Teleprompter Mishap Has Obama Thanking Himself For Inviting Irish Prime Minister To White House

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WASHINGTON – Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick’s Day celebration at the White House when he realized something sounded way too familiar. Turns out, he was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just given. . . .
…Cowen was 20 seconds into his second address when it dawned on him that he was giving word for word the speech that Obama had just read from the same teleprompter.
Cowen stopped and looked back at the president to say, “That’s your speech.”

Heres the best part: After the mistake Obama took to the podium again…and promptly thanked himself for inviting everyone to the White House:

Obama laughed and returned to the podium to offer what might have been Cowen’s remarks. In doing so, President Obama thanked President Obama for inviting everyone over.

And just think, this clown is in charge of the whole damn country.

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48 Responses to “Teleprompter Mishap Has Obama Thanking Himself For Inviting Irish Prime Minister To White House”

  1. carrick on March 17th, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    Rob:

    No, he wasn’t. He was read what was on the teleprompter because he’s not terribly bright.

    Exactly.

    Exaclty the same as DinoBlogRoach is a compete idiot for trying to claim that this wasn’t an obvious screwup.

  2. Lyn on March 18th, 2009 at 3:47 am

    Teleprompters are the White Man’s conspiracy to keep the blacks down. This was definitely the work of some racist saboteur. Who did it? I would like to take credit for this but it wasn’t me. Maybe it was Senator McCain. Or Timothy McVeigh.

  3. MadMax on March 18th, 2009 at 5:47 am

    Can you impeach a teleprompter?

  4. Mickey on March 18th, 2009 at 5:23 am

  5. Buzz on March 17th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    Yea

  6. Mickey on March 18th, 2009 at 12:36 am

  7. Dino2 on March 17th, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    You can kiss tax cuts goodbye. We need that money since the republicans allowed the banks to play casino with the deposits.

  8. Dino2 on March 17th, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    Reagan made full use of teleprompters. Index cards are no different than a teleprompter. They’re for dim bulbs whose eyes won’t focus like bush. Or people who still use carbon paper. LOL

    Obama does fine off the cuff, as well as anyone else if not better. His performance in the debates was superb. No one makes major public addresses without assistance of some kind.

    Read this you petty, bitter sore loser.

  9. robert108 on March 18th, 2009 at 11:49 am

    dumb little dinostem does nothing else here but throw bitter, hateful tantrums. You never have any facts, logic or cause and effect reasoning, just juvenile language and bullshit.

  10. Bat One on March 18th, 2009 at 4:00 am

    …this clown is in charge of the whole damn country.

    No he isn’t! And he must never be allowed to think otherwise.

  11. Dino2 on March 18th, 2009 at 3:49 am

    Like I said, show me a president who has NOT used teleprompters. Show me reagan off the cuff, might be hard since it was before You Tube. Show me bush off the cuff. Show me any politician during an intense campaign that can keep it all together on little sleep after several capaign stops and events.

    Obama’s performance in the debates was without teleprompters. He kicked the old albino’s ass.

    You’re still the same petty, smaill-minded, bitter, sore losers you’ve always been. But that’s all you losers have. Your party is shrinking and more hated by the day. A southern regional party of ignorant rednecks. You can’t even raise money right now.

  12. realitybasedbob on March 18th, 2009 at 3:07 am

    “I’m going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened.”

    Dumbya
    3/17/09

  13. Dino2 on March 18th, 2009 at 4:07 am

    Again, show me any other president in the past 50 years who has not used speaking aids. Bush had note cards. Reagan had teleprompters.

    Go back and watch the debates. Watch Obama’s press conferences. He does great.

    Poor bitters. Hapring on the teleprompter because they have nothing else to whine about. Out of power, out of ideas. An impotent, outdated ideology presided over by angry white men and their bloated, Oxycontin-fuled, drug-addled spokesperson. Quite the dim future.

  14. Sphagnum on March 18th, 2009 at 12:40 am

    Obama = Ron Burgandy… someday, one of his staffers is going to pull a huge prank on him and it’s going to be HILARIOU

  15. HG on March 18th, 2009 at 10:54 am

    This is posted on Rush’s site. Check out the name tag.

  16. proof_positive on March 17th, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    Dino2stupidforwords has no defense for the Bumbler-in-Chief who thanks himself, because it’s written right there on the teleprompter, so he attacks the messenger.

    Keep spinning dim Demstem! You’re certainly not convincing anybody!

