Posted on 07/17/2012 8:49:21 AM PDT by kristinn
President Obama is weaning himself off his teleprompter.
At recent campaign events in Pennsylvania, Virginia and again Monday in Ohio, Obama spoke to crowds in high school gymnasiums and at crowded outdoor events without his teleprompter, instead using written notes.
The difference is dramatic. Instead of turning in his characteristic manner from right to left and back again, reading from the two sloping, clear-plastic planes of his teleprompter, Obama has glanced down at pages in a binder on his podium.
Team Obama thinks the switch, or partial switch — the president is not giving up the teleprompter entirely — will help him better connect with voters.
Critics have mocked Obama’s routine use of the teleprompter, including in speeches to schoolchildren. And the new use of written notes appears intended to trade away the smooth, distant demeanor of teleprompter rhetoric for a little more immediacy and vigor. A senior administration official acknowledged the shift in the president’s style, saying Obama is speaking “more extemporaneously.”
But the senior official said the lack of teleprompters has “less to do with image and more to do with upping the tempo” at campaign events, while creating more unscripted moments.
Not using a teleprompter lets Obama be more spontaneous on the stump. Since making the shift, the president at times has ad-libbed remarks while playing off his supporters’ reactions, something that had been difficult with a teleprompter.
“It’s become a crutch,” Tobe Berkovitz, a professor of communications at Boston University who specializes in political communications, said in describing Obama’s use of the teleprompter.
“It seemed as though he couldn’t go anywhere without them, and it made him seem unconfident and robotic in dealing with real people out there,” Berkovitz said.
Until recently, Obama was rarely seen without the two transparent panels at his side...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
His hand written notes are all written by paralegals.
America’s Greatest Orator
steps up the tempo
what a joke
If that’s the case we can expect a continued inability to keep his real thoughts on America and its people to himself.
Love it because now we get words of 'wisdom' like this: "If you’ve got a business. you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen."
Wonder how long it took him to get off the weed and coke?
The new “style” makes Obama look exactly like a high school freshman stumbling through speech 1 class. And the extra anger it lets him generate is frightening voters by the millions while writing Romney’s September commercials for him. As has been noted elsewhere, Obama managed to control his anti-American rage in 2008, barely, through the public’s utter unfamiliarity with him and his talent for reading from a script. Now, as he falls from grace, the mask is off. A win-win for us.
I think that would be 'paramedics' ..... the 'paralegals' are all busy helping the people in the audience who have fainted. /s
Much to the consternation of his handlers, no doubt.
What's he going to do when he hears the next "YOU LIE"!, without a script?
High school gymnasiums! Yeah, that’s where all the true Americans are. Easily persuaded mind control!
He had an ear piece in his head.
3 1/2 years of crutch....a lifetime of “assistance”.....financed through as much college as his mind would tolerate....and given the presidency because of political correctness....and now he’s ON HIS OWN?...
ON HIS OWN..is what brought us the now infamous line.”you didn’t make it on your own” if your successful in business.
HE knows the country is waiting for his all too familiar “ah’s”..”errr’s”...”I wanna’s”....”it’s not about meeeee’s”
and the anticipated “I AM’S”...I Don’t’s”....”I will’s”...I I I I I I I I’S
Well that explains the recent increase in stuttering, malformed sentences, ums, ahs and so on.
A more accurate description.
Now his vaunted reading ability is just a joke. He always looks to me like he is watching a tennis match when he reads off his teleprompters.
Ezra Levant was discussing this last night on The Source (on Sun T.V., or as Canadian liberals call it, Fox News North).
Obamagaffes are noticed... :)
I used to tabulate his number of head flips per minute.
I pretty much concluded that more flips = more stressed.
Anything over 17 was mucho nervous.
“Creating more unscripted moments”.
Jacka$$.
Of course, when the media ignores his gaffes and bloopers, it’s much easier to do this. Still, I think he will be back on the Tele within 10 days - YouTube will be FULL of ‘extemporaneous remarks’.
Was the "you didn't build your business" thing from a teleprompter or extemporaneous? Inquiring minds...
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