Posted on 07/13/2009 5:51:36 PM PDT by AmericanSphinx71
ABC News' Sunlen Miller and Jake Tapper report: If a teleprompter falls in the White House, does it make a sound?
Yes, especially when its the Presidents teleprompter or TOTUS as it is often referred to.
Midway through his speech on urban and metropolitan policy in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building this afternoon, one of his two small glass prompters came crashing down, hitting the wood floor and crashing in many pieces. It made quite a ruckus.
Oh, goodness, a startled President Obama said. Sorry about that, guys.
He then proceeded on with his remarks, To pull our economy back from the brink, including the largest and most sweeping economic recovery plan in our nation's history
For the rest of the speech the president relied on the one remaining teleprompter, to his right, and notes on his podium to finish his speech.
Shards of glass remained near the presidents feet for the duration of his speech.
The Presidents fandom for his nearly omnipresent prompter has become something of a joke, even to him. In May at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner the President poked fun at himself, declaring that he wanted to speak from the heart and off the cuff.
Two large teleprompters then rose, with a big smile from the President, and laughs from the White House press corps.
Prompter problems also recently plagued Vice President Joe Biden as well. During a commencement address in May to graduates of the Air Force Academy, a gust of wind knocked over his teleprompter.
The VP took the opportunity to crack a joke at his bosss expense.
What am I going to tell the president when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? Biden joked, What will he do then?
Of course, television reporters and anchors never become over-reliant on teleprompters. Never happens. Nope. Never
Both Obama and most TV reporters are reading prefab DNC material, too.
Don’t I recall Omarosa having teleprompter problems recently?
Good omen. The left one crashed into pieces forcing The One to look to the right to keep going.
Did one of our snipers take out that Teleprompter with a BB gun?
If the teleprompter fails, will it make a sound?
Yes.
“Uh, uh, uh, what, uh, I, uh, mean, uh, to, uh, say, uh, uh, uh...”
It’s an Obamomen.
Good one! Obaomen!!!
It was his breath.
So both the president and vice-president have lost telepromtpters. That means the teleprompter of the Speaker of the House must now take charge. The Constitutional succession must be followed.
The stupid sh_t needs a teleprompter to take a pee.
Does this mean that only one of his two faces was able to speak?
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!
If a Teleprompter Falls in the White House is the Dalia Bama able to Make a Sound?
THE TELEPROMPTER COMMITTED SUICIDE ON NATIONAL TV!
A sign which will be ignored.
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