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CNN's Johns: This is "a completely different Barack Obama than the one we see reading the teleprompter so much"

February 25, 2010 1:19 pm ET

From CNN's February 25 live coverage of the health care summit:

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Previously:

Dana Milbank's lame defense of teleprompter jokes

No surprises in Hannity's grades for Obama: All F's except for "Teleprompter Reading"

Special Report devotes an entire segment to Obama's "jealous mistress," the "Teleprompter of the United States"

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    • Author by soze169880 (February 25, 2010 1:21 pm ET)
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      The hacks in the media, on the other hand, are discouragingly unaltered.
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      • Author by ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© (February 25, 2010 1:26 pm ET)
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        CNN has become more and more the "Cheney News Network" ever since Ted Turner sold it.
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        • Author by Bongo Fury (February 25, 2010 1:58 pm ET)
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          I stopped watching CNN during the Michael Jackson is still dead period that lasted over a month.
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    • Author by marco21 (February 25, 2010 1:22 pm ET)
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      Er, no. The President has been the one pulling them away from their talking points the entire time. He's the one thinking on his feet here, not reading from prepared remarks like many, many others.

      CNN - the most unreliable name in critical analysis.
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    • Author by nerzog (February 25, 2010 1:23 pm ET)
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      Liberal Media, anyone? Would a liberally biased "journalist" regurgitate a Republican talking point?

      This dooshbag knows full well that the use of teleprompters is quite common at any and all public speaking events.
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    • Author by Porkeater (February 25, 2010 1:23 pm ET)
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      I'm surprised no one has admired his tie.

      [http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/144278/thumbs/r-MCCAINOBAMA-large.jpg]
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    • Author by So Fain (February 25, 2010 1:23 pm ET)
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      President Obama finished at the top of his class at Harvard. He's obviously not an idiot and he obviously doesn't NEED a teleprompter more than any other politician.

      Jesus Christ. STFU. So tired of the lame ass jokes.
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      • Author by aj.physics (February 25, 2010 7:18 pm ET)
           
        I wonder if any US presidents didn't use a telepromter or notes of some sort.
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    • Author by Tommy (February 25, 2010 1:26 pm ET)
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      Wow, CNN really has tried to become more balanced over the last year. This would have been unthinkable in 2008.
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      • Author by nerzog (February 25, 2010 1:32 pm ET)
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        Yeah, they were all over President Numbnuts for lying us into Iraq... oh, wait...
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        • Author by Tommy (February 25, 2010 1:40 pm ET)
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          You have me there.
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          • Author by christopher howard (February 25, 2010 1:49 pm ET)
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            They also cheered Bush into office in 2000, along with the rest of the so-called liberal media.
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            • Author by Tommy (February 25, 2010 1:51 pm ET)
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              Rewrite history much? I seem to remember the Supreme Court taking heat for being a political beast since there were more appointees that were Republican than Democrat.
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              • Author by The_Cat (February 25, 2010 1:57 pm ET)
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                Actually, the heat the Supreme Court took was for stepping into a situation over which they had no legitimate authority, and then deciding the outcome by fiat. They themselves were ashamed of their actions, which is why they forbade the use of their decision as precedent. Ever. Fortunately, in 2004, with the help of a little voter fraud from Ann Coulter and a lot of voter fraud in Ohio, they didn't have to appoint him a second term.
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              • Author by christopher howard (February 25, 2010 1:57 pm ET)
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                Hardly. Yes, you can point to some heat they took (and rightly so), but the press had its story "straight talking Bush versus serial liar Gore" and were very much in the tank for the former.
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              • Author by bintx (February 25, 2010 2:17 pm ET)
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                The S.Ct. was taking heat, and rightfully so, from constitutional lawyers for inserting themselves into a case which was outside their jurisdiction.

                Oh, and I don't believe there are any "Democrat" appointees. There are some Democratic appointees, but there's no "Democrat" appointees. I'm sure you just made another one of those "typos." To use that childish euphemism pushed by Rush, etc., would make you look very, very small, petty and ignorant.
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    • Author by dmhack (February 25, 2010 1:35 pm ET)
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      What the hell is wrong with these people? CNN always claims to be in the middle? What a load of BS.
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    • Author by aj6525 (February 25, 2010 1:38 pm ET)
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      It really must upset them that President Obama can actually talk without a teleprompter. What are they all afraid of leadership???
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      • Author by cugagcmu805031 (February 25, 2010 3:13 pm ET)
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        Since I'm AA, let me interpret what they are really trying to say.

        "Oh, we've finally discovered that this AA president is very intelligent and shows that he knows this issue thoroughly! Who would have thought this was possible!?"
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    • Author by shaggles (February 25, 2010 1:49 pm ET)
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      I don't know who he's been watching. Obama seems exactly like he always does.
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      • Author by cugagcmu805031 (February 25, 2010 3:17 pm ET)
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        He's been buying into the D.C. media/Fuchs Noose/CPAC/RW meme of "Obama can't function without a TelePrompTer." IMHO, this has been used to discredit the president and us for voting him into office. We're all dummies is the message that's been being passed around.
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    • Author by Brutus (February 25, 2010 2:05 pm ET)
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      These people are idiots. This is Obama in his element, his comfort zone. He is speaking off the cuff without prepared statements, and killing the Republican talking points.

      Do these knuckleheads forget that the President is a Harvard educated lawyer? The President is more then capable of defending and debating his position without prepared remarks, or talking points. You can't be a lawyer without the ability to debate and speak off the cuff.

      The President already buried the GOP in the last meeting without the use of a teleprompter, yet the so called liberal media is amazed at this fact again?
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    • Author by New Frontier (February 25, 2010 2:41 pm ET)
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      This is "a completely different Barack Obama than the one we see reading the teleprompter so much"
      And look at us! If you overlook our six laptops here, the various piles of notes, our own cameras' TelePrompters, our scripts, our director and our earpieces---all our pronouncements are totally off-the-cuff.
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