Thursday, February 18, 2010

CPAC Speakers Bash Obama’s Use Of A Teleprompter — While Standing In Front Of A Teleprompter

By Amanda Terkel

Picking up Sarah Palin’s lead, this morning’s speakers at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) repeatedly made fun of President Obama and his use of teleprompters. Many conservatives apparently haven’t gotten tired of this well-worn, hollow joke, with conference attendees laughing and applauding each time:

– “We were watching all the images of that winter weather — this extraordinary blizzard — that even impacted government. … The President couldn’t find anywhere to set up a teleprompter to announce new taxes.” — Florida U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio

– “I think we’ve confirmed you can’t govern from a teleprompter.” — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)

Ironically, DeMint and Rubio were standing in front of a teleprompter…while they were bashing Obama’s teleprompter. (Although it did not appear they were actually reading their speech off of the device.) Here’s a picture of Rubio:

Marcio Rubio with a teleprompter

At the start of the conference, American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene conceded that yes, CPAC did have a teleprompter this year for its speakers to use — a nod to “modernity” — but quickly added that he isn’t into this “new technology” and doesn’t use it. He called it the “Barack Obama Honorary Teleprompter.” Watch it:

The irony of today’s situation wasn’t lost on all conservatives. On Twitter, the National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez said that she’s had enough of these teleprompter jokes, writing, “I’ve heard at least three teleprompter jokes already. In front of a teleprompter. Godspeed to the man who uses the teleprompter. … My patience may be exhausted for teleprompter jokes. Especially because some has got to be using it.” (HT: Peter Hamby)

Update RedState.com blogger Erick Erickson also made a teleprompter joke today,saying that the first step to "saving freedom through technology" is taking away Obama's teleprompter so "he can't speak for the next few days. ... Render him as mute as Rahm Emanuel was when his middle finger got cut off." Watch it:

Update FreedomWorks head Dick Armey also made fun of teleprompters today: "By the way, what are these things? I always thought if you knew what you were talking about and had something in your heart to say, you didn’t need them."
M.C.L comment: Once again I'm forced to remind the know-nothings at the right wing Douchebag feast that they spent eight years defending a man who couldn't put two thoughts together while they talk about President Obama use of a teleprompter so let me take the right wing down memory lane of the guy they defended for eight years. George W. Bush:
  1. "Tribal sovereignty means that; it's sovereign. I mean, you're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004
  2. "I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." --at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001 (Listen to audio clip)
  3. "Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." --discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson in 2003, as quoted by Robertson
  4. "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." --Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000 (Listen to audio clip)
  5. "Do you have blacks, too?" --to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001
  6. "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." --Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushquotes/a/dumbbushquotes.htm

1 comment:

Henry Asta said...

In light of the present tyrannical and abusive government, with consistent repeated violations of the people’s rights, and with the intent to make them slaves of the state, the people have the right, in fact, the duty to revolt against such government, and put new rules in place to protect their future rights. Be aware of Repugnacrats political charlatans trying to out-talk each other at the Conservative Political Action Conference, they are full of hot air, and once they are elected you can bet your bottom dollar it will be business as usual or catering to big business, and selling out America’s jobs to global elitists.

Americans owe it to their children, grandchildren, and future generations by forgetting all about party loyalties, and by firing all Democraps and Repugnacrats, for the simple fact that they are all one and the same. These deceivers are nothing more than corporate harlots, spreading their legs to the highest bidders, and also they are fleecing the people as well through exorbitant taxation. These Washington Congressional parasites they give themselves pay raises at will, and they have the best health-care coverage in the world, but these shameless bipartisan fat cats have the effrontery to deny the elderly, those who worked all their lives to build America, a miserable S/S Cost Of Living Allowance.

It is high time we the people begin to control the government according to the Founding Fathers intentions. There is a distance between the mouth, and the hands, our great orators are a dime a dozen, and since we don’t have enough doers, therefore we must elect individuals with a Constitutional platform, willing to sign their names in pledge to abide, and uphold the U.S. Constitution, and the Articles of Freedom drafted by the Continental Congress `09, convened in St. Charles, IL, November 11 through the 22 of 2009, and represented by delegates from We The People from forty-eight states of the Union, having joined in the tradition and spirit of the Founding Fathers Continental Congress of 1774.