Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 7:53 am on March 22, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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This is a clip from a few days ago, and in this case, it’s not so much what he says as the obvious fact that he got lost on his Teleprompter while saying it. Watch President Obama look nervously left and right trying to find the thread of his remarks, and drop into the Department of Redundancy Department when he does:
There are those who say that the plans in this budget are too ambitious to enact. To say that, uh … they say uh, in the face of challenges, uh, that we face, we should be trying to do less than more.
In the face of challenges that we face? It’s facing those challenging challenges that really challenge us to our face.
Got an Obamateurism of the Day? If you see a foul-up by Barack Obama, e-mail it to me at obamaisms@edmorrissey.com with the quote and the link to the Obamateurism. I’ll post the best Obamateurisms on a daily basis, depending on how many I receive. Include a link to your blog, and I’ll give some link love as well. And unlike Slate, I promise to end the feature when Barack Obama leaves office.
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I hear ya buddy….and I can relate.
My Great Uncle was a gay cannibal, so we’re a bit sensitive in my home to the plight of Jeffrey Dahmer…
My uncle was a mass murderer, so we’re a bit sensitive in my home to the plight of Son of Sam….
And my Second Cousin Twice removed (on my mother’s side of course!) was a domestic abuser, so we’re a bit sensitive in my home to the plight of Domestic Abusers…
So now Slavery is the immoral equivalent of Immigration Laws?
Red State State of Mind on March 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Ok, I’m totally stupid…I always thought that since he never looked down that he wasn’t looking at a teleprompter. I thought it was sitting on his podium. So I guess it’s raised up somewhere off camera then? What a buffoon! (D’ohbama, not me.)
JRWARHAWK on March 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Somebody get Obama hooked on Phonics stat!
Hog Wild on March 22, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Another segment “of the amateur hour”. Or is it “The Gong Show”? Sometimes hard to tell.
GarandFan on March 22, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Heh. And they attacked Bush.
Black Adam on March 22, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Obama is The Church; he doesn’t need to attend one. As Louis Farrakhan said, “He is The One we’ve been waiting for.”
Sadly, there is an element of truth in Biden’s snark.
Pardon me while I go puke.
conservative pilgrim on March 22, 2009 at 11:09 AM
He posted his picks on thew WH site!! My God. With Treasury not staffed, and all the other Foriegn policy stuff building can he please quit going on ESPN & Leno and stay in washington and do his job. And now he is doing 60 minutes this Sunday. If it wasn’t so sad & terrifing it would be funny.
Kevin in Southern Illinois on March 22, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Ed, I like this idea. Since Obama has such thin skin and can’t take a joke about him, this will be such fun. Faux humility.
Are we limiting it to Dear Leader or is Biden included?
conservative pilgrim on March 22, 2009 at 11:10 AM
I think he needs Sylvan and STAT! First, he needs to take an American history class and then Econ for Dummies. You know these boo-boos and blunders are good for a laugh, until you realize this moron can press all the red buttons! GOD SAVE US!
The winner for last week though has to be Brown not being able to play the DVDs Man-Child gave him! That was a hoot!
And to think we had to listen to 8 bleeping years of the MSM ripping Bush for him supposedly being soooooo stupid! UGH! This guy in 8 weeks has managed to basically tick off most of our allies and make our enemies feel they could easily attack us. He has nuked our freedoms/democracy and in 8 weeks sounded more like Elmer Fudd than POTUS!
freeus on March 22, 2009 at 11:16 AM
ESPN has been doing “Baracktology” updates. Groan. After Round 1 he was in 5%! My four-year old’s bracket was doing better than his! He bounced up to 40% yesterday, which is still laughable. Especially from a basketball aficionado such as The One.
On Espn radio yesterday, the hosts were blasting the Coaches, specifically calling out Coach K, for telling Obama to focus on the economy and not brackets. The three guys proceeded to defend Obama and tell the coaches to “lighten up.” Gee, I wonder who they voted for???
conservative pilgrim on March 22, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Although I have some problems with his boss I kind of like this Prompter guy.
