Posted on 06/19/2013 1:17:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: I'll get to Obama and Germany. There were two things he did in Germany. He had a press conference with Merkel and he had a speech, the Brandenburg Gate. If you remember, in 2008 Obama went over to Germany and he requested at that time to speak at the Brandenburg Gate, and the Germans, boy, they were under a lot of pressure because back then Obama was The Messiah. He was making a tour of Europe on his messianic pilgrimage as part of his campaign. He requested to speak at the Brandenburg Gate, and the Germans said no. You're not yet of that stature.
So he got as close to the Brandenburg Gate as possible, and 200,000 people showed up. German beer was flowing. And the god echo in Obama's speech, you remember that? I mean, it was just all over the place. You know how many people showed up today? Six thousand. Two hundred thousand in 2008. Six thousand today. That's quite a drop. And you want to hear something humorous. Apparently -- and I haven't heard it yet, because, frankly, I've had other things on my mind today, but I've heard that Obama, in his speech -- not the presser with Merkel -- but in his speech, it kind of fizzled at the end.
Chris Matthews offered a reason why. The setting sun made it difficult for Obama to see the teleprompter. He couldn't see the text. So it was the sun's fault. Now, this teleprompter business, I have used 'em on my TV show, and I'm really uncomfortable with 'em. I mean, they're confining. You end up relying on the darn thing. They eliminate spontaneity. I'm not comfortable with these things. The only time I use one is when I have to have something just fit. Like the Morning Update, I use a prompter for it because it's gotta come in at 90 seconds, and I can't end up ad-libbing in tangents and so forth. And I can't edit video so I've gotta do it all in one take, but that's the only time I use a prompter. Because I know what I'm talking about.
If you know what you're talking about you don't need notes, even. Maybe just an outline to jog your memory, and then you go. But Obama, if you've noticed, he's lost without that prompter. And I know why. I know why he's always on the prompter. And that is to make sure he doesn't slip up and portray what he really thinks and what his plans really are. It's so Obama stays confined in the way that he has been marketed and presented, and he participates in that of course, and the way they manage, 'cause it's all about the Limbaugh Theorem. It's all about Obama appearing detached, unattached.
It's all about Obama disguising what his real intentions are. With no prompter and no discipline, he might actually let it slip what his real plans are, and that would be devastating. The fact of the matter is that most liberals cannot be honest with you about what they really hope happens or what they really want to happen or what they really intend to do, because if that ever happens -- and it has -- they don't win much. They're resoundingly defeated, particularly in national elections. So that's the primary reason for the prompter, is to keep Obama on message and disciplined so that he doesn't wander off and give up the game.
But we've got sound bites on all this, and we'll get to that.
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RUSH: Yeah, yeah, I was just watching a little bit of Obama and the speech at the Brandenburg Gate. Two hundred thousand people showed up for an Obama speech in 2008. Six thousand today. Fox has a side-by-side comparison of the crowd side. That's not 6,000 people there today. What are they telling us? There's no way that's 6,000 people! That's not even a minor league hockey game crowd. There isn't any 6,000 people there.
Anyway, I didn't hear it, but supposedly the end of the Obama's speech today at the Brandenburg Gate kind of fizzled. It had no pizzazz, and Chris Matthews -- the sycophantic thrill-up-the-leg Obamaite -- said that it was because of the sun, the setting sun was obscuring Obama's prompter, and he wasn't able to see the words on the prompter, and without the prompter we he doesn't know what he's saying, apparently. What else is there to conclude? Well, we know the real reason he's on prompter.
They gotta make sure he doesn't drift off and reveal what's really on his mind.
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The official count of the crowd by the Germans was 4,500. Perhaps Obummer should have gone to Berlin CT where he might have drawn a crowd of 5,000 Obummernuts.
Al Gore must envy Obama’s timing. While an Al Gore visit usually causes the thermometer to drop precipitously, the temperature today in Berlin was 97, 20+ degrees above normal. Obama must have jumped on Air Force One when he heard it was going to be a scorcher in Deutschland.
This was clearly a way to avoid embarrassment for Bambi. It actually didn’t even look like there were 6000 people there, though. Maybe most of the invites went in the circular file.
Thanks for that. Good to know I remembered correctly.
Is that right? That’s beautiful.
How many were bribed to show up for this non-event?
My understanding is that of the 4,500 there, 2,000 were U.S. security, 1,000 German security/police and 1,000 in Obama’s entourage including foreign guests and German politicians.
500 people at the gate area is normal even without a special event. It’s likely that those 500 were not necessarily there to see Obama. I think the press were part of the 500.
I watched for about 5 minutes at the most, then I changed the channel
Yeah, I remember reading about it, but nothing shows up in search. I am going to check the German Tabloid Bild, to see if they have something about it
I guess Obama didn’t offer a big enough bribe to get the Germans to go out and listen to his communist crap.The German know all about communism as they lived right next door to it for over sixty years.
Obama is probably in Berlin solely to get tips from ex-Stasi agents.
“How many were bribed to show up for this non-event?”
They were bribed with Jelly donuts and pfannkuchens.
How exciting can it bee to watch Mr. TOTUS Reader read from TOTUS when we’ve all seen the act day after day for the last ~4.5 years?
You mean movie theaters, don’t you. Germany didn’t get any television until the 50s or something around that time and that was the Bundesrepublic of West Germany
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No it wasn’t. He was to slow to take his hand down and the photographer to quick to shoot the pic
The Berliners went probably swimming in the Wannsee
Actually the Nazis had television
Television Under the Swastika
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-yCsTHLxXs
I like your humor. Right on.
Caption:
Shinzo Abe (pointing): “He just call you Mf’er”
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Germany had television in the 1930s. It was used primarily by the Nazis as the war went on (including programming for injured German soldiers recuperating at the hospital).
Television Under The Swastika - The History Of Nazi Television (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-yCsTHLxXs
The way their television programming was transmitted, the event was recorded to film, processed in camera, and transmitted almost in real time. The films remain as a permanent recording.
Good enough for me. :^)
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