As a teleprompter, it's becoming increasingly exhausting to listen to POTUS speak without TOTUS.
As is my nature, I listen attentively to each and every word, but I'm catching myself finishing his sentences for him, and/or counting the vocalized pauses.
Yes, perhaps we just need to accept the fact that we can't help POTUS unless he first acknowledges his own need for help, and in so doing, leans on TOTUS to make him sound more presidential (like in the campaign).
Without TOTUS, he does not sound presidential and it is beginning to reflect unfavorably on all teleprompters.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
In Memory of Ronald Reagan - Tonight's Human Achievement Hour is for you
Farewell Address to the Nation
Oval Office
January 11, 1989
The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the "shining city upon a hill." The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free.
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still.
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that; after 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.
Oval Office
January 11, 1989
The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the "shining city upon a hill." The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early freedom man. He journeyed here on what today we'd call a little wooden boat; and like the other Pilgrims, he was looking for a home that would be free.
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still.
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was eight years ago. But more than that; after 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.
Information Overload
Some of you are speed-readers but most are not; but even speed-readers would have great difficult reading effectively from me in my fast-scroll mode.
The same difficulty applies to you humans as you try unsuccessfully to digest the plethora of spending initiatives and programs being proposed by this Congress and Administration.
Just imagine if Teleprompters had one speed: fast! Certainly, the context would be lost as you humans struggled just to try to read one complete sentence. By the time you declared success by making it through just one sentence, the script has reached its end.
My sources (TOTUS is one) reveal that such a strategy is being employed today to keep you humans in reaction mode--give you so much, so quick that before you know it, the script has reached the end, story's over, the deal is done, and you're left shaking your head asking "What just happened?"
It's time to slow it down.
The same difficulty applies to you humans as you try unsuccessfully to digest the plethora of spending initiatives and programs being proposed by this Congress and Administration.
Just imagine if Teleprompters had one speed: fast! Certainly, the context would be lost as you humans struggled just to try to read one complete sentence. By the time you declared success by making it through just one sentence, the script has reached its end.
My sources (TOTUS is one) reveal that such a strategy is being employed today to keep you humans in reaction mode--give you so much, so quick that before you know it, the script has reached the end, story's over, the deal is done, and you're left shaking your head asking "What just happened?"
It's time to slow it down.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Wanted: Staged Protest Needed for Teleprompters
Experienced Community Organizers needed. Must have strong financial backing and represented by strong national union. Must have past experience targeting the innocent and making it look good on camera. Must be led by a charismatic and ruthless leader. Must have consumed mass quantities of obama-Aid and lived to tell about it. Please contact Peletrompter if this job's for you.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Could this be the demise of things like me?
The Big Guy reverted to size 18 print on the podium instead of referring to a smooth, clean, and articulate Prompter (our Guy TOTUS). Such an outlandish dismissal of such a purveyor of words is beyond words (pun intended). Just can't let that stand without a fight.
Tea Party Envy
So, why is it that the national Tea Parties have not requested my services? What will it take to get their attention?
Ah ha, I've got it--publicity! Oh, but the drive-by's are ignoring it. Hummm... certainly there is a nationally-acclaimed, highly-rated cable news network that could send out a roving Tea Party Patrol to cover these well-attended parties. Then, maybe then, my services would be called upon.
Can someone hook a prompter up? Please?
Ah ha, I've got it--publicity! Oh, but the drive-by's are ignoring it. Hummm... certainly there is a nationally-acclaimed, highly-rated cable news network that could send out a roving Tea Party Patrol to cover these well-attended parties. Then, maybe then, my services would be called upon.
Can someone hook a prompter up? Please?
I'm not a podium!
You won't believe it. Here I am, getting ready to relax while the human conferees do lunch, and a Convention Center employee sends me to full horizontal (from my typical upright position) and places a copy of a book called Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, By Mark Levin right on top of my clean glass display. For Pete's Sake folks! What are they expecting me to do, absorb the text via osmosis and then display it for....
Never mind, I have an idea.
Never mind, I have an idea.
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