Ted Baxter from the Mary Tyler Moore Show
Posted on 03/07/2009 1:04:27 PM PST by JohnRLott
Late night comedians have had a difficult problem. Presidents are usually the source of most late night joke, but comedians are having a hard time finding any material to make jokes about President Obama. This isn’t anything new, it was also true during the campaign.
Possibly they just need some help. Could you imagine if Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush had used a teleprompter to answer questions during a press conference? The late night joke writers wouldn’t have let it go until the President gave in to the merciless ridicule as he was painted as an idiot who couldn’t tie his shoes without being fed instructions on how to do it.
While people who watched Obama’s first national press conference noticed his use of a teleprompter to give his initial presentation as well as in answering questions, the media and late night joke writers completely ignored it. The American Spectator notes that in many events:
…down to many of the questions and the answers to those questions … [t]eleprompter screens at the events scrolled not only his opening remarks, but also statistics and information he could use to answer questions.
Apparently, Obama is looking to install a computer screen into the White House podiums so that, according to one Obama advisor, “It would make it easier for the comms guys to pass along information without being obvious about it.” [Emphasis added.] Obama’s aides would put together answers to a large number of possible questions so as soon as a reporter asks a particular question the computer screen could flash talking points to remind Obama how he’s supposed to respond to that question.
Finally this week a news story in Politico broke . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com ...
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.
Ted Baxter from the Mary Tyler Moore Show
I would love to see a photoshop of him on the pot with a teleprompter telling him to wipe......flush....put down the seat.
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.
“I’m tryin’ to think but nuttin’ happens” - Three Stooges
One reason to avoid watching late night comedians.
Some folks laugh at people who fail to capitalize.
Like first-graders learning to write.
Ha ha we laugh at them.
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.
—LOL—thinking along the same lines—a few Lewis Carrol quotes from “Alice in Wonderland” come to mind as hilarious—
Indecisiveness is so unbecoming.. ; )
Some of the cowards on race.
“It would be great if hackers could take over his teleprompter like those electronic road signs.”
That would be soooooo funny!
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.
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?
Good one!
I wouldn't be surprised if the questions in his press conferences weren't prepared ahead of time, just like the debates.
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