It’s Not Pretty When Even The AP Makes Fun Of The Teleprompter President
I’ll admit it. I did not watch President Neophytes soiree last night. More interesting things on TV, plus, I make my living talking. And listening to someone go “uh, uh, ah, um, ah” on a constant basis (can’t listen to Gibbs, either) makes me do it. But, maybe he was better, since he had Mr. Teleprompter with him, obviously a spot of amusement, or maybe that should be derision, for the AP: Analysis: Teleprompter telegraphs Obama caution
What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference?
A careful one.
President Barack Obama took no chances in his second prime-time news conference, reading a prepared statement in which he took both sides of the AIG bonus brouhaha and asked an anxious nation for its patience. (snip)
It was a carefully modulated statement, and Obama — relying on a familiar crutch — read it off a flat-screen monitor perched at the back of the East Room.
The teleprompter was no help during the question-and-answer session (reporters don’t signal their intentions), but Obama was no less careful during that give and take. (snip)
One of the few times he summoned raw emotion came after a reporter demanded to know why it took him so long to express outrage over the AIG executive bonuses.
“It took a couple of days because I like to know what I’m talking about before I speak.”
Even better, he likes to have it up on the teleprompter.
Anyone who thinks Ron Fournier and the AP are going to receive plenty of hate mail from the Left over this? And, as we all know, hate mail from the left usually involves things like “please die.” MyDD is not amused, nor is The Anonymous Liberal, and expect the commenters to get nasty. The Other McCain is amused, though. And the NY Times points out how the speech went down
Instead, in his second prime-time news conference from the White House, it was Barack Obama the lecturer, a familiar character from early in the campaign. Placid and unsmiling, he was the professor in chief, offering familiar arguments in long paragraphs — often introduced with the phrase, “as I said before” — sounding like the teacher speaking in the stillness of a classroom where students are restlessly waiting for the ring of the bell.
And we all like to be spoken to in that way, right?
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Posted by William Teach on March 25, 2009 8:06 am
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I see that The One has morphed from the Teleprompter President to the Karaoke President. I wonder who is really singing the tune. . . .
And didn’t I hear something about a little radio in his ear like the Secret Service guys wear.
Talk about a Talking Head. . .
Funny. I thought Fournier was whitewashing the Obama speech. Although he admits the TelePrompter is a crutch (that’s just stating the obvious), he also describes Obama’s use of the TelePrompter as an indication of being “careful.” Fournier also referred to one of Obama’s answers as “scholarly”, and said his skills are “hard to criticize.”
If Fournier gets hate mail from the left on this, I wonder what he’d have to say to make them happy:
Brilliant! Bravo! Flawless!
It’s great that he had it to answer the questions… and for all of the debates…
Oh wait, what? That’s right, he often speaks without one. Hmmmm… sort of ruins your attempts to smear…
You’re condemning him for using a teleprompter during prepared remarks, just like most politicians? Oh, shock, gasp, horror.
Pretty lame, right wingers.