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Obama’s safety net: the TelePrompter
President Barack Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his TelePrompter.
The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.
Resting on top of a tall, narrow pole, they flank his podium during speeches in the White House’s stately parlors. They stood next to him on the floor of a manufacturing plant in Indiana as he pitched his economic stimulus plan. They traveled to the Department of Transportation this week and were in the Capitol Rotunda last month when he paid tribute to Abraham Lincoln in six-minute prepared remarks.
Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual — not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.
After the teleprompter malfunctioned a few times last summer and Obama delivered some less-than-soaring speeches, reports surfaced that he was training to wean himself off of the device while on vacation in Hawaii. But no such luck.
Maybe by June they will report that Obama got his political start in Chicago and is friends with a lot of communists, race-baiters, and assorted dodgy characters. Perhaps by 2010 they might even notice the Hungarian with the palindromic patronymic who decides what shows up on those teleprompters.
I know, I know, faint hope.
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Heck, Martinra, I’d settle for this being the beginning of the end of the “Obama is a great orator” meme (personally, I find him to be a “grate” orator).
Hmm, is there a meme maker/breaker in residence?
You called? Something about President Obama, who can’t orate his morning coffee without a teleprompter?
I wonder how Obama handles his pillow-talk with Michelle? Do you think she finds the screen distracting?
“Mmmm, honey, I want…. …. …. ….”
“What do you want, Barry?”
“I dunno. Teleprompter’s busted.”
Nope. They keep Das Kapital rolling on the screen as a marital aid.
Huh. From him according to his ability, to her according to her needs?
MICHELLE: Oh… wicked, wicked Zoot… she is a bad person and must pay the penalty. (Turns to camera) Do you think this scene should have been cut? We were so worried when the boys were writing it but now we’re glad. It’s better than some of the previous scenes, I think.
BILL CLINTON: At least ours was better, visually.
BARACK: At least ours was committed. It wasn’t just a string of pussy jokes.
TEDDY KENNEDY: Get on with it!
BARNEY FRANK: Get on with it!
MICHELLE: Oh, I am enjoying this scene.
RUSH LIMBAUGH: Get on with it!
MICHELLE: Oh… wicked, wicked Zoot… she is a bad person and must pay the penalty. And here in Castle Anthrax we have but one punishment…
Welcome to the Singularity, folks.
As it happens, I don’t have much of a taste for Monty Python or Brit humor in general. So I never saw The Holy Grail. So I had no clue whatsoever what this Zoot business was about.
But all it took was a fast cut-n-paste, a single google, and wowser, the whole thing suddenly made sense.
I said I was using google as my cyber-brain. I wasn’t kidding.
I just need a more seamless interface.
Splitter!
I gave it a try, just now, to check out your singularity experience, and, in less than a day, the sixth result returned for a Google search upon “just a string of pussy jokes” is…
… is — Daily Pundit.
DP was number 14 when I searched.
And just for fun(it is Friday night after all) the youtube clip.
I searched for “wicked, wicked Zoot”.