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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!The Associated Press, in a piece entitled "Analysis: Teleprompter telegraphs Obama caution," has added its voice to a growing, and unsupported, pile-on about Barack Obama's use of the device. From Yahoo:WASHINGTON – What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference? A careful one. President Barack Obama took no chances in his second prime-time news conference, reading a prepared statement in which he took both sides of the AIG bonus brouhaha and asked an anxious nation for its patience.I guess the Associated Press only reads the Political Machine sometimes, or they would ...
I wrote a piece over the weekend debunking the hot new Barack Obama TelePrompTer narrative, and sure enough, this attack is gaining legs all over the blogosphere. The heat on this story derives from both The Drudge Report's linking last week to the recently-launched "Barack Obama's TelePrompTer's Blog," and the President's subsequent gaffe on The Tonight Show.Due to the explosive popularity of this rather simple-minded meme, I think a more thorough examination of the fallacies, misconceptions, and outright lies from which it springs is in order. There's an unintentionally ironic post up at ...
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