Reagan tells Soviet jokes

[merig00.livejournal.com]

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obligtory

[red-pill.livejournal.com]

in soviat russia, joke tells you!

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

wow... no teleprompter

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

Personal televised address != speaking to crowd

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

thank goodness i have other examples, then!

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

go do some work before its new year out there

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

It sure was hard to type in "Reagan + teleprompter"!

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

8 years of presidency ... elderly person... suffering from early Alzheimer...

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

So the new argument isn't "he didn't need a teleprompter" but "of course he needed a teleprompter, he was really old!"

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

nope

he used teleprompters for some of the longer speeches, otherwise he used his head

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

Ahhh... so using a teleprompter is okay when it's a speech, but the speech has to be a certain length.

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

Ever gave a speech?

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

Good response to the question!

[new-wave-witch.livejournal.com]

Teleprompters make a person bad... except for all these reasons! I have more excuses for St. Ronnie if you need them... REAGANN fappetyfapfap

[ladypolitik.livejournal.com]

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[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

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[ladypolitik.livejournal.com]

♥!!!!!!!!!!!

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

He used his head? Is that why he made up so many of his "personal stories"?

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

[ericcoleman.livejournal.com]

So the notes he is reading from on the podium don't count?

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

well of course reading something on a podium is totally different than a teleprompter.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

[robert-johnson.livejournal.com]

We know there were teleprompters at that speech of course. Reagan used them all the time. He had great delivery without them as well. He was trained. But I think this picture, even though it's on a bunch of sources, has always looked weird to me. Now keep in mind I am not denying that they are there. You can see them at the end of the full video of the Miller center version of the speech. But the lighting on this picture has always freaked me out.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

Yep.

I'm still not sure what the teleprompter thing is meant to actually accomplish, though. "The President reads words!"? "The President didn't memorize his speech!"? Who knows. I am sure that it is a big deal for some reason or another that I just don't understand.

[capthek.livejournal.com]

Like almost all of these crazy complaints coming from the right these days, I think it starts in some ill informed joke that just goes on and on and on with little connection to anything of substance. I mean, this is a great example where someone just wanted to post some jokes and another person kneejerk says "no teleprompter" with no actual connection to if it is truth or even matters or anything, right?

Anyway, what is it about them that never allows them to say "oh ya, I guess reading notes is rather common when giving an important speech"?

[i.livejournal.com]

i think 90% of the teleprompter pics, especially of older presidents, are shopped. i doubt they even had teleprompters that look coincidentally exactly like the ones obama uses when reagan made that speech.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

this one seems to be authentic, though. i'm not sure a website dedicated to archiving speeches from all Presidents (http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/reagan-parliament.htm) would really lie about it.

It's not exactly the most advanced technology, either. It's two bits of glass that reflect what monitors at the base show.

[weswilson]

Please tell me that you don't think that teleprompter thing is funny/significant/accurate.

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

it was a joke ;-)

my view on Obama's teleprompter is about the same as on Bush's use of English language

[weswilson]

But... it's a BAD joke. Bush DID butcher the english language. Obama doesn't rely on a teleprompter any more than other presidents have. Were I to make something up about someone, then have everyone suddenly act like it was the best joke in the world, you'd think we were all deraged... not funny.

[redheadrat.livejournal.com]

I guess I am used to butchery of language by politicians since my childhood and go not by speeches, but by message itself as well as by actual action taken.

[weswilson]

That's a legitimate point. I didn't much care that he didn't talk like a great orator, but I did find Bush's condescending, "Don'tcha get it?" attitude to be repellent.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

And that smirk. I remember in 2000, in the early part of the election, it was affecting his numbers, and Rove had to tell him to knock it off.

[red-pill.livejournal.com]

ive heard the gorbchove driver joke befor, but with the pope in the us (it dosent realy matter, the jokes all the same)

[xxrancid-punkxx.livejournal.com]

REAGAN SMASH!!

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Should have been Rocky Montage music during the punching. Or Yakity Sax (http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=kzx7VEH9YUM).

[borgseawolf.livejournal.com]

Those are some good jokes though. We used to tell the same ones in Poland, just with Polish leaders instead of Russian.