Thursday, March 19, 2009

No Prompting

Here's an amusing story about Obama and his teleprompter. Apparently, the President ended up reading a speech where he thanked himself.

I bet you thought I was gonna make a point of how the press would have covered this if it happened to Bush, but I'm above that.

PS This story was related so confusingly I suspected there was something wrong with it. We now have the full tale, where Obama, as you might expect, was joking. (This sort of thing happens all the time--quite a few legendary errors by Reagan, Quayle, both Bushes, etc., didn't really happen in the way the popular imagination has it.)

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Of course when Obama makes a mistake, its charming whereas it makes Bush does it, he seems even more a git. The amazing thing is that the media gets blamed for this.

5:14 AM, March 19, 2009  
Blogger QueensGuy said...

"Guinness tastes very different in Ireland," Obama said. "It is much better. You guys are keeping the good stuff for yourselves."

Our President is wise.

8:17 PM, March 19, 2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Barack O'Bama

9:02 PM, March 19, 2009  

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