The teleprompter crap continues, this time in The Hill:
Last week was notable for budget battles and a new Afghanistan strategy, rather than for headline-hogging gaffes, although the president didn’t escape a few media jeers for his reliance on a giant TV screen in place of his trademark teleprompter to feed him his lines at Tuesday’s primetime press conference.
This is phenomenally ridiculous. Do we need to go over this again? Someone alert reporter Briget Johnson that he used the teleprompter for his prepared remarks. Every president uses either a prompter or a printed script or both for this task. There is nothing unusual about this and to mention such a thing is like mentioning that he has both of his arms and wears shoes. But, as we’ve seen from numerous disingenous idiots for the last week, she’s implying that he was being fed answers to reporter questions via the “giant TV screen.” This simply is not true.
Sheesh. Either Washington is suddenly populated with reporters who are so green that they’re just now learning about these New Fangled Word Squares from Outer Space, or they’re simply and deliberately attempting to mislead their readers.
Same goes for the broader point of the article. Gaffes are only important if they reveal an underlying intellectual disconnect or deficiency. Agree or disagree with his policies, but there’s no doubting this president’s political and policy acumen.
