‘His Menace’: Chris Matthews Tells Obama to ‘Get Rid of That Damn Teleprompter’
- Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:24am by
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There is a particular sentence here that I found particularly interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY7PDpLiJwE
First let me say that Newsbusters is right in asking: “Matthews just starting to notice” the TOTUS dependency?
The part that caught my attention, though, was Matthews’ account of Obama using a teleprompter for routine meetings.
“You go to a meeting with him I’m told, businessmen are invited to meet him at the White House, he hauls out the damn teleprompter, and he reads it to them.”
A few months ago, a high-level Democratic donor described exactly that scenario. Obama, I was told, used a teleprompter during a meeting with a small, emphasize small, group of business leaders. At the time I considered it a possible exaggeration. But if Chris Matthews is hearing about similar accounts — perhaps I need to reconsider my skepticism.
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Comments (163)
awall1231
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 6:38amIf this administration was an episode of M.A.S.H. they would all be Frank Burns, except for Meshelle, she wouls be Klinger.
TexasGirlAmyK
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 6:58amThat‘s the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time.!
florentine
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 12:15pmbwhahahaha!
Report Post »Large Eagle
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 12:53am10-4
Report Post »I think they should give the teleprompter to Gibbs – Did you hear that clown today about liberation theology
awall1231
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 6:34amI watched a documentary on Reagan yesterday. It showed some of his speeches from the oval office to the American people. I was amazed to see the President of the United States talk as one of us instead of talking above us as this TOTUS does. I think for his next speech they should just turn the teleprompter around and let us read it ourselves.
Cakeluv
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 9:34amThat is funny!
Report Post »RandomOrder
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 2:39pmThey don’t believe we can read…….
Report Post »Phoenician
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 6:10amIf they take away the TOTUS, he’ll be a real DOOFUS!
It’s great to see Matthews coming unglued!
All the kings horses and all the kings men, can’t put this empty-suit back together again!
Report Post »judy1270
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 6:08amMatthews makes me laugh…it only took the moron 2 years to figure that out!. And that jack wipe, has a job and I don’t…go figure!
An Arizonan
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 5:54amMatthews is a moron. It took him two years to figure this out?
Report Post »Who hired him anyway? Morons.
politicaljules
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 5:46amAlso I thought that newsbusters was not that reliable of a reference. I heard it was a little too wacko.
Report Post »everythingafter
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:28pmFunny. I heard the same thing about The Blaze.
Report Post »Reaganista
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 7:33pmPerhaps you should view the video at the site.
Report Post »politicaljules
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 5:45am(Excuse the name calling) But nice try McFatty. We see you trying to increase your viewership with a fake pseudo attack on obama. It is weak Mr. Mc Fat Fat Fatty, and we are tired of your antics. Here‘s hoping the free market that runs the media stays that way and your show loses viewership quicker than Katie Couric’s. It is time to stop giving you a soap box because you have gone way over the deep end and we just do not care to watch that happen. It is painful and nobody wants to watch that downward spiral.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 5:40amUghhhhhhhhhhhh well uggghhhhhhhhhhhh I uuuughhhhhhh need the ughhhhhhhhhhhh telepromter uuughhhhhhhhhhhh or I ughhhhhhhhhhhhh have this uuughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh problem with ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh getting my thoughts ughhhhhhhhhhhh out in a sentence ugggggggghhhhhhhhhh without saying ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
Because I am ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh a puppet
Cakeluv
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 9:31amLOL
Report Post »Buckeyemom1776
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 2:08pm“Uuuhhhhh a pup pup puppet of John Podesta and George Soros…If I don’t have my blackberry in front of me getting the play by play from the Center of American Progress, I’m simply lost man…just simply lost….I need that darn teleprompter! By the way, getting to the office at 9:30am is simply just too early! Why don’t I just leave my blackberry with Rahm at the Oval Office and Podesta and Soros can handle it. I’m beat! That bicycle ride at Martha’s Vineyard just wore me out!”
Report Post »Multita S. King
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:19pmYou summed it up well, LustyDuv. Either we get O’Bama au naturel with all the uhs and ums, or we get the Tin Woodman reading empty words. Bush was pilloried for NUCULAR, O’Bozo can pronounce most words correctly if someone else strings them together.