TOTUS for POTUS
Prompter/Galt 2012
Or maybe Ferret would be a better running mate.
jonsten on March 22, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Geez. At least when us liberals diverted attention from important issues in order to childishly make fun of rhetorical slips the gaffes were actually funny. If this is the best stuff you can come up with you might as well abolish the feature. You’re just embarrassing yourselves.
crr6 on March 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Yes. By the way, I’m glad to see that you are proud of your family’s heritage, understand it, sand seek to emulate it.
unclesmrgol on March 22, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Q: What’s the difference between Barack Obama & Chris Burke?
A: Chris Burke could memorize his lines.
fluffy on March 22, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Geez. At least when us liberals diverted attention from important issues in order to childishly make fun of rhetorical slips the gaffes were actually funny. If this is the best stuff you can come up with you might as well abolish the feature. You’re just embarrassing yourselves.
crr6 on March 22, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Projection.
conservative pilgrim on March 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Manufactured intelligence. Put on the preacher voice and read a working teleprompter and you get elected president. But without that teleprompter, you are SCREWED. Barack-O = fail.
Say what you want about Clinton, but he was smart, knew the issues and could freestyle with the best of them. Barack-O is a hollow shell of a politician that has NO idea what he should say without his trusty teleprompter. What an ass.
Makes me like this video even more.
cannonball on March 22, 2009 at 11:32 AM
My slow-cooker is running at 50% on it’s picks.
And it is actually in the kitchen, doing it’s job.
Yoop on March 22, 2009 at 11:48 AM
Girl you know it’s…Girl you know it’s…Girl you know it’s…Girl you know it’s…Girl you know it’s…Girl you know it’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udS5qBrBFqE
OxyCon on March 22, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Wow, getalife’s whole family showed up this morning, didn’t they? Hi, Granny!
Del Dolemonte on March 22, 2009 at 11:54 AM
“Look”…”Understand this”…”Like I’ve always said”…
He’s a black Democrat. Anything he says or does makes him Einstein.
mr1216 on March 22, 2009 at 11:55 AM
I once heard a stand-up comedian ask: “Do you even know anyone WHO KNOWS ANYONE who likes Geraldo Rivera?”
Seriously, though, Fox is perfectly aware that his ratings suck. But that fruit loop was in on the ground floor and helped get that network started from nothing. He’s nothing but an embarassment now, but he’ll have a place there intil the day he dies.
And I’m sure that everyone at Fox (with the glaring exception of Mr. Rivera himself) hopes that day will come soon.
logis on March 22, 2009 at 11:56 AM
No. Embarrassing is the way that those who voted for Obama are trying to come to grips with their buyers remorse and their creeping realization that they did, in fact, elect a totally inept socialist.
Man-up, liberals. You have a lot of lumps coming that you will be unable to ignore, and attempts to spin in a positive way will only result in pure folly. You own him. We told you so…
Yoop on March 22, 2009 at 11:58 AM
(In bed with Michelle)
(Looks at left teleprompter)
Oh…
(Looks at right teleprompter)
yes…
(Looks at left teleprompter)
baby…
Daggett on March 22, 2009 at 12:01 PM
With kudos extended to Ed
I make this suggestion to Ed:
Contrast how Obama
and Sarah, the Gov’nor
performed when the prompter went dead.
.
Remember her speech of acceptance?
The prompter displayed a confection
of drafts not completed.
Was Sarah defeated?
Not so, ’cause she spoke her convictions.
Jim Wrenn on March 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Libmedia will not take kindly to this iconoclasm.
Media: What about Quayle? Remember Quayle? He spelled potato with an “e.” What a dope! What an idiot! Potatoe!
Haw! Haw! Haw! Haw! Haw! Potatoe! ROFLOAO Hee, hee, hee…Potatoe! Wow! Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,…whew!…
whitetop on March 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM
Obama’s race has nothing to with his high intelligence, or his ineptitude in staffing his administration, or his frequent inability to speak coherently without a teleprompter, or the dangers of his policies.
And if you don’t think Obama’s policies are dangerous, would you take the word of one of his appointees?
Sen. Gregg says Obama budget will bankrupt US
Loxodonta on March 22, 2009 at 12:14 PM
So funny it makes mind tears run down my head face.
