AP’s Ron Fournier Strikes Again

First, here’s some background on Fournier provided by Eric Boehlert.

Now this today:

WASHINGTON (AP) – What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference?

A careful one.

President Barack Obama took no chances in his second prime-time news conference, reading a prepared statement in which he took both sides of the AIG bonus brouhaha and asked an anxious nation for its patience.

[...]

It was a carefully modulated statement, and Obama—relying on a familiar crutch—read it off a flat-screen monitor perched at the back of the East Room.

So. WHAT!

Seriously, what’s the difference if he reads his opening remarks from a screen or from pages? There is no difference other than to falsely imply that he used a prompter for his answers, as Scarborough implied this morning. All presidents read their opening remarks. All of them.

Everyone from presidents to television people to political candidates use teleprompters. It’s not some weird new invention, nor is it a crutch. This is like Fournier making a big deal out of a baseball player relying on, you know, his bat. What’s the next attack from the far-fight? That dirty lib Barry O uses one of them four-wheeled gasohol machines instead of a God-given horse like ol’ Tippicanoe!

Not surprisingly, most of the news outlets carrying this Fournier hackery are WSJ, Newsmax, Drudge and Breitbart. FOX News is also making a big deal about this — a report, by the way, that was recited from a teleprompter.


UPDATE: Anonymous Liberal hits Fournier, too.Adding…brett_baier_monchichi.jpg

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  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    Screw you, Cesca. What are you trying to put over on the American people, anyway, with your fancy computer and this series of tubes?If you were a serious political journalist – a writer worth reading – you’d get yourself one of those proper presses and start turning out handbills like Thomas Paine did back in the day.You’d then distribute those handbills yourself, one at a time, while shouting your borderline treasonous poison from a perch in the public square – out in the open where we could get a clean shot at you instead of hiding in some dingy liberal basement with only the pale green glow of your monitor and the winking light on your surge protected powerbar to guide you.Obviously the rumours are true! Without teleprompters to assist him, Obama might well starve to death before managing to stutter out a request for food.A notarized copy of this post, hand lettered on papyrus, will be pony-expressed to your homestead under separate cover.

  • http://www.gravesdig.blogspot.com David

    I have come to the conclusion after several ludicrous “debates” that I have had with some of my far,far,far,far-right friends that it is impossible to attempt to stop this type of insane blathering. They will frame their arguments in a way that defies logic, therefore disallowing a point of view that is thoughtful. The only solace we can take is that Americans currently support President Obama’s initiatives by a healthy margin.

  • AC

    I checked out some posts at Breitbart. Fournier’s article clearly states that the prompter was used just for the opening statements. But it’s made such a big deal, the wingnuts have conflated it to his having the ANSWERS TO SCRIPTED QUESTIONS on the teleprompter the whole time.OY.

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com/ Nanotyrannus

    Indeed, next we will hear that the answers are being fed to him from behind the scenes. You know this will be their next accusation. It will not come as meaningful commentary, from reputable sources or talking heads, but instead from the same kind of boobs we saw ridiculing the Canadian armed forces the other day. Just run-of-the-mill, low tier, couldn’t-get-a-job-reading-real-news FOXNews hacks that often are used to “speculate” on such things hour after hour after hour.Cue Steve Doothy: “After yesterday’s Presidential news conference, some are saying that the president read the answers to questions, questions that had already been submitted by the press, off of a teleprompter in the back of the room. Joining us to discuss this is FOXNews “correspondent” Karl Rove. Karl, Why are we such fucking douchebags and why the fuck aren’t you in jail yet?”

  • Kat

    I swear, they are all going to get muscle pulls from all this stretching. This is all bullshit, and I think the majority of people know it. The only people who will buy this are the same people who listen to Hannity & Limbaugh day in and day out and buy the shit they are selling.I like the point you made in an earlier post: But if they’re going to turn “teleprompter” into a bad word, good luck running Sarah Palin for president in 2012.Let them make a big deal about it now. And then throw Palin out there without a net. It will be fun to watch.

