1. TeleprompterOne | 03.19.09

@csmonitor - Thanks so much. Like I mentioned, my dad was a Swiss Army Knife. He was very resourceful. Mom was a Crystal Ball.

2. nancysni | 03.19.09

Please– let up on he guy. We had a President who couldn’t read for 8 years.
Where was this article when the past pres was trying to “put food on his family”

3. MrUniteUs | 03.20.09

Obama took questions for almost an hour each this Tuesday and Wednesday.
at townhall meetings. Can’t count the number of questions he’s answered at press conferences and during interviews, and during 21 debates, over the last couple years. Certainly more than anyone responding to this article.

4. Marcosan1 | 03.20.09

CS Monitor obviously tries to further it’s right wing agenda as much as it can by continually suggesting that Obama uses a teleprompter for everything, which is complete BS. He uses one every now and then, yes, but he just as often speaks off the cuff. Let off a bit, won’t ya? A little more support for the President would be a little more patriotic, no?

5. wisewon | 03.20.09

every liberal in america hoped that bush would fail up to and includeing parseing his every word. this was called dissent. welcome to the party pal!

6. Bill in San Diego | 03.20.09

In the hands of Jimmy Orr, the CSMonitor has become strongly biased to the right. To his credit, Mr. Orr usually has a sense of humor and perspective. Besides, sympathy is in order: given that his own party has given him nothing positive or constructive to talk about recently, what can he do besides snipe at the party in power?

7. John | 03.20.09

Ha ha, I love it!! The article is funny and so are the responses! I still remember when Dan Quayle was excoriated for misspelling ‘potato’ so I don’t have much sympathy for any ribbing Obama takes on his gaffes or constant use of teleprompters. This is the guy who said he was going to visit all “57 states!” Three or four times I have heard him use “a” instead of “an” before a noun beginning with a vowel, as in “I am going to eat a apple.” There are more examples of such gaffes, I just can’t remember them now. If BO was a Republican he would be branded as stupid, you can count on it. He’s a Democrat, so instead he’s touted as highly intelligent.

There is a double standard. If Bush had made a ‘Special Olympics’ joke on Leno, would he be branded as insensitive and out of touch? Probably. Will BO be branded as such? We’ll see, but I predict not.

8. Smith | 03.20.09

omg, did you guys ever see the face Bush used to make when his teleprompter moved to fast?

9. Momof2 | 03.20.09

Can someone show me a transcript or speech that former President Bush gave without a teleprompter? I don’t believe there is one. When he did make a public statement, which was very, very infrequent, he always had a teleprompter. So, what I don’t get is: Why is this an issue now? I truly don’t understand this made-up smear tactic. President Obama has already spent more time speaking to the public in his first 60 days than President Bush did in any one year of his presidency. Rather than make up a controversy, why not make legitimate complaints about real issues?

10. PulSamsara | 03.20.09

This ridicule coming from the supporters of an illiterate cowboy who drove our nation into a giant chasm …. lol … no shame.

11. bbb | 03.20.09

Nobody takes this seriously - it is just in fun. And plenty of fun has been had at bush’s expense over his speaking ability. And PLEASE don’t make remarks about how poking fun at the President is not patriotic! If that is so, then the vast majority of US citizens should all be considered unpatriotic.

12. Sportin’ Life | 03.20.09

Is BO’s teleprompter use a significant departure from recent Presidencies? I understand that he’s more heavily involved in writing his speeches–and was especially so during the campaign–than is typical for politicians at his level, so this seems like a particularly silly cheap shot. It’s amusing, I suppose, but also disrespectful and purposeless.

13. Judi M. | 03.20.09

Although this article is presented as humor, it is totally disrepectful of the President of the United States and therefore is not funny at all, just offensive and pathetic.

President Obama, as many commenters have already noted above, has answered hundreds of complicated questions without the aid of a teleprompter. And I suspect Mr. Obama’s IQ is an easy 30 points higher than Mr. Orr’s. I think Mr. Orr knows this and is envious.

14. Phil | 03.20.09

LOL… It really amazes me the topics and conversation pieces which are raised to avert attention from what is really happening. I believe that the use of a teleprompter or any other means of getting information across to the public is warranted… It is better than being kept in the dark as to what is happening. I believe that the dispersement of information is called showing accountability….. Something the we have not had in 8 years….

