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Sarah Palin’s Tea Party Cheat Sheet

All eyes are on Sarah Palin’s left hand—you might even call it a vast left-wing conspiracy—after it doubled as a cheat sheet during a Q&A at the National Tea Party Convention. For those wondering, the words/talking points she had written on her palm were: “energy,” “tax” and “lift American spirits.” Palin did something I’ve always wanted to do in middle school, but since I annoyingly knew all of the answers and would have required 20 extra palms to paraphrase the textbook in the longest manner imaginable the opportunity never presented itself. But if I were in Palin’s shoes, I would have totally scribbled on an American-made shoe and used the publicity to promote American footwear.

 

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Nonna Gorilovskaya

Nonna Gorilovskaya is the founder and editor of Women and Foreign Policy. She is a senior editor at Moment Magazine and a researcher for NiemanWatchdog.org, a project of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Prior to her adventures in journalism, she studied the role of nationalism in the breakup of the Soviet Union as a U.S. Fulbright scholar to Armenia. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where she grew addicted to lattes, and St. Antony's College, Oxford, where she acquired a fondness for Guinness and the phrase "jolly good."

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Journalism; Gender Issues; Social Policy

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