Posted on 08/17/2016 8:31:48 AM PDT by RetSignman
How many times has 0 been ridiculed for using a teleprompter in his speeches. The answer is probable in the range of thousands of times but he is very, very good at fakery as are the ALL the media anchors. They are professional, often misleading, readers.
“by whom when it is patently obvious he just isn’t good at it?”
I watched this speech and Trump seems to be getting better at it.It’s not an easy thing for someone who has not practiced it, like most politicians.
He needs to use a teleprompter to give serious policy speeches.
Nitpick much, Ret?
[I watched this speech and Trump seems to be getting better at it.]
I agree and I think that the stage mangers might be WHERE they position of the teleprompters.
At times, Trump has to turn his whole body when he reads them, afer all, everyone knows he’s using them, why not put them where he can fluidly move from the right, face the camera then left.
I don’t have a problem with him using them for important policies speeches but it should be done seamlessly.
the difference is that the man child, the ward of Valerie Jarrett, used the teleprompter ALL THE TIME. For even the simplest of tasks, for remarks that others delivered “off the cuff” or with simplicity...he needs a teleprompter. He is an empty suit, told what to say on every occasion.
I will never forget seeing him with a teleprompter talking to a group of elementary children.
Using the teleprompter isn’t a bad thing—using it for every occasion, however, shows an extreme lack of intellect.
Big difference.
This is what irritates me when people attack Trump for having stuff made overseas. Manufacturing stuff overseas isn’t bad per se...letting other countries take total advantage of us in the process is a bad move. Trump understands that truth....the finger pointers do not.
The reason Obama has been mocked about the teleprompter is that he tends to use it everywhere, including a small appearance at a grade school.
Obama was using it in press conferences too, not just for opening remarks. There were big TV screen style prompters in back of the reporters, feeding Obama answers to questions.
For big speeches, of course they are prepared and read either from a prompter or paper. The speeches are usually the collaboration of many writers and advisors. Nothing wrong with that.
When Zer0 reads the teleprompters, it’s like he’s watching a tennis match ... boing, boing, boing ... head goes back and forth ...
From the beginning, I have wanted to insert lines of Alice in Wonderland nonsense poetry into his teleprompter speeches. He'd never notice. It would be hilarious.
Have you ever watched the Brits, the prime minister or the Queen, give a speech? They pretty much have their noses buried in the paper from which they are reading.
Trump is a little wooden reading his prepared speeches, and his cadence and inflection to drive home points could be improved, but there is nothing terribly concerning about his delivery.
[I agree, but they do have them spaced too far apart. You can see when he reads ahead and then speaks the words as he has already turned to the next screen...]
That was my re-thinking too after I criticized his use of them at all.
[I agree and I think that the stage mangers might be WHERE they position of the teleprompters.
At times, Trump has to turn his whole body when he reads them, after all, everyone knows he’s using them, why not put them where he can fluidly move from the right, face the camera then left.]
The forces against him are coming from all sides, even in his own camp.
I am so glad you see it as I do...now how do we take action on telling his staff?
I have had no success in making suggestions or getting any replies above the local staff. They are being fought every step of the way by the local “Know-it-alls”!
[...now how do we take action on telling his staff?]
I don’t know exactly but I’m going to try twitter at the Trump site and plant the seed.
I agree to an extent. I think he should do more prompter policy speeches, but for his rallies, I don’t think he will. The crowd loves his off the cuff style, and Trump prefers it that way. I will say what I’ve said on here before. I say this because the media is looking for anything, a sentence fragment, to pin on Trump. He should do three things with his team before the day’s rallies:
1. Write down the big media lies you want to respond to.
2. Write down all the latest attacks on Hillary.
3. Write down which policies you want to discuss and have stats and recent news articles to back them up.
That gives a framework but isn’t a written down speech and ensures that there aren’t things the media can use against him.
Trump thinks so fast, unfortunately, he gets side-tracked and sometimes fails to make his point. He's getting better now using the TelePrompTer.
Correct.
The press doesn’t shiv-a-git about substance. They play up contrived innuendo and run it 24/7 on tv. This is the crap that LIVs hear and think Trump is a whacko.
And this is the crux of the problem with us. The traditional media and the pundits and the connected pollsters don’t matter a damned bit any more. Do any of them affect how you will vote?
If the answer is no, count yourself among the millions and millions of pissed off tax paying working Americans who won’t put up with this bullsh!t anymore.
The time for despondency and fatalism is over, FRiend. We (you and many, many others) want blood in the water.
Some people read scripts flawlessly; others do better with an general outline and a few hard-to-remember facts and figures. But going without a visual all the time all but guarantees mistakes or omissions at some point.
[But going without a visual all the time all but guarantees mistakes...]
I agree but I hope he has the script of his speeches handy at the podium and follows along by flipping page by page to keep in sync with the teleprompter just in case it fails.
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