Comments on: Manchurian Teleprompter http://mooretoons.com/2009/03/27/manchurian-teleprompter/ the mooretoons blog Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:39:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Kevin Moore http://mooretoons.com/2009/03/27/manchurian-teleprompter/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Kevin Moore Sat, 28 Mar 2009 06:00:15 +0000 http://mooretoons.com/?p=588#comment-317 That's not a bad theory. I had assumed they were just pissed because the previous occupant was so obviously incapable of either speaking off-the-cuff or of delivering a comprehensible speech. Like they were projecting. But, yeah, what's wrong with 3 x 5 cards? Look at your notes. Every public speaker does. That’s not a bad theory. I had assumed they were just pissed because the previous occupant was so obviously incapable of either speaking off-the-cuff or of delivering a comprehensible speech. Like they were projecting.

But, yeah, what’s wrong with 3 x 5 cards? Look at your notes. Every public speaker does.

]]> By: Rojo http://mooretoons.com/2009/03/27/manchurian-teleprompter/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Rojo Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:25:12 +0000 http://mooretoons.com/?p=588#comment-316 Thoroughly stupid indeed. Both for the reason Gerson mentions (I hate to admit he's right about anything) and because teleprompters are ubiquitous in our political culture. I had heard a couple of whispers of this controversy, but I hadn't realized it gotten beyond just a handful of cranks. It does bring to mind why I dislike the teleprompter though. I find it to smack of false familiarity, allowing the speaker to pretend to be speaking directly to the audience when his/her attention is actually on the teleprompter. I'd much rather have the speaker reading off of paper, it seems more honest to me that way. But then, I'm a Luddite (and want the damn kids off my lawn). However, I wonder if there is a bit of similar, if inchoate, Ludditism, underlying why right-wingers might find the criticisms of Obama compelling. Hence the charges of inauthenticity (never mind that it applies to the entire political culture in my view and just to Obama in theirs). Thoroughly stupid indeed. Both for the reason Gerson mentions (I hate to admit he’s right about anything) and because teleprompters are ubiquitous in our political culture. I had heard a couple of whispers of this controversy, but I hadn’t realized it gotten beyond just a handful of cranks.

It does bring to mind why I dislike the teleprompter though. I find it to smack of false familiarity, allowing the speaker to pretend to be speaking directly to the audience when his/her attention is actually on the teleprompter. I’d much rather have the speaker reading off of paper, it seems more honest to me that way. But then, I’m a Luddite (and want the damn kids off my lawn). However, I wonder if there is a bit of similar, if inchoate, Ludditism, underlying why right-wingers might find the criticisms of Obama compelling. Hence the charges of inauthenticity (never mind that it applies to the entire political culture in my view and just to Obama in theirs).

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