'Hub' Schlafly, teleprompter developer, dies at 91

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110426/ap_en_tv/us_obit_schlafly ^

[ssaftler]

HARTFORD, Conn. – A key developer of the device that came to be known as the teleprompter has died. Hubert "Hub" Schlafly was 91. . . . Herbert Hoover became the first politician to use the device in 1952.

[ssaftler]

nObama must be in mourning. Without this invention, Barry would be still organizing communities.

[SkyDancer]

Barry Soetoro must be lost for words over the demise.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

I heard Obama’s speechless...

[Dumpster Baby]

Barry Soetoro must be lost for words over the demise.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

And the jokes come in...

But seriously, RIP

[ZinGirl]

good one!!!!

[Da Coyote]

The president’s brain has passed on.

[albie]

Obama will now sit to speak as his teleprompter will be at half mast.

[re_nortex]

Dwelling on the minutiae for just a bit. The camel-casing of the name TelePrompTer refers to the trade name which became a genericized trademark of teleprompter.

It's much like Aspirin which still bears the uppercase 'A' in Germany and other counties (under the Bayer trademark). But to us in America, it's just aspirin, a product we must take in abundance when O'Bambi drones on using the TelePrompTer.

And as you say, an RIP is in order for Mr. Schlafly.

[SkyDancer]

I wonder who’ll do the talking for him now?

[SkyDancer]

Heart rending. I’m all choked up. *sigh*

[Ramius]

If his headstone doesn’t have a little glass screen sticking out of it... he’ll have missed a classic opportunity. :-)

[Baladas]

Obama had better personally attend this funeral.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.