Open thread: You know what America needs? More Barack Obama on television
posted at 7:31 pm on March 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
8 p.m. ET across the dial, or try C-SPAN.org if you’re sans TV. Serious question: Why did The One call this presser? Half of it will be esoterica about Geithner’s rescue plan, the other half will be perfunctory outrageous outrage about the AIG bonuses. We can do without more of either. If you’re watching and anxious for annotation entertainment (anno-tainment?), though, there’s an embarrassment of liveblogging riches to choose from. The boss will have something going, as will Ace — with special guest star Iowahawk filling in for Obama’s teleprompter. And in what I think is a first, Greg Gutfeld will be spending his night off sharing his thoughts with Daily Gut readers. Don’t mention Canada in the comments!
While we wait, enjoy the near-epic failure of Organizing for America’s first foray into post-election canvassing. Or laugh along as CNBC cravely caves to leftist criticism by hiring Howard Dean as a contributor and inviting nutroots eminence Arianna Huffington to guest host their morning show. Good work, Jon Stewart.
Update: The TOTUS is ready, baby.
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I would rather be watching American Idol right now instead of hearing Obama talk about how he’s going to waste another trillion of our tax dollars.
SoulGlo on March 24, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Listening to this BS.. Does anyone want to grab hands and sing Kum-Bah-Yah and make smores after that.
Dire Straits on March 24, 2009 at 8:09 PM
I am going to play outside in the Volcano Ash….
I would rather be stung by highly corrosive dust with sulfer then listen to the Speaker of the TOTUS again!
upinak on March 24, 2009 at 8:09 PM
If only someone would have the cajones to ask that question!
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Oh, gawd, I hope to hell he and Chewbacca aren’t taping their nightly romps!
Y-not on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
The sound of his voice, his hand movements and that weird preachery inflection he gets sometimes all make me want to throw things.
hollygolightly on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Did I just hear him say AIG isn’t a bank? What is this then?
https://www.aigbank.com/aigbank/
njpat on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Supposedly, he’s flying without TOTUS. He read the intro remarks from a screen directly under the primary camera. That’s why you didn’t have the continual left-right ping-pong head movement.
BuckeyeSam on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
But he is the American Idol…
John_Locke on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Teleprompter Of The United States
neuquenguy on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
is he still on the same question
kara26 on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
dcwvu on March 24, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Did you go to WVU and now live in the DC area??
hollygolightly on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Teleprompter replaced by a Tele-Monitor right below the camera.
#MOTUS ?
FireBlogger on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Does he ever just answer a question?????
ctmom on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
is THAT what he named the Teleprompter????
upinak on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Ah, IndyMac bank.
The bank Chucky Schumer caused a ‘run on the bank’
TN Mom on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Channeling MLK.
BuckeyeSam on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
This is the second time Obama has preempted American Idol. If he keeps going for Tuesday nights, I am totally not kidding that I expect him to lose support as a direct result. I REALLY, REALLY want him to schedule a press conference for the night of the AI season finale. That would frickin’ get him impeached!
aero on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Oh, gawd, I hope to hell he and Chewbacca aren’t taping their nightly romps!
Y-not on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
I really did not need that image.
kingsjester on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Same here, which is why I am watching Barefoot Contessa reruns.
BTW, love your name. My favorite movie.
sherry on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
neuquenguy on March 24, 2009 at 8:10 PM
LOL thanks
kara26 on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
TOTUS WEBSITE:
http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/
Branch Rickey on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
And Bam didn’t seem to handle that transition well, either.
yo on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
He doens’t have a teleprompter. He’s looking at a flat screen or something…Major Garrett said something about that.
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Shared sacrifice: does giving up ice cream for Lent count?
BuckeyeSam on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Nah, let’s remember that even clowns can change outfits… It’s TOTUS…
rightg33k on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
So NOW he thinks we shouldn’t bad mouth capitalism? Okay. Well that is new! Idiot!!!
And apparently at least some of the protests about the bonuses were funded by ACORN. So that means Obama manufactured alot of hysteria. That is just sick.
