'Barack Obama's Teleprompter' Verges on Offensive

I'm not just referring to the witless titular blog, or its insistence on referring to the President as "Big Boy." No, I'm referring to the notion, birthed by anti-Obama wingnuts, aided by lies, and given wings by the MSM through constant repetition, that Barack Obama is purely a construct of the TelePrompTer (don't ask me why they spell it that way, the thing was invented when the Jetsons was on), and that he is helpless without it.

A blogger at Fox News ran a story containing several Obama teleprompter lies, but even Politico and the NY Times have been worn down into printing stories about the President's supposed over-use of the device. While both contend that Obama uses the prompter in situations that other Presidents did not, they offer little evidence of this, nor of the extent of the variance.

Even granting that premise, the Politico article characterizes this as a crutch, or a weakness. Here's what I think is weak: Writing a news story just to appear "balanced" to a bunch of wingnuts.

Yes, Barack Obama uses a teleprompter. If he was a carpenter, would people say, "Oh, this guy's nuthin' without his hammer!"?

If he does, in fact, use the device more than other Presidents, I say "Bravo!" How do you criticize a guy for spending 11 minutes on an NCAA bracket, but then insist that he spend hours on rote memorization of his own speeches? I'm glad he uses the thing. It lets him stick to fixing the economy, instead of reciting his speeches to a mirror over and over again.

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