OMG I just about peed my pants laughing when I saw this news… Sarah Palin gave the keynote speech to the first “Tea Party Convention”. (And for all you teabagger types who proclaim what a grassroots effort the whole Tea Party thing is, did you realize that the convention was for-profit, and that Palin got a six-figure appearance fee?)

And guess what? She put her crib notes onto her hand for the brief Q&A session that followed her speech.

Seriously. I couldn’t make this up:




(see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcVMTZkTZQ&feature=player_embedded for those who don’t see the video above)

Awesome. In case you think the video is faked, check this out; it’s an AP photo taken during her speech that shows the notes on her palm…

Here’s some closer shots of the notes:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4337216550_4fc4343589_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2793/4337216594_f654772641_o.jpg

And here’s the CNN video of the the incident, and at about 1:23 in she checks her palm where the first word is “energy” and then she rambles on about energy for the next minute or so.

(go to http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/02/06/palin.tea.party.qa.cnn for those who can’t see the video embedded.)