It's indicative of a lack of preparation, and a lack of conviction.
If you can't stand up and talk for a few minutes about something that's important to you, in a cogent and organized manner, without a teleprompter or notes, you've little business getting up to speak at all, or have at least failed to adequately prepare for the event.
No one wants to see someone read a press release, or prepared comments, or anything else. We can read for ourselves just fine, thanks. One who reads aloud != a speaker.
December 10, 2017, 02:27 PM
bionic218
If you read the newsfeed to my phone or my work computer, you'd swear that our president is just a few heartbeats away from being perp-walked out of the WH in stripes and cuffs.
And then you read real news, and . . . nothing!
I'm to the point it's just funny. All this 'conspiracy' 'collusion' shit is just the leftists wet dreams written as 'news'.
Dream on, hookers, dream the fuck on.
Meanwhile, my president is busy kicking ISIS in the ass, keeping campaign promises (Israel), trying to lower taxes, boosting the shit out of the markets, and flooding court seats with conservative justices.
But keep on whining libs, we'll just be over here, winning quietly to ourselves.
December 10, 2017, 05:50 PM
signewt
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December 10, 2017, 06:55 PM
Gustofer
quote:
Originally posted by 46and2:
quote:
What’s wrong with a teleprompter?
Everything.
It's indicative of a lack of preparation, and a lack of conviction.
If you can't stand up and talk for a few minutes about something that's important to you, in a cogent and organized manner, without a teleprompter or notes, you've little business getting up to speak at all, or have at least failed to adequately prepare for the event.
No one wants to see someone read a press release, or prepared comments, or anything else. We can read for ourselves just fine, thanks. One who reads aloud != a speaker.
Trump uses a teleprompter just as much as the rest of them. Hell, even the Medal of Honor ceremonies were read off of a teleprompter (a camera in the corner of the room caught it clearly).
I don't hold it against him, mind you, but it would certainly be more genuine if he (or any of them) would do these speeches without one.
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December 10, 2017, 09:34 PM
lbj
Check out the Czechs. They are supportive of Trump's Jerusalem decision.
Czech President Milos Zeman on Saturday accused EU states of being “cowards” in their response to his US counterpart Donald Trump recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
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December 10, 2017, 09:59 PM
JALLEN
quote:
Originally posted by 46and2:
quote:
What’s wrong with a teleprompter?
Everything.
It's indicative of a lack of preparation, and a lack of conviction.
If you can't stand up and talk for a few minutes about something that's important to you, in a cogent and organized manner, without a teleprompter or notes, you've little business getting up to speak at all, or have at least failed to adequately prepare for the event.
No one wants to see someone read a press release, or prepared comments, or anything else. We can read for ourselves just fine, thanks. One who reads aloud != a speaker.
One of the young professors in my day had an unsurpassed ability to answer any question in an organized, logical way, without pauses, stammering, uh’ing etc. It was so remarkable we asked him about it. He was a banker, had been in the management training program at Irving Trust. He said you had to be able to do that, in making presentations to senior management, big shot customers. If you could not, you were not going to prosper. Rex Tillerson showed himself to be one of the smoother speakers.
It may be that in more formal settings, the exact wording and demeanor of the President are critical so you want to get the wording just right. It astonishes me that those with knowledge of so much classified information can speak extemporaneously in public without getting crossed up.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
December 10, 2017, 10:25 PM
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You really need Vu-Graphs or something to register so you do not miss anything and also to have a logical order.
The military is known to give presentations using Vu-Graphs and once you have confidence in the subject matter, you automatic fill in the blanks instead of having it all written out.
It is always good to have some backup Vu-Graphs if some General decides to shoot holes in you work.
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December 10, 2017, 10:32 PM
Balzé Halzé
I mean honestly, it's not as if the President has all day to stand around in the Oval Office and just practice giving speeches. If he did, I'm sure he could forego the teleprompter most times, but we know that's not the case.
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December 10, 2017, 11:01 PM
a1abdj
Teleprompters only replaced written notes. Written notes/speeches have been used by every single President throughout history.
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December 11, 2017, 06:23 AM
parabellum
CNN : The Most Busted Name in News
December 11, 2017, 06:37 AM
pbslinger
quote:
Originally posted by lbj: Check out the Czechs. They are supportive of Trump's Jerusalem decision.
Czech President Milos Zeman on Saturday accused EU states of being “cowards” in their response to his US counterpart Donald Trump recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
A little history of Jews in Czech history:
"Before World War II, there were 325,000 Jews in what was then Czechoslovakia. 270,000 of them perished in the Holocaust. Many of the Holocaust survivors left the country during and after the war. Many of those who remained departed in 1968. The number of Jews living today in the Czech Republic is estimated at no more than a few thousand."
