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Speech impediment: First Lady spends days at a time practicing with her Teleprompter

Now Barack Obama’s inability to speak in public without those trusty devices seems to have rubbed off on the First Lady.

Extemporaneous is not a word often used in the Obama White House. President Obama’s over-reliance on Teleprompters makes it look like he’s watching a tennis match when he gives a speech. Now his inability to speak in public without those trusty devices seems to have rubbed off on the First Lady.

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The difference between delivering a speech and reading a speech

Politico reveals the details:

In a Newsweek profile published Sunday, the first lady’s staff members said the first lady will “spend hours and even days preparing for one appearance,” according to the article.

For major speeches, like a commencement address at West Point, Obama will edit drafts by hand, according to the magazine. “Staff will then drag a lectern into her office, where she will rehearse the speech with a teleprompter for days,” it said.

“She demands a lot of herself,” David Axelrod, President Obama’s former senior adviser, told the publication.

Well, that’s one way of putting it. The less charitable among us might say, “She has no confidence in herself.”

Source: Politico

Adventures in public speaking: Barack Obama and the Teleprompter Chronicles

Barack Obama was the greatest orator in American history. He mesmerized adoring crowds. He hypnotized mere humans. His tongue was golden and his words were like honey. Until the Teleprompter broke.

Barack Obama was the greatest orator in American history. He mesmerized adoring crowds. He hypnotized mere humans. His tongue was golden and his words were like honey.

Until the Teleprompter broke.

This clip is a great compilation of Obama’s misadventures with that greatest of all inventions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69hkZUyCH9E

The world’s largest Teleprompter: Did Ed Schultz lie about ad libbing his OneNation speech?

Which one was it, Ed? Was the speech “off the top of you head” or did you “do your best to prepare it?” Those two options are contradictory. And then there’s this video clip of the world’s largest Teleprompter being used by another speaker at the OneNation rally.

Of course, he lied. It’s Ed Schultz. It’s MSNBC.

Here’s how Ed Schultz opened his show on October 4, the Monday following the One Nation rally in Washington, DC:

“This is the story that has me fired up tonight. And really, it’s something that I’m gonna remember for the rest of my life. Ask yourself the question, ‘What do you think it would be like to stand on the Lincoln Memorial and give a speech off the top of your head?’ I don’t know if you can prepare for that. I did my best.”

Which one was it, Ed? Was the speech “off the top of you head” or did you “do your best to prepare it?” Those two options are contradictory.

And then there’s this video clip of the world’s largest Teleprompter being used by another speaker at the One Nation rally.

Now, admittedly, we have no proof that Ed used the Teleprompter, but he did seem to be looking off to his left frequently during the speech and it did seem a lot more coherent than most of the things he says.

We’re just sayin’…

H/T: Weasel Zippers

Walter Mondale tells Obama to quit using “the idiot boards” (more commonly known as Teleprompters)

In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Walter Mondale advised President Obama to ditch his teleprompters, or as he called them, “the idiot boards.”

They named an international airport after Ronald Reagan, every other building in West Virginia after Robert Byrd and a school built on a toxic waste dump after Al Gore.

Now former Vice President Walter Mondale has bestowed a high honor on current Veep Joe Biden by naming a teleprompter after him.

In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Walter Mondale advised President Obama to ditch his teleprompters, or as he called them, “the idiot boards.”

Excuse us, Mr. Mondale, but if we’re not mistaken, the politically correct terminology is now “the intellectually disabled boards.”

Source: CNN

The love affair continues: Obama takes his Teleprompter to a press conference

Obviously, Michelle and Barack’s marriage is over. He’s left her for the only thing he loves as much as he loves himself – his Teleprompter.

Suspicions were first raised when the First Lady flew to Spain instead of celebrating the President’s birthday at home. Then, last week the media was all atwitter when Obama showed up at his press conference without his wedding ring.

Obviously, Michelle and Barack’s marriage is over. He’s left her for the only thing he loves as much as he loves himself – his Teleprompter.

No, seriously, now the guy brought his damn Teleprompter to a press conference.

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H/T: WeaselZippers.us

Chris Matthews freaks out, wants Obama to “get rid of that damn Teleprompter”

According to Chris Matthews, Obama could solve all his problems if he would just dump his trusty Teleprompter. That’s the key to communicating with the American people and selling his message.

According to Chris Matthews, Obama could solve all his problems if he would just dump his trusty Teleprompter. That’s the key to communicating with the American people and selling his message.

“I really support the President on a lot of his views, in fact all of them almost,” Matthews complained, “but I got to tell you something, Michael, if he doesn’t get rid of that damn Teleprompter, it’s like an eye test. He’s just reading words now. It’s separating him from us.”

