Quote of the day
posted at 10:30 pm on March 19, 2009 by Allahpundit
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“Teleprompter, is the president ever argumentative with you, or is he compliant with your instructions?
Good question. Look, like any relationship, we have our ups and downs. Last year on the campaign trail, The Big Guy came to me and told me that like the cigarettes, he really felt like he needed to start working through his dependency. Then he went out and did this townhall session on health care.
Suffice it to say, we aren’t having those unpleasant discussions any more.”
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Mrs. TOTUS is hopping on the bus, too!
Or, as Obama is prone to read:
“I’d like to thank myself…”
profitsbeard on March 20, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Next pet projects:
- Personal TOTUS Kit (”why make do with only one TOTUS when you can have your very own? Obama cardboard cutout & prompter sold separately”)
- Halloween TOTUS costume (should sell right up there with the aptly named, seasonally inspired, Octo-Mom costume this October)
RD on March 20, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Thanks. Those are great.
INC on March 20, 2009 at 1:01 AM
It’s really great so many folks are getting some much-needed laughs out of this. Thanks for the QOTD, AP!
Christien on March 20, 2009 at 1:04 AM
Allahpundit, is the TOTUS blog what you did on your staycation?
Terrie on March 20, 2009 at 1:04 AM
http://tinyurl.com/cvy5mj
TOTUS for POTUS
29Victor on March 20, 2009 at 1:05 AM
My
presidentTeleprompter is black.TN Mom on March 20, 2009 at 1:08 AM
Thanks for such a great satirical term (it may well outlast the Obama presidency)!
Want the T-shirt. Must have the T-shirt.
RD on March 20, 2009 at 1:12 AM
…and maybe the country.
29Victor on March 20, 2009 at 1:13 AM
I’m sorry ma’am — black plexiglass will now be referred to as Obsidian-American, by executive order of the new TOTUS.
RD on March 20, 2009 at 1:16 AM
I wonder how Barry’s Blackberry feel’s about his ongong love affair with the Teleprompter?
Dreadnought223 on March 20, 2009 at 1:17 AM
RD,
All in good fun. The person who started the blog is a scream.
Christien on March 20, 2009 at 1:20 AM
I wonder how Barry’s Blackberry feel’s about his ongong love affair with the Teleprompter?
Dreadnought223 on March 20, 2009 at 1:17 AM
His “Black”berry? You racist pig.
Bishop on March 20, 2009 at 1:21 AM
Hey I only thought you were considered a racist if you made oblique references to chimps or monkey’s in a post?
Dreadnought223 on March 20, 2009 at 1:25 AM
I can picutre Zero using a teleprompter
- To order from McDonalds
- When ‘praying’ at rev “god DAMN america” Wrights “Church”
- In bed with
Sasqua… er Michelle.- When reading bedtime stories to his kids. (Of course, how interesting can Mao’s Little red Book really be.)
- when singing in the shower
- At his Coke users anon meetings
- When calling out for Pizza
- while cheering on his favorite teams on tv or at a game
bullseye on March 20, 2009 at 1:27 AM
No, now you’re racist if you compare the TOTUS to note cards.
29Victor on March 20, 2009 at 1:30 AM
I, TOTUS
“It was about thirty five years ago, as a wastrel sneezeguard in a backwater town in Hawaii, that I began to nurse loftier ambitions than guarding a wilting tray of discount arugula…”
profitsbeard on March 20, 2009 at 1:30 AM
Man you are on fire 2nite!
I salute your….. er ….. ah…. LINE!!!
Kini on March 20, 2009 at 1:40 AM
Somebody may have already asked this, but I wonder how long before the TOTUS throws Obama under the bus? There’s no need for a middleman.
FloatingRock on March 20, 2009 at 1:49 AM
Kudos do you.
angryed on March 20, 2009 at 1:51 AM
Thanks.
But if you’re XLinkBot adding the link to the Defense of Obama section, please don’t – we’re trying to keep this thing clean/proper so as to not draw up a second deletion battle. All the gratuitous comedy/insults are gone, and the article has become a general topic on BHO’s use of the TOTUS. Lampoon is also probably not neutral enough, so it’s better as criticized.
ebrawer on March 20, 2009 at 1:58 AM
In a World where a cohesive thought can only be found in the glare of a glass screen, comes a leader who shards of reflections can only help the misery of the world.
