Teleprompter Malfunction, Obama? [Updated]
By pm317 on March 18, 2009 at 5:20 PM in Current Affairs
Oh, joy! Several sites are telling the story of teleprompter meltdown at Tuesday’s St. Patrick’s day celebration in the WH (see here and here). The Examiner reports on the gaffe with the teleprompter “malfunction”:
Just yesterday, during a St. Patrick’s Day event with the Irish prime minister, Obama’s guest accidentally repeated teleprompter remarks that Obama had just delivered.
Next, trying to regain control of the situation, Obama interjected – but referred to the teleprompter for his lines. By this point the words on the teleprompter were those meant to be delivered by the Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, and as a result, President Barack Obama thanked himself for inviting everyone to the party.
Wow, I was just beginning to miss Bush.
The video below is even more priceless.
It tells you so much about their eloquent, out of this world orator when there are no, you guessed it, teleprompters. I feel sorry for all the minions who bought the myth that he is a superb speaker.
[The video is best watched with the sound off. Then you can really see him dig his face into his notes.]
Warning : Citing MoDo. Things are bad when MoDo starts her column with this:
Barack Obama even needs a teleprompter to get mad.
….[snip]….
Washington Times editorial asks:
Is President Obama able to conduct a news conference without a teleprompter? Is he an automaton in answering questions? With all the jokes about Karl Rove as George Bush’s brain or cracks during the 1980s about Ronald Reagan supposedly being an amiable dunce, could you imagine the reaction if either president had used a teleprompter to answer questions? 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.
Is this why Obama is going on Jay Leno on Thursday, to ask for mercy, to schmooze?
[UPDATE] Obama’s teleprompter can write about its thoughts and feelings and about the daily grunt work for the clueless Obama on its own blog. Pretty funny.
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