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From Drudge’s Mouth to the Today Show’s Producers

By | 06.08.09 | 2:13 pm

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 More…

Unprompted Anti-Semitism

By | 05.14.09 | 2:52 pm

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 More…

Further Adventures in TelePrompTerville

By | 04.03.09 | 11:19 am

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 More…