During Obama’s first term in office, he used a Teleprompter for 699 speeches. His dependence on the device was so complete that it spawned at least three satire websites – Ask Obama’s Teleprompter, TOTUSblog (Teleprompter Of The United States), and Barack’s Teleprompter (“Because There Is No POTUS Without TOTUS”).
There were also numerous toons, t-shirts and bumper stickers with snarky sayings on them, like “Why doesn’t Obama pray? Because you can’t read a Teleprompter with your eyes closed.”
Sources:
- http://twitchy.com/sd-3133/2017/03/01/nyt-op-ed-writer-awakens-from-8-year-nap-shames-trump-for-using-teleprompter/
- http://www.weeklystandard.com/obamas-delivered-699-speeches-using-a-teleprompter-since-taking-office/article/696407
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/02/enough-with-the-obama-teleprompter-jokes-already/253038/
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