What If Obama’s Teleprompter Failed at Valley Forge?
Obama: “The trouble back at the time of the Revolution was basically the same as it is today — most people just didn’t trust their government to know what’s best for them. Sure, the government had imposed a tea tax, a stamp tax, and some other taxes. Instead of thinking about their own selfish desires, the people should have considered all the good the government could have done with the money, how it could have spent it to stimulate the economy. Too bad the king didn’t think of collecting the revenue he needed by taxing only the rich. That could have saved a whole lot of grief.
“It was also unfortunate that we didn’t have the Fairness Doctrine back then. If we had, then those raucous Sons of Liberty meetings where the rabble-rousers clouded people’s minds with a lot of fishy statements about the government would have been balanced with some reasonable speakers. Those meetings were like Fox News. Not the least bit fair and balanced.”
Emanuel yells into his cell phone: “Get me the head of the Secret Service detail there!”
Obama: “If Americans had listened to reason back in 1776, they would have ditched that rebellion talk and stayed with England. They could have had universal health care long ago. Instead of enlisting in the army to fight, men could have gone to college to get degrees that would boost their earning power. And the government could have created good green jobs for them, such as cleaning up the mess those hooligans made of Boston Harbor with their tea party.
“You know, if I had been a community organizer in Philadelphia back in 1776, I’d have said to Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, ‘Hey, let’s cool the independence talk. How about if we meet over at my house for a few beers with the Tory leaders? I’m sure we can talk things out.’”
Emanuel: “Tell one of the Secret Service guys to tackle him!”
Obama: “In conclusion, Americans made a bad mistake with the revolution. All that stuff about individual rights and limited government badly delayed our progress into becoming a socially just nation. That’s what I’m finally going to do, if my un-American opponents will just stop talking and get out of the way. Thank you very much.”
The camera swings to show the hand-picked audience applauding wildly. Emanuel and Gibbs stare at the scroll at the bottom of the screen: “Secretary of State Clinton announces formation of 2012 campaign committee.”
George, people will read your work and conclude that you think Obama is a nincompoop. You do realize he is an accomplished Community Organizer, the first one to ever become president. If you mute his speech and imagine him seated on the lap of a ventriloquist and watch how he can nail the location of either teleprompter every 45 seconds, you realize he could be a decent ventriloquist dummy, the first one to ever become president. He is so precise in his speech pattern, the lilting and lisping, that he needs a teleprompter to pace himself. Nancy Pelosi confirmed that he was a gift from God, the first one to become president.
He is truly a great man, despite being dumber than a rock, he is a great man. He has so much ability, he can run two wars at the same time, on the other side of the world, with all most no effort. Other war time presidents took up nearly all their Community Organizing time worrying over their silly wars. Obama manages his time so well that after a long vacation, he has enough time he can make a speech to school children promoting himself as their Big Brother and confidant, just in case he decides it is necessary to keep running every four years for the benefit of the country and if the people need him!
This imagined scene accurately depicts what passes for The One’s “thought processes”. In any given situation, His “soaring rhetoric”, and the thoughts mirrored by same, boil down to;
1. Individuals are dangerous; only collectivism is safe.(Preferably run by Me.)
2. Everyone who disagrees with Me, even slightly, is stupid and evil.
3. Anyone who agrees with Me 150% is good. (Note the mathematical impossibility in that statement.)
4. I Am Perfect.
5. I Like Waffles, Too.
I honestly believe we’d be better off with Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss in the White House. He at least occasionally realizes that he’s an idiot, even if he never does anything to rectify the situation.
The One believes that He possesses Absolute Wisdom. And there is nothing more potentially catastrophic than an arrogant, narcissistic fool who believes he is a deity. If you don’t believe me, look up Caligula or Nero sometime.
(Preferably in an encyclopedia, not on the Internet.)
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Yeah, George.
Well as long as we’re building straw men why stop there? Why not an imaginary speech where Obama forgets what country he’s president of, claims triangles have 4 sides and then performs an abortion right at the podium. The sky’s the limit when you can make up whatever stupid s*** you want.
What if Palin’s teleprompter failed at the RNC Convention? What if it fails in Asia?
Palin’s teleprompter DID fail at the RNC- and she didn’t miss a beat. You stepped in that one!
Yeah, why not imagine a speech where Obama thinks the United States have 57 states, Austrian is a language, DVDs are appropriate presents to the British PM and an iPod to the Queen, a tornado kills 10,000 people when the death count is actually 12, Arkansas is closer to Kentucky than Illinois, the Americans liberated Auschwitz, his mom and dad got together because of Selma, and Afghans speak Arabic.
Oh, wait.
6. Bohemond:
“Palin’s teleprompter DID fail at the RNC- and she didn’t miss a beat. You stepped in that one!”
Actually, you stepped in it, Bohemond:
K. Daniel Glover, a witness, writes:
“Don’t believe the myth. I watched the speech from the area to the left and behind the stage in the Xcel Center and had a perfect view of the teleprompter. It worked fine. I have the footage to prove it.”
