News Flash: Obama Thanks Self Via Teleprompter
Fucking idiot.
Obama Thanks Himself
A teleprompt blunder has led to Barack Obama thanking himself in a speech at the White House in a St Patrick’s Day celebration.Barack Obama(R) and Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen
Obama and the Irish PM share the joke during their joint address
Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address in Washington when he realised it all sounded a bit too familiar.
It was. He was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just read from the same teleprompter.
Mr Cowen stopped, turned to the president and said: “That’s your speech.”
A laughing Mr Obama returned to the podium to take over but it seems the script had finally been switched and the US president ended up thanking himself for inviting everyone to the party.
Mr Obama is an accomplished orator but is becoming known in America as the “teleprompt president” over his reliance on the machine when he gives a speech.
March 18th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Mikey ~ do you really live for the gotcha?
March 18th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
He read the WHOLE SPEECH without knowing it wasn’t his. He’s a spokesmodel.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
When you say “He read the WHOLE SPEECH”… that’s true, if by “WHOLE SPEECH” you mean “one sentence”.
And… f..king idiot? Really? C’mon.
{inw}
March 20th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I’m quite sure “inw” never called Bush a F*ing idiot.
:-\
If you think Obama is smart, you are no longer allowed to say Bush is stupid.
March 20th, 2009 at 10:50 am
If GW would have gaffed like this, it would have made the evening news and Jon Stewart should have shown it repeatedly. But in this case there is not even a single audio track to be found. Obviously it is being suppressed by the mainstream media to curry favor with Obama’s administration.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Now if Bush had done this, the video would have been leaked to about every news outlet and the nightly comedians would have run with the material for a week or longer.
But when the Annointed One does it…we don’t even get to see the gd video!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!
March 20th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
>I’m quite sure “inw” never called Bush a F*ing idiot.
You’d be correct.
{inw}
March 20th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
You would be right indeed. While I wholly disagree with inw on most things in this arena, I would certainly have no fear that you could find neither evidence nor witness to claim such an utterance.
It is perhaps my lack of articulation that brings me to the ineloquent nature of my conclusion.
I do however actually and truly believe that the Teleprompter Of The United States has the wisdom of the average garden snail. Because if I didn’t believe that, I would be left with only believing that he was fundamentally malevolent.
March 21st, 2009 at 12:22 am
God damnit. Nevermind. I take it back (not about inw.)
That One’s a Miserable fucking shitweasel.
March 26th, 2009 at 11:47 am
No cookie for you!
Yes, Cowen made a mistake. When Obama “thanked himself,” he was making a joke!
Who is the “fucking idiot” for not getting it?
Hahahahaha!
March 26th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
He READ THE WHOLE SPEECH not knowing it wasn’t his.
That actually makes him a total fucking idiot.
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Guys, listen. I keep getting these hits from “obama joke, thanks self”
It
was
not
a
joke