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President Obama has taken a lot of criticism for his neverending use of a teleprompter when giving speeches large or small. At his press conference Tuesday night the White House replaced the teleprompter with a large screen television in the back of the room.
From ABC News’ Jake Tapper
President Obama has been criticized for relying too much on the use of a teleprompter — you know, those slightly tilted boat-paddle-looking devices that flank each side of the presidential podium. They’re essentially projection screens to his right and left from which he can read his speech, rather than speaking extemporaneously or with printed notes.
I must admit that for those of us who work in TV news — especially those, like me, who edit these pieces — it can be difficult to find a camera shot of the president where one of these devices is not sticking up prominently in the frame. It can be distracting for the viewer.
This obviously occurred to the White House staff as well. During President Obama’s televised press conference and address to the nation Tuesday evening, these podium teleprompters were replaced with a giant large screen TV which was strategically located in the rear of the East Room behind the press reporters. The president used the TV screen to read his opening remarks and then took questions from reporters.
Read the rest of Jake’s post to see a picture of the television from Tuesday and watch some video clips dealing with the issue.
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2 Comments for Obama’s Teleprompter Problem
Everyone does not use a telepromter, I dont watch Fox news, Fox news is not conservative news, those who think so are fools.
We are not having economic troubles, we are having government problems exaggerated by Obama who is literally a Marxist.
We are not having economic troubles, we have a government that does not abide by the constitution, the econimic situation is a symptom of the problem, not the problem.
The president should have the intelligence to articulate his ideas. What is troubling is that Obama appears as a puppet that must be guided by people behind the scenes.
No my friend the first thing we should be discussing is we have a president thats directed by a teleprompter, it is a crutch, a crutch for a president that cannot articulate his true ideals and thoughts on any given question thus people behind the scenes must tell Obama what to say so that Obama does not slip and speak his true ideals.
Bush was much more articulate than Obama. It is a shame that Yankees of the north disdain the dialect of the people of the south.
I will now give a true example of what you ignore in Obama and how the media covers up for Obama, I will do this by quoteing Reuters and follow by quoteing Obama as I heard him speak live in a London press conference.
Reuters:
“The truth is that that’s just arguing at the margins,” he said. “The core notion that government has to take some steps to deal with a contracting market place and to restore growth is not in dispute.”
I heard this:
” Uh…, The truth is that, uh….. that’s just arguing at the, uh….. margins,” he said. ” and so uh,……The core notion …..that uh,….. government has to take, uh…….. some steps to deal with, uh, uh,…….. a contracting market place and, ………. so uh,……… to restore growth is……is…….uh, and…..uh………. not in dispute.”
OBAMA LITERALLY SAID “UH” OVER 500 TIMES IN ANSWERING THREE REPORTERS IN LESS THAN 15 MINUTES.
I guess everyone is forgetting that EVERYONE USES A TELEPROMPTER. People who are complaining, i.e. “reporters” on Fox News, they’re reading the news from THEIR TELEPROMPTER.
I think you all need to get a life. In case you didn’t know, we’re having economic troubles, and we’re also in a war. The last thing we should be discussing is a teleprompter, especially when our last President should’ve thought about using one more often.