M$NBC – A Real News Station – has really shown their true colors this past week. If it wasn’t already obvious.

Its funny!!

Good for Ms. Mitchell. I’d say that the Drop Out Governor engaged in some junior high school conduct, but I have no desire to insult junior high students.

Germ: Did you watch MSNBC’s coverage of the stumbling and fumbling session Saturday night? It seemed to me to be fairly balanced, perhaps even tilted a bit right in terms of the number of rightist commentators it had. I was surprised at just how balanced it was. Certainly, far more balanced that that of the ethically-challenged Kampain Karl Kameron reporting from FOX’s (White) Tea Party earlier in the day.

No, I heard Schultz was “anchoring” the MSNBC coverage so I stayed far away. I ended up playing in a Modern Warfare 2 tourney Saturday night with some old Army buddies, so I missed it all.

Better use of your time, I have to say. What surprised me most about the coverage was that Ed stepped back and moderated.

The thing that is SO ridiculous about this whole thing is people just can’t handle ANY teasing of Obama. After eight years of hysterical Bush SNL parodies, and Letterman’s hilarious Great Moments in Presidential Speeches, etc. Obama supporters just.can’t.handle.any.teasing.of.Obama.

And how long did it take comedians to finally go after Obama, and when they finally did, the jokes were so weak, they usually weren’t even directed at him, directly. Do you remember the first Jon Stewart joke about Obama? The audience actually gasped, and Jon had to tell them it was ok to laugh at Obama?

Obama deserves to be teased for his TOTUS dependency. It is hilarious. And people should just laugh. Instead they get all pissed, and turn it into nasty nasty attacks on Conservatives or Palin or they scream RACISM! Yes, we all know Obama can speak without a teleprompter. We saw him in 25 debates. But it is funny that every single time he now appears in public he uses TOTUS. Like I said, he deserves being teased for it!

Palin writing three key talking points on her hand is funny, in the sense that she used her hand. Someone called it her Palm Pilot – that’s funny. It’s not funny or a big deal because she wanted to remember three things, wanted to make sure she touched on them – EVERYONE does it. But instead of teasing her for it, she was attacked viscously. There were all kinds of posts implying she was giving hand jobs!

Andrea Mitchell thinks it is appropriate for her to mock Palin but she can’t, won’t ever tease obama for TOTUS dependency? (if she has, I’ve never seen it). That’s what ticks people off.

I even thought the SNL/Palin stuff was funny – the problem with it was they were SO unfair and one sided. And they have even admitted their bias. Instead of spending equal time ripping obama, they just eviscerated (ha) Palin/McCain. (the news and the talk shows/comedy shows). And that fueled a backlash….

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and don’t tell me that there wasn’t PLENTY of material to tease Obama with.

Hilarious! There’s just so much there. The attack Iran stuff from her “interview” with Chris Wallace, the double standard for Rush and Rahm. The breathless way she answered each question without pause was a clear give away that she knew the questions and still couldn’t keep it together without her notes. Instead, her attempts to prove she was smarter than she appears was an epic fail. Andrea has it right. If Rommney or any other candidate had been caught with notes on their hands, they’d be called out as well. It only seems like a small thing to her supporters. This is what the left has seen all along. That we don’t want someone like us as President or even a Senator if you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. And yes, this President writes most of his speeches while the lightweight does not! Like the rest of her party she speaks in talking points but, offers no actual policy. Those of you who think it’s OK to write anything on your hands or, it’s no big deal will have a tough time telling their kids that they shouldn’t do it because it could get you kicked out of school. Good luck impressing that double standard on them!

roxsteady says:
February 8, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Those of you who think it’s OK to write anything on your hands or, it’s no big deal will have a tough time telling their kids that they shouldn’t do it because it could get you kicked out of school. Good luck impressing that double standard on them!

Do you/would you tell your kids that it’s ok to call people stupid, idiot, or moron, or that it’s ok to “bitch slap” people? Do you tell them that all stupid people “should be shot in the back of the head”?

