The veracity of dopes, as radio man Lincoln Brown described things on the air during our chat this morning. This video is comedy gold, as Legal Insurrection says. Comedy. Gold.
By the way: That video was shot in Madison, WI. But we southerners are the hayseed rubes…
Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.
The tragedy is that those idiots are allowed to vote!
Since our society has become infantilized, the voting age should be raised to 25, at least. Also, any “kids” still on their parent’s health insurance at 26 or SCHIP at 28 should be disenfranchised until they cut those bonds.
We threw the baby out with the bathwater with the 18 year-old vote. I don’t think it is likely that the amendment will be repealed but there are some things that can and should be done. The first is if they are claimed as dependents by their parents, they must maintain their parent’s address for voter registration and vote absentee if they’re in school. Only God knows how many college students vote absentee in their parent’s home district and vote in person where they go to school. The states are pretty good at making sure you can’t have a driver’s license and other licenses in multiple states; the same sort of enforcement needs to happen with voter registration. Show me one college/university district in the Country that isn’t deeply Blue with the minor exception of a few religious schools. College students seriously distort the politics in districts near the college.
I’m particularly vehement about them today because yesterday I had the misfortune of being in line behind a young female college student as I picked up a prescription for my wife. With her purple hair and tats and her fashionably ragged but very expensive clothes she was raging at the clerk because Medicaid wouldn’t pay for some or another drug she wanted. It is tragic that the creature can vote and might even reproduce.
The argument at the time (during the Vietnam war) was that if an 18 year old could fight and die for his country, he should be allowed to vote. Never mind the fact that none of the 18-20 year olds who fought and died in all of America’s previous wars weren’t allowed to vote. Anyway, that was the argument.
Today, with an all volunteer military, I still support the right of them to vote. They volunteered for military service in time of war. The “best and brightest” of this generation are the ones who answered the call. I respect the hell out of them.
As for the rest of that generation, not so much.
I know the history; I got my “Greetings and salutations, you are hereby ordered to report …” letter a few weeks before I voted in my first election in 1968. I was in Georgia, one of two states that allowed 18 year-olds to vote.
It was an is a compelling argument that if the government can compel you to risk your life, you should be able to vote for or against that government. The solution was to extend the franchise to the military but otherwise leave it at 21. Trouble is these days 21 is the new 12.
Maybe the teleprompter should run for office…
TOTUS!
but it looked to me like they did use teleprompters for at least their closing remarks.
they should have used avatars, Romney looks pretty much like the square-jawed Max Headroom anyway, and Obama could use a slightly darkened picture of Bob from the Church of the Subgenius.
That’s pretty sad that our nations future depends on these people.
None of them saw fit to mention that Romney didn’t have a teleprompter either.
I weep for my country.
Ha ha, the joke’s on you, Bryan.
People keep asking why he wouldn’t look Romney in the eye, he was always looking down, seemed distracted.
That’s because they didn’t know about the Dick Tracy, two-way, wrist teleprompter that Obama had secreted onto the podium.
Unfortunately, it was powered by used Solyndra solar panels and in that altitude, there was quite a bit of Himalayan Anegg interference. He asked for an LCD display, but somehow it got translated into an LDS display instead and all he got were lyrics from The Book of Mormon musical.
Believing this was a disgusting attack on religion which he vehemently opposes, he immediately threw the debate in an act of great sportsmanship.
And, it’s all because he DID get to use his mini-teleprompter…so those northerners really do know their cheesy excuses and alibis after all.
Now they’re also claiming Romney cheated!
He used notes!
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/10/05/upon-further-review-mitt-romney-may-have-cheated-to-win-the-debate/
How long is it going to take for these folks to admit a complicit, corrupt media can’t cover for Obama’s gross incompetence in a debate?
No, it was even worse than that. Romney used his BRAIN! Totes unfair!
…greater devastation will strike them, Lily, when they discover that Mit didn’t have to even do that!
Actually, he used the Diane Feinstein method of writing on his hand.
