FOX's Brett Baier's first comment was about the teleprompter
FOX's Brett Baier's first impression of President Obama's National Press Conference after telling us how long it was and how many questions he took was to cut to a shot of the massive screen in the back and middle of the room and he said that Obama read his opening statement there. Wow. Did the media focus on President Bush's use of the teleprompter, ever?
Critics say Obama relies too heavily on his teleprompter. As Politico notes:
"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."
They make an interesting point, why would a president want to be prepared and careful about what he says? The guy who had the job for the last eight years didn't need no stinkin' teleprompter!
Charles K thought Obama was workmanlike.
As usual BillO had on Karl Rove for some crackling FOX News analysis, even though he's one of the men responsible for the mess this country faces. He said President Obama just mailed it in.
Bill, as I predicted, was just so bored by it all. Karl said he was an arrogant guy...
They are so frustrated that his approval ratings are so high.
That's right: Net of +6 in the CBS poll and +1 in the Gallup poll over the last week, which everybody seemed to think has been the toughest of his Presidency.
I'm sure the right-wing critics of Daily Kos will be surprised to learn that one of the few (and perhaps, the only) polls showing President Obama losing ground was our own R2000 survey, showing a 2 point drop in net favorables -- all the way down to 67 favorable, 28 unfavorable.
Although the GOP would love to tell a different story, President Obama is as strong and as popular as ever -- and in all likelihood, by the time the night is done, he'll be in even better shape.
Dave N: It seems as thought Chip Reid and Ed Henry are becoming reliable regurgitators of the right-wing talking points. And it was clear that Obama was ready for them. His answers were clear, lucid, and persuasive. And in shutting down Henry at the end for persisting in asking him why it took him so long to decide to come down on the AIG bonuses, he was very pointed -- and effective -- indeed.
As was David Gregory's first comment on NBC afterwards.
I'm trying to figure out the point they're trying to make when they bring up the teleprompter.
He just gave detailed responses to questions for 50 minutes on a multitude of topics off the top of his head.
So what is their point exactly???
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
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but implication that president is scripted??
however, as we know, obama is prepared, articulate and can think on his feet. but mentioning the teleprompter bit is a way to undercut this (not that the presser ever really was a "spontaneous" q&a)
So what? He answered the rest of the questions off the top of his head, with maybe a few note cards- which is the norm.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
but i think the reason they pointed this out was to diminish some of obama's great qualities that he's a great communicator, great thinker and just overall eleoquent
because people will just think "scripted" and not know the ins and outs of this process.
Because half of all people intelligent people are very insecure about not being smart enough. Gregory and his ilk know that Pres. Obama is significantly more intelligent than they are and it gets under their skin.
"I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak."
That question from Major Garret about "Communist China" and "Socialist Europe" was dumb, too...
After 8 years of being WAY smarter than the prez...the new guy shows up, and makes them all look like the morons they truly are.
I think that news anchors and news show hosts spend far too much time reading off a teleprompter. I mean. . these people are supposed to be communicators. If they were really so good at it would they really need a teleprompter to do their segments?
I think only news hacks use teleprompters. . . not real communicators.
I find it surprising and shocking that so many news people use teleprompters like a crutch to make their points.
the point is obama is less than perfect. this is according to the media/right that try to suggest he's being portrayed as perfect by the left. they can't stand the fact that obama offers such a obvious contrast to the bumbling/tongue tied/boring/defensive BUSH. it's just a way for them to chip away. it's ridiculous.
and maybe all the radio blowhards have.
amazing after how they kissed the ring for so long of a guy who maybe once a year could manage a press conference where the questions and questioners were mostly prearanged and when a serious topic came up they could always call on a jeff gannon to bring up a preferred topic. what a joke.
obama should answer those sacks of hammers by asking if they got their questions from hannuty or limbaugh.
It was especially GALLING that David Gregory mentionedd it too. It's because RUSH has been going on and on about "THE TELEPROMPTOR," almost as if it has a personality and mind of it's own. It's a DIVERSION... because they have NOTHING ELSE to talk about... and when David Gregory pays HOMAGE to Rush Limbaough that way, he shows that he IS NOT WORTHY OF MEET THE PRESS.
When Karl Rove's Dance Partner (Gregory) mentioned the "teleprompter" first thing, one thing became crystal clear:
"Gregory listens to Right-wing radio and/or TV."
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with that square shaped box in his back. What in the hell was that?
