Jagger
03-26-2009, 10:21 AM
Conservative media figures uncritically highlighted a SkyNews.com report that a "teleprompt blunder has led to Barack Obama thanking himself in a speech at the White House in a St Patrick's Day celebration."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200903250039?f=h_top
A report from the press pool says that Obama made a good-natured and well-received joke at the expense of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who earlier in the event had mistakenly read from the teleprompter displaying Obama's speech.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/03/24/the_truth_about_barack_obamas_irish_teleprompter_g affe
http://mediamatters.org/items/200903250039?f=h_top
A report from the press pool says that Obama made a good-natured and well-received joke at the expense of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who earlier in the event had mistakenly read from the teleprompter displaying Obama's speech.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/03/24/the_truth_about_barack_obamas_irish_teleprompter_g affe