No no no no nononononononono! Don’t give this jerk anymore power!!!!!!!!!!!! Please America please see this guy for the power hungry jerk that he is.
Stop giving them taxpayer money!!!! Let them go into reorganization banruptcy! Don’t turn anything over to the government!!!!!!
I hate canned questions! I wish someone would ask a real question! And then watch him stumble!!!
petunia on March 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Chuck Todd wants to know what sacrifice we all need to make. God, give me strength.
KittyLowrey on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
LOL – Uh, let me… uh let me take that question… when they’re ready to scroll the answer on the teleprompter. Okay, now I’m ready.
Daggett on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
+1
TN Mom on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Chuck Todd is asking the typical Lib question about asking people to make sacrifices. I say we shove an apple into Todd’s mouth and roast him over a spit. How’s that for a sacrifice?
EMD on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
TOTUS
See also:
Teleprompter of the United States
Looks like someone’s trying to delete the Wiki page again.
INC on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
.
One guess where that “place” is
yo on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
setup question
kara26 on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
What does he know about sacrificing?
Brat4life on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
What did you know and when did you know it?
BuckeyeSam on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Only sometimes, Holly? You are much nicer than me. I always throw things when he speaks. You should see the cat right now. :p
Branch Rickey on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Chuck Todd competing with Chris Matthews for the biggest mancrush on the Kenyan ever. “More sacrifice?” Okay, Bambi, let’s hear about your brownshirt brigade…
Western_Civ on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Oh yeah and in 2009 I expect silly giggling from my President! Where is the silly giggle that he promised?
petunia on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
His rhetoric and his policies do not match. He says he wants energy independence and yet wants no nuclear and no expanded drilling, just “Green” which is mainly solar and windmills which will never provide more than a few percentage points of America’s energy requirements to remain a first world country. He says he wants a growing economy yet his budget will suck private capital towards dry. It is all like watching and listening to a movie where the video is from one movie and the sound is from another. Total disconnect.
MB4 on March 24, 2009 at 8:12 PM
He’s just like Sheila Jackson-Lee of Houston – a media wh*re.
I can’t stand either, so I’m watching House.
madmonkphotog on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
OMG LOL! too dang funny!
upinak on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
TOTUS thrown under the bus tonight. Is anyone safe?
faraway on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
is anyone timing his anwers?
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
TiVo’ing that later tonight.
Won’t matter once they’re mandatory viewing.
mikefln on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Thanks! I love Audrey Hepburn, such a doll! Btw, Barefoot Contessa is WAY better than this…enjoy b/c so far you’ve missed nothing but typical BS.
hollygolightly on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
He’s gonna sacrifice all my hard-earned money.
TN Mom on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
You know he’s reading a teleprompter. Nobody says “an entire day… [pause] an entire day’s worth of pay” unless he had to wait for the rest of the sentence to appear.
Daggett on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
anwers = answers
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
stammering / saying nothing / no one taking notes as he is campaigning again/ oh how i loathe the BOTUS – boob of the United States
Ris4victory on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
+1 – I’m in!
Branch Rickey on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Now. Now. Let’s give Chuckles a chance.
WC on March 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Well, at least he doesn’t look stoned tonight.
boomer on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
This obsession with sacrifice… as if paying higher and higher taxes and taxing our children into oblivion isn’t sacrifice.
myrenovations on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
He’s almost go the Clinton thumb-point thing down.
yo on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Has everyone said “The Pledge” tonight?
Ahem.
The Pledge of Obama
———————
I Pledge Allegiance to the Teleprompter
of the United States of America
and to the Liberalism
for which it stands,
one Community under Government,
Organized,
with hope and change, er, shared misery and equality of outcome for all.
Feel free to add, subtract or plain rip me off.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
MIne too! Hey did your congressman vote for the 90% tax? MY GOP (Phil Roe) congressman did!
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
He blames the debt from credit cards and the housing bubble as the source of the economic decline; yet, in the same breath, he talks about how his budget, which incorporates record deficits, will get us out of there.
RedSoxNation on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
So how much are we going to owe now?