15. Arthur Lemay | 03.20.09

The teleprompter is device for lying to the public, and deceiving us into thinking Obama is an honest man. Instead it is a propaganda tool for repeating the same old tired lies — it is like Goebbel’s prescription “tell a lie loud enough and often enough and people will believe it.”

The Obama robots who post to many web sites always blame Bush for the financial problems caused by the Democrats who took over control of Congress in 2006. Bush fought tooth and nail to get Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under control and failed. These organizations were under a mandate from the Democrats to spend 50% of its funds on bad mortgages and who kept Bush out of it by bribes to the same Democrats who are hypocritically blaming Bush.

The Congress is using earmarks to put money into their relatives’ and spouse’s pockets — and Obama himself earmarked to to a Chicago Hospital Group who reciprocated by giving his wife a nonsensical job at $360,000 a year. Is this ethical? The job did not exist before, or after the Obama family moved to the White House. Obama used ACORN this way too.

Obama’s teleprompter aids and abets him in his dishonesty.

16. Chris | 03.20.09

Does protocol mandate that the press rise to stand when the teleprompter is brought into the room?

17. David | 03.20.09

This article is hillarious - but the responses are even better. Hey, Judy M - where were you wen Bush was being excoriated mercilessly? Disrespectful? Where were you when members of the left were wishing Bush would die?

This is lighthearted humor and I love it - just as I loved some of the more lighthearted parodies of Bush’s actions and mannerisms. I suggest the libs grow up.

18. Kelly Lee | 03.20.09

Ha - good article.

Apparently he’s had some stories leak on his blog. is this a joke?!?

http://weeklyworldnews.com/mutants/7035/obamas-teleprompter-blog/

19. Tomi A | 03.20.09

OK. To everyone constantly referencing this mystical, magical, A.I. teleprompter… You guys know that’s not real - right? Rush may believe that a teleprompter is, in fact, a magical being. Judging by the loudly rustling papers that frequently can be heard on the air during his show, it is clear that he fears even basic technology that could eliminate such an annoyance. Perhaps his own handlers have convinced him of such fantasy as a magical living teleprompter? Or, more likely, this is the only idiocy he can think up to fill in the time between commercials on his show. Of course, this Science Fiction automatically becomes substituted as your reality, and you can be found, like good little sheep, out here in the real world regurgitating this lunacy.
CONGRATULATIONS! You’re a lemming!!!!

20. Leftlain | 03.20.09

I think the teleprompter should be allowed to give its own press conferences. If it is going to run the country then we at least have a right to know where it stands on the issues of the day. It is clear the Obama does not do well without it, maybe it knows who issued the AIG bonus ?

21. Hi Qu Gus | 03.20.09

While the teleprompter blog is insightful and funny, it is sad when representatives of the executive branch of the federal government spend their time attacking private citizens. We have talked for 5 months about “fixing” the banks. We were all waiting for TG’s big speech on how we will fix the banks. Still to this day there is no plan on what we need to do to fix the banks. Please executive branch, lets try to actually analyze why the banks have such problems (going back many years of policy decisions) and determine effective corrective actions. Until that day comes, let the jokes fly.

22. MGB | 03.21.09

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Will you libs stop your damn crying already? This just in, your “great hope” won, still can’t handle it eh?

As for CSM being “right-leaning”, yes, go back to the fall when every day was Sarah Palin-bash day here. You just can’t take it.

And yeah wow, I’m amazed that he’s been able to answer hard questions like “What’s it like to break the glass ceiling?” without a teleprompter. Besides, all he needs is Rahm Emanuel or Greg Craig to help him with those rough spots.

23. SubVet | 03.21.09

Listen all, we have a President that is spitting in eye of most of the country. He has openly professed Marxist beliefs of wealth sharing with “Joe the Plumber”, stated that he is going to push forth an agenda of Nationalism Health Care, touched on the idea of Nationalism Banks and reversed Stem Cell Research (which will lead to embrio harvesting). If he doesn’t have a telepromter in front of him he comes across as “less intlegent” than Bush. He thinks it’s funny to make “Short Bus” jokes on a late night comedy show.