PJM’s own Ed Driscoll writes:
“I can second what Danny Glover writes. Because of the positioning of the PJTV booth, I had a clear view of the teleprompter as well, and it never conked out.”
Your turn.
With any luck, speeches are a combination of content and delivery.
Any self-respecting preener would not waste any time on content, because they know from community organizing experience that delivery is everything. Just dazzle them, dude!
So where is the content going to come from? No problem, someone invented an electronic prosthesis for this. We call it the teleprompter. It works because artificial content can be made to sound as good as authentic content if the delivery is sufficiently dramatic.
Some trouble makers from the tea parties are complaining about the emptiness of the package, but they do not really matter, because these clingers are obsessed with content, and don’t know a peep about delivery. These guys are crazy. They would schedule their Valley Forge visit in winter if you let them!
Wouldn’t it be a better idea to WAIT to consider a healthcare plan AFTER: We see
1. what will become of the economic stimulus plan. So far, the Obama branch of this porker give-away has done virtually nothing to stimulate the economy. The American economy, at the control of Obama, is failing.
2. what will become of the TARP loans. Will GM default on the aprox. 81 Billion dollars and how will this affect the U.S. budget and deficit.
3. what will become of Social Security, slated to come crashing down in a few short years. That’s when the greater bulk of baby-boomers will definitively retire and cause the boat to list.
4. will home and auto sales rebound, because right now there is nothing going on in either market. The “clucker” program did nothing to substantially aid the American car markers — although it did help our foreign auto maker friends. Let’s wait and make certain that these extremely crucial markets recover before leaping into massive healthcare overhauls.
5. what will happen with the current business downturn and unemployment. Obama assured that there would be no greater average unemployment than 8%, and we are at 10%. In some areas of the country inflation is double-digits, 14, 16, 20 percent.
6. what will need to be done to cure the rocketing high deficits.
7. what will happen when, since the timing is right, the Ron Pauls will get their way and audit the Federal Reserve. Recall what happened when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac coughed-up.
8. what will be the tax rate consequences due to the unrestrained spending spree of the past 24 months. Trillions of dollars will have to be paid in increased taxes. There’s talk about adding a value added tax; will this be in addition to the progressive tax? Will there be a tax revolution, all of which could mean that the funds for a national government controlled health plan could be severely limited. This would translate into exceedingly limited services in health care for people.
9. what will happen if $500 Billion are taken from Medicare. Take it now and wait to see what happens. Besides everything short of full anarchy by the elderly, this is adding much more stress to an already stressed system.
Don’t be surprised that Obama, on his 112th “new” pitch to sell his (snake oil) health plan, will offer nothing substantial; and, certainly nothing that could not wait until prudently we resolve each and every issue mentioned. American’s are saying they are fine with the insurance and health care arrangements they currently have. Perhaps leaving well enough alone is best. Certainly, over the summer we have seen what “it could be worse” looks like, and nobody cares for Socialism in the U.S.A.
As I understand it, President Clinton’s Teleprompter actually did fail during one of his State-of-the-Union addresses, and he continued on, citing facts and figures, for more than 15 minutes. Now THAT was a president! Not only brilliant, but a man who could indulge in his peccadillos without ever leaving his desk!
President Obama, the talented, uh, speaker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk5aAB7YlgU&feature=related
President Obama claims to have visited 57 states in last year’s campaign:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws&feature=related
President lost even with his teleprompter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iap0LMsa36w&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt5dY3vVoZ0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJt0yXjpDNA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI2opF3GeSc&feature=related
Without his teleprompter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SId54_LzOs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR_GJviltL4&feature=related
President Obama is truly an empty suit. His speech is make or break for his beloved ObamaCare.
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Now and Then:
6. Bohemond:
“Palin’s teleprompter DID fail at the RNC- and she didn’t miss a beat. You stepped in that one!”
Actually, you stepped in it, Bohemond:
K. Daniel Glover, a witness, writes:
“Don’t believe the myth. I watched the speech from the area to the left and behind the stage in the Xcel Center and had a perfect view of the teleprompter. It worked fine. I have the footage to prove it.”
PJM’s own Ed Driscoll writes:
“I can second what Danny Glover writes. Because of the positioning of the PJTV booth, I had a clear view of the teleprompter as well, and it never conked out.”
Your turn.
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Did Sarah Palin’s teleprompter “conk out”? No, but…
Halfway through Sarah Palin’s speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.
According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech. The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani’s speech, explaining his significant deviations from his speech. [see the update below on this part]
Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory [and relying on her printed text, clearly looking down occasionally at the printed page], to deliver her speech without the teleprompter cued to the appropriate point in her speech.
Contrast this to Barack Obama who, when last his teleprompter malfunctioned, was left stuttering before a crowd unable to advance his speech until the problem was resolved.
