Following on the false flag controversy, Dean Barnett barfs up round two of the anti-Obama pushback from the fringe right.
Shorter Dean Barnett– Obama can’t speak without a teleprompter.
Really- that is all Dean said, although it took him a couple thousand words to say it. I think we can officially call Obama the frontrunner now.
BTW- Has Dean ever heard President Bush speak? With or without a teleprompter?
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Lately, “the person formerly known as the Commissar” and I are forming some sort of bizarre pro-Obama vulcan mind-meld. At any rate, what he said.
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And Jake Tapper proves that he can swallow any choad from the right-wing just as well as Howard Kurtz:
Barnett writes for a conservative magazine, but he is an admirer of Obama’s oratorical gifts.
And the observation – which I have not seen anywhere else – gets at what could be a real vulnerability for Obama. Take it from a TV reporter, speaking with a Teleprompter and speaking without one are not remotely the same thing.
Sure, it could be a vulnerability- IF IT WERE FUCKING TRUE. And even then, it probably wouldn’t be. I repeat, have any of you seen Bush speak?
It is just amazing watching the right-wing spin machine at work now that I am no longer part of the problem. In fact, I expect Barnett’s piece to be Insta-linked, repeated by Malkin, regurgitated at the National Review, and on Brit Hume tonight and in the Washington Post with Howie tomorrow.
And again, it does not matter if it is complete bullshit (watch the video at the Politburo)- it is about flinging shit at the wall and hoping it sticks. And no one is better at it than the right-wing bullshit artists, the folks who were pretending the role of the blogs was to “fact-check” the media.
Bunch of hacks and bullshit artists.
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By popular demand.
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And Instapundit gives Barnett a “Heh, indeedy.” Anyone want to bet Kurtz will pick this up?