chimp used a teleprompter, so why was he flipping pages

The_Casual_Observer

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:39 AM
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chimp used a teleprompter, so why was he flipping pages

Edited on Wed Jun-29-05 01:41 AM by The_Casual_Observer

that he NEVER looked down at? He flipped the pages back and forth several times. It was as if he wanted us to believe he was consulting special notes or something.

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mark11727

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:40 AM
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1. "I have here, in my hand, a list of names...."

Oldest trick in the book.

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Erika

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:41 AM
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2. I noticed that also.

No idea. But the book of pages he had in front of him was probably five times as long as his speech?

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Fiona

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:42 AM
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3. Most speakers do that....

it's not a big deal.

Every President I've seen brings his speech with him to the State of the Union, for example, even when reading it off a teleprompter.

Sometimes teleprompters fail. It's good to have a paper copy.

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The_Casual_Observer

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:46 AM
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7. God help him if he needed to use them, he was flipping them this way and

that nervously, it was almost worthy of a drinking game.

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Fiona

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:48 AM
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9. LOL...

I didn't see the speech. Listened to it on the radio. It woulda been funny to see him find him place.

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Syrinx

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Wed Jun-29-05 02:00 AM
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13. remember when Clinton's prompter failed?

I think it was at a State Of The Union speech. And apparently he didn't have any notes. But he ad-libbed masterfully. I wonder what would happen if dim son encountered a similar situation?

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Fiona

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Wed Jun-29-05 02:02 AM
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14. Clinton had more than two active

brain cells to rub together. But yeah, it'd be quite fun to see Bush try to recover.

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Gemini Cat

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:43 AM
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4. Chimps like to fling stuff and play with OTHER stuff

so in order to keep his hands busy and out of his trousers, they had him turn pages.

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applegrove

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:44 AM
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5. To give himself time. Also he showed us so much more profile than

normal. I'm thinking Rove was trying to "rebrand" since we all hate his smirk straight on. IMHO

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The_Casual_Observer

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:48 AM
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8. A result of two widely spaced TelePrompters, I assume.

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LynnTheDem

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:44 AM
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6. Appearance over substance. That's everything with bush & RWers.

Always, always always.

Remember bush talking about US jobs, with boxes stamped "Made in America" behind him? The boxes from China that busheviks had pasted "made in America" stickers over top?

Jessica "Bambo" Lynch?

Saddam Statue Toppling?

Saddam "spidey-hole"?

"Mission Accomplished"?

"democratic elections"?

ALl fake, all appearance over substance. It's what republicans are, and they fail at even that.

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applegrove

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:55 AM
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12. Yup - turns out nobody likes his profile either. Someone explain to

Rove that it is something on the 'inside' that makes us hate him so much. Aaah...er... by inside I mean feeling things and thinking things. um....an inner life that we recognize as dangerous and inadequate.

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shockra

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:53 AM
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10. I always thought that page-turning thing...

Made him look like a preacher at his pulpit reciting wisdom from a Bible.

Makes him feel like that, I'm sure.

And of course, he has The Bible memorized, no need to look down.

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EFerrari

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Wed Jun-29-05 01:54 AM
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11. Kept his fingers out of his nose. n/t

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Up2Late

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Wed Jun-29-05 02:06 AM
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15. He probably needs glasses, but won't admit it.

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Richard Steele

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Wed Jun-29-05 02:17 AM
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16. HE WANTS PEOPLE TO BELIEVE HE CAN READ! ( Not sarcasm, it's a FACT!)

This is NOT news!

His mommy (Mrs. 41; aka "Bar") spoke publicly YEARS ago about how she was using "flash cards" to help 'W' learn to read when he was a TEENAGER!

THE BOY CAN'T READ!

It's a FACT!

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The_Casual_Observer

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Wed Jun-29-05 02:22 AM
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17. If that were the case then he should have looked down at the pages

Edited on Wed Jun-29-05 02:22 AM by The_Casual_Observer

at least once. He frantically pushed a random fist full of papers back and forth, never looking down. It was a transparent act of a fool.

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Richard Steele

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Wed Jun-29-05 02:37 AM
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20. So he's also a BAD actor. No surprise.

A 'LITERATE' person would glance down at the pages he was turning,
just from HABIT.
A 'LITERATE' person would be hard-pressed to NOT look...

ONLY a person who NEVER reads could do what we saw * do tonight.

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against all enemies

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Wed Jun-29-05 02:24 AM
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18. New Batman comic, he couldn't wait to thumb thru it.

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Broken_Hero

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Wed Jun-29-05 02:31 AM
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19. you know, i noticed that ...

when they were playing snippets of his speech on the late news tonight. Maybe he was nervous that he was surronded by a bunch of people whom he is putting in harms way, maybe he was afraid some of them rangers and special forces guys were going to make a purse outta his hide.

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fooj

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Wed Jun-29-05 02:38 AM
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21. Welcome to DU!

Edited on Wed Jun-29-05 02:41 AM by fooj

Did you catch the SS agents protecting Shrub (one for each side) from HIS OWN military? Now that's something to be proud of, right? :sarcasm:

peace.

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