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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:01 PM Original message |
I give 4-5 "speeches" every week-- we call them "lectures" in my business... |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. Do you actively make fun of speakers who use teleprompters? |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. I don't think I've ever spared a thought about teleprompters until you asked.... |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. Go ahead and read notes off your hand then. |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's kind of a different situation. |
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TexasProgresive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
3. I think that the noise is because the hypocrit freepers |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
4. It is not the use of the crib notes, it is the hypocrisy to call out Obama for using a teleprompter |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:10 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Also she lied about not having seen the pre-screened questions in advance.. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Yup. She deserves all the slamming every one of us can give her. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. well, I CERTAINLY agree with your last point.... |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:25 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. I always used note cards for speeches in class for college. |
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dmr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 06:09 PM Response to Reply #22 |
34. I think it's also what she wrote on her palm |
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Saturday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
7. I have never ever in my life seen an adult give a lecture with |
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tallahasseedem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:16 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. +1 |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. note that I'm NOT commenting on the quality of her speech.... |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. I'm not too proud to cop to having done it on occasion.... |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
10. Mike, your posts are so very clear, and you are |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:21 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. aww, shucks.... |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
11. I understand the point, mike_c, but in Palin's case its part of a much larger pattern of ineptitude |
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HipChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:23 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. Exactly.. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:31 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. I won't argue that.... |
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Political Heretic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:51 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Yeah, I don't really disagree. And lots of the attitudes of the last weekend have troubled me. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
12. you miss the point. SHE is the one shitting on Obama for using a teleprompter... |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
14. A professional would use a note card |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
16. A couple of things. |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
19. No, good speakers don't write things on their hand. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:25 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. how on earth can you make such a generalization...? |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:37 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Experience. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
25. well DAMN, sometime during the course of this conversation someone gave me... |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
26. Little known fact: Cicero invented the Classical Sharpie for that sole purpose |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
27. No, but we already know Palin is not intelligent, unprepared, and lacks public speaking ability |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
29. Her case is different |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
30. here's why it pissed folks off....'any charismatic guy with a teleprompter'.....in the same speech |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
31. That last time I saw someone write krib notes on their hand was in 6th grade. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 05:59 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. well, I'm not saying I do it every day... |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 06:13 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Just curious.. why not write the notes on a small notecard? |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 06:24 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. well of course.... |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 06:29 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. Understood. I guess we all have our ways of dealing with life issues.. |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 07:34 PM Response to Reply #33 |
44. My spouse and I were both amazed at how the media was picking Sarah apart for that |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
37. I give 4-5 lectures a week, too, but political speaking is a different ballgame |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
38. Yes. Call her out for hypocrisy... |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 06:29 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. my point, exactly.... |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
41. Do you jot down vague talking points you've already repeated 10,000 times? |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 07:25 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. LOL-- if I had to say stuff like that I would TOTALLY write it down.... |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
43. I do a bit more...but I get to use Power Point so I don't need note cards or a teleprompter |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 07:50 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. but SURELY you've stopped in mid-sentence, looked at the slide on screen... |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 08:24 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. In the 200 level courses the students are so overwhelmed it does not matter |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-09-10 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
45. except . . . |
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