Posted on 02/16/2009 7:23:23 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
the White House is looking to install a small video or computer screen into the podium used by the president for press conferences and events in the White House. "It would make it easier for the comms guys to pass along information without being obvious about it," says the adviser.
The screen would indicate whom to call on, seat placement for journalists, pass along notes or points to hit, and so forth, says the adviser.
Using a screen is nothing new for Obama; almost nothing he said in supposedly unscripted townhall events during the presidential campaign was unscripted, down to many of the questions and the answers to those questions. Teleprompter screens at the events scrolled not only his opening remarks, but also statistics and information he could use to answer questions.
Obama had a teleprompter set up for his remarks last week, before taking questions, but the White House couldn't use the teleprompter for anything but the remarks, because the journalists were so close to the screens. Further complicating matters, teleprompter copy can't be easily updated in real time, in a setting like a White House press conference.
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Oh man, I spit my coffee!
Google "bush jacket bulge"
I am still looking for the sarcasm taggy. Please someone tell me this is not for real...
done
Is there some requirement that a president has to answer reporters' questions without notes?
Reminds me of the scene in the movie Airplane where the guy pulls the plug for the runway lights....lol
Then again, he could not string two coherent sentences together if his life depended on it.
George W. Bush won the Iraq War on the battlefield and then he then proceeded to most likely lose it in the near future by his utter failure to use the Bully Pulpit to keep the American Home Front from being demoralized by the liberal news media and the Democrats.
As a result, we have a Democrat House, a Democrat Senate, a Democrat White House, a Trillion Dollar Porkulus funding the Left-Wing political machine and at least two very dangerous years ahead of us.
Wonder if the 'Press' realize, that this is unequivical confirmation of their current stupidity and compliancy.
This is all a cartoon waiting to be drawn.
...if I only had a brain......
Good one - and we know it works!
Seriously, one can no longer compare bambam to the previous real Presidents. They had to use their brains. This one uses chips. They worked, he plays.
What could be really cool is to see that man drink water while Obama answers a tough question from the press.
When he’s negotiating with our enemies in Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela,
This is going to take a lot of hard work whenever we get rid of this shuck n jiver.
I guess the string ( on his back )they pulled for him to talk broke.
That's okay. A few 'uhs', 'umms' and 'that's a good question' will stall long enough for the copy to catch up. I'm sure that George Soros can hire very speedy typists.
It'll go like this: "Is that right Rahm? What do you think, Rahm?"
Is there some requirement that a president has to answer reporters’ questions without notes?
Duh.... I think it has something to do with thinking on his feet.
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