It is disturbing that Barack Obama can't get through a press conference without cue cards. The prez ditched his ubiquitous TelePrompTer for a giant screen TV. Why doesn't he just do what some TV network correspondents used to do? Record, play back through an ear bud, and parrot the script.Wash Post TV critic Tom Shales: "...something seemed to be wrong with the prompting device, which reportedly had been relocated to the back of the room. Obama was not looking squarely into the camera the way he usually does when talking to us "folks at home." He wasn't making eye contact as effectively as usual; in fact his eyes looked a little blurry and weary. His delivery was also somewhat halting at times."
POTUS's TOTUS (TelePrompTer) Monday morning quarterbacks last night's performance: "I was having breakfast in the Commissary this morning, and I overheard some of the Advance team talking about last night's performance. They were impressed that Big Guy was able to say so many sentences without a "real" teleprompter. I had to run out of the room so that no one could see the tears running down my screens. Sorry ... it's been a tough week. You see, the Obamatron is me. It's kind of like Cinderella and Gibbsy is my Fairy Godmother who waves his magic wand and I go from two small screens to one, slick screen. Well not really, they just plugged my cables into a 52-inch flat screen, instead of the mini-LCDs that sit on the floor. Same words, just a different package. And a bigger package. But I digress.I'm a computer after all, and when people can't see past the gloss and the smooth lines, and thin brackets and sleek screens, not bothering to see the real me, the real guts, it hurts. I have a brain, people. This is the best way to look at it: my LCD component is to Big Boy, what the sleeveless dress is to Michelle."
So Obama deigned to recognizeThe Washington Times at last night's press conf? Not the usual suspects - WaPo, NYT, WSJ, LA Times, Chicago Trib et al.
Obama called on the pre-selected Politico, Stars & Stripes, Ebony reporters as well as the Usual TV Network Suspects.
Related: "President Obama's dull delivery during press conference fails to inspire" NYDN "What Obama Said And What He Meant" Politico
after watching the many faces of Eve I mean Obama on various tv venues the past week or so I have one thought. BI-POLAR
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ReplyDeleteThe Houston Chronicle isn't helping either I hope they don't plan on being part of the newspaper bailout because they are not helping Obama's plans to secure the Mexican Border.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/03/border-patrol-wants-to-deflower-mexican.html
The plan for Mexican Drug Violence on the Mexican Border. This Plan is to use a defoliant but there has been an injunction stopping the use on a 1.1 mile test strip between Nueva Laredo and Laredo.
Obama's plans to secure the Mexican Border getting flack from the GREENS.
Yeah this isn't going to help Michelle's children.
Anon: The politically correct term for multiple personalities as listed in the DSM IV: Dissociative Personality Disorder. Perhaps Obama has a pinch of histrionics thrown into his bizarrely inappropriate behavioral stew.
ReplyDeleteLaughing about the economy on "60 Minutes" and then blowing it off as "gallows humor?" Steve Kroft was right to ask him about being "punch drunk." I heard Fox News contributor Fred Barnes on Bret Baier's show branding Kroft rude. I don't think so. Obama's "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" cackling was disturbing... Big gime.
Same thing with his performance on Jay Leno. What do they say about people who laugh at the wrong times...???
Marty since retiring my "PC" tolerance has diminished considerably. I thought I was being good.Could have been much worse LOL. As far as his laugh goes I think he does it when he is nervous. It was interesting watching Emanuel, Gibbs, Axelrod off on the side near the end. Gibbs had that smirky little ass wipe smile on his face while axelrod looked his normal hitman self while Emanuel was pensive with that half finger up to his mouth. I wonder which one was the one that yelled out last question about 7 minutes to the hour.
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