TelePrompTer 08'

[Conan71]

I thought he quit smoking dope when he was going to school at Columbia...

Wow, that's awful.  Maybe they just didn't pull the string all the way out.

[Gaspar]

LOL
There's actually a website.
http://www.teleprompterpresident.com/

TELEPROMPTER FOR PRESIDENT 08'

[guido911]

quote:Originally posted by Gaspar

LOL
There's actually a website.
http://www.teleprompterpresident.com/

TELEPROMPTER FOR PRESIDENT 08'

That website is hillarious!

[Conan71]

I can't find the actual scene shot from Goodfellas but when he goes off teleprompter I'm reminded of Joe Pesci:

"You stuttering Prick!"

[Gaspar]

Oh I can't wait for the debates.  

You all have a good weekend!

Time for a little BBQin.

[guido911]

Obama's teleprompter has its own blog:

http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/


Of course TOTUS did fail Obama recently. Obama thanking himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7SDLwTdnqc



Redstate (yes it's right wing) posted a pretty funny video regarding TOTUS:

http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2009/03/23/teleprompt-me-baby/

[Gaspar]

Have you ever tried to speak with a TelePrompTer?

It's not easy.  I respect anyone who can read and react so naturally with a crowd of people.  I had to use one in a journalism class back in college and found that you just have to zone out and really work at the expressions and inflections.  Once you get the hang of it, you can start to shift your line of sight and head from each TelePrompTer position, but it really takes years to master.

Imagine trying to follow the TelePrompTer during an important state dinner with the sounds of silverware and other conversations taking place around you, or outside with the glare from sunlight and flashes. 

You make it sound like this is some kind of crutch, when it's actually a skill that few can master with such success.

[Hoss]

Have you ever tried to speak with a TelePrompTer?

It's not easy.  I respect anyone who can read and react so naturally with a crowd of people.  I had to use one in a journalism class back in college and found that you just have to zone out and really work at the expressions and inflections.  Once you get the hang of it, you can start to shift your line of sight and head from each TelePrompTer position, but it really takes years to master.

Imagine trying to follow the TelePrompTer during an important state dinner with the sounds of silverware and other conversations taking place around you, or outside with the glare from sunlight and flashes. 

You make it sound like this is some kind of crutch, when it's actually a skill that few can master with such success.

Oh, you've gone and done it now, Scott...Gweed will start calling you an 'Obama-Spooner' soon!

[Cats Cats Cats]

I will start it out

Obama-Spooner!!!

[guido911]

Have you ever tried to speak with a TelePrompTer?

It's not easy.  I respect anyone who can read and react so naturally with a crowd of people.  I had to use one in a journalism class back in college and found that you just have to zone out and really work at the expressions and inflections.  Once you get the hang of it, you can start to shift your line of sight and head from each TelePrompTer position, but it really takes years to master.

Imagine trying to follow the TelePrompTer during an important state dinner with the sounds of silverware and other conversations taking place around you, or outside with the glare from sunlight and flashes. 

You make it sound like this is some kind of crutch, when it's actually a skill that few can master with such success.

Um, Gas, assuming you are not being facetious, weren't you the one that started this thread? Where was the praise for Obama's skill in using a teleprompter and your problems in using one back then? Also, weren't you the one that posted the following in this thread:

LOL
There's actually a website.
http://www.teleprompterpresident.com/

TELEPROMPTER FOR PRESIDENT 08'

You also provided that link for all of us to visit, presumably to mock Obama for his reliance on this "crutch". Have you visited that site lately? Well check it out:  http://www.teleprompterpresident.com/

[Hoss]

I'm guessing Scott wasn't counting on the TelePrompter police reviving a six-month-old thread.  Leave it up to Gweed, though.

[Gaspar]

Um, Gas, assuming you are not being facetious, weren't you the one that started this thread? Where was the praise for Obama's skill in using a teleprompter and your problems in using one back then? Also, weren't you the one that posted the following in this thread:

LOL
There's actually a website.
http://www.teleprompterpresident.com/

TELEPROMPTER FOR PRESIDENT 08'

You also provided that link for all of us to visit, presumably to mock Obama for his reliance on this "crutch". Have you visited that site lately? Well check it out:  http://www.teleprompterpresident.com/

Yes Gueed, I was, but I've changed my mind. 

I think that President Obama and the TelePrompTer work as one in harmony.  Yes, it's a bit unnerving at first for foreign dignitaries and reporters, but it allows the President a fresh flowing supply of words and policy, available at a glance.

We've seen what happens when the TOTUS is not present, and I just think I can learn to accept President Obama and his apparatus as one.

FDR used to hide the fact that he needed a wheelchair because he thought that people would view him as weak for it. Well we live in a different world now where people are not judged in such a superficial fashion.

I would rather see President Obama stand proud with his TelePrompTer than belittle myself by poking fun at him for relying on something that is perhaps necessary for him.

Together they are a fantastic speaker.  So don't judge me for my change of heart.

[guido911]

...I just think I can learn to accept President Obama and his apparatus as one...Together they are a fantastic speaker. 

Bwahahahaha

[Cats Cats Cats]

Wow, this is starting to be the TulsaNow Forum equivalent of saying Rush Limbaugh is just an entertainer!

[Gaspar]

All of the blogs are going crazy.  I'm watching the first presidential news conference without the TOTUS, and it's strange.  Under pressure from the media he's going commando and I feel for him. 

I've also noticed something else interesting as a pattern.  When President Obama reverses his position on something he simply sites "because it's the right thing to do" as a reason.  Sounds great.  I love multi-purpose catch phrases.  I wish he had the advantage of the TOTUS tonight, but hearing him um and uh, and search for words and ideas makes him more human.  I respect that. It was so very brave. I felt sorry for Axelrod biting his knuckles on the 4th row to the left.  They need to keep him off camera.  It's like Toto barking at the wizard.

Over the past 60 days many feared that President Obama was going to be some charismatic socialist, a pied piper that would lead an ignorant masses down a road to Socialism using only his cult of personality.  Tonight we saw the man.

I think I like this president.  Why?  Because it's the right thing to do.

Now that the vail is gone, no more crutch, no more cigarette, no more Teleprompter.

I look forward to great things.