teleprompter

In the wake of Vice President Biden’s joke, the “Obama can’t talk without a teleprompter” meme has finally crossed over — it was the subject of a four-minute color segment on Monday’s episode of NBC’s “Today,” which featured such scoops as an interview with the conservative author of the Obama teleprompter blog, the revelation that [...]

So an Arkansas state senator calls Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) “that Jew,” and in the course of explaining away the remark through a folksy defense of “traditional values” — apparently this gentleman thinks Andy Griffith was an anti-Semite or something — he defends himself by saying, “I don’t use a teleprompter and occasionally I put [...]

I’d thought that the “Obama can’t speak without a TelePrompTer” meme had died down, but Nick Robinson of The Guardian (U.K.) wrote a sexed-up blog post in which he transcribed Obama’s answer to his press conference question, leaving in all the pauses and adding sometimes bawdy notes about what Robinson imagines Obama was thinking at [...]