At least, if you believe the American Spectator, which admirably deadpans this hysterically funny revelation:
“It looked scripted beyond the scripted part, the speech,” says one former communications adviser, who has been feeding notes and suggestions to the White House team and worked with them on the inauguration. “Every president has gone into one of these things knowing that there were some pre-arranged questions or journalists to be called on, but this one was pretty ham-handed.”
To that end, he says, the White House is looking to install a small video or computer screen into the podium used by the president for press conferences and events in the White House. “It would make it easier for the comms guys to pass along information without being obvious about it,” says the adviser.
Dan Riehl, once he finished laughing at everybody who screeched about Bush and earpieces in 2004, went on… no, wait, Dan never actually stopped laughing at those poor, deluded folks. Hard to blame him for that, really.
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Irony isn't dead it's just exhausted
NickDeringer (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 9:10AM EST (link)This is an entire administration on training wheels. The country is in dire straights and we have handed it over to a bunch of interns.
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Obama = the Lefty Caricature of GWB
Jeff Emanuel (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 9:14AM EST (link)It’s scary how closely he resembles every single thing they claimed about GWB.
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I don't know, Jeff. :)
Moe Lane (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 9:16AM EST (link)Bush beat them, kept beating them, and made beating them look easy. Getting a Bush of one’s own probably seemed like a good idea to them.
Of course, they’re operating from an imperfect map of the universe, so they got the wrong Bush of their own, but them’s the breaks.
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Even the "Refrigerator" was able to turn himself into a good speaker by taking some speaking classes.
olsmithie (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 9:44AM EST (link)If a football player can do it, why can’t the Obamanation?
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The problem is "COLOSSAL ARROGANCE"!
davo119 Tuesday, February 17th at 10:25AM EST (link)He don’t need no stinkin’ speech lessons!
Never give in! Never! Never! Never!
Because he doesn't know anything.
Steph C (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 10:32AM EST (link)No matter how well he can speak, ignorance is Obama’s biggest problem and he’s too lazy to learn what he doesn’t know. It’s far easier to feed it through a teleprompter or ear piece than actually have to know anything. He’s not making the decisions anyway. Congress is.
How else is the ruling class supposed to feed information through an empty suit?
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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I concur completely with your assessment
olsmithie (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 10:52PM EST (link)Just wanted hear it from someone else.
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Who becomes the ventriloquist?
woodsman (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 10:00AM EST (link)Defined as: “art of producing voices: the art or skill of producing vocal sounds that seem to come from somewhere other than the speaker”
source: http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861733784/ventriloquism.html?partner=orp
This would then indicate Obama is the wooden dummy being controlled by someone else, but appearing to be acting in an autonomous manner.
Buffalo Bob
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:01AM EST (link)6eorge Jetson....
speciallist (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:55AM EST (link)Soft-pitch Helen is TOP 5….Alltime….lmao
Nice work..lol
Who's going to be the man behind the curtain?
Old_Crow (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 10:25AM EST (link)Axelrod?
Does Timmy G. get one of these setups to ‘help’ him through his next presser.
Buy gold.
Now
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison
This reminds me.
Steph C (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 10:41AM EST (link)I was surfing websites earlier and one of them had ads for investing in food because it’s set to skyrocket in price… which remind me of a phrase from an old song: “…piece of bread will buy a bag of gold…”
Has it always been this wild or am I just noticing more since I got interested, in an activist way, in what our government is up to?
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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No, Steph C, it hasn't "... always been this wild..."
Achance (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:09AM EST (link)It has NEVER been like this. The only reasonably close analog I can find is the Wiemar Republic.
In Vino Veritas
And that fact is what really gets to me, Achance.
janis (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:17AM EST (link)That what’s happening here so closely mirrors what happened then and there. How do we stop this? Every day is another kick in the teeth for freedom.
I was afraid you were going to say that.
Steph C (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:22AM EST (link)I’ve always had an interest in government shenanigans to a point… from a personal angle, i.e. just another one of the silent majority. It’s only in the last couple of years that I’ve actually done much talking about politics.
I was hoping perhaps, just because of my increased interest, that perhaps I was worrying too much.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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An activist government is scary, a clueless
Old_Crow (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:20AM EST (link)activist government is horror. Never have so many in high government positions known so little about finance and business.
We know this is going to end badly.
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison
I'm not ready to say they're clueless and I think
Achance (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:37AM EST (link)a lot of the commentary along those lines is just whistling past the graveyard. I submit that the stimulus and all the hoopla surrounding it is merely a headfake that has the added advantage of enriching and strengthening some Democrat front groups. The real issues for them are to eliminate the possibility of a Republican counterattack such as they experienced in ’94. That takes passage of card check and RTW repeal, something like a fairness doctrine to silence the opposition and retard its ablility to organize, and stacking all the vacant slots in the federal judiciary.
In Vino Veritas
Agreed.
Steph C (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:45AM EST (link)Instead of thinking they’re clueless, it would be better to realize that what they’re doing is exactly what they want to accomplish in end results.
Of course, they can’t admit that publicly, so how best do you sell it? By telling the truly clueless that its intent is the opposite.
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The best way to tell what a Democrat is doing
Achance (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:52AM EST (link)is to pay attention to what he’s complaining about you doing.
In Vino Veritas
Exactly. nt
Steph C (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 12:07PM EST (link)“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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I have an idea
justatron (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 10:36AM EST (link)Obama should just go ahead and commission Disney to build a life-like robot to be his press liason. Since the questions and answers are going to be pre-programmed anyway, he could just input the info into the robot and send it out to interact with the press, saving Dear Leader from having to sully himself with the unwashed masses.
And when he’s out of office, Disney can just install the thing into the Hall of Presidents and program it to do a song and dance with Lincoln…
NACHO RAMOS HAS BEEN RELEASED FROM PRISON
Scope (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 10:51AM EST (link)Very sorry Moe, thought all would like to know.
The moron needs help
10ksnooker (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:00AM EST (link)Fast … needs someone behind the current to type in the answers.
They don’t call him Odummer because he has nice pecks.
Evolution
jimmuy8 (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:12AM EST (link)From Senator Government to President Teleprompter.
I would volunteer to run the chiron.
Steve Maley (Diary) Tuesday, February 17th at 11:18AM EST (link)Imagine the possibilities.
The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
Why not...
bags64 Tuesday, February 17th at 11:48AM EST (link)Why not just let the person running the teleprompter come out and take the questions?
I can hear Jake Tapper now…, “Mr. President, are these your answers, or the person’s behind the curtain?”, or, “Will you stand by these answers once you’ve had a chance to read them to yourself once?”
The Wizard of Ooze
johnt Tuesday, February 17th at 12:06PM EST (link)needs a brain behind the curtain, actually a team of brains because as Eagle Watcher points out we’re dealing with a bunch of interns.
Still one more example of liberal incompetence flying in the face of an absurd self regard.
Is it to early to refer to The O as Amiable Dunce ll ?
“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville
Free ride
Thomas_Hauber Tuesday, February 17th at 12:50PM EST (link)There should be a betting pool for how long Obama and his administration get a free ride on this stuff.
Surely at some point the press is going to turn against him and start asking serious pointed questions?
What would be interesting
sdan (Diary) Wednesday, February 18th at 10:33AM EST (link)is someone hacking the system. Wonder how long he would keep talking before he realized something was wrong.