Remember during the Kerry debates how it alway seemed like Bush would stop for a minute like he was listening to someone tell him something?
Whether he had help or not, Bush STILL couldn't speak in complete sentences.
People use teleprompters in the interest of professionalism. This is a non-issue.
Let the ProfitMedia kill itself with it's own chickenshit.
He's watching march madness on it. The boys at fox are truly stupid.
They've been beating this theme like a drum. I have had a number of online discussions with righties on this...supposedly their point is he is to stupid to speak without a teleprompter. I'm thinkin that dog won't hunt. It shows you how little they have to talk about. I have no idea how they think this is going to bring people to their party or their principals...cuz Obama uses a teleprompter?....BWhahahahahahahhahahaha..... I say keep beatin that drum boneheads. This reaches a new low for childish nanananaism and is the biggest waste of their time EVER! Please be my guest.
I noticed it is a common meme being pushed on every board I check daily, including the one at the AZ Republic.
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bought and paid for by the GOP. Their love affair with Goldwater and now McCain has always been quite evident.
(as a former Zonie) is just as bad as the Las Vegas Review Journal. I grew up in Arizona, so I can rag on it. But then, it really appeals to all of the toothless intellectuals from AZ that we treat at the hospital where I work.
is a CLASSIC descriptor! I LOVE it!!
They bring this up?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
How you doin?
I said on another thread that I noticed he didn't have a bulge underneath his jacket(on his back) Like boosh did during one of the debates.
unbelievable
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I would have responded sooner, but my %^&%^@#$@&$^&*!&* new security suite is a @#$%^#$&%^(*()&*#$%!@@$^#%$&@#!!!^)+**$% and it's giving me #^&%*&^*($%^@#$!#!#$%%&)_()+^ headaches!!!11!!1!!!
He didn't seem to be wearing an earpiece, either. Surprise.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
#:D
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
The Box on Bush's Back
Bush's Bulge
Bush Blows Debate: Talks to Rove in Earpiece
This one will NEVER be explained away no matter how hard
BushCos try to do it.
I wonder if photos of Bushie with his back bulge will be in his POTUS "Library." LOL
IIRC, Bush set a record for fewest press conferences his first term in office.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.
most vacations.
And just how does a "magic teleprompter" conjure up answers to questions?
Are these people who keep bringing up this telprompter BS dumb, or do they know they are just feeding the ignorance of the audience that they have?
How do you argue with such nonsense?
Man, I wish I had the teleprompter that Obama has.
I'd be a fucking genius.
Peace.
The president that still holds records for teleprompter use is Acting-President Saint Reagan! His reliance on the prompter was so complete that it became routine for the press secretary to hold a gaggle after a presidential speech / press conference to correct Reagan's words when he strayed from the text on his screen. 'The President mis-spoke' was said daily by the White House - because Reagan was never in charge there, he only ever was 'Acting-President'.
Bush was so arrogant and stupid that he had to wear an earwig so his handlers could whisper what he was supposed to say right into his ear, all to create a false illusion that he didn't need a teleprompter. It was so obvious that someone was telling him what to say through an earwig because Bush was so incredibly bad at it!
The Republicans simply have no credibility when they castigate Obama for not sounding like an asshole, like Bush did for eight long years, or by being an ignorant alzhiemers patient, like Reagan for another eight long years.
The president did a good job in the face of some pretty pointed, borderline hostile, questioning.
I really question the sanity of those who say he's getting an easy ride from the MSM.
There were more actual questions and open hostility from the press in this one night than I saw in the entire eight years they were falling all over themselves to lick Bush's boots.
Bush used one for everything, when he wasn't pre-screening and pre-answering the pre-submitted questions at his bi-yearly press conference. They ought to kiss Obama's ass for gifting them ratings.
he answered them well. answered them. didn't sidestep. reasoned, articulate and confident.
that brush-clearing pussy and his band of pirates knew he wasn't capable of handling questioning from a room full of small children, let alone a room full of real journalists with pointed questions.
Bush Used to have an ear piece was he was feed what to say? Bush Had scripts for the press core what questions they could and couldn't ask. Bush went off the teleprompter nearly every public statement and embarrassed the entire country nearly every time he did.
Where the fuck do they get off saying Obama uses the teleprompter too much? AT least Obama lets them ask real questions, Bush got soft ball questions for 8 years.
The guy who had the job for the last eight years didn't need no stinkin' teleprompter!
Yes, and it sure as hell showed.
