Palin Caught Cheating on Test

February 8, 2010 by Marc Lamont Hill

At last week’s tea party events, Governor Sarah Palin was caught reading notes from her hand during a Q&A session. While I don’t think this is a huge deal, it’s interesting that it occurred on the same day that she dissed President Obama for reading from a teleprompter. Personally, I don’t think that reading from typed notes or a teleprompter (which Obama does NOT do during informal Q&A) is troublesome. I do, however, think that writing notes on your hand is weird, tacky, and decidedly unpresidential.

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16 Comments

1. Gabriel Bryant wrote:

definitely joke of the week.

February 8, 2010 @ 2:00 pm

2. zak wrote:

and funny.

February 8, 2010 @ 5:47 pm

3. liam wrote:

Sarah (”plain and ignorant”) is a hypocrite. She deserves harsh treatment because of it. That creton is only concerned for herself and that is obvious since only the dumb are impressed by her.

February 8, 2010 @ 6:46 pm

4. liam wrote:

Oh pardon me. And the SIMPLE…..

February 8, 2010 @ 6:46 pm

5. booklover17 wrote:

My favorite recent Sarahflub is calling for Rahm Emanuel’s resignation for using the word “retard” and then defending Limbaugh for saying the same word. She said Limbaugh was using it satirically when clearly he was not. Does anyone know why it took her 5 years and 4 different schools to get 1 degree? I’ve read about the 4 times she transferred but no one seems to say why.

February 9, 2010 @ 12:06 pm

6. Corve DaCosta wrote:

Who determines what is unpresidential? Leave the woman alone …if she wants to have index cards etc who cares…..I care about what she is saying.

February 9, 2010 @ 12:13 pm

7. Ruffneck wrote:

Wow, seems that with all the politics around these days, people still cant learn how the game is played.

Sure she is going to attack Rahm and defend Rush. Rush can destroy her, Rahm is an easy target. She would also have to be a fool to attack Rush for no other reason that there is nothing to gain for her doing so. This makes her smarter than your average armchair politician, not simple and surely not ignorant because she clearly understands the game.

Palin has so much public power because no matter what she says, what she does, what platform she supports, people will waste no time to show their hate. There comes a time when the majority of the crowd begins to think that maybe kicking the school bully in the face after he is on the ground is just mean, when the value of pure humanity is overshadowed by the bully’s past actions. That time came and past for Palin. Those who continue to bash for no other reason but to call her “ignorant” and “simple” now give her more political power.

Palin will not be elected president. She does not have the political clout to even come close. She does instead embody something that the voters can relate to and will respect her for her opinion and her overall political views (agreed or not). This is her power and winning the White House does not have to be the end game for her to keep that power.

She is not a professional politician and we can all see that. The question is, do we respect the professional politicians so much that we begin to degrade those without the training in deception and smoke screens like Palin? I’d rather listen to Palin speak instead of Obama with his State of the Union speech where he says very little but, like a professional politician, talks very much.

February 9, 2010 @ 9:08 pm

8. liam wrote:

Oh Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Palin is demeaning with her “hopey changey” hateful dismissive rant and when she gets attacked she sits back and waits for the wacky public to come to the aid of a fragile female being beaten down because of her gender. (boohoo). She has a demented outlook on social policy, an ugly heart and she is willfully playing every angle to fill her own pockets. There is no concern for the less fortunate by that pancaked face covered with eyeglasses who miserably fails at portraying intelligence. She is a mockery of authentic altruism. No leeway for such a farce is allowable in my book.

February 10, 2010 @ 12:47 am

9. Ruffneck wrote:

Is she acting no different than your average minority activist? Is a female in high level US politics not a minority and afforded the same respect and defense of any other minority?

I can say the same things about Obama’s social policy and his shallow heart, Obama also played the black angle even though we know full well that he is not black in any descriptive definition of its meaning. In the end, these are all just “simple” arguments lacking the knowledge of the political game.

But we give Obama leeway for what reason? Because he has worked for what he told us during the election run up, because he has lifted black america up, solved our urban woes? Palin is actually the person that she tells everyone that she is, like it or not.

Again, this is called politics and if you cant read the game being played, then you just get played in the end.

February 10, 2010 @ 8:23 pm

10. liam wrote:

Ruffneck: I disagree. Do you have any examples to offer?

February 10, 2010 @ 11:32 pm

11. Ruffneck wrote:

I didn’t reference anything that would demand an example.

Do you disagree that she should not be afforded the same leeway as any other minority expressing their views as their minority experience brings?

Do you disagree that Obama’s social policy has resulted in no real tangible gain to either his election platform or his primary voting bloc’s expectations?

Do you disagree that Palin is not an over religious, overly parental, exaggerationist who sounds more like an angry stepmother than a real leader, just like she has told us from the beginning?

I dont like the woman or most of her platform but I fully understand the political game that she plays and I can respect her for sticking to that game and holding fast to her foundation. Not unlike how I respected Bush for doing what he said, and saying what he was going to do, no matter what facts were shown. It didn’t mean that I agreed in either case. I’d much rather deal with a self confessed liar telling me lies than a man who promised me truth and has never delivered.