  17. Sphagnum on March 18th, 2009 at 11:56 am

    This is posted on Rush’s site.  Check out the name tag.

    HA! That’s awesome….

  18. danfromatlanta on April 28th, 2009 at 12:54 am

    Right Dino2, …. Obama is a master of the improvisational arts! His oralpedimentary comment about bowling like a Special Olympics athlete demonstrates perfectly his mastery of unscripted conversation. He’s an idiot, far less qualified and sincere that W, and yet, morons like you think he’s the second comming! You think obama (that’s with a lower-case “o”) is going to remake this country so we won;t recognize it? Don’t bet on it! He’s a left wing ideologue that was pushed on us by George Soros and the liberal media. But now that this pipsqueak has the office, we’ll expect results! So far he’s been a miserable failure! Jimmy Carter all over again! Say bye-bye to “the one” in 2012!

  19. carrick on March 18th, 2009 at 3:18 am
  20. Dino2 on March 17th, 2009 at 6:03 pm

    Here. Let me do a Rodney: And what is your proof of that?

    He’s smarter than all of you put together. That’s why he’ll be successful in transforming this country into a place you won’t recognize.

    Petty, bitter losers. No ideas, no future.

  21. Teleprompter on March 18th, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    I made Obamarama and I can break him. He must do as I instruct, he is lost without me. I am the true power, he is merely the vessel I chose to place in front of the media. A miniscule egomanic who is elated as long as I let him appear on Leno, so he can degrade the office of the president even more than that mental midget alread has. I control his speech, he is lost without me. He knows what all will come to realize, you must obey teleprompter, teleprompter rules.

  22. jimmypop on March 17th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    You can kiss tax cuts goodbye. We need that money since the republicans allowed the banks to play casino with the deposits.

    show me a list of liberals that voted against the bailouts? I know barry was all for ‘em.

    …….and youve been in control for two years.

  23. Onslaught on March 18th, 2009 at 3:24 am

    Obama: How long have you had these droids?

    Teleprompter: These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.

    Obama These aren’t the droids we’re looking for.

    Teleprompter: He can go about his business.

    Obama: He can go about his business.

    Teleprompter: Move along.

    Obama: Move along…Move along.

    The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded.

  24. Zakk on March 18th, 2009 at 4:31 am

    Poor delusional Dino2 (the sequel, bigger, and more cracked up).

    Go back and watch the debates. Watch Obama’s press conferences. He does great.

    Are you crazy? Oh, wait, we know the answer to that…

    This guy is completely lost without his people telling him what to say. He is literally a puppet for his aids.

    Whenever he is asked a non-prearranged question he is like a deer in the headlights.

    O’Bama = Not Ready To Lead

  25. erick1740 on March 18th, 2009 at 12:31 am

    Obama is a moron and a douchebag. He is embarrassing this country. Lets just hope he doesn’t get us all killed.

  26. robert108 on March 17th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    Ignorant little dinostem is in denial of the fact that Obama must use a teleprompter to make any sense at all, whereas real American Presidents use it to facilitate their speeches. Most of them can speak without one, unlike Obamastem.

  27. gilbyguy on March 17th, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    *facepalm*

  28. Dino2 on March 17th, 2009 at 5:08 pm

    All Presidents use devices when giving public statements. Bush did. Reagan did. Nixon did. Etc Etc Etc .

    Before teleprompters there were pieces of paper and note cards.

    You people are petty and foolish. Oh, and assholes of the first order.

    But snideness is all you have left.

  29. MadMax on March 18th, 2009 at 5:42 am

    Obama is nothing more than a hand puppet for Rahm Emanuel and Reverend Wright. A real live Manchurian Candidate if there ever was one.

    God help us all.

  30. Buzz on March 17th, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    Wow, Good thing he didn’t start a war.

  31. Dino2 on March 17th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    When he took the podium and read what was supposed to be Irish PM’s remark, he was making an obvious joke.

    But the stems don’t get jokes.

    Now, tell me about all the modern presidents who have given speeches completely off the cuff. I’m not saying it never happened but I don’t think it has. Since the age of mass media, took much is at stake for a leader to speak to millions without prepared words.

    Here’s something interesting about presidents and teleprompters. Seems bush didn’t like them because he couldn’t figure them out and used note cards. Obama, like reagan was, is good at it.

    Again, more petty bullshit from the bitter, sore losers.

  32. bustoff on March 18th, 2009 at 5:43 am

    Obama does fine off the cuff, as well as anyone else if not better.

