It's PortaPrompter.  Never make another gaffe again!

But it's not even clever...?  This is the political equivalent of a fart joke.

@BearVsUnicorn - You really should learn to laugh at this guy a bit, regardless of your political similarities.  I mean, these are cheap and corny, but you could try a bit harder.

@BearVsUnicorn - A couple of weeks ago he started reading a speech and didn't even notice it wasn't his until he was several paragraphs into it.  I really think he has no idea what they're putting into his speeches.  He's just a good prompter reader.

@BearVsUnicorn - Interesting.  I don't remember where it was, but the story I read said that both of them ended up reading a little bit of each other's speech.

@BearVsUnicorn - Like I pointed out with the first joke, the man uses these things for press conferences, for announcing obscure cabinet appointees - it seems to be the general consensus, beyond even right-wing press, that while all politicians use prompters, he seems to use them a bit more than usual.  Now, I even went so far as to give him the benefit of the doubt and suggest that maybe he does this because he understands that policy is shaped by the words he speaks, and he wants to be precise in what he says.  Fine.  But in all honesty, I'm not posting these to make some deep political statement about the guy.  I'm just poking fun at him.  If others are trying to make such a statement - I've heard a few - then whatever.  I think they're paranoid.  But that really isn't the motive here, on this site.   If I wanted to get into some deep commentary concerning those prompters, I'd probably focus more on what he's reading off of them than the fact of their presence. 

And incidentally, the speeches he's given that most consider his best were actually written by Axlerod, so yeah, I would suggest that he's maybe not the great speechwriter people have made him out to be.  He wrote his own inaugural address, and it really wasn't anything for posterity, despite the fact that I see it in little blue book form on sale at Wal Mart. 

@yankeejwb - haha, well I agree, and with everything you said already in mind my initial post was just "not really that funny" to your "come on you have to admit this is funny" for that reason.  It's more how the "conservosphere" (whatever that means) is taking this as some sort of meaningful commentary that confuses me.

@yankeejwb - psh!! I like *poop* jokes, not fart ones.  Very subtle distinction.  hahaha

@Monastro - hrm, well I suppose you have better examples of him messing up than I can remember (all I can think of is when rush went crazy about the Bristol VA town hall where it turns out he wasn't even using a teleprompter in the first place).  Theoretically I wouldn't find it that surprising, though, if he did stumble after at teleprompter goes out.  If I were reading a speech I didn't write and then it went out in front of me I would be lost as well.

@Monastro - yeah that's the one (though, again, this was during a Q&A session at a town hall, which is unscripted and without teleprompter, so labeling it as "teleprompter fails obama stumbles" as rush put it was untrue).  And I do agree that it was a stumble, obviously, but using this example of how he always talks when off a script is a little extreme.  This was during his incredibly long and draining campaign run, him having a faltering moment is not completely suprising.  He still held his own at every other town hall using identical formats and during the debates (though I'm not sure you can really count that as unscripted, hah), all before he ever even took the seat of president.

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