Thursday, March 05, 2009

NYT on Obama’s heavy teleprompter dependency


From Eye on the World:

NYT: Obama Sticks to the Script.
Presidents have been using teleprompters for more than half a century, but none relied on them as extensively as Mr. Obama has so far. While presidents typically have used them for their most important speeches to the nation — an inauguration, a State of the Union or an Oval Office address — Mr. Obama uses them for everyday routine announcements, and even for the opening statement at his news conference.

He used them during a visit to a Caterpillar plant in Peoria, Ill. He used them to make brief remarks at the opening of his “fiscal responsibility summit.” He used them during a visit to the Interior Department to discuss endangered species, even as he recalled a visit to some national parks as an 11-year-old. “That was an experience I will never forget,” he said, reading from the teleprompter.

5 comments:

midnight rider said...

So and with it you're just an idiot?

Pastorius said...

Well, truth be told, I don't think Obama is an idiot. Unless one defines idiocy as a person who clings to ideas that simply don't work, purely out of an ideological fascination, and a wish to be the coolest guy in history.

midnight rider said...

Um, yeah, that's one definition:)

Although you forget will not listen to dissenters nor brook opposition.

Epaminondas said...

He's not stupid, he just can't think and speak extemporaneously .. which means HE shouldn't negotiate with anyone from Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel, Mexico, Jordan, Syria, KSA, Qatar, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan.....

Brooke said...

And the libs thought Bush butchered the English language.

They ain't seen nothin' yet.