Sarah Palin's Hand Is 'A Poor Man's Teleprompter'

Sarah Palin is defending herself for writing notes on her hand during a Tea Party convention interview … sort of. She brought up the incident herself in an appearance on Sean Hannity's show yesterday. “Hey, remember those talking points that I had written on my hand?” she said. “Because I’d done seven speeches in four days and I’m running up to the podium, and you know, writing on your hand, well that’s a poor man’s version of a teleprompter…”

Palin went on to argue that the GOP need only embrace the simple things she’d written there—energy, tax cuts, and lifting American spirits—to win elections. The whole comment seems designed as a dig at President Obama’s reputed reliance on a teleprompter, Mediate observes. “Except…doesn’t that just make her a poor man’s version of Obama?” (More Sarah Palin crib notes stories.)