I don’t generally waste time defending Obama on this subject. Here’s how I see it; Obama uses a teleprompter, yes. Quite often, yes. Does that make him dim in some way? Unqualified in some way? Hell no, that’s ridiculous. The sheer volume of words he delivers in any given day-week-month is no doubt more than I would expect him to commit to memory. In fact, I’d be displeased with him if I thought he devoted all that time memorizing or formulating speeches. He has bigger fish to fry. He has proven to me that he can wing it without a teleprompter just fine when push comes to shove. His Q&A with the GOP was a fine example.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, does not ‘wing it’ very well. The lights are on, but nobody’s home.
Just ask Chris Wallace.

Hey, TC!

Andrea has always had a great sense of humor.
My question is to you…you say:

“the fact that the President is far more involved in writing his speeches than most other politicians”

Can you point me to where you found this item? Just curious. Thanks!

Funny… lighten up people

Puter Boi,

I wish I had the link to the TOTUS story I did that included that link, but I don’t. Instead, read this one:

http://dailydose.us/2009/02/20/white-house-obama-telepromter-story-not-true/

while I go find that link.

On the issue of the teleprompter, I think what the right finds so threatening about it is that Obama is literate. They’re so used to illiterates like Palin and Bush, they lionize ignorance, i.e., Tea Parties. What it comes down to is they fear intelligence for those who are intelligent are less likely to be preyed upon by the Right.

Trickletown you are right on. Let’s face it the Pallin has NO class!!! I suppose people would complain even if she had index cards which is really ok. I wonder if she let’s her children write on their hands for school tests!!!

See, this is the problem with looking through my old stories for links. I get sidetracked laughing at my own jokes.

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/02/16/sarah-palins-secret-pregnancy-and-other-secrets/

Dear Billy Bob Adkins,

We don’t lionize ignorance. We despise ignorance, which is why we despise liberals like yourself. Oh, right, I forgot, you think you’re intelligent. In that case I suggest that you and the Real Royal A-hole form a 10 step self-help group for the self-deluded. Remember, the first step is to acknowledge that yes, you are an idiot. Good luck with that!

In the event the Drop Out Governor of Alaska were to run for office again, something I rather doubt, the Saturday Night Stumble and Fumble Session has given her opponents tremendous footage for commercials.

If people are going to put forward how he’s more involved in the speech writing, can they tell us which ones he was involved in and which ones he wasn’t? I’d like to know. Just saying that he’s “more involved” sounds like empty rhetoric. I could care less about TOTUS, but it’s still not the same as 3 bullets on her hand.

And that fueled a backlash….

— I suppose that is why McPain and the Drop Out Governor carried Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, as well as every state W won and coasted to an easy popular vote and Electoral College victory.

I found it!

http://dailydose.us/2009/03/23/the-truth-about-barack-obamas-teleprompter/

Link is in the 3rd from last paragraph, but read the whole thing, huh?

Jon Favreau is Pres. Obama’s Diretor of speechwriting. Was also candiate Obama’s speechwriter. Young andobviously very talented guy. Anxelrod has been quoted in NYT:

“Barack trusts him,” said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s chief campaign strategist. “And Barack doesn’t trust too many folks with that — the notion of surrendering that much authority over his own words.”

NYT Piece on Favreau

Late in campaign, Time wrote this:

“Obama takes an unusually hands-on approach to his speech writing, more so than most politicians” But more referencing to DNC speech and concedes he has much less time to do than he did back in 2004.

Time on speech

And every politician makes speech mistakes or mistakes without a teleprompter, Including Pres. Obama. Such as politico pointed out (Obama uses teleprompter more than previous Presidents)

Obama’s Safety Net

I would rather have Pres. Obama spending less time writing speeches and more time governing. So what he uses a Teleprompter? You want a leader (including Palin) to be bogged down writing most of their speeches? So What Palin wrote notes on her hand? So What? Every pol misspeaks, every national pol has speech writers.

If that’s the standard, then VP Biden should not be VP. And Pres. Obama just as bad as McCain for choosing Biden as running mate. Substance people. You either like the “message” or you don’t.

And Tommy, are you insinuating Palin was not heavily involved in writing her own notes on her palm?

Let’s see. Palin is stupid, she’s insignificant, she’s a joke, there’s no way she can ever hope to win public office. If all that’s true, then why so much vitriol? Why the hatred and mockery? If the left really believes all they say about her, then why the repeated whipping of a dead horse?