Sarah Palin. Winner.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2008/09/04/breaking-sarah-palin-winged-her-speech-bec/
13. fireyourguns:
“According to sources close to the McCain campaign . . . ”
Consider the source. The McCain campaign created the myth to begin with. When they were called on it, they made up your version. You gotta do better than that, fireyourgubs.
Now and Then:
13. fireyourguns:
“According to sources close to the McCain campaign . . . ”
Consider the source. The McCain campaign created the myth to begin with. When they were called on it, they made up your version. You gotta do better than that, fireyourgubs.
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Excuse me, I didn’t realize that you were standing there monitoring Sarah Palin’s teleprompter during her RNC acceptance speech. Or, is it that you just choose to be selective in the bs that you decide to spew into cyberspace? Either way, it makes no difference, as you seem to have little to no credibility on any PJM thread that you decide to “enlighten us with your witty charm” on. People can believe what they want! I at least provided a link in opposition to your improbable claim. Where was yours in support? I’m sure that there must be tons of them floating through the propaganda machine known as the left wing blogosphere. Actually, I do “consider the source” whereas you obviously couldn’t get passed the fact that the source was “close to the McCain campaign”, immediately making it irrelevant in your biased little mind… sound about right?
By the way, just what does Sarah Palin have to do with Obama’s failures?
to me
15. fireyourguns:
“enlighten us with your witty charm”
Well, that’s an interesting description. And thank you. That said, your position is desperate and indefensible, and that’s not based on me saying it, it’s based on what you write. ” . . . close to the McCain campaign” is virtually identical to Fox News and “Some people say . . . ” It jsut happens that those “people” are in the break room at Fox News. I named two sources, one a regular contributor to this very site. You offer “a source close to the McCain campaign. I’m prepared to go to court, are you?
By the way, Sarah Palin has nothing to do with anything. You’ll come around to that POV soon enough.
Great speech. The master at work. Watch the conservatives pucker, like McConnell, who looked like somebody just bedded his twink, or Lindsay Graham, who couldn’t decide whether to clap or not. CONVICTION!
Do you know why your “Obama Speak” sounds exactly right? Because that IS the way he extemporizes.
And why is that? Because he is well-indoctrinated (think of his confident sociological analysis of the role of guns and God among voters in the Midwest), but he is not well-educated.
He struggles out loud sometimes to find exactly the right political or historical anecdote; he’s in the ballpark, but can’t quite produce it.
I don’t think he knows ordinary facts that someone of his educational background would generally know: Who fought at the battle of Cannae; who was Gustavus Adolphus. He’s the kind of man who might confidently reference a “Parthenon Shot.”
That’s why his off-the-cuff speeches sound like crude boilerplate. That’s what happens when you acquire credentials and indoctrination, but not education: You can’t write your own autobiography and you can’t speak without electronic backup.
Now I’ll report to the woodshed…
Get a life.
Now and Then:
15. fireyourguns:
“enlighten us with your witty charm”
Well, that’s an interesting description. And thank you. That said, your position is desperate and indefensible, and that’s not based on me saying it, it’s based on what you write. ” . . . close to the McCain campaign” is virtually identical to Fox News and “Some people say . . . ” It jsut happens that those “people” are in the break room at Fox News. I named two sources, one a regular contributor to this very site. You offer “a source close to the McCain campaign. I’m prepared to go to court, are you?
By the way, Sarah Palin has nothing to do with anything. You’ll come around to that POV soon enough.
Great speech. The master at work. Watch the conservatives pucker, like McConnell, who looked like somebody just bedded his twink, or Lindsay Graham, who couldn’t decide whether to clap or not. CONVICTION!
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Well, there you go, you made my point! I see that the typically indoctrinated liberal rhetoric of… “the McCain campaign, coupled with Fox News conspiracy paranoia is alive and well with you. Let me guess, 9/11 was an inside job, right?
Go to court? What for? You’d show up with your 10,000 pieces of evidence, I’d show up with just what I needed, the Judge would look at you like you’re some kind of an idiot, and I’d have to agree. Spare yourself the grief!
Great speech? I didn’t see it, but here’s one that I really like:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400581157986024.html
fireyourgubs . . . There’s the different between you and me. I believe in truth and proof. You, well, you believe in all things Murdoch. Keep twisting, gubster.
BTW, sources close to the Obama administration say last night’s speech put healthcare reform over the top. i believe they’re right.
18. Real American Winner:
“Get a life.”
Nice Parthian Shot, Winner!
Obama would never be found at Valley Forge;places like that are cold, and reserved only for the white”ice people”,like Washington, and other dead white males.
#16 NOW&THEN& (his brain malfunctions).You are clearly delusional:Sarah Palin tore apart Obama’s euphemisms and rhetorical camouflage,and cut through to expose the ugly Mengelian reality of Obama care. In the proces, she singlehandedly,put the libtards on the defensive,and avenged herself ,for their attempts to assassinate her character.It took 2 words:”Death panel”,on you tube to eviscerate Obama.By comparison his vulgar, strident,mendacious eructations last night,can be described concisely as: DROOL FROM THE FOOL!
He should use decent teleprompter software!