Obama and his teleprompter

last updated 8 January 2015

The right’s silly “fascination with President Obama and teleprompters” seems to have gone mainstream, said Steve Benen in The Washington Monthly. In an “analysis” of Obama’s Tuesday press conference, the AP’s Ron Fournier described the teleprompter Obama used for his opening statement as a “familiar crutch,” as if it were unusual for presidents to read prepared statements. That’s an “analysis”? “From where, the Republican National Committee?”

Well, seriously, said John Hindraker in Power Line, “everyone knows that Barack Obama is lost without his teleprompter.” But even the teleprompter can’t save him from every “blunder,” like when he mispronounced “Orion” a number of times. Add astronomy to the list of subjects on which “Obama is incredibly ignorant,” joining history and economics.