Writer,

They would rather talk about Palin because without using her as a distraction they would have to hold Obama accountable for his words.
——————————–
Tommy,

Please hold Obama accountable and find out what provisions were “slipped” in to the health care bill that would violate his, and all the other Democrat’s pledge, of letting us keep our insurance and doctors.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/29/obama_health_care_bill_might_have_violated_pledge_on_keeping_some_doctors_and_insurers.html

Also, find out who did the “slipping”.

writer says:
February 8, 2010 at 1:20 pm

I think that as long as Sarah Palin is put out into the public view for consideration and dissection, there will always be people on the left that will fight against her and people who think like her. She is not shrinking away from the public — in fact, this weekend we had such an oversaturation that it is hard to take in all that she said and the manner and phrasing in which she said them. We even had her in full display yesterday here in my home state of TX campaigning for Rick Perry.

As to anyone thinking that Obama does not take a strong hand in his speeches, just listen to what he says when he is off teleprompter. It is the same phrasing, inflection, nuances, etc.

I think a bit of envy plays into it. Most people can’t remember who the vice president is while he’s in office, let alone a losing candidate for vice president.

writer – In terms of being mocked, she provides the fodder. Hatred? Not in the least. I want to see her around for a long time. Do I want her in charge of anything important? Of course not, no reasonable person would, but she is fun.

I think what really gets the leftist boys is that Sarah Palin is *hot*, as are the conservative women on Fox. Meanwhile, our poor leftist boys are stuck with their “movement” prudish intellectual girlfriends/wives who would rather sleep with other women or the Annointed One himself, President Obama (see Judith Warner, Feb 5, NYT). In other words, anyone but them. Which leads me to a question, does being a leftist mean that you masturbate with your left hand?

Trickletown

“Sarah Palin, on the other hand, does not ‘wing it’ very well. The lights are on, but nobody’s home.”

What an outrageous comment.

What about….?

1. “As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border.” –Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska’s proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS’s Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip)

2. “We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. … We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation.” –Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in Greensoboro, N.C., Oct. 16, 2008

3. “Ohh, good, thank you, yes.” –Sarah Palin, after a notorious Canadian prank caller complimented her on the documentary about her life, Hustler’s “Nailin Paylin,” Nov. 1, 2008 (Read more about the prank call, watch the video and see the transcript)

4. “Well, let’s see. There’s ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―” –Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

5. “All of ‘em, any of ‘em that have been in front of me over all these years.” –Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip)

6. “They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan.” –Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008

7. “[T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.” –Sarah Palin, getting the vice president’s constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008 (Watch video clip

8. “I told the Congress, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’ on that Bridge to Nowhere.” –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it

9. “If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don’t know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media.” –Sarah Palin, getting First Amendment rights backwards while suggesting that criticism of her is unconstitutional, radio interview with WMAL-AM, Oct. 31, 2008

10. “I’m the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can’t.’” –Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor’s office without approval of the city council.

Oh, right….

Azarkhan finally adds an intelligent and probing comment and question on this stupid thread. Also, besides being hotter, Sarah Palin out-classes Andrea Mitchell any day.

A valid point. Palin’s physical attractiveness could also play a part in the mockery. Ask the pretty girl out in high school and she turns you down. Get even later with mockery.

“If the left really believes all they say about her, then why the repeated whipping of a dead horse?”

Yes, she is a dead horse and she is being roundly whipped.

Would it have been better if she had all her notes on either a note card or a teleprompter?

Doesn’t matter. If you feel people are unreasonable, their vote counts just as much as the reasonable people. Just the way it works. And should work that way. One person’s reasonable is another person’s unreasonable

“I think what really gets the leftist boys is that Sarah Palin is *hot*, as are the conservative women on Fox.”

Especially if you have a preference for cottage cheese.

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/images/thumbnails/sarah-palin-12169-5.jpg

Yeah, that’s hot!

“Would it have been better if she had all her notes on either a note card or a teleprompter?”

Uh, for a friendly interview? Unheard of.

Homie (are u really a homie, or a wannabe? or is that hornie?),

Anyway, no fair using pictures of your Mom.

Denial is not a river in egypt

More pics of mom.

