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Truck Holding Barack Obama’s Teleprompter And Presidential Seal Stolen In Virginia

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There is grinchyness afoot: An unmarked truck holding Barack Obama‘s audio equipment, teleprompter, podiums and presidential seal has evidently gone missing from the parking lot of Henrico, Virginia Marriott hotel in advance of the President’s scheduled visit to Chesterfield on Wednesday.

A local NBC affiliate has the details:

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Sources said inside that vehicle was about $200,000 worth of sound equipment, several podiums and presidential seals, behind which only the President himself can stand.

They told NBC12 around 12:30 Monday afternoon that truck was recovered in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Express near the airport and hotel staff confirm police activity. One guest we spoke with said he saw various law enforcement agencies examining a white box truck parked there.

The Defense Information Systems Agency confirms that there was no sensitive material aboard the truck. Adding to the mystery, NBC12 discovered “a truck with US government tags” still parked in the lot of the Marriott hotel and the news team is waiting to see whether it is the original, stolen truck, or a second vehicle.

Have a look at the report, via NBC:

h/t NBC12 via NPR

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  • Anonymous

    Obama’s teleprompter is missing?

    Oh nooz…they kidnapped our president.

    Maybe it was one of those OWS protesters….they have been ripping each other off like crazy down at OWS;

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/criminal_occupation_oh3CnKANUqYHrGPCaZaLRK

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    Totus kidnapped?

  • Anonymous

    $200,000 ? Chicken***t money in Obamaville .

    Solyndra , SunPower . Also , peanuts . So what ?

    The Republicans want dirty air and water and crumblin’ bridges !

    Quit whinin’ . Quit cryin’ . Stop complainin’ .

    Start hopin’ and changin’ !

  • Anonymous

    …and Obama is speechless about the crime!11!

    …and the presidential seal is gone also…Obama is crestfallen!!

  • Anonymous

    LOL, he’ll have to cancel the speeches unless they have a C17 or some other very expensive transport bring him another teleprompter.  Perhaps he can just go to the local NBC affiliate and read one of their scripts.

  • Anonymous

    Someone figured out exactly how to cripple the current Presidency,steal the teleprompter.

    I’m imagining that,in a couple of days,we’re all watching TV and suddenly the screen goes snowy then clears and it’s Hillary Clinton with the teleprompter and seal staging a coup.Frankly I’d be on her side with that.

    I’d be on a lot of sides,Bill Clinton would be another interesting choice for a coup.there’s probably a decent list of candidates.

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    Teleprompter jokes aside, he still won’t sound like a stuttering Roscoe P. Coletrain.

  • lazzzlo

    That would have been the ultimate Halloween costume/prop.

  • Anonymous

    I was going to go as an OWS protester, but an OWS protester stole my costume.

  • Anonymous

    The Presidents’ purploined Prompter!  Ya can’t make this stuff up!

  • Michelle

    Oh my gosh, you can’t make this stuff up.  How will he know what to say to his girls at the dinner table tonight?

  • Ben Dover

    Awwwww…..

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    The Secret Service should be asking Andrew Breitbart where is was at the time the truck carrying Obama’s teleprompter was stolen!!

  • Michelle

    Maybe the TOTUS was sick of Barry taking all of the credit for his amazing speeches and ran away from home. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    OBAMA: Keep it all!!! But, PLEASE, PLEASE return the Teleprompter!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Just imagine if they did the same to Sarah Palin and stole her “prompter”… the thieves would have had to cut off her hand!!

    Plus, it just sounded like you admitted Obama gives “amazing speeches”… right??

  • Priorities USA Action

    Who knew auto theft would be a “shovel ready ” job .

  • Yukon Jack

    Your excellent pun will be lost on the humorless liberals.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    apparently, you’ve never heard him sans teleprompter…

  • Yukon Jack

    Must be just as crippling for 0bama as it would be a total ban of using vulgar profanities for liberals.

  • Anonymous

    The Republicans want dirty air and water and crumblin’ bridges !

