Sarah Palin doesn’t need a teleprompter

… but she does need notes on her hand to reference.

From her appearance at the Tea Party Convention over the weekend:

Let’s look a little closer:

In case you still can’t make it out:

Energy
Budget Tax Cuts
Lift American Spirits

They came in very handy for the Q&A session. A number of people were wondering what it would have looked like if Sarah Palin had engaged in a televised Q&A, like President Obama did at the GOP retreat and with the Democratic senators. Well … probably something a little like this:

Thanks to Stefan Sirucek at HuffPo for the article.

Thanksgiving Immigration Update

On Immigration (courtesy of Immigration Impact):

• Lou Dobbs, fresh off the heels of his CNN departure and perhaps looking to prime an important constituency, tries to soften his anti-immigrant tone to curry favor with the Hispanic population, and is confronted by Telemundo’s María Celeste.
  
  Honestly, I find it a little hard to believe that he’s “Latinos’ greatest friend,” when only a few years ago he falsely accused undocumented immigrants of bringing leprosy to the U.S.
• Republican Senators try to frame the immigration debate their own way … by making stuff up–sorry, is that too harsh?

Links of the Day, November 13

News

• A judge in AZ orders a Phoenix church to stop feeding the homeless.
• Cows and vehicles stranded by the flooding in Jeram Perdas, Malaysia.
  

Health care

• Goldman Sachs’ analysis is that no health-care reform is better than what’s on offer … better for insurance companies–no, seriously, that’s what it says … (And since when was that news?)

Politics

• Analyzing the GOP’s woman problem. (And an interesting look at women in political power generally.)

Miscellaneous

• Liz reviews Fantastic Mr. Fox–looking good!
• One of my favorite actors, Ron Livingston, got married to Rosemarie DeWitt. They met on the set of short-lived Fox drama "Standoff." [You know why it was short-lived? Because it was good, and it was on Fox. You know what else got canceled by Fox before its time? Dollhouse. And Firefly. Geez, Fox. Seriously!] (Rant over.)