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WH is shutting down, suspends all BHO Speaches for EVER...
RIP Hubert J. “Hub” Schlafly Jr., Vaya con Dios..
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Telemprompter Inventor "Hub" Schlafly Dies; Device Changed Public Address in America
April 26, 2011 12:55 PM
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ABC's Z. Byron Wolf and Brian Canova report:
You’ve never heard of Hubert J. “Hub” Schlafly Jr., but if you’ve seen a major political speech in the past generation, you know his work. Schlafly invented the TelePrompTer and changed public address in America. He died April 20th in Connecticut.
President Barack Obama, is hailed by supporters as a gifted orator. But he has been lambasted by critics for his reliance on the teleprompter. In truth, every President since Dwight D. Eisenhower, excepting Nixon, has used one for major speeches in Congress.
Schlafly, a TV engineer, developed the device in the 1950’s to help soap opera actors remember their lines, according to the Washington Post. For more on Schlafly, read the Post's obituary.
But it is politicians who made the device, which has evolved with technology, most famous. A seamlessly executed teleprompter-aided speech allows the speaker to read from notes while giving the impression that the speech is given from memory.
So there is no better way to understand how Schlafly's invention changed speechifying than to see what happens when it all goes wrong. Here are some top teleprompter malfunctions:
In teleprompter lore, President Bill Clinton, gets credit for having the most seamless teleprompter malfunction recovery. When he began giving his 1994 State of the Union Address, he realized the teleprompter had the wrong speech loaded. But Clinton carried on off-the-cuff and from memory. (Note - In the C-SPAN video below it takes Clinton nearly half an hour to wend his way through the room and start speaking.)
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/201...n-america.html
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When asked to comment,, BHO was speechless...
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04-27-2011, 18:10
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When asked to comment,, BHO was speechless...
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LOL!
RIP Mr. Schlafly.
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04-28-2011, 06:45
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How can he be painted as a 'brilliant orator' when
a) He has a guy (or team of guys) writing his 'orations' for him and
b) He reads what they wrote off of a teleprompter.
Doesn't this just make him a decent reader? I say decent because I hear him 'ahhh' and 'errrr' and having to backtrack sometimes during his readings. I wonder if those stumbles get blamed on whoever is scrolling the teleprompter?
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04-28-2011, 10:37
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How can he be painted as a 'brilliant orator' when
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It's all in the perception,, Like Milli Vanilli..
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04-28-2011, 10:46
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How can he be painted as a 'brilliant orator' when
a) He has a guy (or team of guys) writing his 'orations' for him and
b) He reads what they wrote off of a teleprompter.
Doesn't this just make him a decent reader?
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Some say it makes him a jive-ass bullshitter.
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04-28-2011, 10:50
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Some say it makes him a jive-ass bullshitter.
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Yeah, that sums it up rather succinctly....
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04-28-2011, 11:18
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Some say it makes him a jive-ass bullshitter.
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I found a good Jive translator who can help. 
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