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If a Teleprompter Falls in the White House Does It Make a Sound?
"O"BC News ^ | 7-13-09 | Sunlen Miller and Jake Tapper

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 it’s the President’s 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 president’s feet for the duration of his speech.

The President’s 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 boss’s 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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; obamomen; teleprompter; totus
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Will the taxpayers flip the bill for a new TOTUS?
1 posted on 07/13/2009 5:51:36 PM PDT by AmericanSphinx71
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To: AmericanSphinx71
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.

2 posted on 07/13/2009 5:53:50 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (My boss--an Obama supporter--is closing the business. Change!)
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To: AmericanSphinx71

Don’t I recall Omarosa having teleprompter problems recently?


3 posted on 07/13/2009 5:55:26 PM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: AmericanSphinx71

Good omen. The left one crashed into pieces forcing The One to look to the right to keep going.


4 posted on 07/13/2009 5:55:51 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: AmericanSphinx71

Did one of our snipers take out that Teleprompter with a BB gun?


5 posted on 07/13/2009 5:56:23 PM PDT by Babu
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To: AmericanSphinx71
If Zero was reduced to one teleprompter, then his rhetoric must have sounded really half-assed.


6 posted on 07/13/2009 5:57:09 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Ted Nugent for Attorney General '12. You Know You Want It.)
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To: AmericanSphinx71

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...”


7 posted on 07/13/2009 5:58:44 PM PDT by Paloma_55 (I may be a hateful bigot, but I still love you)
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8 posted on 07/13/2009 5:58:44 PM PDT by paulycy (Liberal DOUBLE-STANDARDS are HATE crimes.)
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Teleprompter Pictures, Images and Photos
9 posted on 07/13/2009 6:06:26 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: SERKIT

It’s an Obamomen.


10 posted on 07/13/2009 6:09:37 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (America is the best -- 20 million illegal immigrants can't be wrong.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Good one! Obaomen!!!


11 posted on 07/13/2009 6:12:53 PM PDT by azishot (Please join the NRA.)
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To: AmericanSphinx71
That's why he has two teleprompters, and possibly a spare pair of teleprompters on standby at all times wherever he goes, in case both teleprompters go out.
12 posted on 07/13/2009 6:15:39 PM PDT by Loyalist (Tagline redacted at the command of Mrs. Loyalist.)
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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.

It was his breath.

13 posted on 07/13/2009 6:17:41 PM PDT by Focault's Pendulum (I want to see Totus's birth certificate...or at least date of manufacture.)
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To: Loyalist

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.


14 posted on 07/13/2009 6:22:01 PM PDT by omni-scientist
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To: AmericanSphinx71

The stupid sh_t needs a teleprompter to take a pee.


15 posted on 07/13/2009 6:30:58 PM PDT by Yankee
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Does this mean that only one of his two faces was able to speak?


16 posted on 07/13/2009 6:34:34 PM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Sarah Palin 2012 - Yes She Can!)
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To: omni-scientist

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!


17 posted on 07/13/2009 6:35:58 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: AmericanSphinx71
I think a better question is:

If a Teleprompter Falls in the White House is the Dalia Bama able to Make a Sound?

18 posted on 07/13/2009 6:38:38 PM PDT by ALASKA (I feel more like I do today than I did yesterday.....)
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To: AmericanSphinx71

THE TELEPROMPTER COMMITTED SUICIDE ON NATIONAL TV!


19 posted on 07/13/2009 6:45:49 PM PDT by PureSolace (Trust in God)
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To: AmericanSphinx71

A sign which will be ignored.


20 posted on 07/13/2009 6:46:20 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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