    GOT IT

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    i shudder to think who’s hands those presidential seals have fallen into…  hopefully the secret service or homeland security can remotely disable them…

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    FYI the truck has been found in a parking lot of a hotel approx 20 miles from where it was stolen.No info on whether the contents are still in the truck yet.

  • Bob

    Why do you hate America so much?

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    You must have missed the debates.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    i’m sure he prepped like any career hack politician, anticipating the all too predictable punditry…

  • Anonymous

    Maybe Al Sharpton stole them. God knows his teleprompter isn’t helping him any. He’s still a stuttering moron, even when being told what to say. RESIST WE MUCH!!!

  • Michelle

    I admitted he can read the teleprompter like a champ.  Off prompter, he’s a bumbling moron. 

  • Guest

    It’s nice enough to see comments on here that aren’t full of anger and hatred, but the awesome puns made my day.  ;D

  • Anonymous

    Come on guys, give it back. You are giving Virginia a bad name. 

  • Anonymous

    I’d like to know where Eric Cantor was at the time.

  • Guest

    Nah, funny is funny, regardless of politics.  Despite some haters that have no sense of humor or take comedians as areal political commentators.  LOL

  • Guest

    Wow, my ability to type is atrocious today.  Sorry!  D:

  • Anonymous

    There are 57 states!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Palin uses no prompter.

    Next attempt at a failed joke?

  • http://profiles.google.com/n.jo.nopasa Joe N.

    #OccupyTeleprompter!

  • Anonymous

    You’re forgiven haha. But just because I totally and completely agree with you. So glad that you share my sense of humor!

  • Anonymous

    No, the politicians that don’t want to hang out with the Bamster are giving VA a bad name.

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/18/va-dems-ducking-obama/

  • Anonymous

    Or Senator Jim Webb (D) Va or Senator Mark Warner (D) VA. Perhaps they stole it. sarc off

    Any idiot could have taken it. Most likely it was someone that just wanted to steal something.

  • Anonymous

    Never go into a criminal justice career. Your instincts are way off.

  • Anonymous

    Latest NH poll  (U NH) shows 53% disapprove of obama’s leadership, and while he still has the dems voters, his indepdents again plummeting to just 35% independents approve.   Once again, the go far left liberal strategy of the Obama WH resulting in turning off even more independents. 

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66244.html

  • Anonymous

    I just got off the phone with the White House and I just want everyone to know that President Obama is okay. He’s a little bit shaken up and sad at the loss of his good friend…they’ve been inseparable for the last four years, as you all know, but the President has vowed to move on…the TOTUS would have wanted it that way.

    When the President speaks today, he’ll have to rely on a clever back up plan which includes a pair of special glasses and his big ears. It works like this, David Axlerod types what he wants the President to say on his Blackberry. The words are then transmitted through a projector onto the Presidents giant ears and then are reflected by a special coating on the President’s glasses into his eyes.

    So there will be plenty of demonizing the Republicans and millionaires today and the republic has been saved!

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    So now you’re saying prepping for a debate is the same as having a teleprompter for a speech?

    The goalposts, they move!

  • Rio

    And democrat candidates are avoiding him like the plague, even starting to include his name negatively in their ads, “don’t compare me to Obama.”  Feel the love.

  • Anonymous

    Barack Obama – All talk and no action. Without the ‘prompter, he’s just “no action.”

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon- Hope 38% vs Change 54%

    Hah !!

  • Rio

    TOTUS writes about the kidnapping on his blog:

    http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/

    Michelle Obama’s Mirror also comments on the harrowing kidnapping experience of her friend TOTUS. The blog entry follows Stanley Ann.

    http://www.michellesmirror.com/

  • D L

    So, is Obama mute now?

  • Anonymous

    Oh, that’s right, she uses her hand!  With you the jokes just write themselves.  

  • Anonymous

    Oh, that’s right, she uses her hand!  With you the jokes just write themselves.  

  • Anonymous

    The emperor has no clothes….AND NO VOICE!

