Teleprompter Dependency Not Such a Good Idea?

For the past eight years we kept hearing what an idiot President George W. Bush was. He was ridiculed relentlessly because he didn’t speak proper English at times and he mispronounced words on occasion. He was constantly called a babbling buffoon or a bumbling idiot.

Of course, it didn’t help that he was being covered by a mainstream media that was secretly rooting for him to bumble so they could plaster his faults on the front page of the newspapers, in prime time news broadcasts and on late night comedy shows just to humiliate him.

I will admit that there were times when President Bush spoke that I wished he hadn’t. There were times when I would just cringe and shake my head. But at least, with all his human faults on display, he was real and he never let the public ridicule destroy him or his resolve to stay true to his beliefs.

Skip forward to today. We now have President Obama who is being touted as a great orator. At times he is even compared to President Ronald Reagan, one of our nation’s greatest orators. The mainstream media fawns over how well he speaks and how intelligent he appears. What they don’t tell you or spend any time covering is the fact that he relies very heavily on a teleprompter. He says very little without it being written out for him before hand and scrolled on a screen for him to read. I can bet if President Bush had used a teleprompter more often, not just for “State of the Union Addresses” and other formal speeches, he would have been just as well spoken or sounded just as intelligent.

The teleprompter has served President Obama very well. It has kept him from appearing like a stuttering boob, which happened often on the campaign trail…that is until last night during the St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the White House.

In case you missed it…which you probably did if you rely on the mainstream media for your information…President Obama’s teleprompter was very cruel to him and the Prime Minister of Ireland.

According to Sky News, "Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address in Washington when he realized it all sounded a bit too familiar.

It was. He was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just read from the same teleprompter.

Mr. Cowen stopped, turned to the president and said: 'That's your speech.'

A laughing Mr. Obama returned to the podium to take over but it seems the script had finally been switched and the US president ended up thanking himself for inviting everyone to the party."

Can you imagine the heyday the mainstream media would have had if this had happened to President Bush? This incident would have been the main conversation topic around water coolers nation wide and he would have been the butt of every joke on late night television… like the shoe throwing incident or the time the poor guy threw up at a state dinner given in his honor by the Japanese Prime Minister. But, alas, this embarrassing situation happened to the mainstream media’s wonder boy so nothing has been said...at least not in American papers...but European papers are having fun with it.

I can bet there’s one more unemployed member of society standing in the unemployment line today and one more job to be filled by an inept Obama Administration.

Teleprompter anyone?