We conservatives make fun of President Barack Hussein Obama's reliance on the teleprompter. His speeches are scripted. He is quite good at reading a script as if he were talking off the top of his head. But he is very bad at actually talking off the top of his head. Because teleprompted eloquence is, by definition, artificial, Obama believes that his real wit and insight are appreciated only in extemporaneous exposition. His lack of judgment is only fully illustrated when he is off it and his more extreme ideas are candidly expressed. His real views have shown mostly from unguarded moments when he talks without his teleprompter, and therefore sounds quite conniving and very shallow.
We learned about Obama's true views toward Israel when he was caught on an open microphone with French president Sarkozy rudely ridiculing Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, and when he snubbed Netanyahu at the White House. Also revealing was the statement by the Palestinian foreign minister to the effect that Obama administration officials had advised the Palestinian leadership to "sit tight" during the election year until Obama no longer need face the electorate, and thus its displeasure for forcing concessions upon the Israelis.
Only after he was caught on an open mike assuring Russian President Medvedev that after the election he could be "more flexible" with Putin did we start to become worried about Obama's naïveté in dealing with the Russians on arms control, short-changing the Poles and Czechs on missile defense, and not quickly dropping his failed reset diplomacy.
Obama's unscripted comments about the Supreme Court are quite revealing. He gave an impromptu speech that Supreme Court justices are, "...an unelected group of people" who should not, "...somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law, an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
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— go to most recent comments1 - Glenn Contrarian
Yep! Obama's every bit as shallow as all those presidents who read their speeches from a sheaf of papers in front of them!
2 - Kyle Hussein Hunter
Merriam Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary
war-ren/woren/noun
1: a series of underground tunnels where rabbits live :rabbit warren
2: a building or place with many connected rooms, passages, etc., where you can get lost very easily - a warren of narrow hallways
A brain is a terrible thing to waste in a warren.
3 - Kyle Hussein Hunter
Well Warren Hussein Beatty, you have gotten every presidential stereotype covered so far, so I’ll give you a bucket list of articles you still need to write about:
Hussein’s real estate scandal - The “Blackwater deal”
Hussein’s Subliminal messages-If you play Obama’s speeches backwards they urge black men to have sex with white women!
Hussein’s affair with a male White House intern and how he was blackmailed into letting homosexuals into the military!
Hussein’s secret plan to paint his "Marine One" helicopter black
Hussein’s plan to outlaw store coupons because he hates housewives
Hussein’s covert plans to rename Washington, DC “Allah”
Hussein’s plans to force white women to have sex with black men so everyone will be mixed race like him
Hussein’s secret plan to tax all churches that worship Jesus
Hussein’s plan to un-fluoridate drinking water so white kids will get cavities
Hussein’s plan to make Kenya our 51st state
Hussein’s proposed plan to give anyone with the middle name “Hussein” a permanent 90% tax break
Hussein’s secret plot to destroy the soft drink industry by importing cheap Cuban sugarcane
Hussein’s plot to take god-fearin’ Umarican yungun’s guns away so they can’t protect themselves in skule
Hussein’s secret plan to throw the election so he can make millions in fees worldwide making anti-American speeches
Hussein’s plan to rig the Florida election results to give Romney a 110% lead in the polls
and finally:
Hussein’s secret plot to have Hawaii succeed from the nation and turn it into a communist island after paying aliens to bomb Pearl Harbor again.
4 - Zingzing
How to write a Warren article:
Step one: narrow overwhelming obsession with Hussein down to one cliche.
Step two: discuss already well-trod news items from the past as if they were still fresh, ignoring anything but blindly partisan, right wing conclusions.
Step three: come up with some reason for Warren to be afraid at night, piss own bed. Conclude with someone else's catch phrase.
5 - Jet Hussein Gardner
Yeah, Zing, even after I told him I used that tag line on and off since 2005 he still uses it...
Which only proves he doesn't really read comments, or most of them anyway.
lol on the list Kyle
6 - Jet Hussein Gardner
Here's one, Obama plans to paint the White House black in the winter so the building will collect heat from the sun to save energy...
but is that the real reason?
7 - Warren Beatty
Re: all comments, NONE of them address the subject of my article. Do y'all deny that Obama said these things?
8 - Jet "The research department" Gardner
In preparation for an interview with fox news Romney is shown chatting with Sean Hannity before going on air. After producers inform Hannity there is a script for the segment-which Hannity will read off a "prompter" - the two men mock Mr. Obama for using a TelePrompter, with Hannity saying, "I think Obama sleeps with his."
But the two then sing the praises of the device in keeping a candidate from saying something he might regret.
"It does make some sense though" to use a teleprompter, Romney tells Hannity. "I do understand."
He adds: "It keeps you from saying something you don't mean, you get the message out precisely the way you want to get the message out." Romney says he has used a TelePrompter "maybe five times" in the campaign. Romney in recent months has tended to use a teleprompter for most major speeches.
"It's smart," Hannity agrees. "You're right. You don't want to make a mistake. I'll tell you, they're out to just eviscerate anybody who makes a mistake."