February 11, 2010 @ 7:34 pm

12. liam wrote:

Ruffneck: Apples and oranges. I believe whatever the current conditions are that Palin should be in the same sentence as Obama. She does not deserve such an elevated status.
You implied that Obama also displays demented ideas on social policy. I asked for an example. Obama is biracial and he fits the definition of black as well as white. He need not qualify for anyone. So yes an example of what you declare as the “descriptive definition of its meaning” with reference to being black will not be swept under the rug by me. Political “games” often involve very “simple” arguments.

February 11, 2010 @ 11:53 pm

13. Ruffneck wrote:

The only reason to use the term black is to reference his minority status. Obama is not a minority in any descriptive definionon of that meaning. There can be no other logical reason to use the term. We use the term “white” to mean the majority in the same context.

He was rich, heavily educated, politicaly connected, married to rich and heavily educated woman both so far removed from any minority segregation or social bias that could be infered.

We see daily accounts of the media and in public of Palin being attacked because she is a overbearing woman. We waste no time in calling her female biased opinions “simple” and sidelining them immediatly. The simple words hope and change on the other hand are considered life changing. Why?

Apples and Oranges, when in the same basket, are just called fruit.

As an example of Obama’s demented social ideas: expecting the federal government to force people to give and hand up to those who they have never met and based on no real life consequenses. Communities give hands up to those who have proven themeselves worthy of that hand. We do this at the community level because we are connected to each other and can gauge the value in helping that person based on what he can give back to the community. Without actual social connection to the people that we are attempting to help we are blindly throwing good will out the door. This is not the federal government’s place and they have a history of failing in this same exact attempt.

February 12, 2010 @ 12:11 pm

14. DJ Bomshell wrote:

@ Ruffneck, I think that the media focused more on Obama’s “blackness” more than he did himself. In fact he is a minority.. Apart of the minority of people that are Bi-Racial. Frankly, I expected more from the conservatives, I’m used to this type of scrutiny based on geneology, I live in New Orleans the heart of defining what is Creolised, white and black. Anyway as a woman in a male dominated industry and I have come up to the conclusion that even though she talks a conservative talk that Republicans like, Ultimately…….SHE IS DUMB and underqualified for any political position other than govenor and she quit that. The only reason I don’t care about it at all is because (THAT’S RIGHT) GEORGE W. BUSH is DUMBER THAN HER!!!! So if he can be dumb and lead this country to a fiscal vacuum that we call war with no evidence, and for reasons based on faulty information….We are equal opportunity employers in America…..Her Dumb ass can too……

February 12, 2010 @ 2:14 pm

15. aggiefan741 wrote:

Please explain how you Dr. Hill think that writing on your hand is unpresidential, ” not the nature of the president”? What is the nature of the president?

February 19, 2010 @ 12:34 am

16. Interesting wrote:

Mark: I always turn the volume off on my TV when you are on. I find that you are racist as racist can be. I also think that your attitude toward your country is the same as the “ONE”. Very hateful toward anything and everything American.

Funny that you failed to mention in your comment/review about Sarah Palin and her hand notes that a very big Democrat leader did exactly the same thing at a debate! Sarah Palin is a public person and she is not running at least not yet for President. Feinstein did the hand note at a political debate! I believe that is against the rules of any debate. Oh, no maybe for the left anything can be forgiving.

http://american-conservativevalues.com/blog/2010/02/diane-feinstein-caught-using-hand-notes-video/

Also, what about the “ONE” and his addition to teleprompters. Every time he is off the teleprompter he seem to sound and look stupid. No very presidential I, might add. What about all the non Presidential comments from the ONE: 57 States, Mexican were here before Americans, Cannot tell the difference between Memorial Day and Veteran Day, America is not longer a Christian Nation (when less than 1% of the population is Muslim), Suing the State of Arizona, “I don’t know what the term is in Austrian — wheeling and dealing — and, you know, people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics” (Austrian is NOT a language!!). The list goes on and on…

What about our very “smart” Vice President Biden…”I am second in command…”
To tell you the truth I do not know where and why you attended College Mr. Lamar. You, the NAACP, the Jackson and the Sharptons of this world are helping keep blacks down. Let’s blame everything “White” for the failures of Balcks to succeed in this country. Let’s keep slavery alive in order to keep blacks down. Yeah, that sound like worth getting a PhD for… You will make your mother and your ancestors proud by keeping everyone down. What a waste of education Mr. Lamar!

You will do the world and this country a better job if you use your IQ and higher education for talking across the country and advising blacks to get off the welfare mentality that Democrats have imprison them for the last 40 years. You should address the black youth to get off drugs. For the women to stop having babies with multiple men and bringing into this world fatherless babies. These are not racist comments. They are statistically facts. The majority of men in prison are blacks. The majority of those prisoners came from single mothers. Solve that problem Mr. Lamar before you continue blaming whites for anything and everything black.

September 28, 2010 @ 1:42 am

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