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/images/thumbnails/sarah-palin-12169-4.jpg

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/images/thumbnails/sarah-palin-12169-3.jpg

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/images/thumbnails/sarah-palin-12169-2.jpg

http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/images/thumbnails/sarah-palin-12169-1.jpg

Yeah, it’s her alright

No is it an answer.

See above

Interesting how the left always finds it necessary to comment on someone’s physical appearance when they disagree with them politically. (Katharine Harris is “Cruella de Ville”, Palin has “cottage cheese thighs”, Michelle Malkin is a “lip-sticked meat bag”, etc., etc.) Then people such as Olbermann are the first to yell “sexist” if someone else does likewise.

@ writer

Interesting how white males always comment on how “hot” Palin is. Kind of shallow, no?

Um, how are you so sure who is a white male on here? Is there a hidden video camera somewhere? Or are you being racist by labeling all white males as being alike?

homie says:
February 8, 2010 at 2:06 pm

Can females get in on this? Because I think Scott Brown and Barack Obama are both hot. I mean … just sayin’. Doesn’t mean anything, though.

Using the left’s reasoning, if I disagree politically with Jennifer Aniston, that must mean she’s a hideous hag.

Hi Ted… Nice to see you still read my comments.

zarkhan says:
February 8, 2010 at 1:44 pm

I think what really gets the leftist boys is that Sarah Palin is *hot*, as are the conservative women on Fox.

—

You know leftist boys less well than you assume. The Drop Out Governor is not hot. She is simply cheap and trashy. An aging barmaid trying to live off of tips in a tavern about to become a dive.

TC?

Thanks for the reading material…I really appreciate it.

Well, we really expect nothing less from the National Barak Channel.

BUT……you are wrong….it began yesterday when Alex Whitt brought it up, her conservative guest scribbed “Alex Rocks” on his hand and held it up. Mocking MSNBC for making an overly big deal out of this. I read that CNN now is comparing four words on your hand to reading the full speech off a teleprompter? Really? Really? And we wonder why the ratings for MSNBC and CNN suck.

“Um, how are you so sure who is a white male on here? ”

Um, are you so sure who is a leftie male on here?

“Really? Really?”

Nobody in the universe uses teleprompters or crib notes on their extremities or cheat sheets or hidden earpieces for a one-on-one interview with a *friendly* who is offering scripted, gift-wrapped softballs. Well, except Palin.
What even funnier is she can’t even remember her six basic ideological buzzwords and had to write them down.

Whats even better is how you try to connect this to the President using a teleprompter as though there were a President you can name that does not give speeches off of teleprompters.

And what is this? A make-up mirror or a bug-deflector?
http://media.photobucket.com/image/palin%20with%20telepromters/barbara76/prompter.jpg

Wink…you betcha!

It must suck defending her lack of character or basic communication skills or her lack of even the most fundamental understanding of basic civics.

“Or are you being racist by labeling all white males as being alike?”

No, just right-wing southern white males. Its called the GOP.

hahaahahhahaha! ROTFLMAO! An-drea you don’t have any room to talk about anyone! Give it a rest, girlfriend, you’re making an ass out of yourself. You’re supposed to be a PROFESSIONAL news reporter. Where’s the professionalism in making fun of a person? You should be ashamed.

Before you start to criticize what other people do, consider first how many faults and sins belong to YOU.
Consider now THEIR virtues, too, the good points they possess, and, whether your’s are more than their’s, of equal count, or less.

Oh, it is easy to condemn and now and then a pleasure to judge another person by our own peculiar measure. But who are we to pick apart and try to judge the worth of other people like OURSELVES who walk upon this earth? Be not too quick to cast a stone at those you chance to pass. They may return it and you’ll find your house is made of glass.

WeThePeople are over you, An-drea. Your viewship is suffering for your stupidity.

this is an unusual place.

Puter Boi,

thanks for reading. And thanks for making me look that up, I really liked that story, I’ll have to keep it handy.

Somehow, “We The People” makes me ashamed to be a person.

Who gives a flying f_ _ _ what Andrea Mitchell thinks or says, anyway? Her ratings are low just like the rest of the whiny Liberal talking heads.

