Truly, Politico is vile: "TelePrompter malfunction? O goes way off-script..seeming to fumble..."

[Jackeens]

"TelePrompter malfunction? Obama goes way off-script during his remarks, at times seeming to fumble for words. His remarks don't line up with the prepared remarks released by the White House, though he got back on track about halfway through."

http://www.politico.com/politico44/


So he spoke, unscripted, with passion.....a phenomenon with which Politico is clearly unfamiliar.

[firedupdem]

1. I hate them....they are nothing but drudge with a little makeup on...

you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still rush limbaugh

:shrug:

[Aloha Spirit]

21. lol fake eyelashes and lip gloss

to elaborate on a metaphor.

[Clio the Leo]

2. oh no! He messed up their already-written reports! ha ha NT

[Jackeens]

5. Absolutely! Bitter hacks had to actually work for a living - gulp: a deviation from the script!!

[anonymous171]

19. EXACTLY! nt

[Patsy Stone]

3. They should just go ahead and change their name to The National Review already.

:eyes:

[pot luck]

4. Nothing Politico writes surprises me anymore.

They are just as bad as the FauxNews, ABC, CNN, etc. and not worth paying any attention to.

[Thrill]

6. You'll be hard pressed to find an article on Politico that isn't a hit piece

[tularetom]

7. Republico.com strikes again

The refuge of failed journalists and pundits funded by the most virulent of right wingnuts.

[alsame]

8. Fumbling for words...well, he has

quite a standard to live up to, considering that eloquent master of oratory we had for 8 years.

[theoldman]

9. And it took that guy 8 years just to learn to read a speech.

[alsame]

10. Yes, he probably

asked himself everyday "Is I learning?"

[jenmito]

11. Didn't the RWers claim Palin's teleprompter broke and she ad-libbed

and it was so wonderful? (It was a lie.)

I hope it's TRUE that his teleprompter malfunctioned. It would prove how brilliant he is. This was his best speech since the inauguration. Maybe even better!

[Cha]

12. They focking don't miss a chance

to rag on Obama.

[jenmito]

13. Politico is where the lie came from that Obama's approval rating dropped from 83% to 65%. n/t

[Jennicut]

14. Really, politcal whores is all they are. Roger Simon

is an ass.

[Monk06]

15. He spoke flawlessly and seamlessly for twenty minutes without a telepromter.

Politico apparently can't tell when someone is
reading from a script.

[Bobbie Jo]

16. ...and yet he Still used complete sentences.

It's called ENGLISH....as unfamiliar as that may seem after 8 yrs of Pig Latin.

[Sebastian Doyle]

17. Some body should ask PoliticHo why their offices are in the same building

as the new office of one Darth Cheney, former shadow dictator of the Imperial States of Halliburton.

[Jennicut]

18. Did some research on the guys who run Politico.com

From article in Salon in 2007:Who funds and runs the Politico?

In the middle of an article by The Politico's Mike Allen regarding last night's GOP presidential debate, one finds this paragraph:

She (Nancy Reagan) was escorted out of the hall by Frederick J. Ryan Jr., chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation, and president and CEO of The Politico.

So the President and CEO of The Politico, Frederick Ryan, is also the Board Chairman for the Reagan Library. And that makes sense, because Ryan is a long-time, hard-core Reaganite.http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/04/politico_funding/

In the same article there is info about Politico's Publisher Robert L. Allbritton:

The Politico's primary (perhaps sole) funding source is the Allbritton Company, of which Frederick Ryan is an employee. The Allbritton family's leader, Joe, was CEO of Riggs Bank when Riggs pleaded guilty to a series of illegal financial transactions with right-wing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and his brutal military that took place throughout the 1990s and into 2001. When Joe Allbritton was CEO of Riggs Bank, Riggs, in 1997, purchased the company owned by President George W. Bush's uncle, Jonathan Bush, and Jonathan Bush then became a top Riggs official serving alongside Joe Allbritton (h/t sysprog). That was discovered when, in 2004, Riggs agreed to "pay a record $25 million in civil fines for violations of law intended to thwart money laundering," apparently allowing Saudi money, among others, to be laundered through its bank while both Allbritton and Jonathan Bush were its top executives.

Ties to Reagan and Bush. Knew it all along.

[ShadowLiberal]

20. A new politico article about the same thing paints it as Obama speaking from the heart

At first I didn't know what you were talking about when I saw the teleprompter function and figured you met the speech he made to house democrats on the retreat.

There's another article on it up, and it doesn't paint his speech as a teleprompter malfunction at all, rather Obama deciding to go off script and speak from the heart.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18482.html

[Frank Booth]

22. Wow. I think this is the first article I've read

criticizing someone for being able to make a strong, convincing speech off the cuff, as opposed to reading a canned speech from a teleprompter.