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    White House Teleprompter Shatters, Obama Miraculously Carries On

    Dick Cheney Gets a Book Deal
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    07/14/09

    In reply to White House Teleprompter Shatters, Obama Miraculously Carries On
    No "Fuck it! We'll do it LIVE!" ?
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    Image of DoctorEcks DoctorEcks
    07/14/09

    In reply to White House Teleprompter Shatters, Obama Miraculously Carries On
    He plays it cool....always...cool.
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    07/14/09

    In reply to White House Teleprompter Shatters, Obama Miraculously Carries On
    I think his casual segue into singing "Hello, My Baby" would put naysayers to rest about his inability to cope without a teleprompter. The jazz hands were an added bonus.
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    07/14/09

    In reply to White House Teleprompter Shatters, Obama Miraculously Carries On
    See, he was fine without his teleprompter, he didn't have a seizure or jump out into the audience and start choking people. He was fine, he even said, "Oh goodness."
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    Image of IAmDoingThis IAmDoingThis
    07/14/09

    In reply to White House Teleprompter Shatters, Obama Miraculously Carries On
    Oh it's a tasty irony that the only functioning teleprompter is to the right.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    07/14/09

    @IAmDoingThis: Yeah, it's stage right. But it's house left! You could also say that to his right is an easy script, while to his left there is only the script he can write with his gut and some deft leadership. Also, who cares?
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    Image of dragonhorse dragonhorse
    07/14/09

    In reply to White House Teleprompter Shatters, Obama Miraculously Carries On
    Holy crap! A politician who actually knows what he wants to say, and is comfortable enough to say it?! I don't know how comfortable I am with this development. Old expectations die hard. (Yay)
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    07/14/09

    @dragonhorse: I so wanted something like this to happen to President Bush. That man couldn't read the teleprompter right if the speech was spelled phonetically with accent marks for proper emphasis. It would have been hilarious.
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    07/14/09

    In reply to White House Teleprompter Shatters, Obama Miraculously Carries On
    Thank you for posting so late, Cajun Boy. It gives my insomniac-European-resident self some comfort during the long night.
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    07/14/09

    @mass romantic: Good old new pornographers shout out. Canadians, holla.
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    Image of Caius Caius
    07/13/09

    In reply to White House Teleprompter Shatters, Obama Miraculously Carries On
    "We've all had that happen, right Wolf?"



    Not at all. When a teleprompter breaks on Wolf, he stares blankly at it until it turns into a 3D hologram. At which point he continues to stare at it.
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    07/14/09

    @Caius: When Wolf Blitzer's teleprompter goes out, he stares blankly, eyes gleaming in the harsh studio light. He doesn't even blink as the harsh beams scour his eyes. Under the thin skin of his daily mind, which pretends to have thoughts and scurries like a bird being stalked by something ominous and powerful, his nightimte visions lurk, that singular image that comes to him through the multiplied shadows of his New York nights. He feels it like a pulse in his head - Wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf pounding like a drumskin, like the roar of blood in the veins. Wolf, wolf, wolf as he pads silently through the forest, heavy pads drumming down on soft moss. He stalks the media world, the top creature on CNN's food chain. Wolf, wolf, BLITZER he screams and leaps towards the scent of an aging rabbit. Geraldo's neck breaks with a muffled snap and he tastes hot blood. The only thing he fears is the claws of the majestic bird of prey known as Cooper. But his scent isn't anywhere to be found.




    Oh the prompter's back up. Hello all? What? Twenty minutes ago? What was I doing all that time? Boy I'm old.
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    07/14/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: That, as they say, is a Commie.
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    06/23/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Gets a Book Deal
    Suck it, Regnery!
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    06/23/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Gets a Book Deal
    My Pet POTUS
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    Image of MelitaPolyhymnia MelitaPolyhymnia
    06/23/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Gets a Book Deal
    It must be their "fictional" imprint. This man is very dangerous to us. His deep seated anger and visciousness has already gotten this fair Nation in quite a bit of trouble (wars, financial crises), who knows what else?

    I still can't get the Halliburton double-billing issue out of my head, and the various other egregious acts perpetrated by this dangerous villian. The truth always comes out, so we will eventually know the depths of his transgressions.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    06/23/09

    @MelitaPolyhymnia: the book cover above is very funny but I would like a moratorium on jokes about Cheney shooting his friend. All it does is add to the cutesie lore of faux bad-assery. It was an accident and a non-event campared to the diabolical megalomania he can really get up to. He's still at it. And lying like there's no tomorrow.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    06/23/09

    In reply to Dick Cheney Gets a Book Deal
    I can't wait for Richard's recap!
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    06/23/09

    @misslinda: yes!
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    06/23/09

    @misslinda: Yay. Look below, Richard's already got a title.
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