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Obama's Crutch; Why Is He So Afraid of Speaking Without a Teleprompter?
Fox News ^ | Saturday, March 7th, 2009 | John R. Lott, Jr.

Posted on 03/07/2009 1:04:27 PM PST by JohnRLott

Late night comedians have had a difficult problem. Presidents are usually the source of most late night joke, but comedians are having a hard time finding any material to make jokes about President Obama. This isn’t anything new, it was also true during the campaign.

Possibly they just need some help. Could you imagine if Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush had used a teleprompter to answer questions during a press conference? The late night joke writers wouldn’t have let it go until the President gave in to the merciless ridicule as he was painted as an idiot who couldn’t tie his shoes without being fed instructions on how to do it.

While people who watched Obama’s first national press conference noticed his use of a teleprompter to give his initial presentation as well as in answering questions, the media and late night joke writers completely ignored it. The American Spectator notes that in many events:

…down to many of the questions and the answers to those questions … [t]eleprompter screens at the events scrolled not only his opening remarks, but also statistics and information he could use to answer questions.

Apparently, Obama is looking to install a computer screen into the White House podiums so that, according to one Obama advisor, “It would make it easier for the comms guys to pass along information without being obvious about it.” [Emphasis added.] Obama’s aides would put together answers to a large number of possible questions so as soon as a reporter asks a particular question the computer screen could flash talking points to remind Obama how he’s supposed to respond to that question.

Finally this week a news story in Politico broke . . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; bho44; emptysuit; johnlott; obama; teleprompter; zero
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1 posted on 03/07/2009 1:04:27 PM PST by JohnRLott
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Kings New Clothes
2 posted on 03/07/2009 1:06:44 PM PST by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: JohnRLott

it is to laugh.


3 posted on 03/07/2009 1:07:03 PM PST by SusaninOhio
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To: JohnRLott

Because he can’t.


4 posted on 03/07/2009 1:07:29 PM PST by allmost
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This guy can’t pass wind without using a Teleprompter.

Watch for a version small enough to be put in spectacle frames, and watch for this hack to suddenly need glasses immediately after.


5 posted on 03/07/2009 1:07:48 PM PST by decal (Too many people mistake "tolerance" for "approval.")
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To: JohnRLott

Reagan WAS painted as an idiot because he used 3x5 cards when talking to Congressmen about his tax cut bill. The cards helped him remember what pork each Congressman would want included in the bill.


6 posted on 03/07/2009 1:07:51 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: JohnRLott
It would be great if hackers could take over his teleprompter like those electronic road signs.

"And in the words of that great American, Abraham Lincoln: 'Zombies Ahead.'"

7 posted on 03/07/2009 1:08:03 PM PST by matt1234
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To: JohnRLott

Maybe he’s stoned...


8 posted on 03/07/2009 1:08:07 PM PST by jessduntno (Taxes? We got 'em! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2200255/posts?page=37)
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To: JohnRLott
When I works, I works hard.
When I eats, I eats good.
When I thinks, I falls asleep.
9 posted on 03/07/2009 1:08:31 PM PST by DirtyHarryY2K (The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
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To: JohnRLott
Why Is He So Afraid of Speaking Without a Teleprompter?

Because he is a mindful dependent??

That was easy.

10 posted on 03/07/2009 1:08:35 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: JohnRLott
It's NOT just a Teleprompter.

It's the Holy Teleprompter of Saint Axelrod. +20 to charisma, lowers the INT and WILL of those in range, and allows Obama's Spell of Ensorcelment an +60 chance of hitting. . .

11 posted on 03/07/2009 1:08:58 PM PST by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
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To: allmost
Exactly:

Mr. Obama was asked whether he agreed with Mr. Holder [nation of cowards]. He hesitated for five seconds before responding.

“I’m not somebody who believes that constantly talking about race somehow solves racial tensions,” Mr. Obama said. “I think what solves racial tensions is fixing the economy, putting people to work, making sure that people have health care, ensuring that every kid is learning out there. I think if we do that, then we’ll probably have more fruitful conversations.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/us/politics/08race.html?_r=1

In five seconds all he could come up with was a canned talking point of the day. The man, God help us, is just not very bright.

12 posted on 03/07/2009 1:10:42 PM PST by DManA (And he was brazenly inviting his listeners to get on Democratic committee Web sites, to say nice thi)
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To: JohnRLott

Because he has the attention span of a squirrel on cocaine !


13 posted on 03/07/2009 1:11:43 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: JohnRLott

(Possibly they just need some help. Could you imagine if Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush had used a teleprompter to answer questions during a press conference? The late night joke writers wouldn’t have let it go until the President gave in to the merciless ridicule as he was painted as an idiot who couldn’t tie his shoes without being fed instructions on how to do it.
)

The left wing liberal elite that makes up Hollyweird detested Reagan and Hated with a capital H, Bush.
They worked tirelessly to get Obama elected and all but appointed him as the Second Coming.
So who thinks that they are going to do anything to harm their boy now?


14 posted on 03/07/2009 1:12:32 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: jessduntno
Maybe he’s stoned...

I doubt that he has been yet but should he be?

15 posted on 03/07/2009 1:13:47 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: matt1234
Yes

Hack into Obama’s teleprompter, and insert the Thulsa Doom script from Conan the Barbarian:

“When I am gone, it will be as if you had never been”

“Who will not face emptiness”

“What would your world be, without me?”

16 posted on 03/07/2009 1:13:52 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: JohnRLott
More reasons for every time someone ask you a question, pause and say one moment while I look at my teleprompter...could be a standing joke all around the country to a point that it starts to embarrass the democrats to no end.

The mass population has to start making it a joke!

17 posted on 03/07/2009 1:15:28 PM PST by classified
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Because he’s afraid that in giving a speech in one of these 57 or 58 states that make up the United States that he’ll get so nervous and mess up that he’ll need a breathalyzer. I mean an inhalator.

(Because, truth be known, he is not an intelligent man. Affirmative action has given him a false sense of high self esteem).


18 posted on 03/07/2009 1:15:58 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (The Stimulus Package: Preamble to the Democrat's new Declaration of In Dependence)
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To: Kansas58
“What would your world be, without me?”

A free world.

19 posted on 03/07/2009 1:16:18 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: Salgak
"It's the Holy Teleprompter of Saint Axelrod."

Then the only thing that can destroy it is the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

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20 posted on 03/07/2009 1:16:48 PM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (A democrat will break your leg, then hand you a crutch and take credit for your being able to walk.)
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