  • AC

    Kat, if I thought they were capable of any kind of forethought, I would think the wingnut’s game is:Bait dems into some kind of full-throated defense of the teleprompter and so neutralize any future criticism of Palin on that basis.

  • http://www.intoxination.net Jamie

    What really got me about this article this morning is the fact that Fartinair tries to make it sound like Obama even used the prompter for the Q&A. Of course he mentions further down that isn’t the case. SOOOOO in his analysis, he decides to focus on the 10 minute opening statement, instead of the other 50 minutes of actual dialect between Obama and the press.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl™

    BREAKING NEWS: When Barack Obama bitchslapped Ed Henry with his line, “I waited a couple of days because I like to know what I’n talking about before I speak,” he used a teleprompter implanted in Henry’s forehead.

  • Terri

    It’s a tactic of distraction, pure and simple. All the focus on this, instead of the important matters.And, look how well it’s working!So effective!________

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl™

    Terri’s right. It really is like arguing with little children. The adults in the Democratic party are trying to solve the country’s problems while the Republican children are holding their index fingers away from the Democrats’ noses screaming, “I’M NOT TOUCHING YOU! I’M NOT TOUCHING YOU!”

  • gypsy

    terri, i don’t think they are consciously trying to distract with this petty stuff. i think they are truely losing their shit over this petty stuff! genuinely! that’s what makes it so enjoyable.>>>holding their index fingers away from the Democrats’ noses screaming, “I’M NOT TOUCHING YOU! I’M NOT TOUCHING YOU!”hehe…

  • http://www.breitbart.com Andrew Breitbart

    Dude, could you be more clueless?!The Associated Press has hundreds of newsrooms and websites that carry their product. I happen to be one of them. The New York Times AND the Huffington Post, last time I checked, also carries the AP. We do not pick and choose Ron Fournier items to annoy leftie media critics who know not of what they write. Fournier and the other varied bunch all come in the package.Would you make the argument that the Associated Press is right-leaning? How about Reuters and AFP, both of which my site carry?Your point is not a point. It is confusion masked as commentary.

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  • Jeff

    let em complain about this all they want. anyone who watched the news conference knows his answers were unscripted and unteleprompted. regular people, moderates and independent voters can see through the republican crock. no one’s buying it.

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    Ooooh. Breitbart personally rears his head – like Putin into Alaska – to protest that his bias is mere journalistic practice.Viva Voce evidence, blog style, to demonstrate for all and sundry that the practice of elevating a stupid question to the level of news simply because someone ASKED IT, and riding that fact hard as a means to slide his sick, twisted, incompetent and mostly vicious perspective into the recipe, is WHAT JOURNALISTS DO, MAN!Could Cesca be more clueless?Oh, Andrew. Have you really sunk to such a pathetic level that you can no longer distinguish reason from the crap that spills off your keyboard?It’s not that Fournier – a total fuckin’ hack – is running the AP.It’s not that the AP (though in horribly dwindling numbers) is carried by lots of various news rejiggerers.It’s the slimy and putrified ends to which YOU, and far too many like you, employ what ought to be seen as pointless blithering foolishness.You sad, shallow bastard.

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    I wonder if Mr. Breitbart will take the trouble to disabuse his readers of the notion that the president was reading from the teleprompter during the Q&A, and that the reporters were fed questions to ask?Or does Mr. Breitbart engage in that slippery form of dishonesty where one knowingly allows others to misunderstand or believe something provably untrue, yet does nothing to correct them?I suspect he will not.

  • AC

    …correct them, that is.

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    Or does Mr. Breitbart engage in that slippery form of dishonesty where one knowingly allows others to misunderstand or believe something provably untrue, yet does nothing to correct them?I suspect he will not.

    That is my guess as well, unless he believes the teleprompter bullshit too. I wouldn’t doubt it.

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    Would you make the argument that the Associated Press is right-leaning? How about Reuters and AFP, both of which my site carry?That’s not the only option. My opinion is that they’re LAZY.

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  • Lexaburn

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