Obama Thanks Himself In Teleprompter Meltdown
 

LOL!!!! Check out the news article I am pasting a link to below. A teleprompter malfunction caused President Obama to thank himself and the Irish Prime Minister to read word for word a speech Obama had just given.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/firs...epeats-speech/


Remember the good ole days when all Ronald Reagan needed was 3x5 index cards with notes to give a great speech?

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And they said Bush was an idiot...

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One of my (over-exuberant young Omaba fan) employees was SHOCKED to find out that he used a TelePrompter for his speeches.

She actually thought he was speaking from his heart and memory. She was bragging about how awesome he always did when he spoke. I meekly asked, "you do know he reads his speeches, right?" She didn't know.

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Hilarious.

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That is so funny. If he's so brilliant, why can't he memorize his speeches, or speak from cue cards?

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It sounds to me like Obama was being very kind and gracious to the Irish Prime Minister by pretending to read a speech that the Irish PM should have given if the teleprompter had put up the appropriate speech. He was making light of an embarrassing situation.

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He is famous for his attachement to the teleprompter. One speech he gave in colorado at a rodeo made it look wierd to the locals to have a teleprompter in the arena. Of course the cameras are required to not show it.

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Actually the cameras always show it if you know what you are looking for. The only thing you see is rectangular piees of glass on a stand placed directly in front of the speaker (or mounted on a center camera) and then on the left and right (minimum of 3 total).

Only persons looking from the perspective of the speaker using the teleprompter sees the writing scrolling across it from a computer. From the opposite side of the glass you just see through the glass.

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LOL - correct. My smart college student thought that was bullet protection. Like those small pieces of Lucite would protect him.

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http://teleprompterusa.com/

If you have a close up camera, you can have it mounted on the camera. Every one sees the stand that supports the teleprompter.