Teleprompter vs. No Teleprompter

Posted on 03/24/2009 at 2:39 pm by Bob Cesca

Letterman last night:

This attack began with Michelle Malkin who, ironically enough, supported both President Peeance-Freeance and Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin! A candidate whose only public speaking success was due in large part to a teleprompter. Elsewhere, she bombed horribly.

But again, this attack from Malkin and the others, this is speaking in tongues. It’s loud noises. It doesn’t make any intellectual sense whatsoever. Here we have arguably the best public speaker in our lifetime — a president who authored or co-authored many of his most memorable speeches. A president who can speak extemporaneously about any number of subjects in a thoughtful and informed way. A president who is a constitutional scholar and one of the top three most intelligent presidents in modern history.

I mean, even if we weren’t just recently finished with the George W. Peeance-Freeance presidency, the argument would still be absurd.

Adding… Congratulations to Dave and Mrs. Letterman!

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  • KidDynamo0

    Sarah Palin = FAIL!

  • http://www.vanreedmedia.com Tim

    LOL…oh…I almost miss those days of sheer laughter…until I realize how truly sad they were…

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    I had, then, because for posting it is necessary for the reading to be, and the writing to aim to try to ensure that, no matter what the end result might be seen as possibly coming, it is the means by which that end is achieved that the writing of the post suffices and qualitatively hirsute can then be said to have committed to the concept of making what, for many readers, is sensical.

  • gypsy

    off topic, but….bob, i see you have played around with the background a little. CO-bring back the blue-UGH! hehe…

  • http://www.thenewwearsoff.com Kyle

    I’m going to start sending Bob tea bags if he doesn’t give us the blue GDAB again.

  • http://www.bobcesca.com Bob Cesca

    Blue it is!

  • thruwithbuzz

    I do like the blue better, but since I’ve been coming to this blog (for approx a year) the background has been red.

  • Lexaburn

    Bob, you must understand that the Republidiots believe themselves clever. This teleprompter business is their latest salvo in their attempts to undermine President Obama’s credibility.The logic that goes into this is absolutely skewed, but what they mean to do is present our president as a mere figurehead for a “radical” agenda. It’s just another way for them to absolve themselves blindly supporting a charlatan for eight years prior to Obama coming into office.As most of us know, George W. Bush was an incompetent that had no business being president. If some of you weren’t aware (doubtful), the GOP played with Bush’s image more than a few times. It was very, very subtle, but when you look back on his run, you can see the image tweaks here and there. The problem was Bush wasn’t suited to being a merely preening like Bill Clinton, so he always stood out as an uncouth ignoramus that hid very well behind Republicon image consultants.This whole “teleprompter” business, as well as the more recent “overexposure” meme are both apart their attempts at a surgical strike at President Obama’s public persona. What the morons don’t understand is that with each and every criticism they aim at our president, they allow themselves to be viewed as the overwrought losers most of us perceive them to be. They still think that they can get away with the con game they pulled. They need to think again.

  • D. C.

    Sort of OT, but anyone remember when that other rising star in the GOP mocked “something called volcano monitoring”?Ummm.http://www.adn.com/volcano/story/733152.html

  • Curly Lasagna

    The Slumdog Exorcist has no time for volcanoes when there are so many demons to slay……..

  • gypsy

    whoa! who’s the man? bob’s the man! high five and hells yeah on the blue! it’s not the heavenly hue displayed on inauguration day, but maybe my color spectrum had tinted awesome from my obama high. now watch everyone hate it…(giggles)

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    It’s pure psychological projection. The wingnuts are so lacking in imagination that they must recycle everything we said about Bush for eight years.

  • Tusz

    I think you’re on to something with that, Matt. But I don’t think it’s pure projection. They see it like this: if they make the same complaints about Obama that we made about Bush, and if they can make them stick, then that means they get to call us all a bunch of hypocrites without any extra effort. It’s a two-for-one discrediting scheme.

  • Betty Losey

    D.C. Sort of OT, but anyone remember when that other rising star in the GOP mocked “something called volcano monitoring”? I wonder how that GOP rising star like eating crow?

  • D. C.

    Jindal versus the volcano“As early as February 6, indeed, residents of cities near Mt. Redoubt were preparing for a volcano eruption because of information gleaned from early monitoring systems. As reported by USA Today, taxicab drivers were replacing air filters more frequently and local citizens began purchasing dust masks and preparing to be stuck inside their homes for lengthy periods of time.”Of course, being a republican douchebag, Jindal will just pretend he didn’t make an ass out of himself.Hey, what happened that troll who sarcastically asked me if they “shoved a thermometer up [the volcano's] ass”?

  • Elizabeth

    Good god!

  • Jay Ballou

    They see it like this: if they make the same complaints about Obama that we made about Bush, and if they can make them stick, then that means they get to call us all a bunch of hypocrites without any extra effort.

    Of course that’s their interpretation of hypocrisy, which is itself hypocritical — if you’ve spent 8 years holding your guy blameless and tossing ad hominem attacks at his critics, it’s utterly hypocritical to then turn around and criticize the other guy for what you’ve defended your guy against — even if it were true of the other guy. And their ultimate defense of anything they do is “You would have done it too!” — which compounds a tu quoque fallacy with a fallacy of contrary-to-fact hypothesis.