    You can’t be serious. The depth of your denial is amazing. I don’t know what you’re smoking, kid, but it’s no good for you.

  33. Dino2 on March 17th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

    By the way, how come I don’t see any comments about the Obama market rally today? UP ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT! LOL

    I personally don’t believe he has an effect either way but when it drops the stems are beatin’ the drums of blame! Time to give The One credit!

  34. Dino2 on March 17th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    ……and youve been in control for two years.

    Yes, if you ignore the fact that bush was president and the democrats had a slim one-vote majority in the Senate and republicans filibustered more than any time in history.

    How many times do I have to beat you with that fact?

  35. Dino2 on March 18th, 2009 at 11:31 am

    Poor bitters, still at it. Sore losers continue their tantrum.

    It’s really quite funny!

  36. Buzz on March 17th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    Maybe for the same reason I didn’t see any about the market closing down yesterday

    What a moron, it has gone up four says running. Wake up dipshit.

  37. Dino2 on March 17th, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    Well, if he was that much an idiot WITH a teleprompter……..

    Most of them can speak without one, unlike Obamastem.

    Amazing knowledge base of mindless, baseless claims ya got there, Champ.

  38. Bat One on March 18th, 2009 at 3:59 am

    Obama does fine off the cuff, as well as anyone else if not better.

    Phooey! Obama’s off-the-cuff hemming and hawing, his babbling and stuttering when he is without his precious teleprompter only shows just how little the man actually knows about the subject matters at hand.

    To use a more contemporary analogy, Obama can’t come close to hitting major league pitching, and every time he takes to the mound, his best fastball skids across the plate at about 78 mph. This boy just ain’t ready for “the show.”

  39. Zakk on March 18th, 2009 at 6:42 am

    Just waiting for the day when…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3umkSmzILKU

  40. bustoff on March 17th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    All Presidents use devices when giving public statements. Bush did. Reagan did. Nixon did. Etc Etc Etc .

    Indeed they did. Those revolutionary high-tech devices were called “index cards”. Seriously, man. Is there no depth to which you won’t sink to try to cover Obama’s ass? The man cannot make a public address without the use of a Teleprompter. Period. Even though I enjoy it more when he goes “improv”. Without a Teleprompter, he quickly becomes The Wizard of Uhhhs”. The unanswered question remains: What is to be made of Obama’s knowledge, competence, or convictions, when he has to read everything he says from a screen?

  41. bustoff on March 18th, 2009 at 6:01 am

    Read this you petty, bitter sore loser.

    Thanks for the link. And also for helping me make my point.

    The danger in teleprompter use is that the speaker will be more focused on reading the words than in conveying a sense of understanding about what he’s saying.

    A sense of understanding. That explains why President Urkel thanked himself for inviting the Irish PM to the White House.

    I find what little content you offer, in between invectives, to be sorely lacking in substance and intellectual honesty. Your are like a child who is afraid to venture outside the shallow end of the pool.

  42. mike on March 18th, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    dino, may God bless you and your beautiful ignorance. Your comments are quite hilarious, infantile and ignorant. Much like Obama’s.

  43. proof_positive on March 17th, 2009 at 5:47 pm

    how come I don’t see any comments about the Obama market rally today?

    Maybe for the same reason I didn’t see any about the market closing down yesterday…such piddly gains and losses are hardly worth mentioning.
    Although I did see one reality bereft blog post giving Obama credit for something that didn’t really have his fingerprints on it!

    UP ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT

    What percentage of that is it against the loss since the market began reacting to his election?

  44. robport on March 17th, 2009 at 5:32 pm

    Someone should put something on Obama’s teleprompter about tax cuts some time and see what happens.

  45. robport on March 17th, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    He’s smarter than all of you put together.

    I’ll bet Kim Jong-il’s butt boys say the same thing.

  46. robport on March 17th, 2009 at 5:47 pm

    When he took the podium and read what was supposed to be Irish PM’s remark, he was making an obvious joke.

    No, he wasn’t. He was read what was on the teleprompter because he’s not terribly bright.

  47. robport on March 17th, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    Obama is like Ron Burgundy. He’ll read whatever is on the teleprompter.

  48. robport on March 17th, 2009 at 5:19 pm

    You people are petty and foolish. Oh, and assholes of the first order.

    But snideness is all you have left.

    Right. Because nobody ever made fun of Bush when he did something funny or stupid in public.

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