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Irish prime minister Brian Cowen repeats Barack Obama speech as White House teleprompter fouls up | guardian.co.uk — This whole teleprompter thing may as well be replaced by lip sync-ing.
But when Brian Cowen began his address last night, his speech had a horribly familiar ring to it. And no wonder: he had been repeating exactly what Obama had said minutes earlier.
The autocue was apparently the cause of this embarrassing case of deja vu. Rather than being ready with Cowens speech, the teleprompting machine simply reloaded the one Obama had just given.
Cowen was around 20 seconds into the wrong speech before he realised his gaffe. He stopped suddenly and looked back at the president to say: “Thats your speech.”
Harvard Law Grad = idiot for sure.
#21 Well said.
Harvard Law Grad my butt! Can you see him in a courtroom thinking on his feet without a teleprompter? I think not.
Q:What about the Obamanation is genuine?
A:He’s a genuine fraud.
Funny how no-one’s saying anything about the other guy in the room: Mr. Cowen. He’s in a slightly Obamaesque* situation, having taken over a country’s leadership role just in time for it to take a nosedive.
Considering how a politicians every syllable is pored over and analysed to death and back again: are you surprised to see Obama speaking from a script. If you don’t give people latitude to screw up occasionally, as people do, that’s what you get. It’s like seeing “caution hot” on coffee cups, and “may contain peanuts” on every food item in the store: if you make normal human mistakes a crime, the lawyers come out and lock everything down.
* is that a word? Well, it is now, fnarr.
#24 Brian t
>>Funny how no-one’s saying anything about the other guy in the room.
You make a good point. It seems to hinge on how Obama returned and read Cowen’s speech, then even at the point of thanking himself was unaware of his Barney Frank moment.
ROFL
I just think this is just too funny. It would be great to hijack the teleprompter remotely and really mess Obama up. For crying out loud, you need the teleprompter to say “Thank you…”
I do think it is a problem for a President to not be able to give a speech without a teleprompter. Does this mean the President doesn’t have time to rehearse speeches? He had time to set up his NCAA tourny picks on ESPN, I would think he could spend a half hour or so memorizing a speech.
I’ll put this teleprompter issue right up there with the dittohead retard wingnut fascination over Obama’s birth certificate.
Can Rush lead you idiots anywhere he wants or do you in fact have some standards somewhere?
#4 OBoB
I would venture a guess that the public speaking I have done would more than hold its own against someone who says uh or well uh all the time.
Actually I have talked before crowds and have taken questions. I am well spoken and articulate and could easily give a presentation without a prompter.
But alas, I’m not the stumbling for words boob president either so I guess I don’t count.
I guess Boss Limpdick really went off on this one today, judging by the way the ditto heads are all blathering.
# 29 Mr. Fusion said, on March 18th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I guess Boss Limpdick really went off on this one today, judging by the way the ditto heads are all blathering.
U need to stop fantasizing about the Boss’ LD…observe what Obama did and think for a change…
He read a speech thanking himself for being invited to the white house…completely oblivious to the fact he thus thanked himself…
The Boss Limbaugh barely mentioned this…rather he directed his whole dissertation to Obama’s Teleprompter…being it is the MasterMind…real brains behind the operation…
# 1 TreeBeard said, on March 18th, 2009 at 10:05 am
I’d like to see Newt Gingrich debate Obama’s Teleprompter.
Me too!
So if this is no big deal then why are ALL of the networks not releasing any video? And would they suppress the video if it had been Bush?
Does nobody have any video of this?
Scotch, scotch, scotch….I love scotch.
Kanjy…check with russw…apparently it’s being suppressed by the liberal media who are in the tank for Obama.
I’m Ron Burgandy…Go F@#$ Yourself SanDiego!
# 32 russw said, on March 18th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
So if this is no big deal then why are ALL of the networks not releasing any video? And would they suppress the video if it had been Bush?
Their censorship proves its a big deal…their guy, the man they invested so much in, is in danger of becoming the laughing stock…like they did to Bush…
If it was him, the networks, newspapers, all late night comics…24/7, would be broadcasting the video…and it would have virtually destroyed him.
So they won’t release the video…just as the LA Times would release the video of Obama applauding the mock beheading of an American, during a Palestinian celebration…:
October 31, 2008
EXCLUSIVE: Dance Troupe @ Obama-Khalidi Dinner (of Secreted Tape Fame) Simulated Beheadings in Recent Past
http://debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/10/exclusive_dance.html
So we have representatives that can ONLY read what is placed in their FACES, and not care/know what they are REALLY saying??
MORE PUPPETS.
Who elected TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States)?
The old image of a puppet with strings is being replace by an evil projection by TOTUS…directing the show…
Alfred, what were you in 2001….12 years old??
Because otherwise you must certainly recall that Bush, like every other president, got a pass on his goof-ups for a while. But when it turned out that he was a complete goof-up all the time, parts of the press let him have it. If Obama turns out to be as complete a dumbass as Bush, we’ll all know about it. There will be no “media conspiracy of silence” Sheesh.
Get off it already.