  • Chrisgebhart

    You betchya!  They were founded in our 16th Century Revolution!

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    I wonder if Eric Cantor’s people had anyting to do with that.

  • TruDat

    Obama was going to announce the theft but couldn’t because his teleprompter was stolen.

  • Mr. Pennypacker

    I’m a Tea Party member and I joined the 99% movement because I was tired of the government and corporations causing this country to go down the drain. Both are responsible for the reason why we find ourselves in this terrible situation. I’m asking all my Tea Party brothers and sisters to join the movement.  

  • Anonymous

    If only they were funny ones.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GWUMDXSUYVXFOVKEDR7OG3SD7A John Doe

    “Perhaps he can just go to the local NBC affiliate and read one of their scripts. ”

    Classic stuff…LOL

  • Anonymous

    The 99% people that want Big Business to act responsibly, those people I would stand with. The Communist and Nazi party people, Big Unions, Van Jones, MSNBC hosts: Those people I want nothing to do with, even if they are standing with the 99% people. They are using those people for their own ends. I believe that those 99% people need to tell Unions, Communists, Van Jones, MSNBC, and Nazis to f*ck off. Then they need to refine their message and tell some of their people to act responsibly, not to incite violence, stop defacing public property, clean up after yourselves, and stop acting like @ssholes to police and journalists. It doesn’t help your cause when you act like animals.

  • Bob Uda

    Oh, oh.  Obama is in deep trouble now.  No teleprompter = no brains.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZIQS6YEA47QFXGOR4JWUBU2QRM Shark City

    Those went straight to the lab for examination. They’re going to find who was responsible for this and are sent to Guantanamo. You do not steel the most precious thing to the president.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    I guess the thieves gave the President back, I saw him on the campaign trail today.

  • Anonymous

    I keep advising President Obama to diminish the national debt, now in the trillions and climbing daily, to cut it in half by releasing all 2.2 million convicts behind bars. Because it cost $60,000 a year for each prisoner’s food, guards, housing, rehabilitation, etc. Once released immediately, each prisoner must be adopted by an American family within 7 daysor put to sleep. Then the homeless can occupy the empty cells. Doesn’t that make sense?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Clawson/100002414362680 Eric Clawson

    In reference to the theft of the government vehicle, I would surmise that a thief saw an easy target and stole it without knowing what was in it.  When the thief(s) stopped and looked inside the truck, and realized what they had, after soiling themselves, they ran off leaving all the contents intact. 

    I mean, what two-bit thief want to tangle with the Secret Service/FBI/US Marshal service over a perceived, “Quick Score”?

  • Anonymous

    Oh No!  The Telepromters, the real nonleader in the White House, has been stolen!  Now we will have to suffer thru, not only BS and Lies, but also his stuttering!  Good Grief, lets get this NonAmerican Worthless Idiot out of the Oval Office and put a Real American and a Real Leader in his place! 

    HERMAN CAIN 2012!

  • Anonymous

    Will Obama refund the treasury for the amount it is costing us to bus him around on his campaign tour?

    WE should not have to FUND his campaigning any more than we should fund Romney’s or Gingrich’s.

    Obama is a proven hi-grade rip-off Artist

  • demec

    So it is nice to see that the brainwashers can catch some fish in the Tea Party, obviously I would worry about your Tea Party credentials if you believe in the 99% and 1%, but good luck to you. Try not to catch any flu as with the TOTUS missing Obamacare may not be able to save you.

  • Tooquiet4me2005

    Yeah, but my sense of humor is still intact, WC!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    no, you’re saying that…  there’s a difference between physical therapy, debate rehearsal, and a crutch, his teleprompter…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CLLYGSVJRFZRWHQQN5VAE3DMP4 Timmy

     I bet it was stolen by the same cops that pretended to be taking a dump on a police car at the occupy Wall Street protest.

  • Anonymous

    oh man… we can only hope.  a vacation from his lies, distortions, and bs.

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    @MASSMURDERMEDIA -so you’ve effectively said nothing at all?

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