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 Monday, March 23, 2009

Barack's TelePrompter

By Greg Perkins @ 12:38 PM

Okay, given Obama's reputed dependence on prepared text for his charismatic orating, and recent slips like his slavishly reading another person's speech the other day (and thereby oddly thanking himself for hosting the event), this blog is just hilarious: "Barack's TelePrompter -- Reflections from the hard drive of the machine that enables the voice of the leader of the free world."

From the recent entry, "I'm Not Getting Paid Enough":

Okay, I see the bus coming right at me, so let's be clear: this was His ad lib.
...
It's days like this that make me miss the days when He and I would walk the streets of Chicago, doing community activism. Sure, it took Him 30 minutes to set me up, and sometimes he couldn't get the extension cord to reach an electrical outlet, or the folks he wanted to talk to would walk off because they had better things to do, or the glare off my screen made his remarks unreadable. But it was a simpler time, when he could stay on script and didn't feel the need to "speak his mind," and we were a team. All I know, is it's going to be a long flight home.

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Monday, March 23, 2009 at 16:42:12 mst
Comment ID: #1
Name: Paul Hsieh
E-mail: paul(at)geekpress(dot)com
URL: http://www.geekpress.com

Here's a more serious analysis of Obama's dependence on TelePrompters:

http://neoneocon.com/2009/03/20/whats-behind-obamas-teleprompter-ad ...

Monday, March 23, 2009 at 18:00:50 mst
Comment ID: #2
Name: Andrew Baker

I don't know how people find him such a great orator. His style with the prompter is so patronizing and patrician like FDR's.

I think there may be some credence to the idea that he needs the prompter to control his radical remarks. I remember his NPR interview which was found during the election. In a conversational tone he described how the Warren court didn't use the judicial to spread the wealth or something to that point. He had no trouble with his words and I doubt he needed to constantly look at his notes to say what he did.

I am happy people are already protesting in his presidency, I just wish they had more publicity than Drudge.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 9:45:38 mst
Comment ID: #3
Name: Dana H.

Just FYI, it's "Barack", not "Barak".

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 10:22:02 mst
Comment ID: #4
Name: Greg Perkins
E-mail: greg(at)eCosmos.com
URL: http://dianahsieh.com/blog

Thanks, Dana -- fixed!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 19:06:52 mst
Comment ID: #5
Name: oedipamaas

He didn't slavishly read another person's speech. The Irish Prime Minister started to read HIS speech, then noticed his mistake, and then Obama made a joke by pretending he was reading the PM's speech; it consisted of one sentence. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5015200/ ...

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 15:15:51 mst
Comment ID: #6
Name: redickerous
E-mail: rdickerous(at)yahoo.com

Ha ha ha ha ha - you guys kill me...he reads a speech from a teleprompter...wow, impeach him now!!!!

I mean, why would I want a preznit who wants to ensure he gets the point across correctly? IMPEACH HIM!

Seriously, its not like he invaded a country on false pretenses...

Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 16:57:55 mst
Comment ID: #7
Name: Jim May
E-mail: seerak(at)gmail.com

Here's more to back up #5's link, with more details and complete with explanations of where the story got twisted up -- on the AP wire, of course.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/03/24/the_truth ...

(Via Instapundit)

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