“You got to a meeting with him I’m told, if businessmen are invited to meet him at the White House, he hauls out the damn Teleprompter and he reads to them. Well, why even bring people into the room? Just have the damn Teleprompter. I sense it’s getting between him and us. And I thought that speech last night was a terrible, well, a great example rather of him using the Teleprompter instead of his heart and his mind.”

You’re right, Chris. It’s all the Teleprompter’s fault. Obama’s not a socialist, the Teleprompter’s a socialist. Either that or the Teleprompter is a Republican plant. It’s forcing him to read its words. He’s a helpless victim of the Teleprompter, damn it. It’s not his fault.

H/T: Bluegrass Pundit

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Greatest Orator In History needs Teleprompter to speak to sixth graders

President Obama recently visited sixth grade students at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia to talk about his “Race to the Top” program. The Greatest Orator In History couldn’t talk to them without his trusty Teleprompter at his side.

Embarrassing? Pathetic? Sad? Choose your own word to describe this story.

President Obama recently visited sixth grade students at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia to talk about his “Race to the Top” program.

The Greatest Orator In History couldn’t talk to them without his trusty Teleprompter at his side.

The White House has since released raw video that supposedly proves the President didn’t use his Teleprompter. Unfortunately, the raw video ends just as the President finished shaking hands with all the students and before he made any remarks, so it neither proves nor disproves anything.

UPDATE: The video embedded in this story proves now pretty conclusively that the ol’ Teleprompter was used. No question that President Obama is going back and forth from one Teleprompter screen to the other as he speaks to the tykes.

Two words: Empty suit.

Source: Bluegrass Pundit

Obama vs the Teleprompter: The judges score another round for the Teleprompter

Barack Hussein Carter spoke at MIT on Thursday. Well, “spoke” is a generous assessment of what he did. “Stuttered and stammered when he lost his place on the teleprompter” is a more accurate description.

Barack Hussein Carter spoke at MIT on Thursday. Well, “spoke” is a generous assessment of what he did. “Stuttered and stammered when he lost his place on the teleprompter” is a more accurate description.

President moves to the left, his teleprompter moves to the right

It’s pretty obvious by now that the President isn’t going in the same direction as the rest of the country. But now he’s not even going in the same direction as his teleprompter.

It’s pretty obvious by now that the President isn’t going in the same direction as the rest of the country. But now he’s not even going in the same direction as his teleprompter.

Perhaps he was confused by the thunderous applause at a meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus. Or perhaps he just can’t help himself from moving to the left.

H/T: HotAir.com

Disney adds Obama to Hall of Presidents. What? No Hall of Teleprompters?

Barack Obama, the Greatest President in History, Greatest Astronaut in History, and Greatest Lover in History, has now taken his place alongside other animatronic Commanders-in-Chief in the Hall of Presidents at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

Barack Obama, the Greatest President in History, Greatest Astronaut in History, and Greatest Lover in History, has now taken his place alongside other animatronic Commanders-in-Chief in the Hall of Presidents at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

It will be a show your children will never forget. They’ll see George Washington, who couldn’t tell a lie. They’ll see Bill Clinton, who couldn’t tell the truth. And now they’ll see Barack Obama, who can’t tell the difference.

(By the way, is it our imagination or does that animatronic Obama look more like NBC’s Lester Holt with a Barack Obama ear graft?)

Source: HotAir.com

Jokin’ Joe Biden makes crack about Obama’s teleprompter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuGi2bMwODs Vice President Biden was speaking at the Air Force Academy graduation recently when the wind took out his teleprompter. Jokin’ Joe then makes a crack at his boss’ expense: “What am I gonna tell the president when I tell him his Teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?” Hilarity ensues.

Perhaps even funnier is when the Fox reporter then segues from “Plugs” Biden to a story about the gene that is linked to baldness, saying it could put the Hair Club for Men out of business.

Coincidence?

Obama thinks the Constitution was written 20 centuries ago. Or the Bible was written two centuries ago. Or something.

“Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time.”

HotAir.com hypothesizes that he was actually referring to the bible instead of the Constitution. Maybe so, because if Bush had said this, the press would have crucified him.

Source: HotAir.com

Obama can’t adlib, takes teleprompter everywhere

Say what? Turns out President Obama, a man whose soaring oratory won him an election, is hapless and helpless without his Teleprompter. He refuses to give a speech without one (see accompanying video to see why).

The ol’ teleprompter broke down a few times on the campaign trail last summer and Obama responded by delivering some “less than ordinary” speeches.

Presidential historians admit no other president has ever been so dependent on the device. “It’s just something presidents haven’t done,” Martha Joynt Kumar said. “It’s jarring to the eye. In a way, it stands in the middle between the audience and the president because his eye is on the teleprompter.”

Fine. Let Obama have his Teleprompter. But please don’t buy one for Joe Biden.

IHateTheMedia.com depends on the vice president’s ad libs as much as Obama depends on his Teleprompter.

Source: Politico

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