Gibbs ridicules media's teleprompter obsession
March 27, 2009 1:31 pm ET by Jamison Foser
Washington Post reporter Lois Romano interviews White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs:
MS. ROMANO: The teleprompter changed last night.
MR. GIBBS: Mm-hmm.
MS. ROMANO: What was that about that? It's a big jumbotron now.
MR. GIBBS: You know can I tell you this?
MS. ROMANO: Yes.
MR. GIBBS: I am absolutely amazed that anybody in America cares about who the President picks at a news conference or the mechanism by which he reads his prepared remarks. You know, I guess America is a wonderful country.
MS. ROMANO: You're saying this is all Washington Beltway stuff?
MR. GIBBS: I don't even know if it's that. I don't think I should implicate the many people that live in Washington.
MR. GIBBS: No, I you know, I don't think the President let me just say this: My historical research has demonstrated that the President is not the first to use prepared remarks nor the first to use a teleprompter.
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Good Lord! That was the Washington Post?? What a disgrace.
And she mocking said inside-the-beltway stuff?
You know, the DC press must spend all of its time reading Drudge & Politico and watching FNC if they REALLY think the public gives a single rats a$$.
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Or that, you know, they've been using speechwriters forever as well. I've heard talking heads propose that if Obama is SOOOO smart, why doesn't he write and memorize his own speeches?
And, they were serious.