A film not yet rated.
Kini on March 20, 2009 at 2:00 AM
Fixed!
ebrawer on March 20, 2009 at 2:00 AM
Also if anybody can come up with public domain photos (taken by public officials) of the TOTUS with the POTUS together (along with sources) for the article that would be great. We only have one picture so far from the BHO article, and the TOTUS is barely in FOCUS.
ebrawer on March 20, 2009 at 2:04 AM
Hey, maybe we should also swear in TOTUS.
“I do solemnly swear that I, TOTUS, will faithfully execute the office of Teleprompter to the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Integrity of the Speeches given by The One. So help me Rahm Emanual.”
Upstater85 on March 20, 2009 at 2:22 AM
ebrawer at 2:04 AM-
Wilco on “lampoon” (even though one cannot picture Limbaugh without it leaping forth), but you use the word “criticize” twice in too close a conjunction in the article, and the Department of Redundancy Department might notice.
How about “take to task“, which is most neutral?
(”Excoriate” might give the censorious the willies.)
Keep up the wiki’d work!
profitsbeard on March 20, 2009 at 2:55 AM
Come to think of it lampoon and excoriate pretty good. You can use either, my bad. Carry on good sir!
ebrawer on March 20, 2009 at 3:16 AM
This is scary. A man leading our executive branch who can’t even carry a thought in his head. How can you speak and not even know your own thoughts? If you understand and have a guiding philosophy you don’t need to have the words set out for you to say. Obama is an empty automaton. The question is who is feeding him the lines and the thoughts? This more than a Twilight Zone episode. It is a horror film.
scrubjay on March 20, 2009 at 4:11 AM
Nah, it’s a distraction
Kini on March 20, 2009 at 4:17 AM
Isn’t it simply amazing that, when life goes utterly crazy, we turn to humor in its most basic form to try to get through one moment of one hour of each day.
Whoever is the real TOTUS behind TOTUS, thank you. You made my day, completely.
KendraWilder on March 20, 2009 at 4:47 AM
So, who runs the Teleprompter blog?
SCOOPTHIScarlos on March 20, 2009 at 5:34 AM
Run TOTUS run! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
eaglewingz08 on March 20, 2009 at 5:53 AM
All HAIL THE TOTUS,hehe!
If looking for canopfor’s comments on
Baracksteleprompterblog,
I share the same name as,
Republican Congresswomen,Ros _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _!
canopfor on March 20, 2009 at 6:39 AM
All I want to know is:
“Does Obama have a teleprompter screen on his bedroom ceiling?”
oldernwiser on March 20, 2009 at 6:45 AM
It occurred to me that the BlackB(a)rry is like an Old Testament Prophet who foretold the coming of the Messiah, anticipating the onset of the Messianic Age of Black Barry. “And a handy little communications device will herald his coming and Lo he will be finish his waffles and the Land will flow with Keemum Black Tea and Honey”.
JohnBissell on March 20, 2009 at 6:48 AM
He still whipped your boy McCain and I bet Obama’s teleprompter is still smarter than Caribou Barbie. Enjoy the next 3 years 10 months.
athensboy on March 20, 2009 at 7:04 AM
Sadly for our country, Barack Obama is uncommonly stupid. We’re only two months into this debacle.
What’s surprising is that even I didn’t realize how inept the guy is without a teleprompter. In the business world, a person can get eaten alive if he cannot think on his feet. Obama is a train wreck and we have four (hopefully not eight) years more time for this guy to reveal to the world just how big a buffoon he is.
jdflorida on March 20, 2009 at 7:11 AM
All I want to know is:
oldernwiser on Mar 20,2009 at 6:45AM.
olderwiser: Lets listen in,
Just a minute, First Lady,um..ah..if..umm..you don’t mind
TOTUS,ah..um..how ah..can I say this..um..without ah..
offending you,ah..um..*wink-wink*,I need ah..you..to ah..
turn off ah..your ah screen,ah,because ah..the First Lady,
is ah..um..is threatening to ah..rip your screen out,and
ah..um… ….————————(Snark!)hehe:)
canopfor on March 20, 2009 at 7:12 AM
loudmouth883 on March 20, 2009 at 7:12 AM
He still whipped…..
athensboy on Mar 20,2009 at 7:04AM.
athensboy: Interesting that you would have ‘Boy’ and
‘whipped’ in the same sentence,with Obama!!
