of importance to contribute.

[AlbertCat]

16. SO we concentrate on her "hand" written notes instead of her hypocrisy and lack of substance

Uh...pointing out that she uses the most sophomoric method of notes while making "snarky remarks" about the Prez's teleprompter IS in fact pointing out her hypocrisy and lack of substance.

[wake.up.america]

30. Ok - You made a point. Sounds good to me.

[Cosmocat]

13. Chuck Todds evolution into MSM douchebag supreme ...

should be the model to illustrate how it happens ...

Now, Todd was not being "tounge in cheek" about it, his first statement was "well, we all have done notes ..." And, he equivicated both on the different rules statement and an earlier statement when she pressed it with "sometimes ..."

When I first saw him doing roll call on C-span, he was a decent guy, he seriously just called it for what it was, and I had the sense he actually was a little progressive under it ...

But, the more he has climbed the food chain, the more he has sold out to the "dems in trouble" meme and mitigating the Rs problems at every stop ...

[AlbertCat]

18. the "dems in trouble" meme and mitigating the Rs problems at every stop ..

Boy, have you got that right!

The Dems get no quarter, but the poor put upon GOP does things "we all have done" and are just human (like corporations). They make a few boo-boos. Dem's however are traitors and crazy because they use teleprompters!

[Frustratedlady]

12. I agree wholeheartedly. nt

[Plucketeer]

17. One more time, eh?

Todd's gotten less and less substantive in his tenure with MSNBC.

[The Wielding Truth]

36. It's called being a "hypocrite", Chuck. Say it.

She slams Barack for using a teleprompter to deliver historically moving and factual speeches, then she uses her hand for cheat notes to glib out talking points that are mean and meaningless. What a hypocrite she is!

[rainy]

6. When will they ever call Bush on his cheating during the debates

with John Kerry? What a patsy press. That was a BIG story and they sat on it. They never would have sat on it if Dean or Kerry or Obama or any other democrat had done that and we all know it.

[dotymed]

9. Are you talking about the "ear-bud? It was soo well known,

but never reported, or challenged by the MSM...

[DWilliamsamh]

50. Um... I think maybe 6 years is long enough to move on....

That is so irrelevant at this point and this Palin story is getting some coverage that the Bush story didn't. At least (since it it is literally visible on camera) those pointing out the obvious aren't being called crazy conspiracy theorists.

Now we just have jerk offs like Chuck Todd making excused for her vacuousness (writing crib notes on your hand?? I used to do that in 8th grade) and writing different rules for her, by claiming there are already different rules, instead of holding her to the same standards as others (well others as in Democrats).

[rainy]

52. It still would have been a perfect comparison to say see what

Sarah did and REMEMBER how Bush cheated too. Would have made lots of our days if the press would have drawn the comparison. A perfect in for them to finally tell the story they purposefully sat on.

[DWilliamsamh]

53. Agreed...but from another angle:

Finally outing the Republican party tendency to elevate complete idiots to positions of high power by appealing to the literal ignorance of their "base," as a cynical way of putting someone in place who is easily manipulated by the men and women behind the curtain.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Looks like Andrea Mitchell is finallly taking some smart pills.

[Holy Moly]

27. temporary insanity

Naw, just a minor case of temporary
insanity flitting thru her head, in
one ear out the other. She'll regain
her sanity in two and a half minutes or
soon after she craws into bed along side her
dear failure hubbie, Alan 'the genius' Greenspam, when he can coldcock her straight again.

[willhe]

10. The wingnuts will brush this off...

but come on it's quite pathetic how all these retards criticized president obama reading a teleprompter when if not a teleprompter they're reading their notes. then the head twit in charge needed to write - energy taxes and lift american spirits in their hand

[L. Coyote]

37. Welcome to DU

[cadmium]

39. the wing nuts see here as one of them -- a dope.

It is a finely crafted image as are the misspelled signs

[SalviaBlue]

14. I just saw Good Morning America laugh it off.

Stephanopolis just laughed it off, saying "everyone needs some help remembering."

Can you imagine if Obama or Clinton or (insert any Democrat) did this.

Your liberal media at work.

[Vermontgrown]

15. THe repuke party is hideous at best.

The lies that have been told by this party are extrmeley numerous, to the point that there's no way they can even keep up with them. It is so easy to catch these fakes in a lie that a school child could catch them off guard. The people that believe the lies are in severe denial. Palin is one of those extreme idiots that believes her own lies.

[AlbertCat]

22. believes her own lies.

I dunno.


I think she's an actress... and she knows it. She has a "brand"....the maverick home maker with all kinds of "children" problems that they work thru with compassion. Yeah right. Would you want to be at home with the Palins? Todd and Sarah come across to me as control freaks.... with religion! YIKES! They are fakes through and through. Sarah easily breaks down into "it's about ME and what I...I....I can get for myself" (not even her family). She knows exactly what she's up to. But, like the Bushies, she's really bad at it. Those fans of hers are either with her because they think they are scoring points against anything "librul".... the word Gingrich taught them to hate. Or they are like lottery players...."I'm gonna be just like Sarah. She's just like me and look where she is....on the TV!!! I can do that! And I'm gonna win the lottery and be rich too! Just you wait!" Childish and sad.