I’m no Palindrone and as I said in the previous thread, I’d really prefer that we discuss why she was given an extended, uninterrupted, unpaid commercial on all three cable news channels to the exclusion of every other potential Republican (or Democratic, or Green, or Libertarian, or Communist Workers) candidate, but still…

From the above clip, I see Ms. Mitchell making a funny much like Brokaw would usually do on Letterman. (It seems to me that Rather was usually more dignified and I’m thinking that Williams tries to leave the “news” out of his humor) I don’t see anything wrong with Ms Mitchell’s (or Mr. Brokaw’s) joke(s), nor did I have a problem with Ms. Palin’s applause line or the fact that she had scribbled her talking points on her hand.

And, before somebody tries to invoke “irony”… I’ll just go ahead and link the clip of Jon Stewart humorously commenting on an instance of the President’s prompter use, while reading his lines from a prompter.

Note: I also realize that Mr. Obama’s prompter use has been explained in this situation and it’s a non-issue. My point is the “irony” of Jon Stewart reading prompter jokes from a teleprompter, before he calls out his first guest while in possession of notecards that were prepared in the pre-interview.

Magister says:
February 8, 2010 at 5:31 pm

Thanks for making me laugh so on your last paragraph Note on irony. I also apologize for a number of days ago for including you with some mudslingers in this group.

Thanks, homie. I didn’t know Michael Steele was a right wing southern white man.

And don’t feel bad, Royal. Self loathing is a liberal trait from way back. And homie says stereotyping is okay, depending on which group you’re doing it to. Glad to know you lefties are never hypocrites. But back to Ms. Palin. If you really believe she’s a dummy with no chance of ever holding political office again, isn’t it kind of dumb to spend so much time attacking her? Kind of like tripping the last place finisher in a marathon, isn’t it?

PLENTY of material to tease Obama with.
_______________________Oh c’mon. After Bush left and Obama got in EVERY comedian STATED that this was going to be a COMIC Draught BECAUSE Obama just isn’t FUNNY.
He is nice, he is charming, he HAS a sense of humour but some people are just NOT funny. Not EASY to poke fun at.
EVERY COMEDIAN stated they would be sad to see Bush go…they got a GIFT with SARAH Palin because she is a just a rollicking idiotic hoot.
Gaffe after gaffe and the TEAMSARAH’s that make up the lame excuses for her are even funnier.

Crib notes ON SARAH’s HAND! C’mon, it’s funny! AND WHO CROSSES OUT STUFF ON YOUR HAND???????
Palin CROSSED out a word on her HAND! Hilarious!
Let’s face it, Palin got 100 grand to pander to the teaparty convention, for that money she should be able to MEMORIZE.
1. TAXES
2. Elevate CROWD!!!
3. Todd, take out the garbage.

Van Jones. Acorn. Reverend Wright. Eric Holder. A democratic majority that can’t get anything done. And there’s no humor there? Not even a little?

Meanwhile, our poor leftist boys are stuck with their “movement” prudish intellectual girlfriends/wives w
____________________
what is this mixture of politics and heavy breathing you got going here?

The women who like Palin have been victimized somewhere along the way and relate to Palin being “PICKED ON”. They perceive her as a victim, and everything leveled at Palin, no matter how valid, seems to them like slight against all woman-kind. Fine, Whatever floats your boat.
BUT the guys who think Palin is great actually JUST think she’s hot. they are pretty much white and over 65 year olds (JEEZ, I HOPE that is true!). Now it’s true, if I were 65ish I might think Palin was a little bit of stumpet, but I’m not, so…
Palin is shirt, frumpy, glasses, big tele-evangelist wig hair, a spray tan and tattooed on eyebrows. She looks like a LENSE CRAFTERS Model.

I am convinced that if she was totally ugly you old geezers wouldn’t even support or defend her. Her entire allure must be what you THINK she looks like. JEEZ, it CAN’T BE anything that comes out her gaping pie-whole.

…and just BY THE BY, Liberal women (people) aren’t REALLY known for PRUDISHNESS. That would be a trait attributed to maybe, I don’t know, let’s say, a conservative, christian demographic…I’m just saying….that’s not absolutely true, I am sure, but PRUDISH isn’t a adjective for the left leaning women or otherwise.

