March 25, 2008
Teleprompters For McCain
In an effort to improve John McCain's big speech delivery, his campaign put in place for today's speech a large flat screen monitor and two side panel teleprompters. Campaign officials have expressed concern that McCain has looked in prior speeches like he was watching a tennis match. Today, by installing a large monitor in the back of the room, McCain is able to fix his gaze straight ahead.
The goal, of course, is to help McCain look like he's speaking more naturally to the nearly 20 cameras on hand for the AZ Sen's most extensive remarks on the housing crisis to date.
(NBC/NJ's ADAM AIGNER-TREWORGY)
Posted at 01:11 PM
Comments
Please Please Please have someone set their camera lights up between him and the monitor. If he can not manage to adapt to speaking with some degree of memorized script, then he will always be subject to the perception that he merely spouts the words that are written by others. Much like our current President does.
Tom | 03.25.08 04:14 PM
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I wish that once, just once, the cameras would show us what is really going on in these rooms. It would both legitimate and honest to show the candidate making a speech AND the teleprompters AND the cue cards/big screen TVs etc. Why does the media allow politicians to get away this fiction that they have memorized their speeches and are delivering them extemporaneously?
Bob | 03.25.08 04:30 PM
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Big speech? He said nothing of any substance and broke no new ground. He just proved that his earlier admissions that he "knows nothing about the economy" are true.
bob | 03.25.08 04:30 PM
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Not only that, but he made at least two mistakes reading the speech, saying incorrect words (not just mispronouncing words), and didn't correct himself, which makes one wonder whether he is capable of reading the script and simultaneously paying attention to what he's saying.
One was when he "it became harder and harder to find and connect up a real leader with a real borrower" -- he obviously meant lender.
Scott Crawford | 03.25.08 04:38 PM
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McCain needs a teleprompter to do "Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran"???
RobertSeattle | 03.25.08 04:38 PM
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Funny.........
McCain's inevitable Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, wrote by himself, and delivered LIVE a 37 minute speech WITHOUT teleprompters, and almost never looking at his notes.
AlyoshaKaramazov | 03.25.08 05:47 PM
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Anyone who thinks McCain is a reasonable choice for President is a fool or insane ... which includes the great majority of the U.S. mainstream media.
truth machine | 03.25.08 08:01 PM
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Bob's wish that cameras would show what REALLY goes on in a room is so valid. I recall a few months ago when Giuliani was racing around the country trying to look Presidential and someone (and the fact that it is so rare tells you how intertwined the press and the candidates are in the "electoral waltz") put up on the net a picture of not just Giuliani at a podium, but the whole room...which was filled with chairs...but not with much else....there were literally about five people in the room, Rudy included and two or three of those were his staff. If such a shot had gotten wide circulation at the time, it would clearly have shown how his support, by that time, had gone into the tank. But instead, the fantasy continued to be perpetuated.
dweb | 03.25.08 09:26 PM
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Why not have his pal Liberman stand behind him and tell him all thats needed to be said?
andy | 03.27.08 03:55 PM
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