Friday Morning Video – SNL Obama Address

Funny! Though I think Fred has to work on the hand gestures and the clipped tone. Also, this was pre-Nobel Prize, which I guess counts as doing something . . . I wonder if he’ll donate the 10M Kroner to deficit reduction?

Hilarious !!! And yet seemingly so true. Thanks for the good laugh. Ridiculous is that he was nominated and won the (now tarnished in my opinion) Nobel Peace Prize for accomplishing absolutely nothing, but filling the world with more hot air by reciting speeches from a teleprompter that he can not “perform” with out. Maybe they can sell the left over t-shirts in the White House gift shop.

Can’t believe SNL did this – the cast and writers must be pretty frustrated for them to eat one of their own. Brilliant!

Shelly, even better, this quote from the WSJ – actually quoting someone who HAS DONE something: “‘So soon? Too early. He has no contribution so far,’” former Polish President Lech Walesa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, said Friday.”

PS – never thought I’d say it, but I miss “W”.

Craig, I actually thought it was a pretty creative send up of the President.

Thank goodness that Sarah Palin got a break for one night. This skit was good for a laugh, but they beat him up with powder puffs.

Zil, if you think Obama cannot give a speach with out a teleprompter than you have simply swallowed whole a lie fabricated by Fox News et al.

If you’re here in Charleston, then you could have had multiple opportunities to hear him speak sans teleprompter during the campaign, each time eloquently.

Sorry Craig, fear not – the teleprompter myth is simply noise generated by Fox News spin-artists. There are thousands, possibly millions who have heard him speak extemporaneously and eloquently.

Besides, anyone who complains that Obama can speak well using a teleprompter needs to go back and review his predecessor’s speeches, also done with a teleprompter. I’ll take well-spoken-reading-from-a-teleprompter over mangling-the-English-language-reading-from-a-teleprompter anytime.

(unless you think misunderestimate, “Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream,” “The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants,” “Our enemies…never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we,” and “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family” were all written on the teleprompter that way.)

Regarding Obama’s reported penchant for speaking from a teleprompter, consider this report from Fox News about Anita Dunn, self professor of the wonders of Chairman Mao. Note how the Obama campaign controls the message. Of course, if you don’t like Fox spins, watch the actual video of Anita Dunn herself. Hard to spin that.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/19/white-house-official-says-obama-team-controlled-media-coverage-campaign/

Dunn says …….

She explained that the campaign favored live interviews so that Obama’s words could not be edited — “so that what the voters heard we determined, as opposed to some editor in a TV station.”

She said Campaign Manager David Plouffe put out Web videos so the campaign could avoid talking to reporters and focus the media message.

“Whether it was a David Plouffe video or an Obama speech, a huge part of our press strategy was focused on making the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it,” she said. “One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters. … We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter. So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it.”