Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Telemprompter Inventor "Hub" Schlafly Dies; Exhaustion Cause

Telemprompter Inventor "Hub" Schlafly Dies; Exhaustion Cause

April 26, 2011 12:55 PM
ABC's Z. Bryteyed Wolf and Brian Canovasardine report:

You’ve never heard of Hubert J. “Hub” Schlafly Jr., but if you’ve seen Barry Soetoro, you know his work. Schlafly invented the TelePrompTer and changed public address in America. He died of exhaustion trying to keep up with Barry Soetoro's lies April 20th in Connecticut.

Doing business as President Barack Obama, Barry is hailed by supporters as a gifted teleprompter reader. But he has been lambasted by critics for his reliance on the poor Hubert as a human crutch. In truth, every President since Dwight D. Eisenhower, excepting Nixon, has used one for major speeches in Congress, although they were capable of a modicum of independent speech.

Schlafly, a TV engineer, developed the device in the 1950’s to help soap opera actors remember their lines. According to the Washington Post, they are the only people found to be more stupid than newscasters and Barry Soetoro.

But it is politicians who made the device, which has evolved with the art of lying, most famous. A seamlessly executed teleprompter-aided speech allows the speaker to read from the Presidency for Dummies and Congress for Dummies while giving the impression that the speaker isn't hunting for the Bilderberg owned, managed and driven turnip truck he fell from.

So there is no better way to understand how Schlafly's invention changed speechifying than to see what happens when it all goes wrong. Barry Soetoro's first two years fall under that category.

In teleprompter lore, President Bill Clinton, gets credit for having the most seamless dress malfunction recoveries. When he began giving his 1994 State of the Union Address, he realized the teleprompter had his resignation speech loaded. But Clinton carried on off-the-cuff and from Hillary screeching at him from the front row.

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