With the economy still struggling to regain the ground it lost over the past few years and gas prices soaring, talk of TelePrompters can seem trivial by comparison. ( The man who invented the Prompter, Hub Schafly, died in 2011.)Īnd, while bashing Obama’s TelePrompter use may be a good formula for winning over the most conservative of voters during this protracted Republican primary fight, it’s a strategy that also has limits. For Republicans, Obama’s use of the TelePrompter is the height of inauthenticity - reading words written for him by someone else from an electronic device.ĭemocrats rightly note that while President Obama does rely on a TelePrompter for virtually all of his public remarks, most president have used the technology regularly since it was invented in 1950. These days voters tend to believe that all politicians are telling them what they want to hear. In short: The use of a Prompter gets at authenticity, which should be the watch word for all politicians in the coming election. It seemed he couldn’t even greet a little league team without the Prompter in place.” “All hat, no cattle.”Īdded Rob Stutzman, a California-based Republican consultant: “Obama took the TelePrompter to a new level of absurdity when he reached the White House. Rick Perry’s presidential bid but is now unaffiliated in the race.
It reveals that “he’s all show,” explained Curt Anderson, a Republican media consultant who did work for Texas Gov. Why? Because, for Republican base voters, it epitomizes everything they dislike about President Obama. Gingrich’s Prompter line is regularly one of the biggest laugh-getters of his speech and Santorum’s “make TelePrompters illegal” line was almost certainly a planned hit not an off-the-cuff remark. Republican candidates rely on attacking President Obama’s use of a TelePrompter for one reason: It works. (Make sure to check out Phil Rucker’s terrific piece on the history of the TelePrompter attack in the Republican presidential race.) In his speech touting his Georgia primary victory on Super Tuesday, Gingrich gave the more-updated version of the Prompter line: “I’ve already promised that if the president will agree to seven three-hour debates in the Lincoln-Douglas tradition, he can use a TelePrompter if he wants to.” “If wants to use a TelePrompter, that would be fine with me,” Gingrich said last fall. While Santorum seems to have taken the TelePrompter critique to its logical end, it’s former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who has made a living on the campaign trail of criticizing President Obama’s alleged reliance on the Prompter.ĭating back at least until November, Gingrich has featured a TelePrompter shot at Obama in his stump speeches around the country. President Barack Obama delivers remarks from a teleprompter to the press after his daily economic briefing in the Rose Garden at the White House Augin Washington, DC. There’s a good chance is something President Trump is also guilty of doing and an even better chance The Daily Show will respond.WASHINGTON - AUGUST 30: U.S. Now that Vice President Biden has demonstrated he can read from a teleprompter, we’ll have to see what the next narrative Fox News rolls out against the Democratic nominee. More and more, the Comedy Central show has been turning to Fox News for help making its point. This is the latest example of how The Daily Show has relentlessly mocked President Trump for “having the best words” or struggling to read at the podium.
It is in those instances where he gets himself into the most trouble by either spreading misinformation, conspiracy theories, or demonstrating a lack of knowledge on a particular subject. It is odd that Fox News would praise President Trump for speaking without a teleprompter. The Daily Show holds the same standards for Fox News, pointing out the network’s hypocrisy once again. If President Trump wants to criticize Vice President Biden over reading a teleprompter, he has to have a better record than the one he does. So by no means is The Daily Show expecting perfection from President Trump. It would be impossible for anyone to flawlessly read every single word out loud. The Daily Show continues to attack President Trump on reading and speakingĪnyone speaking publicly as often as the president of the United States is going to make mistakes.
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