Oh, come on. If you’ve been an engaged Potus for 4 years, you should know all this policy and budget stuff cold.
If you have been a meeting skipping, fundraising trip taking, celebrity partying, avid golfing, disengaged empty suit, then no amount of debate prep is going to prepare you for 90 whole minutes of having to think.
October 11 is the VP debate, and Ryan should mop the floor with Biden.
Then October 16 is the town hall format – you just know the Demos will load up with ringer questions there.
Then a week later – Foreign Policy!
Sorry Mr. “O” – no amount of cramming is going to catch you up. You’d be better off calling in sick.
I was astounded at how none of the people in the video actually seemed to have any understanding of what the teleprompter actually does – and doesn’t – do.
As I understand it, a teleprompter simply offers a scrolling, magnified view of a prepared text so that a speaker can read it while looking up, at his audience, rather than down at his podium. Unless that text can be changed while the text is being displayed – and I’m not sure about that – I don’t see how a teleprompter can possibly be useful in a debate.
Now, IF the text can be changed dynamically, it would be the equivalent of someone talking in the speaker’s ear via an ear bud in real time. That WOULD help a debater because whoever is speaking into the ear bud could cite refutations to give to the speaker which he could use against his debate opponent.
But if the text can’t be changed on the fly, then the only way a teleprompter would be useful on a debate was if it contained exactly all the refutations and counter-arguments needed in exactly the order in which the opponent made them. And what are the changes of that? As long as the opponent hasn’t actually published all his arguments in the exact order he intends to make them in advance of the debate, the teleprompter text is not going to have the right counter-arguments in the right order.
Naturally, if a debater could be assisted by other people via either a teleprompter or an ear bud, he would be cheating since the idea of a debate like the one the other night is to get answers that reflect of the debater himself, NOT his handlers/apologists/flacks. The people interviewed for the video don’t seem to get that. Or maybe they think cheating is fine as long as it is Obama that is cheating.
A Teleprompter would be of little actual use in a genuine debate; even assuming that an alert staffer could quickly type up a few response bullet points, Obama would still have to read them and integrate them into a coherent two or three minute response. If he’s got good conditioned reflexes, so that the response bullet points set off a previously-programmed sound bite—sort of the way a red queen set off a preconditioned response in Laurence Harvey—that could work, sort of, but it would still sound forced.
However, I suspect that having the Teleprompter there would be Obama’s equivalent of Linus’ security blanket. This is, after all, a man who uses the Teleprompter when he’s addressing elementary-school children; one can only imagine the bottomless terror he experienced at having to face an adult without it.
What amazes me Buzz, is how many people even on PJMedia didn’t see the roundhouse coming in this debate. Romney is a professional debater with a sterling executive career in argument and negotiation. Romney stood toe to toe Gingrich, about as good at down and dirty debate as the political stage offers.
And you just know Romney is licking his chops with memorization of facts concerning this abysmal record.
Thank God for Jim Lehrer being old and feeble. They only thing that was going to save Obama was the bell and though old Jim was trying, Romney kept punching right thru it.
Don’t worry — Obama and TOTUS exchanged hugs after the debate.
Dang, them was a hard questum! Kollidge don’t appear to be heppin’ them folks any too good.
I believe oral qualifiers for PhD exams are often at least an hour long.
You know, PhD. Like, if you want to teach somewhere prestigious like University of Chicago. And aren’t black.
Of course, you could teach if you had a lot of real world experience in the subject matter or were the innovator of some new development in the field, perhaps with papers behind your name. That happens too.
Or, you could just be black and socially acceptable.
… simply remember that Derrick Bell recommended you for your J.D. when your recital of Critical Race Theory convinced him that you knew all it was necessary to know about Constitutional Law…in the U.S. of A. … where the Chicago thugs would teach you the rest, as it were on the job … Golf IS a great pastime!
Tell ya what, Barry. We can’t give you an interactive teleprompter, but we will let you use your Magic 8 Ball next time.