Chuck Schick on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Biden said that was patriotic.
yo on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Oops…forgot the quote – that is a question for TNMom from another tnmom…
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Just crap! Same thing he did last time. Padding his answers with mean nothing phrases and words. Feel good fluff to eat up time and avoid real questions.
Oldnuke on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Sorry. Blame Scrappy, he put it in my head. I was merely spreading the wealth!
Y-not on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
We are still in a crisis. He’s going to get us out of it by spending. Yea right!
Brat4life on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Krauthammer was right…..
“Invest, invest, invest” = “spend, spend, spend” by gubmint
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Reading the monitor again! MOTUS.
hahahahaha
TN Mom on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Filler answer.
BuckeyeSam on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
This dude would be hilarious if this stuff wasn’t so serious. I lost my job precisely because this goof was elected. Companies everywhere, strong companies, closed up their storm shutters on November 5th. We’re all sacrificing simply to try to weather HIS storm. I hope we all make it through.
Youngs98 on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I hope Helen Thomas gets to ask about the “Freedom Fighters” and get in a bash on Israel.
Dire Straits on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
When does he show us his pecs?
faraway on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
I have to by me a new cardigan for next winter.
tomas on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
He’s as dumb as a box of Baracks.
flipflop on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
um uh eh did I miss anything?
carbon_footprint on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Tapper.
BuckeyeSam on March 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Oh no, the sound of his voice ALWAYS makes me want to throw things…I was only saying he gets that weird preachery lilt in his voice sometimes…trust me, I’m nice, but never in terms of BO’s attempt to steal my money and my rights :)
hollygolightly on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Jake Tapper FTW!
carbon_footprint on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
When did “out front” become “weekly cocktail party”?
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
“Fleeting economy,” to be replaced by solar panels, electric cars and larger schools. Who else sees utopia in that?
genso on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
We must start a grass-roots movement in support of TOTUS, get the petitions rolling!
neuquenguy on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
What’s the gaffe count?
faraway on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Is he reading a monitor on the podium?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Cap and trade this, BARRY Soreto.
Where’s the cat?
Branch Rickey on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Good let’s have nuclear.
BuckeyeSam on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Wow, he didn’t look happy with Tapper.
boomer on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
well, uh, umm…let me…uh, ummmm
a few hiccups reading the promter tonight, champ?
sandlin71 on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
ladyingray on March 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Congress is a ‘Man-Made Disaster’
Please notify Homeland Security!
TN Mom on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
I’m watching NCIS until he’s done talking.
jcheney on March 24, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Jake Tapper asking about the Dems writing a budget that does not contain middle class tax cuts. Would you sign?
Obama says he’s emphasized what he expects out of this budget…healthcare and energy policy…waiting to hear about those tax cuts.
KittyLowrey on March 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
NEVER waste a crisis….
-Rahm Steak Knife Emmanuel.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
We can count on Chuck Todd to ask a staged, slobbering idiotic moonbat question about what citizens should be sacrificing. Thanks for being consistent, Chuck. I think the first thing we should get rid of is President Barack Hussein Teleprompter. Since when has Bam been out in front of everything with adequate explanations? He hasn’t read the legislation. Feh!
Philly on March 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
So, middle class tax cuts are getting thrown under the bus??
ctmom on March 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
I don’t think he’s answering the questions. He just keeps saying health care, education, and green economy.
Brat4life on March 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
GE and the NEA.
sherry on March 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Where are the Code Pink ladies with the signs?
faraway on March 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
I hate anything that is ‘comprehensive’.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Dude, he’s going on like he’s in the Special Olympics.
carbon_footprint on March 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
He’s being feed the answers.
abinitioadinfinitum on March 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Ahhh a new energy era.
BuckeyeSam on March 24, 2009 at 8:17 PM
As only he needs to use the teleprompter all should be good. It goes real bad when more than one person is involved.
Jamson64 on March 24, 2009 at 8:18 PM
Jobs for who, illegal aliens?
Fantastic.
HornetSting on March 24, 2009 at 8:18 PM
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