This is going to be fun.
kahall on March 22, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Libs greatest fear: Karl Rove’s right wing techno-death squad will infiltrate Obama’s prompter-support control room.
whitetop on March 22, 2009 at 12:20 PM
Lox, I think you’ve completely misunderstood. Maybe it’s your high intelligence at work.
mr1216 on March 22, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Sorry for that crack. Uncalled for. It’s my 401k talking.
mr1216 on March 22, 2009 at 12:23 PM
National Geek Challenge:
Hack into his teleprompter and see if you can get him to recite “Mary Had a Little Lamb” in the middle of a speech.
Daggett on March 22, 2009 at 12:26 PM
And you are probably aware that the flash card they were using also had it spelled that way
Red State State of Mind on March 22, 2009 at 12:27 PM
I can be as stupid as dirt, and mistake could be my middle name.
I’m just being cautiously protective of conservatives’ reputations.
You still have a 401K left? Wow!!!!
Loxodonta on March 22, 2009 at 12:30 PM
Daggett on March 22, 2009 at 12:01 PM
LOL!
I very strongly believe the election of The One is a right wing conspiracy. We put a lame candidate to oppose him and he puts a show on (lame fight) to pretend he wanted to win. So when he loses, and BO wins, we could ALL then SEE what we were in for and to show the country (and the world) what happens anytime we elect a member of the Donkey Party.
Country and the World will ignore this NO LONGER.
Unfortunately I can not take 4 more days let alone 4 years of this administration.
OneConservative on March 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Yeah, nothing Bush said was as embarrassing as giving the British PM 25 DVDs that can’t even be viewed.
ddrintn on March 22, 2009 at 12:57 PM
What I like best about the whole TOTUS meme is that people are laughing and relieving stress. It must seem odd to a lot of Dems that, despite the crisis we’re in, folks can still laugh. Plus, they’re no longer afraid to laugh at Obama. Join us, Dems, it’s OK to laugh at Barry.
Christien on March 22, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Hooboy, are you off in your history of Rivera at Fox News! Geraldo cam on board at the beginning of the War on Terror back in 2003. Rivera’s prior show was tanking in the ratings, and he desperately needed something to boost his career and make his schtick saleable again to the networks and/or cable news channels.
So Geraldo cut a deal with Fox in which he would go over and personally report on the war from the Iraq frontlines, in return for his own show.
Rivera no more made FNC the number one rated cable news show today than Alan Colmes made Sean Hannity one of their top stars.
KendraWilder on March 22, 2009 at 1:26 PM
I saw this in a comment at Tapper’s Political Punch and thought it was a great analogy:
INC on March 22, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Has someone from the VRWC exchanged in a Diebold teleprompter?
jukin on March 22, 2009 at 1:40 PM
It has everything to do with it. If not for his race he would not had the special treatment that allowed him where his brain and talent would never have put him.
jukin on March 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM
The token Leftist Kool-Aid drinker at the Boston Herald, Margery Egan, is also noticing the gaffes:
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1160214
And that’s just her title.
Del Dolemonte on March 22, 2009 at 1:50 PM
Tee-hee! Thanks for this stroll down memory lane. Whodathunk that the Budweiser Lizards would be so prophetic? I also have a household in which Obummer is not allowed to speak much. Takes me back to the Clinton years, when I still lived with Mom and Dad. I swear I never heard Bill’s voice within their home. Used to drive me nuts…how age does change one’s perspective. I’ve been telling my husband for months that the old foam bricks were gonna make a comeback. I’ve decided that balled up socks with suffice for now.
FinallyRight on March 22, 2009 at 1:50 PM
mr1216; faulty comparison, Einstein is a Jooow, he just isn’t into Jooow’s you know.
chemman on March 22, 2009 at 1:54 PM
This is pure GOLD……..!!!!!!!
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 1:58 PM
In case anyone hasn’t answered yet, he has two teleprompters, one on either side, at eye level. That they go to a great deal of trouble to conceal. (Lowering them before a full shot of the stage, or before another speaker comes up, etc.)
I was getting awfully irritated with his ping-pong tennis head act. Then someone told me that was because of the teleprompters!
Now I’m even more annoyed, heh.
But this clip was awful funny.
What a maroon.