Some have been confused by Republican attacks the president's use of a TelePrompter, and Democrats note that presidents from both parties have used the device for more than half a century.
"It's a strange obsession because it's inane," wrote Robert Schlesinger in U.S. News and World Report last month. "Teleprompters are tools. Sure they're high tech if you've just emerged from the 1950s...but ultimately they're just a medium for prepared remarks, substantively no different from a sheet of paper on a lectern."
Romney has been burned multiple times throughout the campaign for his off-the-cuff comments, some of which have reinforced the notion that he is not in touch with the average American. (Among them: That wife Ann "drives a couple of Cadillacs," that he has "some great friends who are NASCAR team owners," that he would bet Rick Perry the rather odd sum of $10,000 over who was correct about Romney's record.) In a world where a poor choice of words can derail a campaign message, it's no surprise that Romney sees the value in sticking to the script - even if he'll only admit as much when he thinks no one is watching.
9 - Jet "The research department" Gardner
Re:7
Probably because the article is too ridiculous and shallow to comment on, and only its obvious misleading and political intent and writer is.
I refer you to comment 8 for reference
10 - Jet "The research department" Gardner
Warren do you know how many dumb and ill-advised things Dubya said, not realizing that a mic was on?
Warren do you know how many dumb and ill-advised things Bubba said, not realizing that a mic was on?
Warren do you know how many dumb and ill-advised things "fucking" Biden said, not realizing that a mic was on?
Warren do you know how many dumb and ill-advised things Dubya said, not realizing that a mic was on?
These whining and illconceived articles of yours are beginning to sound like a 7-year-old repeatedly whining about his older brother stealing a nickle of his lunch money from him.
GROW THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're making a fool of yourself...
...in my opinion.
11 - Glenn Contrarian
Perhaps Warren doesn't remember what Reagan said when the mic was on:
"Inform Moscow we begin bombing in five minutes."
Sure, Reagan - whom I hold to be one of our five best presidents - was joking...but if the Soviets had taken him seriously, our current solo arms race would consist of who's got the biggest sticks and rocks. But of course that's NOTHING compared to the oh-so-eeeeeeeeeevil Obama who is obviously trying to tear down America and make us all Sharia-obeyin' atheists!
12 - Jet Gardner
Of course Warren doesn't remember Glenn, most brainwashed fools don't?
13 - Kyle Hussein Hunter
Theory: Warren is publishing these many posts in hopes of convincing his like-minded buddies that he is a major political influence on this website.
Actually he is considered an under-educated and at times annoying class clown here, as evidenced by the previous comments.
14 - Jet Gardner
Nah, we just think of him as political comic relief Kyle
15 - Kyle Hussein Hunter
Don't forget Glenn that by Santorum's definition "Star Wars" Ray-gun wasn't a true conservative-in fact he would almost be classified as a liberal (gasp)
16 - Clavos Juarez Santana Zapata
You're making a fool of yourself...
Insanus omnis furere credit ceteros...
17 - Jet Gardner
Latinis est infirma gringo
18 - Warren Beatty
Re: comments # 11 and # 12, Glenn and Jet, did either of you bother to read the article? Try reading before offering opinions. So much for credibility for either of you.
For all other comments, NONE of them address the subject of my article - We see the true Obama only when he is without teleprompter. What others say or have said, or use or not of teleprompter, is irrelevant.
Typical librual tactics - y'all cannot refute the argument, so attack the author.
19 - Jet Gardner
Amigo Clavos, mi latín es tan malo como mi español
20 - Jet Gardner
Without puking? Read comment 8 again
21 - Jet Gardner
As for actually reading your articles warren; your journalistic reputation preceeds you. The moment you obsessively use "Hussein" we all know what's coming. Your words... hell even your illustrations (as any google image search would prove) are all out-and-out stolen/copied from other radical right wing sites and badly quoted Rush Limpbaugh radio shows. You even swiped my old tag line from op-eds I wrote SIX years ago!
22 - zingzing
"Re: all comments, NONE of them address the subject of my article."
frankly, warren, that's because there's absolutely nothing new here. there's no news, and these things were discussed when they happened, months or years ago. "your" opinion is nothing but the conservative sound bites everyone started from way back when. since this conversation has already occurred, it's not likely that too many people want to start all over again just because you're late to the party.
23 - Warren Beatty
Re: comment # 22, ZZ, are you denying that Obama said those things?
24 - zingzing
glenn: "Perhaps Warren doesn't remember what Reagan said when the mic was on..."
actually, glenn, warren does remember it on page 2 of the article:
"Reagan's anti-Soviet feelings were behind his open-mike joke "We begin bombing in five minutes.""
of course, just like his "analysis" of everything else, he ascribes simplistic and faulty "feelings" to what reagan said. i think it has a lot more to say about the theater of the cold war than it does reagan's thoughts on soviets.
25 - zingzing
"Re: comment # 22, ZZ, are you denying that Obama said those things?"
of course not... they just don't mean what your knee seems to think they do. but what does that have to do with what i said in #22?