Odd how the left equates physical appearance to political worth. I guess using that standard, Eleanor Roosevelt would’ve had to be executed. And I’d like to see the study showing that only old white men consider Palin attractive. It’s also odd that the left slams Palin’s looks, but gives women on the left such as Pelosi, Maddow, and others a pass.

Also, besides being hotter, Sarah Palin out-classes Andrea Mitchell any day.
______________________
I AM EQUATING Physical appearance with POLITICAL WORTH???????

I was addressing what the conservatives here on this blog are saying. The only thing y’all seem to praise is how Palin LOOKS.
“Palin is HOTTER then Andrea Mitchell, too bad liberals are stuck with women who aren’t as HOT AS PALIN.”
I didn’t say these things. I was addressing the fact that Palin’s camp seem to equate political with physical beauty (E.I. SCOTT CAMPBELL aka COSMO BOY).
OK, WRITER, you made me repeat myself, which means you are as thick and dim as SARAHINITALY. So, Ciao.

Name calling by a sensitive liberal. I am shocked. So if you don’t judge looks, weren’t those your comments about the “spray on tan” and the Lens Crafter girl? Or short and frumpy with glasses? Aren’t those physical attributes you were talking about? Weren’t you were the one saying people only like her for her looks? If you disagree with her politically, fine. But you lefties always have to start slurring someone’s physical appearance to get your point across. And women who like Palin have been victims? What are you basing this on? Is there a study somewhere proving that? Or did you pull it out of thin air? Like most on the left, you simply toss out slurs and accusations without any basis in fact.

oh look, more name calling….

DEO, did you forget to take your medication?

writer says:
February 8, 2010 at 7:51 pm

Doesn’t it scare you that these people are out there…walking among us? It is seriously frightening. I thought Jerry Springer’s show was bad!

I wish anonymous posting was banned on the internet. I wish people had to be accountable for the things they say. Then maybe we could actually have civilized conversations. As it is now, it is just futile.

Trouble is, the left can never argue anything for long and stick to facts. They always have to start throwing in comments about the person’s looks, or religion, or where they live, and so on. DEO’s above rant is a good example. He seems to think that if he describes Palin as unattractive, that somehow strengthens his argument that he disagrees with her politically. Rational people would realize that’s comparing apples to oranges, but that never seems to dawn on the far left.

Hey! I know what was written on Sarah Palins hand:
Liberals
eat
shit

Mr. Christopher, just like one of your recent Olbermann pieces, you are being dishonest. First, the criticism of Obama isn’t that he uses a teleprompter, or as you describe it… ‘every politician except President Obama is allowed to use a teleprompter’. Rather, the criticism is that he relies on it more than any other President. Below is a link to a Politico article. And, there are many other articles that have noted Obama’s over-reliance on the prompter-all from media that is decidedly NOT right wing. I first remember hearing a reporter remark on Obama and his teleprompter reliance on MSNBC, for goodness sake.

You also dishonestly described the exchange on Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough made no reference, whatsoever, to the President and the TOTUS jokes that have plagued him. Rather, he said simply, and rightly, that those trying to equate four words written on someone’s hand with using a teleprompter were ridiculous. He was responding to Palin critics, who have been trying to equate the two. Joe didn’t criticize Obama or his teleprompter.

By the way, with the exception of a few forced pity laughs from Mika, it was obvious the whole panel was not very amused as Andrea’s ‘joke’ fell painfully painfully flat, especially when Joe checked her on the hand/promtper comparison. The really funny part was Andrea’s reaction-stone faced silence.

‘Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual — not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small.”

‘“It’s just something presidents haven’t done,” said Martha Joynt Kumar, a presidential historian who has held court in the White House since December 1975.’-Politico
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090305/pl_politico/19663

Kit9,

dishonest is a bit of an overstatement. If you’d like to read a thorough rebuttal of your characterization of the TOTUS meme, check this out.

http://dailydose.us/2009/03/23/the-truth-about-barack-obamas-teleprompter/

Also, before you call me dishonest, please point out to me where I said Scarborough “made reference to the President and the TOTUS jokes that have plagued him.”

As for the Politico article you cite, try this:

http://dailydose.us/2009/03/22/barack-obamas-teleprompter-verges-on-offensive/

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