To express his love and admiration for Islam, Obama NEEDS no teleprompter. For this, he speaks from the heart, with nary a stutter or stumble.
But for nearly every other aspect of his public appearences, he is tongue-tied if the teleprompter stops rolling, or if he picks up the script for the OTHER person on the podium, he delivers THAT with striking clarity and conviction. Only later, when someone analyzes what he had said, do the inconsistencies become apparent.
I hadn’t even thought about the teleprompter but you’re right he didn’t have one there. I was just thinking of how he can never look the American people in the eyes. His head pops from side-to-side even when he’s not reading from TOTUS.
Perhaps he needs his teleprompter the rest of the time to keep him from drifting off into Arabic...?
Not to take anything away from the video, it’s absolutely disgusting — makes me sick to my stomach, really...
However, if you are referring to the subtitled portion with the really tight shot. If you watch very closely you can tell he IS using a teleprompter, however it must be only one and it is either directly beside the lens, or directly below it. You can see his eyes going from side to side when he is reading in that section.
During the campaign the head turning was because he had two on both far sides of his podium and such...
In general though, you’re right — he doesn’t seem to need a teleprompter when he’s speaking about Islam (the speech at the UN was interesting when he was talking about all of the “false” & “stolen” historical accomplishments of Islam - he seemed to know that list of things by heart, did he not?) AFAIK, the only people who believe that list are those who ARE Muslim. Everyone else correctly attributes these strides to Muslims’ OCCUPATION of other cultures, and STEALING their ideas ad claiming them. [Also, Muslim leaders did assist scholars with “grants” and such despite not being Muslims within their kingdom(s). The only thing is as I said, all the advances made under this arrangement were claimed by the Muslims as if Allah had presented these breakthroughs in architecture, math, science, medicine, etc... like God presented Moses with the 10 Commandments!]