You don't like her, the people at DailyKos absolutely despise her, anything she does that you don't consider normal is stupid, justify that however you want, but that's what it is. And I did not say she wrote that, the link you gave us includes multiple zoom ins clearly showing it. Try this one though, most of us stare at our notes for longer than it takes to read them, because you tend to keep looking at the object of stimuli while you ponder it. Or do you think she is borderline illiterate too? Maybe someone wrote it on her hand for her? She was probably reading it to remind herself what she wanted to cover and was thinking about how to insert it into the current conversation or how to shift things to it. Most people when pondering things tend to have a bit of a blank or glazed eye thing or such going on, not the best time to stare into the camera or at the other person. Traditionally, and yes this is very common, the note goes on your left palm because you shake with your right hand, and you can lift the left up to cup your chin, glancing at the note as you raise the hand then 'contemplating' your answer with hand on chin, cupped, or thumb and forefinger, stroking beard, etc... this works very well for men, less so for women.



People would have ragged on her for shuffling through her note cards too, she didn't have a podium, she was sitting exposed in a chair, about the only way to have notes in a case like that is to have a clipboard and lots of people would object to that too. You can do that maybe a few times before people start noting you do that a lot, and she is a public speaker. If she showed up to every interview format like that holding a hand full of notecards, people would jeer her stupidity.