Report Post »The man of wonders is in a bad-bad no-win position. Maybe best to just quit talking.
fiddsticks
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 5:21amDoes some Obama’s speech look like he is at a tennis match and he just fallowing the ball with his head. looking left then center down then right and back to center down then left….repeat
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 8:31pmDon’t forget the chin up glazed eyed stare like he”s the king of the peasents
Report Post »spendthrift
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:29amIF ENOUGH OF US, YES YOU….DEMAND FOR IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS NOW TO BEGIN, FOR TREASON, THE BILL WILL BE INTRODUCED BY NOV 2 AND WE WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO REMOVE THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE PRESIDENT AMERICA THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND DEMAND IMPEACHMENT OF THE TERRORIST PRESIDENT. YOUR FUTURE, MY FUTURE, MY CHILD’S FUTURE DEPENDS UPON IT. OTHERWISE, POST YOUR POST’S IN VAIN TO A SILENT EAR.
spendthrift
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:09amIMPEACHMENT STARTS NOW….AND IT’S FINISHED IN NOVEMBER….TAKE THE HOUSE, SENATE, AND ALL THAT’S AT REST. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. CALL YOU CONGRESSMAN IF YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS AND DEMAND IT.
spendthrift
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:07amWELL DAA, THE KING IS BACKTRAILING. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH…INFORM YOUR CONGRESSMAN THAT TREASON HAS NOW COME FROM THE OVAL OFFICE…
Report Post »Errol_Seattle
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 3:58amWas he using the teleprompter when he talked about all 57 states?
Report Post »duckkiger
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 7:16amGood one. Thats when he needs it most. Come 2012 the American people will realize this guy for what he really is.
Report Post »Daragon29
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 3:42amEven with a Teleprompter he still says stupid stuff like..”Uhh this woman is jobless and needs help feeding her crack addiction.”
MikeyG_CT
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:12amThe TelePrompter is Obama’s rubber crutch because of a speech impediment. I believe he has had a speech coach to help him from being a stutterer when he gets riled or nervous. You can notice the transition from earlier speeches that were off the cuff at rallies to now where he measures his response with elongated pauses to gather his thoughts. It must be the antithesis of A.D.D.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 3:31amHe has to read from the teleprompter, because if he doesn’t, he’ll say stupid things like “take my grandmother. She‘ll walk across the street when she sees someone she doesn’t know approaching. White people can’t help it; it’s bred into them.”
Report Post »Stevsea
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:17pmYea, or call a Navy Corpsman a Navy “Corpse” man.
Report Post »Sefton
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:37pmOr…when he went off ‘prompter and tried to use the US Post Office as an example of an entity with the constant problems – when he’s trying to make the case against privatized health insurers as opposed to a government run health plan.
Report Post »Or…when he went off ‘prompter at a Memorial Day ceremony with this gem – “…as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them here today…”
Or…when his ‘prompter committed mutiny on him at a National Academy of Sciences speech and he got lost introducing members of his council…
He’s got a million of em…
Rayford
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 3:26amIt doesn’t surprise me, actually. He must feel out of place with nothing to say to business leaders from his own experience…or lack thereof.
Report Post »honestyplease
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 3:09amJust figuring out that there’s a problem here now? Better late than never I guess…
Report Post »ati058
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 2:34am“Sokath, his eyes uncovered!”
Do you see that? Matthews may not be totally clueless after all . . . okay, he is a bit slow and he’d completely missed the point, but still noteworth . . . oh, forget it.
S.Hill
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 2:02amIf he gets rid of TOTUS, he will very quickly show himself for the Progressive that he is. People would realize just how dangerous his Administration is for this country; TOTUS will stay, unfortunately. Perhaps people will grow annoyed with his constant use of handicap.
kohlmann51
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 2:00amMathews has lost that tingle feeling,
Whoa, that tingle feeling,
He’s lost that tingle feeling,
Now it’s gone…gone…gone…wooooooh.
bringo
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:58amThe whole teleprompter things reminds me of The Wizard of Oz. Except, Toto hasn‘t pulled back the curtain so we can see who’s typing the words for the puppet.
Report Post »kduell
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:42pmOne thing we do know, it‘s someone on George Soros’ payroll.
Report Post »Jynnipher
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:57amI had to LOL when I watched the clip…it really made m e laugh.
Report Post »Then I remembered an email I had gotten with a youtube link – it was a “news” broadcast that said he would use his teleprompter at the dinner table and whatnot. It was funny back then…could it have been accuate as well?
RightInOregon
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:50amBut we all knew he had a SEVERE dependence on that thing when he was elected! Now maybe he needs to got to TA and work through his major issues!
Report Post »Lssmc
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:03pmOMG. Chris Matthews is in a quandary about POTUS’s TOTUS. Well, shut my mouth!! Obama reminds me of the Redford character in “The Candidate”. After he won… to paraphrase, he said “what now?
Report Post »justplainmelee55
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 10:00pmI suggest if you want to know who really rules the Oval Office, you read Laura Ingrhams book The Obama Diaries. It is a very informative non fiction.If you think what you know now makes you angry, read this..
Report Post »coachscott
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:42amSo who is actually writing the words on the TOTUS? Could you imagine the histeria about Bush using a TOTUS in this fashion- He would be accussed of reading spoon fed words from Cheney. So who then is spoon feeding Obama?
