Obama's Crutch; Why Is He So Afraid of Speaking Without a Teleprompter?

Fox News ^ | Saturday, March 7th, 2009 | John R. Lott, Jr.

[Venturer]

The whole story is based on the premise that Comedians cannot find anything funnt about Obama. That is wrong.

The material is there by the ton, but if they use it they will be labeled racist. This man is getting a free ride because he is part black.

Look at what the monkey cartoon did and it wasnt about Obama at all. A Comedian that get caugh joking about Obama is going to face the race card big time and they know it.

[SandRat]

..errrrr.. because he's dumber than this guy.

Ted Baxter from the Mary Tyler Moore Show

[freeplancer]

I would love to see a photoshop of him on the pot with a teleprompter telling him to wipe......flush....put down the seat.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

... but comedians are having a hard time finding any material to make jokes about President Obama.

No, they have plenty of material. They just know that any jokes about the Anointed One would be blasted as racist. That is what PC is all about, silencing the opposition.

[cblue55]

“I’m tryin’ to think but nuttin’ happens” - Three Stooges

[sionnsar]

"It is kinda sad when audiences notice the jokes that the late night comedians miss."

One reason to avoid watching late night comedians.

[Slings and Arrows]

http://www.geeksoncaffeine.com/archive%20pages/2009-01-19.html

[humblegunner]

it is to laugh.

Some folks laugh at people who fail to capitalize.

Like first-graders learning to write.

Ha ha we laugh at them.

[texaschick]

I’m wondering...have any of the late night comedians made fun of Obama? I don’t watch them but maybe someone here does and can tell me if there is an attempt to as “funny” about this president as they were about Pres.Bush.

[rellimpank]

—LOL—thinking along the same lines—a few Lewis Carrol quotes from “Alice in Wonderland” come to mind as hilarious—

[EGPWS]

Yeah, probably...

Indecisiveness is so unbecoming.. ; )

[SampleMan]

This isn’t anything new, it was also true during the campaign. Possibly they just need some help.

Some of the cowards on race.

[GOPJ]

The real question is “who's putting the words in the teleprompter”... or even the ideas. Obama fits the new dem mold - puffed up charming narcissist pretty boy without an original idea in his head... Here's my theory - dem PR firms - the guys who run the campaigns are looking for this exact type - easy to elect. Easy to lead by the nose. When Obama is tired of flailing - he'll beg for ‘guidance’... Is JamesCarville or his type the real power?

[Tex Pete]

[proudofthesouth]

“It would be great if hackers could take over his teleprompter like those electronic road signs.”

That would be soooooo funny!

[SandRat]

He’s Ted Baxter from the Mary Tyler Moore Show

Ted Baxter is living proof that skill and intelligence aren’t always necesities in the workplace. He’s WJM’s anchorman, or at least a reasonable facsimile.

He isn’t very bright, or even very literate. His newscasts are always full of mistakes on his part, which makes him the butt of jokes from almost everyone who knows him. His dressing room is a sight to see. It’s a shrine to himself, with one wall full of pictures of celebrities he’s pasted himself into and autographed. (We know he autographed them because they’re often spelled wrong.)

All the old Ted Put-Downs would work.

[Type Righter]

George Soros was too cheap to buy a smart puppet.

Yeah, too bad this puppet is an empty-suit ventriloquist's dummy.

It was shown how easily he hypnotized his listeners at his campaign appearances and right up through the inauguration. We'll he's so stupid as President, I want to know who's hypnotizing HIM, now that he's our Dear Leader/Messiah. Could it be through the teleprompter? Repeating certain words or symbols slowly so he'd get it? Kind of like the Lawrence Harvey character in the classic "Manchurian Candidate," with his solitaire games, slowly laying out the cards and turning them up methodically? Ya think?

[blackie]

Good one!

[Eva]

Obama tried to give a press conference without a teleprompter giving him the answers in the Middle East. Remember that one?

I wouldn't be surprised if the questions in his press conferences weren't prepared ahead of time, just like the debates.

[PerConPat]

I’m wondering...have any of the late night comedians made fun of Obama?

I also do not watch these late night "comedians" who are most likely following their networks' dictates. Whatever, there are no consequences for them associated with never cracking wise as to President Zero. Those shows are directed at the fat part of the bell curve. IMHO, the audiences aren't conscious enough to keep track of this sort of thing.