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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 07:00 PM
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Wouldn't you think, that after EIGHT FUCKING YEARS of ..........
..... reading stupid speeches off a teleprompter, that fucking monkey would be able to do it and not so obviously APPEAR to be READING A FUCKING TELEPROMPTER.

Of course, when he tries to wing it, he gets clipped on Letterman.
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Mike 03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 07:07 PM
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1. Lol, another "spot-on" post. K and R. NT
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 07:13 PM
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2. Imagine if some lefty were to get near the teleprompter hardware
and enter "I am a war criminal and there is no excuse for what I have done these past 8 years"... it would be three or four sentences before it sank in and then it would be too late.... heh!
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Political_Junkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 07:16 PM
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3. Ooh, great idea!
That would be awesome! :rofl:
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 07:19 PM
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4. I imagine teleprompter security for Bush is tighter than Fort Knox
I don’t remember if it was Blumenthal’s or Stephanopolous’ book about their time in the Clinton administration, but one of them related the story about Bill Clinton preparing for one of his State of the Union addresses. He worked on it, practiced it, rehearsed it before different groups of staffers for weeks.

Finally, the night he was to deliver the address to Congress, some numb nuts loaded the State of the Union speech from the previous year into the Teleprompter. Clinton was momentarily foozled, but recovered and began giving his speech from memory. Meanwhile, they were frantically unloading the wrong speech and loading the right one into the machine, finally catching up with Clinton several minutes in. Clinton, noting that the right words were coming up on the screen, went back to reading the speech as written, and nobody noticed a thing.

Can you guess what sort of hell would have broken loose if the same thing had happened to Chimpy? My conjecture is that he would just read what was coming up on the screen, and never have a clue that he was giving last year’s address. And the media wouldn’t have the bad taste to notice either.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 07:20 PM
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5. Letterman's really gonna miss Shit-for-Brains.


And Leno, and O'Brien, and Ferguson, and Kimmel, and on and on.





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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 08:07 PM
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6. Tonight is the last Greatest Moments in Presidential Speeches
The last one!

My Mon - Fri daily zen moment will exist no more.
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 08:12 PM
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7. especially since it is the same fucking speech.
:crazy:
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Control-Z Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 08:57 PM
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8. I was thinking the same.
Have you noticed how just one of his eyes squints when he's reading?
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