Alana on March 22, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Holy s&8#! That’s the gold standard of comedy right there. Imagine the audience SNL could build up if they begin auditioning skinny black comics and parodying Obamatuerism…
RepubChica on March 22, 2009 at 2:03 PM
Hey PeBO, LOOK AT ME!!! I’m right here in front of you. Yes, here. Look at me, the American People. We’re not over there. We want a leader who talks to us, not some imaginary audience on either side of us. Yoo-hoo, Mr. President, we’re right here………….
The solution. From now on, when PeBO is at the podium, I will sit to the left or right side of my monitor or TV. That way I will feel like he is addressing me.
Mallard T. Drake on March 22, 2009 at 2:04 PM
We saw a clip on the news the other night that was a wide shot and the teleprompters were still visible. Obama was at the end of the group and his face was partially framed by one of the teleprompters!
INC on March 22, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Strange, I didn’t blush. I always do when I’m embarrassed.
Entelechy on March 22, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Really? I thought it was hysterical, and I don’t think there’s a damn thing funny about Obama.
anniekc on March 22, 2009 at 2:06 PM
So because Obama’s gaffes are “funny” they’re ok? I thought many of President Bush’s gaffes were funny, but Liberals attacked him relentlessly. In fact, they still are. One of the “gaffes” they’re slamming him for is he said he’s glad to be in “Quebec, Canada”. Liberals say that’s like saying “Texas, United States”. The rest of us are saying “So what?”.
Liberals are going to put a spin on every screw up this loser (Obama (D) ) does, which goes to prove Liberals are hpocrites if they’re anything.
SuperManGreenLantern on March 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Made some today! Sponge and a sharpee works wonders and passed them out to some friends. Loud laughter always helps break the insanity.
Coastal Paradise on March 22, 2009 at 2:28 PM
TOTUS, behave!!
The Wall on March 22, 2009 at 2:42 PM
NO. Didn’t even take me a moment to think about it, either.
Loxodonta on March 22, 2009 at 2:54 PM
I blame Obama’s Teleprompter for this failure. Obviously Obama’s Teleprompter misspoke and I hope it will come clean on its blog
EconomicNeocon on March 22, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Time to spray some Windex on TOTUS stat!
carbon_footprint on March 22, 2009 at 3:18 PM
I don’t think you mean to imply that race has anything to do with intelligence, competence, character, or morality.
Obama is not the least intelligent President, nor the most incompetent, although he seems capable of winning the incompetence title. And he is certainly the most extremely left-wing President we have had at least in my lifetime, if not ever.
And therein is the great danger if he can effectively enact and administer his extremist policies. And this is why I actually hope he is as incompetent as these first two months make him seem.
To the extent race was a factor in Obama’s election, it was the manner in which commentators and voters reacted to his race.
Some thought that he was someone who overcame great obstacles due to his race, but I don’t see that. Nonetheless, this caused many people to overlook aspects of his personality and agenda that they might not otherwise.
Some wanted to prove they aren’t racist, when they might actually have been so once, or still are racist. Also, some wanted to prove to the world that our country isn’t racist.
After all, who likes racists? Racism is based on ugly and irrational beliefs that dehumanize the victims as well as the believers, regardless of the racial identity of the person advocating it.
Conservatives get a bad name for being racists. And I must admit that I’ve met some conservatives and Republicans who are racist. It’s always disappointing. Then again, I’ve met far more liberals and Democrats who are racist. It seems to fit better into their world view, in which nearly all humans are mere pawns in some vast social power struggle.
Loxodonta on March 22, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Really?
crr6 on March 22, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Really! There is no comparison. You don’t have to like it but you helped put into office the laziest most inept humanoid ever. Deal with it and get used to being on the receiving end, you’ve earned it.
jdkchem on March 22, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Gird your loins, Obama supporters.
Oh, the heartache!
Venezuela’s Chavez calls Obama “ignoramus”
Obama=Bush
Loxodonta on March 22, 2009 at 4:09 PM
He’s a puppet on somebodies strings. One of the strings broke and he didn’t know what to do.
boomer on March 22, 2009 at 4:50 PM
I still want to see the video of him thanking himself via the Teleprompter. Has that been classified or something?
