Obama Teleprompter Fun
BY: WC WINDBAG
Hot Air has a brand new fun feature called “Obamateurism of the Day” modelled off of a Bush-bashing feature in Slate during his Presidency. The slips are normally not a huge deal (losing his place in a speech rather than a real screw up), so they are all in good fun.
While watching the latest one from today (the President mispronounced a company name over and over), I noticed something interesting when the camera zoomed out. This is something you really don’t notice when Obama is turning back and forth on TV. You would assume he is looking around connecting with his audience, but when you see the prompters on screen… then the whole delivery loses its personal touch.
This is just an observation on how the teleprompters can make you look good when you are on TV, or how they can make you look alone in a room full of people.
Take a look and let me know what you think:
No wonder Obama’s teleprompter is blogging and tweeting about all of this.
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- Transparency Illusion; UPDATE: CNN's Cafferty Losses His Obama-Fevah ...; UPDATE2: Dem Congressman "We aren't transparent." - January 7th, 2010
- Global Warming Freezes Planet - January 5th, 2010
I agree, it does lose its personal touch. I know that if I were crazy enough to be a politician, I wouldn’t leave home without them. My short-term memory stinks.
This is why former Presidents like George Bush, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton all had notecards or paper with words on them. They would read the speech they were familiar with, lift their head, look at the audience, and speak. It worked really well in person.
I will tell you this… speaking on a teleprompter looks really good on TV because it looks as if the person speaking is talking to those in the room, connecting with their eyes. When you see the video, all it appears he is doing is reading technological cue cards. Reading as opposed to referring to his notes.
You know with his honeymoon ending, I am wondering how long until the media and the audience start talking about this disconnect or impersonality of his speeches and pressers. You know they were saying his persona was “creepy.” Wait until they start saying it was like he wasn’t “there” or they could not “feel” it.
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As it is truly getting harder to find things to laugh about i would love to hear him say in Paul Harvey fashion “look to other prompter now”
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