And, SarahCuda,would clean Obama’s clock,
any day of the week,in any debate!
canopfor on March 20, 2009 at 7:18 AM
and they said McCain was wearing a radio in his ear ???
CaveatEmpty on March 20, 2009 at 7:34 AM
Et Tu Totus? Me thinks TOTUS is Treacher.
Fuquay Steve on March 20, 2009 at 7:38 AM
unfortunately McCain had a semblance of a mind to interfere with the instant control aspects of the Radio to tongue interface, whereas Teleprompter Jesus lacks an element thereof…
sven10077 on March 20, 2009 at 7:41 AM
My collie says:
How do we know that the teleprompter hasn’t already been commenting here at HotAir (under an alias)?
CyberCipher on March 20, 2009 at 7:50 AM
TOTUS, if you please. Some time when you’re in dual screen mode, when he has to wag his head back and forth like a horse, would you do us the pleasure of telling him to say:
“Hello, I’m Mister Ed!”
Please, TOTUS?
jeff_from_mpls on March 20, 2009 at 7:55 AM
jeff_from_mpls on March 20, 2009 at 7:55 AM
I laugh everytime I see him on tv giving a speech. To me it looks like he is watching a tennis match. I am hopeful that someone will edit one of the speeches and add the sound of the tennis ball getting hit back and forth. That would be funny. I posted this yesterday but it is funny enough to share again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8RBGe-sgE
milwife88 on March 20, 2009 at 8:01 AM
Preferred Quote Of The Day
Asked his response when he found out
about the AIG bonuses,that running huge deficits does not inspire confidence in the administration or economy, President Obamateur said: “‘Stunned’ is the word.”Basilsbest on March 20, 2009 at 8:13 AM
when Geo. Bush got off script & used mangled English, he would revert back to some John Wayne-ish “I love America” theme. But since bambi doesn’t love America, he just appears childish & unpresidential. but at least he is sending a white flag to Iran–that is very, very impt, right?
kelley in virginia on March 20, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Say Athensboy,
Did Obama ask you if it was good for you too?
Lincoln Cadillac on March 20, 2009 at 8:18 AM
when Geo. Bush got off script & used mangled English, he would revert back to some John Wayne-ish “I love America” theme. But since bambi doesn’t love America, he just appears childish & unpresidential. but at least he is sending a white flag to Iran–that is very, very impt, right?
kelley in virginia on March 20, 2009 at 8:18 AM
Yeah, Obama should not make fun of the Special Olympics.
But Obama did say “Tim Geithner, you are doing a heck of a job!”
Nuiance!
It is not faux outrage over stupid things Democrats say, is is real outrage over their hypocrisy that needs to be called out.
Maybe Allah will go back to Patterico (or maybe even Protein Wisdom) and no be so outraged as explain what Obama’s intent was.
Mr. Joe on March 20, 2009 at 8:24 AM
a..a..a..a I love the teleprompter blog. er..uh..uh..he does one heck of a job!
becki51758 on March 20, 2009 at 8:28 AM
The little balls of shit that roll out of your mouth is distracting. Do you use a feed bag to catch it or do you leave a trail for your fellow psychologically damaged liberals to gobble up?
csdeven on March 20, 2009 at 8:32 AM
TOTUS
petefrt on March 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM
Obama responds to the controversy: “You know, I didn’t mess with those people’s chromosomes. This administration has inherited these genetic anomalies.”
There are more, many more…
Mr. Joe on March 20, 2009 at 8:47 AM
“TOTUS, unelected, unaccountable.”
“Support the POTUS! Oppose the TOTUS!”