CP on March 22, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Ed’s a Firesign Theatre fan? Who knew?
Paul_in_NJ on March 22, 2009 at 4:51 PM
I’m glad someone else sees this. I don’t understand why some comedians say it’s too hard to make comedy of Obama. I think he’s the richest source of comedic material we’ve had in generations.
Daggett on March 22, 2009 at 4:58 PM
You owe me $0.10 each, payable quarterly. Discount available for lots of 1 trillion… ;-)
Yoop on March 22, 2009 at 5:06 PM
P and T, the OTUS brothers!
exhelodrvr on March 22, 2009 at 5:11 PM
I must say that I have never considered myself racist, and in the area I live it really isn’t much of an issue anyway.
But, in the last campaign the liberals and democrats have me considering the fact that they may actually have pushed me fairly close to being there. Their incessant use of the *race card* as a political weapon and their blatant hypocrisy could tend to make normal people extremely resentful of such tactics. Anyone who would deny that they used such tactics to their benefit would be either a liar, or too naive to be allowed out alone in public.
Yoop on March 22, 2009 at 5:24 PM
ALL HAIL TOTUS…….
………… lest he make you look like the fool you really are!
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 5:56 PM
For what it’s worth, I run a teleprompter for a living, and, in news, the “talent” can get lost. It’s not unheard of. A good operator can set the talent up so that they will be able to babble and then go back to the text without looking too stupid. It is a learned skill. That being said, O’s operator just sat on the text, which is what you do when you’re inexperienced or if you want to screw over the talent.
Make your own conclusions.
shibumi on March 22, 2009 at 5:57 PM
A teleprompter is a terrible thing to waste….
drjohn on March 22, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Last night on Fox’s Newswatch, Jan Hall (Jane Hall!!!!) said that Obama is risking over exposure in the media. Her words were that he is “everywhere”: Leno, CA town hall, meeting with Ahnold, 60 Minutes tonight, his presser on Tuesday, and that he really should back off a bit.
Jane Hall said that!
I hope he listens. I’m tired of his mug.
ladyingray on March 22, 2009 at 6:09 PM
I love this! This is why I call him pres-uhhh-dent Uhhh-bama.
Still hoping somebody finds a way to get into his teleprompter and insert goofy sentences for Glorious Leader. Might even get me to listen to one of his televised oratories just for the chuckles.
TeeDee on March 22, 2009 at 6:14 PM
It’s like watching a Muppet while the muppeteer below it is having a sneezing fit.
Crusty on March 22, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Reading a speech from a teleprompter is actually quite difficult. It’s unnatural for the speaking voice. I would give him some credit for being able to do it as well as he has, but when he flubs it or gets lost with it, he is really quite awful.
Sadly, reading the teleprompter is his best skill. His best skill and he mucks it up more often than someone with his teleprompting talent should.
myrenovations on March 22, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Love me some sweet teleprompter action on a Sunday afternoon!
long_cat on March 22, 2009 at 7:02 PM
………. it’s the evil cousin of the TOTUS,
the White House Phone or WHPOTUS, that keeps ringing at 3:00AM…….
Seven Percent Solution on March 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM
I got some of the funniest gaffes right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkpm7bH7j4&feature=player_embedded
getalife on March 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM
And they said Bush couldn’t speak.
Kini on March 22, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Thanks for that link. I never thought I’d actually MISS Bush and think a video like that was nostalgic, but wow, Obama sure fixed that.
Daggett on March 22, 2009 at 7:23 PM
.
Actually, reading from a teleprompter is not difficult at all. If you can read aloud to your kids, you can read a teleprompter. Do you really think all the news readers on local tv are smart and talented? Trust me, theyr’e not.
However, there is a talent to improvising on teleprompter and recovering when you’re lost.
shibumi on March 22, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Why are people making fun of the Administration?
We should just be happy we have as President a mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.
I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
malclave on March 22, 2009 at 7:55 PM
This guy is a phony and the press knew it. This country has been had.
retiredeagle on March 22, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Where is the video of BHO thanking himself when he screws up with the Irish PM?
It’s got to be out there somewhere????
poppieseeds on March 22, 2009 at 8:01 PM
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