Report Post »MIKE@NIGHT
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:03amThat’s simple my friend; the very same people who are holding his puppet strings. LOL
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 5:48amExactly!! Who’s the man (or woman) behind the man?
setusfree2012
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 8:42amWho’s writing his speeches? The ghosts of Karl Marx and Mao Tse Tung!
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 11:15amIndeed. For marilou7: I have heard it said that staffers are actually frightened of the First Lady. I really wish I could remember who was being interviewed, but that particular staffer stated that one gets the same feeling being called or having to go to Mrs. Obama‘s office that one used to feel at being called to the principal’s office. As someone who well remembers that feeling, that speaks volumes!
NWeaver
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 2:36pmLet alone that fact that the liberal media TORCHED Palin for having notes written on her hand. At least she can give a moving speech with just a few jotted notes. This man needs every single word written down…mostly because he needs to read the words given to him by his puppet masters….if that weren’t the case then he could at least give simple speeches from his own head and heart.
Report Post »COjohngalt
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 4:11pmTwo words… GEORGE SOROS
Report Post »Elucidate
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 6:16pmThis is truly almost too hard to believe. If this is true, we have no idea who is running this country, nor do we have a voice, since Puppet Obama clearly doesn’t not care about what this country wants or needs. Star Chamber redux. Someone should start making string puppet toys of obama holding a teleprompter.
Report Post »listenstoGod
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:38amIt simple really.The man has no heart in regards to the issues about which he spoke.So he reads from a teleprompter,rather than delivering an impassioned plea.He is a sad,sad man.
Lady Liberty
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 2:31amYou are so right! Everything about him from his childhood to his adulthood is sad. How did the people let someone like this take over? That’s the saddest part of all…
manonfire
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 3:17amI think he should read his notes or any other things on a totus! You know why, he is the President of the United States and should use what he likes not what you like!!!
fiddsticks
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 5:32amIf your persistent or in a play, Manonfire , and keep reading for a screen/script and looking just at screen/script the whole time and not at our audiences. How should the audiences feel? i will tell you, apart of speech or play because they want to be apart of something. use note card for help…just not the whole speech on cards
BeHearAmerica
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 6:55amDo you feel it? This isn’t about the teleprompter; rather it’s all about 8/28. Folks the Miracles are happening, thank you God and Glenn Beck for raising the bar to stir us all to be better people. They are feeling it too, but they see it as a teleprompter problem.
duckkiger
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 7:06amSo true. If he needs a teleprompter for a one on one conversation, only means he’s being totally controlled. The guy has no heart, no mind, no compassion. It’s all a show.
MARCO1234
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 7:08amHe’s got an agenda and he is marching towards it…Americans/America be dammed. It is likely, if he is successful at bringing a complete economic collapse to America, that he will be “president” for the next 25 years…..
jpeg964
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 7:21amMANONFIRE The reason that he has to read and not speak from his heart (of which he has none) should be obvious. It is because he knows that what he is saying, for the MOST part is a lie. He believes that WE are so gullible and will accept anything he says because he is the POTUS. What he should understand (but never will because of his arrogance), is that WE are fed up with his LIES and aren’t going to take it any more.
WE THE PEOPLE have been deceived enough by this man. He was put in office because to many people get their information from the main stream media. They blindly follow the biased views of these networks without doing any leg work of their own. If they would take the time to do some research, they would realize that what they hear on the NIGHTLY NEWS (biased propaganda) is an attempt to lull them into the belief that everythings alright, and they should just fall in line.
I am hopeful that WE can put a stop to this administration’s willful destruction of this country in the upcoming elections. If not, then we are doomed as a free society.
zanemcm
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 7:24amHe’s a jug eared moron!
caseydog27
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 7:28amChris Matthews said it best, TOTUS is separating the president and “us”. Which “us” do you think he is referring to? I imagine he means its keeping our president from speak to the liberal agenda.
Report Post »Stevsea
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 1:11pmHe needs help. Call a Navy “Corpse” man.
Report Post »Bad Company
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 9:59pmYou hit the nail on the head.
Report Post »extexjb
Posted on September 2, 2010 at 11:20pmmamonfire….you forget….he works for US and he should be able to speak to us with words from his brain (if possible) NOT read it from a damn teleprompter written by OTHERS!
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:25pmP-BO minus Telepromter equal Alfred E. Newman….:What Me Worry?:
Report Post »CrackerSmurf
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 12:30pmChris Matthews get off my TV. You are a loud mouthed wouldbe hobo if not for the easy job of being fat and speaking about mornoics to morons. He can certainly use the teleprompter if he wants but those he is in meetings with should certainly know what GS wants to say to them. After all he runs all of O‘bama’s chief top priorities.
Report Post »Independent Tess
Posted on September 11, 2010 at 6:00pmWow! That’s pathetic. A teleprompter for small groups? Sad…..
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