Teleprompt Action Needed!
Ron Fournier at the AP mocks it, gently. AP analysis:
WASHINGTON – What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference?
A careful one.
Either that or a nervous one who doesn’t trust himself. AP’s chiding suggests a lot of blood in the water. But let’s go straight to the teleprompter:
… I was hot. Really hot. And that’s the problem. According to Al Gore, use of my flatty module exponentially grew my carbon foot print by about 140%. What does this mean? None of us knows. He says he derived this statistic through a complex “algoreithym.” But Tipper says it was probably the result of his nipping into her old prescription-drug supply from the 2000 recount.
Either way, none of us in the White House really cares. Big Boy’s answer on cap and trade last night should have tipped you off. You see, it doesn’t so much matter how much energy I am consume and waste, as it is does what I waste and consume it for. In this case, it was for a press conference where Big Guy said almost nothing, but was also able to slap Israel around, give the what-for to Republicans on Capitol Hill, and completely confuse the American people on everything from what the Big O knew about AIG bonuses to what he thinks he knows about the budget process of the United States. In other words, it was worth it.
Damn, that teleprompter’s good.
NYT waxes on about “Obama the lecturer” and “professor in chief,” notes he steered clear of the jokes. Smart move, O-dude. Irony as Trippi is quoted saying O’s “confidence makes him seem flat.” Yeah, either that or it was the lack of confidence and the flat screen.
Malkin: Snippy! Hot Air: Obamateurism of the Day.
Surber, Just Ask Me:
Question: What did you think of the presidential press conference?
Answer: I didn’t watch it.
Question: You didn’t watch it?
Answer: No. The guy bores me. I watched “Family Guy” instead, the Lois the Model and Peter the Feminist episodes. Not really my favorites, but nothing else was on.
It is getting bad when the TOTUS is more exciting than the POTUS.
The Other McCain, also mocking the telepromptism, cruelly notes this wasn’t the opening soliloquy from Richard III. You know, this one:
- Now is the winter of our discontent
- Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
- And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
- In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
The one about the scheming hunchback. Interesting question. Which tragic, or tragicomic Shakespearean figure is Obama? Given the gaffes and the donkey-headedness, I’m liking Puck, but I suspect we’re headed into darker, more brooding territory than that. He may need a character all his own. Teleprompto. Maybe a hybrid. MacTelepromptlet.
Topics: Obama
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:44 am Comments (6) on Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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March 25th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Jacques from As You Like It. He’d like to be a fool, but he’s not quick enough.
March 25th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Though Caliban is a possibility.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Dogberry, says I. As proof I offer Dogberry’s obviously non teleprompted commentary:
Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly; they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
I could swear Dogberry was talking about AIG, but it might have been one of those other wall street malefactors.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:40 am
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March 25th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
He’s Noclulio, the charismatic but empty headed friend of Romeo who is killed while trying to empty the Veronan treasury. Or perhaps Snicker Bottom, the word weaver who gets punch-drunk and makes an ass out of himself in “A Sixty Minute’s Nightmare.” Possibly even King Fear, who proclaims “Never, never, never, never, never let a crisis go to waste.”
March 25th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
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