He is the PRESIDENT of the counrty. He is the shining light of who we are as Americans. He is the voice of our country and is holding parties for his buddies eating 100 dollar a pound meat while YOU clip coupons and figure the cost per ounce for cereal at the store.

24. TELEPROMPTER PRESIDENT | 03.21.09

We’re tracking Obama’s ongoing bloopers on

http://www.TeleprompterPresident.com - Obama Bloopers & Commentary!

25. Mark | 03.22.09

We (IHateTheMedia.com) have filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Office of the President to obtain a video of the talk by President Obama and the Irish Prime Minister Cowan.

http://tinyurl.com/free-the-tape

IF you’d like to see the video, please make sure to Digg it!!
http://digg.com/politics/Freedom_of_Information_Act_for_Obama_Thanking_Himself_Video

26. Dead Ed | 03.22.09

The very same people that suffered from Bush Hatred Derangement Syndrome now suffer a new illness. It’s Obama Mania & it’s real.

definition 1:the euphoric feeling of unimpotent ecstacy at the very sight of the Obamessiah, sometimes causing people to cream in their jeans (see PMSNBC, Communist News Network or See-BS)

definition 2: the belief that The Annointed One will litterally change the world and fix everything that is wrong with our lives

Obama… Mania…
If it wasn’t sad, it’d be funny.

27. Herman Landow | 03.23.09

So what if he is a good speaker, he is just reading off the telepromter.

Herman Landow
from http://www.hermanlandow.blogspot.com

28. William | 03.23.09

So what is new?

“The Great Communicator”, Mr. Reagan, was excellent in handling off-the-cuff remarks and one-liners. However, for speeches, he was totally dependent on his teleprompters.

29. quercus | 03.23.09

Every pol in America and most of the world uses a teleprompter. It’s an electronic verion of paper notes. That’s all.

I’ve seen speakers start to read the written notes the last speker left on the podium. It’s usually a sign that the speaker is very nervous or haven’t read the remarks they are going to make ahead of time.

Talk about a non issue. But I must say it’s amazing how anything no matter how trivial, is turned into a condemnation of Obama by those who so obviously have bought into the foolishness about him destroying the country.

Follks, you really don’w want this guy to fail. Because if he does, you won’t be able to take your “I told you so” to the store to buy food, medicine, etc. Talk about the ultimate hollow victory.

30. joe in ks | 03.23.09

i am sadden by the pettiness of many of the comments here. by most accounts, prez obama is a thoughtful man and he has good speaking ability. prez bush was not a gifted speaker, but he has other good qualities.

to belittle the prez for this is nothing but showing one’s ideological blindness. how does one suppose to make hundred of speeches? grow up kids.

31. publikspkr | 03.24.09

It is for good reason that every president has used a teleprompter since they were invented. They work in such a fishbowl that extemporaneous remarks carry severe potential for misinterpretation. It’s either write the speech beforehand and pick it over to eliminate every trigger for professionally offendable interest groups (especially the other party), or videotape the whole thing in private and edit it before release. That last one is usually not an option. It’s the press and the people who force the teleprompter on the president, and it has little to do with public speaking ability.

32. Dead Ed | 03.26.09

He has no public speaking ability. Have you EVER heard him speak off-the-cuff? “Um… Uh… Ummm… You know… Yo… Gee… Um… Uh…”. The guy can sure read to the public. But he sure don’t have any public speaking abilties. He’s a reader & and he’s reading you bedtime stories so you can SLEEP better at night. TRUTH is… Obama lied. The economy died. We could’ve had a hero (McCain) but got the three stooges instead (Harry, Girly & O). ATLAS is shrugging, folks. Wake up! We elected O.B.A.M.A. One Bad Mistake America.

33. Beth in Georgia | 03.27.09

President Obama does NOT “constantly use a teleprompter.”

The Irish prime minister, Brian Cowen, not Obama, nervously read a few seconds of the wrong speech.
Obama then made a joke to make him feel better, by pretending to do the same thing (I’d like to thank President Obama) It got a huge laugh, especially from Brian Cowen.
Another NON-NEWS event hyped by the yellow press into something it’s not.

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