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Posted on 10/04/2010 2:17:16 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Mondale to Obama: Ditch the 'idiot boards'
Former Vice President Walter Mondale suggested in an interview today President Obama stop relying on "idiot boards" -- teleprompters, that is -- to deliver his message to the American people.
"He uses these idiot boards to read speeches in television, and I think he loses the connection that he needs emotionally with American voters," Mondale said in an interview set to air this evening on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, according to a transcript from the network.
"Idiot board" is a term used in television and movie production to refer to boards held up for performers to read off.
"If you're looking at the teleprompter, you're here, you're here, you're here and you're -- your audience is right there," Mondale said. "And I think he needs to do more of that."
Mondale didn't suggest that Obama needed the teleprompter.
"The Milwaukee speech, I thought was -- was terrific. I think some of these backyard events are terrific," said Mondale, who called Obama "I ...think he's very bright -- as a matter of fact, brilliant," he said.
But while Obama's supporters have dismissed conservative mockery of the device by pointing to the president's ability to operate fluently without it, Mondale suggests that it's a real and symbolic element of his difficulty, at times, connecting.
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Frankly, I don't think the Wee Wee would know how to get along without his buddy
Wow!
Obama without the teleprompters.
He’ll be brilliant, just brilliant!
Heh!
That loon’s dumber than a box O’rocks WITH the prompter..and we all know that the box starts looking pretty good when the idiot’s OFF the prompter.
So much for Harvard law.
If zero actually remains in office long enough (and if the wookie allows him to run that is...) will he use the idiot boards in the debates with Sarah???
uummm..ummmm..I...ummmm...ummmm...don’t.....uhmmmmm....uhmmmm think I uuuuuuuhhhmmmmm.....uhmmmmmm....better uuuhhmmmm not uuuummmm....listen uuuuummmm to that....uhhhhmmmm, I uhmmm forgot ummmm what I uuuuummmm was uuuuummmm going ummmm to say ummmm.
Mondale is a fellow traveler.....and just another member of the Idiot Tribe.
Yes, this is great advice. Take the crutch away from the cripple. This is the kind of thinking that got Mondale elected. Oh, wait.........
Calm down....I don’t think you’ll be out of a job...at least through December.
If Obummer ditches the idiot boards he will be revealed for the idiot he is.
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Let's ditch John Lewis from Georgia's 5th Congressional District too!
Is Politico tired of being Obamao’s butt boys.
wow, people are starting to notice?
He needs to make his speeches from a tank.
Better an idiot board than a bored idiot.
Ah yes, I remember what Morning in America looked like.
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