Germany, on the other hand, does not support the Jerusalem movement.
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December 11, 2017, 08:08 AM
JALLEN
quote:
Originally posted by lbj: Germany, on the other hand, does not support the Jerusalem movement.
That may be in part because they have zillions of refugees ready to take the contry apart whenever the spirit moves them.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
December 11, 2017, 08:49 AM
stickman428
Germany doesn’t have the best history when it comes to Jews. This is hardly a surprising move by that stupid as fuck country.
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December 11, 2017, 09:07 AM
6guns
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum: CNN : The Most Busted Name in News
Definitely a more appropriate slogan!
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December 11, 2017, 09:10 AM
Deqlyn
quote:
Originally posted by parabellum: CNN : The Most Busted Name in News
Boy these news agencies seem to be in quicksand. The harder they try to bust Donald the deeper they sink.
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December 11, 2017, 10:06 AM
DoctorSolo
Did anyone else get exposed to 60 minutes last night? I was getting assaulted by that broadcast while I helped do some flooring at my MILs...
That delusional, lying sack of shit Jerry Brown actually thinks he is the be-all end-all on economics, and Kali is the proof! Don't look at the stock market, it's all ME and my bullshit policies and anti-Trump crusade. Good grief!!
I gotta be more vigilant about avoiding that shit...
What a joke, "the paris accord would have kept KAli from burning, WAHHHHH!"
Must not throw up....
December 11, 2017, 10:21 AM
lkdr1989
Well CNN is on a story that's going to help impeach the President!
quote:
CNN mocked for airing segment on Trump's soda consumption while NYC faced terror attack
An attempted terrorist attack caused massive chaos during Monday morning’s rush hour in New York City, but some CNN viewers could be in the dark because the network spent an inordinate amount of time covering an anti-Trump story about the president’s soda consumption while details of the chaotic situation unfolded.
At 8:45 a.m. ET a law enforcement official told reporters, including the Associated Press, that a man had a pipe bomb strapped to him when it went off on a New York City subway platform. That was roughly the same time that CNN was in the middle of a segment that featured the chyron, “NYT Report: Trump drinks a dozen diet cokes per day,” while a large graphic promoting Tuesday’s Election Night in Alabama took up a significant portion of the screen.
Viewers quickly took notice. Media crisis guru Yossi Gestetner tweeted, “More than an hour after the pipe-bomb story broke, CNN was busy with Trump’s diet Coke,” while another viewer asked, “Why are you talking about this!”
“Astonishing how quickly CNN pivoted from NYC explosion to ridiculous story Trump drinking a lot of Diet Coke,” Newsbusters Senior Editor Rich Noyes tweeted.
Media Research Center Vice President Dan Gainor used the situation to mock CNN’s recent ad campaign in which the network uses an apple in an attempt to combat its “fake news” reputation.
“U.S. News was talking about the bombing at 7:54. Nearly an hour later, CNN is whining about Donald Trump drinks Diet Cokes and watches too much TV instead of reporting about terrorism in New York City,” Gainor told Fox News. “CNN might tell you what it's giving you is an apple, but if it is, it's rotten.”
The suspected bomber was identified as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah and police have called the incident an "attempted terrorist attack." An "effectively low tech device" was detonated in a subway passageway just before 7:30 a.m., New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a news conference.
While viewers scrambled to hear the latest news, several people took to Twitter to mock CNN’s programming’s decision. Blogger Ann Althouse noted that the New York Times article that first mentioned Trump’s soda habit came out a few days ago and added, “CNN is hopeless,” after expressing frustration that CNN didn’t offer the live report on the attempted terror attack.
One user wrote, “CNN was talking about the bombshell reporting that @realDonaldTrump drinks 12 diet cokes and watches 4+ hours of TV news per day AFTER the news broke about the bombing in NYC. I kid you not!” while another joked, “We interrupt our story on the suicide bombing in NY subway to update the current tally on President Trump's daily consumption of diet cokes! We now return you to our regular broadcasting!”
The explosion reportedly occurred around 7:30 a.m. near 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue, NYPD and FDNY officials confirmed to Fox News. An NYPD source on the scene told Fox News a device went off, and there was a bomb strapped to a person. Port Authority police took down the suspected bomber at gunpoint, Port Authority Police Benevolent Association tweeted. A law enforcement official also told AP that police believe the explosive device was set off on a Manhattan subway platform.