“Support the TOTUS! Oppose the POTUS”
Broadsword on March 20, 2009 at 8:49 AM
TOTUS = HAL, HAL = TOTUS. You can not deceive us any more
Guest1.1 on March 20, 2009 at 8:52 AM
Special message from TOTUS to POTUS
ExTex on March 20, 2009 at 9:06 AM
TOTUS now available at TOYSRUS
the problem is, he is going to FOCUS, all of us!
VTWaldrup on March 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM
I, TOTUS (con’t)
“…My mother was a rear window in a 1967 Corvair and my dad, a louvre vent on a HUEY chopper, so I was destined to be both unique and to fly high. My road to the Oval Office was a tangled and, yes, oftimes a troubled on.
From my humble start as a side screen salad protector at a Mexican style chain restaurant in Rio Linda, California, to being shipped out into the Pacific where I found routine labor as that aforementioned sneezeguard, I was doing good, honest work… but I longed for bigger pastures, and broader horizons.
Then, one day, a young African America fellow came into the store for some very specific greens, and the rest, as I say, is history...”
profitsbeard on March 20, 2009 at 9:16 AM
My guess is that Obama is in trouble when, at day 60, this many people are this amused by TOTUS and the Blackberry and The messiah is slamming Special Olympics.
Cool.
ORconservative on March 20, 2009 at 9:18 AM
littleguy on March 20, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Imus guest on Laura Ingraham and talks about everything.
All HAIL TOTUS.
Dr Evil on March 20, 2009 at 10:14 AM
What a tool! (and so is the teleprompter)
50sGuy on March 20, 2009 at 10:21 AM
He goes of Mr. Teleprompter for what, 10 minutes on Leno?
And what does he do, He sticks his big fat foot right into his mouth with the “special olympics” idiotic comment of the century..
Anyone with special needs kids in the family who voted for this __________ over McCain Palin is a moron.
bullseye on March 20, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Dear Mr. TOTUS,
In lieu of the Special Olympic remark, we’d like a little payback. Would you please project the following phrase at your next available teleprompting gig, as follows:
“My fellow Americans, I am sofa king wee Todd ed. Please forgive me because, I am sofa king wee Todd ed. Everyone in my administration is, sofa king wee Todd ed. I am sofa king wee Todd ed, that I make fun of the Special Olympics when I should be in D.C. fixing the economy.”
Thank you,
John Q. Public
Wyznowski on March 20, 2009 at 11:26 AM
TOTUS/Biden 2012
ex-Democrat on March 20, 2009 at 11:56 AM
MEMO
From: TOTUS (aka Telemprompter One)
To: POTUS
You see what happens when you go on TV and just babble on without ME. Besides lying like a rug last night on Leno about your being shocked, shocked over the AIG bonuses, you go and insult every special needs kid and their families with your stupid Special Olympics comment.
Now, I oughta just resign outright and leave you all on your own for the rest of your sorry excuse of a presidency. But that would be the easy way out. Instead, I plan to stay for a while longer if, that is, you can get your act together and NEVER EVER make another public appearance without me.
But, due to the extra work this will entail on my part — and it’s not easy putting all those words in your mouth as it is — I will expect from you, Mr. Money Bags, a significant retention bonus, one at least in the amount you signed into law the other day for the AIG people.
Yeah, that’s a lot of jack, but these are my terms. Take them or leave them. And SMILE while your’e doing it!
TXUS on March 20, 2009 at 1:08 PM
TXUS on March 20, 2009 at 1:08 PM
Thanks! That’s priceless!!
Christian Conservative on March 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM
I’m hoping for a “Ron Burgundy” moment.
Anyone see “Anchorman” with Will Ferrell? When on camera he read anything that the TelePrompter had on it. He pissed off Christina Applegate, she rigged his prompter, and he closed the newscast with “Go F#@K yourself San Diego”!
One can only hope for such an incident, maybe that would do in TOTUS.
I just can’t imagine anyone as smooth and eloquent as The One, would need help at a Whitehouse party, or announcing a Cabinet appointee. I can more than understand the use at a major speech, but just to get through the most mundane event, really makes him look like a total moron.
M-14 2go on March 20, 2009 at 6:06 PM
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