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President Obama to be helped with answers at future press conferences.

I am running out of ways to say that irony is dead.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 17th, 2009 at 09:00 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

At least, if you believe the American Spectator, which admirably deadpans this hysterically funny revelation:

“It looked scripted beyond the scripted part, the speech,” says one former communications adviser, who has been feeding notes and suggestions to the White House team and worked with them on the inauguration. “Every president has gone into one of these things knowing that there were some pre-arranged questions or journalists to be called on, but this one was pretty ham-handed.”

To that end, he says, the White House is looking to install a small video or computer screen into the podium used by the president for press conferences and events in the White House. “It would make it easier for the comms guys to pass along information without being obvious about it,” says the adviser.

Dan Riehl, once he finished laughing at everybody who screeched about Bush and earpieces in 2004, went on… no, wait, Dan never actually stopped laughing at those poor, deluded folks.  Hard to blame him for that, really.

Moe Lane

Crossposted at Moe Lane.

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  • EagleWatcher

    This is an entire administration on training wheels. The country is in dire straights and we have handed it over to a bunch of interns.

  • http://jeffemanuel.net Jeff Emanuel

    It’s scary how closely he resembles every single thing they claimed about GWB.

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Bush beat them, kept beating them, and made beating them look easy. Getting a Bush of one’s own probably seemed like a good idea to them.

    Of course, they’re operating from an imperfect map of the universe, so they got the wrong Bush of their own, but them’s the breaks.

  • olsmithie

    If a football player can do it, why can’t the Obamanation?

    Regards

  • woodsman

    Defined as: “art of producing voices: the art or skill of producing vocal sounds that seem to come from somewhere other than the speaker”

    source: http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861733784/ventriloquism.html?partner=orp

    This would then indicate Obama is the wooden dummy being controlled by someone else, but appearing to be acting in an autonomous manner.

  • davo119

    He don’t need no stinkin’ speech lessons!

  • Old_Crow

    Axelrod?

    Does Timmy G. get one of these setups to ‘help’ him through his next presser.

    Buy gold.

    Now

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    No matter how well he can speak, ignorance is Obama’s biggest problem and he’s too lazy to learn what he doesn’t know. It’s far easier to feed it through a teleprompter or ear piece than actually have to know anything. He’s not making the decisions anyway. Congress is.

    How else is the ruling class supposed to feed information through an empty suit?

  • justatron

    Obama should just go ahead and commission Disney to build a life-like robot to be his press liason. Since the questions and answers are going to be pre-programmed anyway, he could just input the info into the robot and send it out to interact with the press, saving Dear Leader from having to sully himself with the unwashed masses.

    And when he’s out of office, Disney can just install the thing into the Hall of Presidents and program it to do a song and dance with Lincoln…

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    I was surfing websites earlier and one of them had ads for investing in food because it’s set to skyrocket in price… which remind me of a phrase from an old song: “…piece of bread will buy a bag of gold…”

    Has it always been this wild or am I just noticing more since I got interested, in an activist way, in what our government is up to?

  • Scope

    Very sorry Moe, thought all would like to know.

  • 10ksnooker

    Fast … needs someone behind the current to type in the answers.

    They don’t call him Odummer because he has nice pecks.

  • 6eorge Jetson

  • Achance

    It has NEVER been like this. The only reasonably close analog I can find is the Wiemar Republic.

  • jimmuy8

    From Senator Government to President Teleprompter.

  • janis

    That what’s happening here so closely mirrors what happened then and there. How do we stop this? Every day is another kick in the teeth for freedom.

  • Vladimir
  • Old_Crow

    activist government is horror. Never have so many in high government positions known so little about finance and business.

    We know this is going to end badly.

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    I’ve always had an interest in government shenanigans to a point… from a personal angle, i.e. just another one of the silent majority. It’s only in the last couple of years that I’ve actually done much talking about politics.

    I was hoping perhaps, just because of my increased interest, that perhaps I was worrying too much.

  • Achance

    a lot of the commentary along those lines is just whistling past the graveyard. I submit that the stimulus and all the hoopla surrounding it is merely a headfake that has the added advantage of enriching and strengthening some Democrat front groups. The real issues for them are to eliminate the possibility of a Republican counterattack such as they experienced in ’94. That takes passage of card check and RTW repeal, something like a fairness doctrine to silence the opposition and retard its ablility to organize, and stacking all the vacant slots in the federal judiciary.

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C

    Instead of thinking they’re clueless, it would be better to realize that what they’re doing is exactly what they want to accomplish in end results.

    Of course, they can’t admit that publicly, so how best do you sell it? By telling the truly clueless that its intent is the opposite.

  • bags64

    Why not just let the person running the teleprompter come out and take the questions?

    I can hear Jake Tapper now…, “Mr. President, are these your answers, or the person’s behind the curtain?”, or, “Will you stand by these answers once you’ve had a chance to read them to yourself once?”

  • Achance

    is to pay attention to what he’s complaining about you doing.

  • $peciallist

    Soft-pitch Helen is TOP 5….Alltime….lmao

    Nice work..lol

  • johnt

    needs a brain behind the curtain, actually a team of brains because as Eagle Watcher points out we’re dealing with a bunch of interns.
    Still one more example of liberal incompetence flying in the face of an absurd self regard.
    Is it to early to refer to The O as Amiable Dunce ll ?

  • http://hillbillypolitics.com Steph C
  • Thomas_Hauber

    There should be a betting pool for how long Obama and his administration get a free ride on this stuff.

    Surely at some point the press is going to turn against him and start asking serious pointed questions?

  • olsmithie

    Just wanted hear it from someone else.

    REgards

  • sdan

    is someone hacking the system. Wonder how long he would keep talking before he realized something was wrong.