Self-delete: My bad!

[rateyes]

[liberalpress]

1. Actually those are teleprompter screens

[SnowGoose]

2. I think you're talking about the teleprompters.

They project an image of the speech text up onto slanted glass, so that the person at the podium sees it, but to everyone else, it's just glass. I hardly even notice them anymore (kina like Bush hardly notices the voice prompting him over his earpiece).

[mrfrapp]

3. Prompters

They're not "bullet-proof shields", they're tele-prompters.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_395.html

[rateyes]

5. Yeah, my bad!

Now everyone knows what a technological idiot I am. I'm going to have to self-delete.

[TwilightZone]

4. Those are teleprompters.

He uses them all of the time.