Saturday, March 21, 2009

Is Barack Obama following in the Footsteps of Ron Burgundy?

For those of you that saw the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy you'll remember that the teleprompter used by Ron (Will Ferrell) would eventually lead to his downfall. After someone put a question mark at the end of what should have been a declarative sentence the producer, Ed Harken (Fred Willard), had to remind everyone that Ron will read anything that's put on the teleprompter. In order to get back at Ron, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) uses this knowledge to her advantage. At the end of a broadcast Ron then reads exactly what Veronica wrote: "Go fuck yourself San Diego." 

Obama seems to be heading down the same path as he seems to read whatever is on the teleprompter as well. On March 17, St. Patrick's Day, Obama was hosting a White House party with Irish prime minister Brian Cowen. After Obama finished his speech Cowen got up to the podium to give his. However, no one changed over the speech on the teleprompter so for 20 seconds Cowen was repeating Obama's speech that had just been given! After making light of the mistake Cowen stepped down and Obama came back up. Meanwhile the teleprompter had been changed over to Cowen's speech. This is where it got fun.

Obama, permanently attached to his teleprompter, then began to read what was on it (Cowen's speech). It was here that Obama thanked himself for throwing a party. "First, I'd like to thank President Obama..." Now, wouldn't you think you'd see that and stop before embarrassing yourself? I guess not if you're as dependent on a teleprompter as Obama is. Interestingly there is no video of this even though cameras were rolling. Why won't anyone post it? It'd be all over if it was old "W," but I guess Obama gets a pass on this.

So the question is, how long will it be before Obama says, "Go fuck yourself San Diego?" 

1 comment:

  1. Oh my. These things. But you know, the can't make fun of Obama cuz he's black and it would be racist.

    Also, hope you aren't totally offended at my deletion of your facebook commment. The whole keeping real life and internet life separate thing. Yep. You're one of the few who gets to traverse both of my worlds.

    I believe one of the two, actually. Consider yourself special! :)

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