Ear pieces to be told what to say, and Scripts for the press. He didn't need a teleprompter because he knew what was going to be asked before hand. Too bad he still went of the teleprompter every other speach and embarssed the country everytime he did.
These guys nothing else to worry about but the telepromter. Don't they realize how stupid they look? OMG, please President Obama if it makes you happy to use the promter than use it. At least you sound intelligent. The last president - not so much.
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...over trifles, because they have to justify their paychecks. It seems they have little else.
Man, my entire comic book collection for a handful of decent, objective WH press corps journalists. Sheesh...
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
Atleast Obama's use of the teleprompter shows how much he cares about the words he uses and the message he seeks to convey. This after 8 years of speaches that were nothing more than late night comedy fodder.
I particularly liked it tonight when Obama was pressed about why he didn't respond for two days after he first learned about the AIG bonuses.
"I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak."
Translation: "Don't look for knee-jerk responses from me. I prefer to be well informed before sharing my opinions with jackasses like you."
when people are used to bumper-sticer slogans and have a sound-bite mentality.
I have been experiencing the "dumbing down" that seems to be a deliberate framework within which we "educate" our children. God forbid that we should LITERALLY (pun intended) prepare our kids to compete with the best and brightest from any other country (China, Japan and India come readily to mind...), when we need a willing cadre of easily persuaded factory and fast food industry fodder.
But soldiers too.
Can't build an army if folks is TOO damn edjamacated.
just a diversionary topic since he did so well.
---------anyway, i know what he said. i watched it and don't need it filtered through these guys ....
It's no coincidence that the comment about the teleprompter came from Politico, which has a bad habit of focusing on meaningless trivia and is essentially a GOP mouthpiece.
Take anything they say seriously at your own risk. Maybe someday they will realize thay are not as important as they think they are.
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Robert F. Kennedy
...Bush couldn't string 3 words together without fucking something up, even WITH a teleprompter.
Not only did they not make a big deal about Bush using the teleprompter, they didnt make a big deal about him using an ear jack during debates.
The Republican 'press' loved him specifically or not being able to string two words together without sounding like he was 'developmentally disabled'. Every word Bush said was very tightly scripted, either through the prompter or the ear wig. Whenever he went off-script Bush sounded like he was retarded.
as he exuded it daily working under Bush. 'Permanent GOP majority', what a pipe dream that was, fat boy. You and your dead mentor, Lee Atwater, and your slash/burn political tactics are part of the many reasons the GOP failed so spectacularly in '06 and '08 elections.
... as in "uppity". Wonder how many more race cards Rove has up his sleeve.
Oh, he's got a whole deck!
...with a whole d*ck.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
obama hit this one out of the park.
gregory being on rove's dance card, notwithstanding.
What did Chip Reid ask. I missed it.
It wasn't worth the trouble of finding out about anyway, as was the case with most of the questions asked. Many in the press corps seem to be pretty mentally challenged when it comes to framing a good, substantive question.
You little shit. At least ADMIT that you are there to represent the GOP and get their blathering, spiteful, useless talking points on the teevee. Pretending to be a journalist is just unethical and embarassing.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
What is the difference with what you perceive as a two day lag in President Obama's "outrage"? Are you thick? Petty? Or are you just going out of your way to try and make him uncomfortable? Maybe you need to know what you are talking about, hell, maybe you should know ANYTHING, when you come to one of these press conferences.
Either way, your behavior is undignified and, heh, bush league.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
I love that...."Ed Henry, you bloated tick!"
I'll have to remember that one!
Good one, Bonkers!
Yeah, I noticed that. It's bad enough that reich wingers keep on talking about Obama's teleprompter (Limpballs talks about it all the time); but what the heck is wrong with Brett Baier when he makes that his first point concerning Obama's news conference? Idiot.
Check this out, from Letterman last night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVjNVPsL5EY
Oh, I saw Rove on BillO's show as well. I sent BillO an email, telling him how incredibly boring Rove is and how incredibly arrogant that bastard is. And, by the way, Rove is a crook.
thanks
What a bunch of Asshats.
Just because Bush couldn't read doesn't mean Obama can't.
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I don't want Obama misspeaking -- we had eight years of that with Bush and look where it landed us.
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Problem was... Bush wasn't misspeaking.