[SharonAnn]

45. Todd & Sarah plus 5 plus 1 - new Tea Party TV show.

[SlingBlade]

19. What was that about Mika and Joe

Didn't catch it ?

Chuck Todd is such a Tool. Really, could it become any more obvious. WTF !
Must be setting up his FoxNews resume.

[LuckyLib]

26. I heard it as her very lame attempt at a joke, i.e., I write on my hand to keep clear the names of

the two I'm sitting with, then they said something about Shannon, etc. They even pad their own bad reporting with drivel -- just like your local news!

[mzmolly]

20. "She has different rules."

She sure does. :eyes:

[CLANG]

29. Yeah, and Suck Todd just blessed them

[boobooday]

21. Then she wipes her hand on her pantyhose

As if she can't remember the word "energy" or that energy is an important issue, without writing it on her hand?

[directlinetous]

24. Sara Palin and Hand Prompter

I don't understand when people are going to get Sara Palin? 
She pushes for truth and transparency yet she is a habitual
liar (this has been proven) she and her husband have tried to
hide their back door dealings in Alaska (this has been
proven).  WAKE UP PEOPLE! When the going got rough she quit
during her first term as Governor and said it was in the best
interest of her family and Alaska. They say that the
Republicans and Democrats are afraid of her.  What a joke! 
She talks like a school girl, there is no content to her
messages except to slander and quickie jokes.  It doesn't
appear that she has studies any of the current issues except
to make a quick comment of her concerning about terrorism. 
LETS MAKE HER ACCOUNTABLE AS SHE TRYS TO DO TO OTHERS INSTEAD
OF GIVING HER A FREE RIDE. . . . Can you imagine President
Sara Palin and Vice President Todd Palin? 

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Good cop, bad cop & Shmuck Tawd.

Mitchell plays the good cop role today. Am surprised this finally made it to the M$M (including CBS earlier), after going viral on the 'net.

[Tx4obama]

32. If Palin had a brain then she could have just thought T- E - A

If Palin had a brain then she could have just thought T-E-A to remember her talking points instead of writing them on her hand.

Her Tele-Palmer read:

Energy
Budget(crossed out) Cuts
Tax
Lift Up Americans

All she would have had to do was think T E A (party) for:

T - Tax
E - Energy
A - Americans lift 'em up

That makes the whole thing even more funny! ;)

[W_HAMILTON]

43. Good one.

Even though, to be honest, you can ask me several months from now what words did Palin have written on her hand, and I will still be able to recite them (without the trick you showed!). How hard is it to remember just a few words? No wonder she went through 17 colleges.

[W_HAMILTON]

44. PS

If she wrote "budget," then crossed it out and put "cuts," what are the odds that this happened?

She put budget and crossed it out to represent cutting the budget...but she was too stupid to understand and remember that, so she had to write "cuts" out alongside just to be sure?

[Maineman]

33. Having been a teacher, guess what comes to mind.

Students who are weak, unprepared, or lazy - and dishonest - like to write answers on their hands although today's students are a bit more clever than that. Why was it Palin switched colleges several times?

PS... Palin criticizes a law professor president. Does she think that a cutsey-putsey smart-ass would be a better president? She is definitely skilled at being a smart ass.

[L. Coyote]

38. I'm reminded of student politics in a small state.

Palin is not speaking at Harvard Law School's pay grade :rofl:

[DWilliamsamh]

51. What do you think she thinks?

"Does she think that a cutsey-putsey smart-ass would be a better president?"

Yes she does...and judging by the polls of the people who will still admit to being Republicans, so do a significant portion of the American people. This country is doomed to be ruled by idiots. A hundred years from now the the writer of Idiocracy will look like the most accurate futurist since Arthur C. Clark.

[Jefferson23]

34. Talk to the hand.

[ooglymoogly]

40. Chuck Tod, besides saying "hey I'm a crook too"; Was

saying he is just as dumb and just as crooked as SP. The fact that this idiot is hosting a show, shows you just how far CNN has fallen down the rabbit hole. as if we needed any more proof.

[Historic NY]

41. "Different rules for stupid people "

[howmad1]

42. So what's the big fucking deal?

Remember when Bush used a radio strapped to his backside during the debate between him and Gore in Arizona? He got flat out busted and that was a one day news cycle. And the schmuck still got elected. What worries me much more is that the morans in this country will elect this piece of shit as president.

[Jack Rabbit]

46. I could care less about Mrs. Palin using crib notes

With them or without them, she has no clue what she is talking about.

[ashling]

47. Andrea gives a 'shout out' to Sarah Palin

:hi:

[Chiyo-chichi]

48. Didn't Andrea Mitchell report when Palin quit that she was going to "go away"?

I believe that when Palin resigned as Gov., Mitchell reported that her sources said that Palin was going to step entirely away from public life. I didn't believe it, but so wanted it to be true that I hold it against Mitchell. Plenty of other things to hold against her.

[DWilliamsamh]

49. Chuck Todd is disgusting. Is there anything he will not excuse? What a tool (n/t)