Five Before Chaos

You might have noticed perpetual-angry-white-guy Chanman in the comments sparring about the “teleprompter president”. We still hear the constant Republidouche “jokes” (in quotes, because con humor isn’t funny once it leaves the confines of CPAC and the like) about Obama and his Precious Magical Teleprompter, all the while ignoring that just about every other president since its invention has relied on them.

So, as Chanman pointed us to a Politico (aka “Dick Cheney’s Stenographer Weekly”) article about, how, get this, Obama has relied on teleprompters more than any other president. Ok. So. Fucking. What. The point?

See, somehow (and this is rooted in conservative anti-intellectualism, of course), the implication is the only reason Obama has the talent of being a great orator (which many concur, regardless of whether or not they support him) is because of his teleprompter. That and it probably pisses off the teabaggers that he uses words they don’t understand and doesn’t leave the consonants off of the end of his words. These are the same people that bitch about Obama not always wearing a tie or putting his feet up on his desk, even though his predecessors did the same. Yeh, pissy little bitches, the lot of ‘em.

Over at the PMI, another idea presented, which makes perfect sense:

The fake teleprompter bit is rooted in racial insecurities/straight up racism. As in: “How can we explain away the fact that a black man has ascended to the office of President when we all know black men are inferior (especially intellectually)?” Or at least, “How can we soothe our stung white man’s pride at the fact?”

One way is to knock the uppity negro down a peg and/or to point out that he really isn’t all that smart after all – that he only sounds articulate because he’s reading off a teleprompter (unlike all those white presidentz).

That explains it!

Protests aside, a lot of these idiots still can’t fathom that a) we have a black president and b) he’s not saying “Yowsa” or wearing his pants down to his ankles. And of course, they’ll deny it till they’re blue in their pasty white faces, but once you leave the realm of Peak Wingnut, it’s pretty fucking obvious. Yes, I’m playing the race card(cue ominous music). What other card is there, other than the crazy card?

Teabagger favorite, Florida Senate candidate Marc Rubio, criticizing Obama on that stupid teleprompter thing again (seriously, not a word about Reagan using ‘em?)… while using a teleprompter.

We are a stupid, stupid country.

I don’t deal with the right-wing blogs too much, as I can usually get more enlightened and informed conversation from my cat or from the clumps of hair that accumulate in the bathtub drain. Cons seem to love making a mockery out of common sense truths, like that idiotic time McCain mocked Obama for suggesting people check their tire pressure for maximum fuel efficiency. When actual facts are constantly treated with disdain, it’s easy to do. Anyways, I haven’t done a bit on Charity, VT’s own resident wingnut, simply because it’s usually the same ol’ same ol’ right-wing talking points and other reality-challenged nuttery. Most of us go over there for a laugh, nothing more.

So her latest post is on the latest right-wing idiocy from the wingnuttosphere is so vacuous I couldn’t let it pass… Obama uses a teleprompter!!! Oh, my god, horror of horrors!!! A president using a teleprompter! They’re allowed to do that? Since when? They’re finally figuring this out after 50 or so years? There’s even an incredibly stupid blog about it, which I’m not about to link to.

Let’s take a look at who else uses a teleprompter (images thx to Americablog, but these images are everywhere dealing with this nonsense)…

I know, it’s just a coincidence that these pictures happen to be of some the biggest purveyors of braindead bullshit to ever grace the public airwaves, but it’s a safe bet cold, hard truth that even our best and brightest, when giving a speech, use a teleprompter, if they’re not reading it from a paper. It’s certainly not the teleprompter’s  fault the above people are such jackasses, moreso that they’ve signed off on the content on the teleprompter that makes them jackasses. So is Charity so stupid she didn’t realize this? Compartmentalized thinking? Or just hoping the rest of you are too stupid to figure this out? Even her hero, the “only true conservative”, Grampa Fred Thompson uses one. The scary thing is even with Bush using one, 1t didn’t stop him from sounding severely retarded.  That’s the thing with most conservative humor… it’s not really funny unless you’re as stupid as the person telling it.