nytimes no less....President Sticks to the Script, With a Little Help

[spanone]

guess what ? the President uses a .....wait.....TELEPROMPTER


WASHINGTON — As he introduced his new choice for secretary of health and human services in the East Room this week, President Obama turned his head from right to left, but he was not looking at the audience. He was reading from two teleprompters strategically set up outside the tight television camera shot.

When he was done, the teleprompters quietly began retracting down to the floor. As she stepped forward to make her remarks, the nominee, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, seemed momentarily surprised.

“Don’t mind the little. ... ,” Mr. Obama said with a smile.

“It’s disappearing!” she said, jokingly.

Presidents have been using teleprompters for more than half a century, but none have relied on them as extensively as Mr. Obama has so far. While presidents typically have used them for their most important speeches — an inaugural, State of the Union or Oval Office address — Mr. Obama uses them for routine announcements and even for the opening statement of his only news conference so far.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/us/politics/06memo.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

[Uzybone]

1. Pathetic article

Even Nicole Wallace had to defend Obama. Some times the NYTimes really does some weird "journalism". Remember the big story they put out before the election about Bidens' perks (such as his one home and his train rides to DC)?

[spanone]

2. it is pathetic...it's also the headline story on their webpage

www.nytimes.com

maybe if the former prez used one more often, he may have appeared slightly intelligent....naw

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Any sane person would use a teleprompter with those hawks

parsing every letter of every word.