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I am sorry about the dig I made, concerning the teleprompter speech Obama made to the troops. Obama is a master of the English language, he is very smart. I am going to dig here again tho, what about the WAR spending? That is the largest hunk of spending that we continue to waste, what would happen if the democrats got the balls to end the illegal wars? How fast do you think we would recover, we are still spending more than half on the war. That is fascism, we could totally fix everything if we transferred the spending away from the pentagon, hello? How can he stand there and not even mention that.
I wish he'd come out to the next press conference in a flight suit, with a big cod piece, fondle Helen Thomas and then walk to a locked door and then flip off the camera.
Hoooooo Agggghhhh!
Make no motto of love that worships war
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If Bush ever help a news meeting ,,, he either has a personal list or he never took questions...
Has anyone notice that Obama doesn't take questions for Helen same as Bush refuse to call on her...
Helen makes these BS'ers quake in their boots...
None
Obama gave his first ever question in his first PC to Helen, but didn't call on her at all last night, which I found interesting, but not necessarily significant (he may just be "spreading the wealth").
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
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And when Obama slammed the door shut at the end with "I want to know what I'm talking about before I respond." me and my wife, simultaneously said, "Oh! Smack!"...
Make no motto of love that worships war
even if he did have a pitifully easy act to follow.. loved his saying he took two days to comment on AIG bonuses because he likes to know what he's talking about..
Obama is increasing the deficit to bring the economy back on track, put people to work and to help average Americans. He's not creating a deficit to help Halliburton, big oil, the defense contractors, war profiteers and the super rich all at the expense of the middle class. That's the difference between the deficit Obama is creating and the one Bush created,
And that Foxaganda shill propagandist "reporter" knows this I'm sure but he's carrying water for Rupert and for a heafty paycheck no doubt.
Obama keeps calling on the FOX idiots to show what fools they are. Their idiotic questions are giving Obama a chance to make his case while making them look like petty hypocritical fools at the same time. He's playing them like a fiddle and they are too stupid and their egos to big to realize they're being played.
Brilliant.
A WINNER!
Pipe down over there!
Don't telegraph the strategy to the enemy!
...for a while now that this effort of bipartisanship with the Chicken GOoPers has been a win-win strategy. They act like adults and contribute anything uselful: win! They act like baby asshats, and they have, with crying colors, and he exposes them for what they are and gets back to real business of cleaning up the mess they left him.
Haven't you noticed? The strategy seems to be driving them insane. Er. Insaner.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVjNVPsL5EY
My message to them is this: So am I." Hehe!
I'm truly amazed anyone believes these things are NOT staged, from the seating chart to the list of people ASKED to pose a question, to their questions . . . ergo, Obama's answers, with or without a 'prompter.
All scripted. Start to finish.
Last night, several reporters were surprised when President Obama asked for their questions.
This isn't Bushville.
THANK, GOD!
and I had the thought cross my mind that Obama is still popular despite all the trashing that Fox news has given him over the last 90+ days... starting with just after the election...because he is taking the time to speak to the American public on a regular basis, has taken responsibility for his actions and continues to muddle through the mess that wasn't of his making...
In FDR's time and now, honest communication is oh-so-very-welcome over the lies that we were told during the previous administration.
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The President's talk with the American people and his Q&A were FANTASTIC!
When President Obama speaks, we actually learn. Imagine!
I find this right wing obsession with tele prompters funny. Bush handlers quickly learned how dangerous it was to let him speak off the cuff and unscripted. Bush couldnt even speak in front of a class of kindergarden kids without pulling out his 3 x 5 cards. This is obviously a right wing "talking point" because you hear it everywhere on the talk shows.
Todd asked the President when he was going to ask more of us. Huh?
President Obama put him in his place. Todd is an idiot who has NO IDEA about
what is going on in most homes across the country.
I watched a commercial on the tele the other night where average Americans
discussed ways to save money and use Sales to their advantage. COUNTING PENNIES.
I was so angry!
Why?
The ad is the newest one from Citigroup! "They" know of ways for us to save money. Ugh!
On his crappy morning show, Joe Scarborough said George Bush didn't use a teleprompter after criticizing President Obama for using one. CNN's lame show said the same thing. Corporate Media starts early with it's devilries.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
FOX can't seriously think the teleprompter story has legs for any segment of their audience outside the committed racists who know a black man can't _really_ talk that good. The Bill Press show has it right with their bumper of Obama speeching over a rock music background. The man is a master of the rhythm of rhetoric and anyone not blunted by their prejudices will naturally respond with enthusiasm.
When that enthusiasm is experienced first, FOX's revisionist attempts at critical nitpicking just come off as childish sour grapes.
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