Attention Toby!

[Johnny Ringo]

Because I know you're a fan, I thought you'd like to know that Chris Christie (latest job approval 51%) will be speaking to the AEI todat at 1. You can watch via live link here. Enjoy!

[toby]

Because I know you're a fan, I thought you'd like to know that Chris Christie (latest job approval 51%) will be speaking to the AEI todat at 1. You can watch via live link here. Enjoy!

He's only showing up for the all-you-can eat.

[Johnny Ringo]

He's only showing up for the all-you-can eat.

Since, if Christie continues to rise, I predict that fat jokes will become the new teleprompter jokes, I'd just like to point out that he's speaking without one.

[jfm]

Can I ask again what the issue is with the teleprompter? This is a sincere question, because it's not that there's something I disagree with, it's that I literally do not understand what all the "teleprompter" stuff is supposed to mean. And I'm not saying you've been particularly guilty of it Johnny, but since you seem to speak that language, I would like a translation.

[toby]

Since, if Christie continues to rise, I predict that fat jokes will become the new teleprompter jokes, I'd just like to point out that he's speaking without one.

I speak for 6 hours a week in public without a teleprompter and have beer belly. Can I run NJ into the ground?

[Johnny Ringo]

Can I ask again what the issue is with the teleprompter? This is a sincere question, because it's not that there's something I disagree with, it's that I literally do not understand what all the "teleprompter" stuff is supposed to mean. And I'm not saying you've been particularly guilty of it Johnny, but since you seem to speak that language, I would like a translation.

Like Toby's waistline jokes, they are an attention-distraction, cheap-shot device. Obama's obsessive use of teleprompters is as relevant to the job he's doing as is Christie's suit size. And yet Toby, who knows better, can't resist.

[Johnny Ringo]

If that wasn't a Presidential exploratory speech I've never heard one.

{EDIT} First question: are you running for President? Answer: I'm not ready, so no.

[jfm]

Like Toby's waistline jokes, they are an attention-distraction, cheap-shot device. Obama's obsessive use of teleprompters is as relevant to the job he's doing as is Christie's suit size.

Yeah, I mean, I get that. I just don't understand what it's supposed to mean. I know what fat jokes mean -- shorthand way of saying someone's a slob, unattractive, self-indulgent, lacks self-control, blah blah blah. I don't understand what is supposed to be implied about somebody reading a prepared speech. Our presidents have been reading prepared speeches for as long as we've had presidents. And the last many of them have often read them off teleprompters rather than off paper, because it looks better on TV. So, like, I just don't know what the cheap shot is even supposed to be. It has always just made me scratch my head.

[Stoopnagle]

The storal to this mory: might fore dith your wick bran your thain!

[rikki]

Yeah, I mean, I get that. I just don't understand what it's supposed to mean. I know what fat jokes mean -- shorthand way of saying someone's a slob, unattractive, self-indulgent, lacks self-control, blah blah blah. I don't understand what is supposed to be implied about somebody reading a prepared speech. Our presidents have been reading prepared speeches for as long as we've had presidents. And the last many of them have often read them off teleprompters rather than off paper, because it looks better on TV. So, like, I just don't know what the cheap shot is even supposed to be. It has always just made me scratch my head.

It's a reactionary thing. After years of listening to Bush get criticized for verbal gaffes and hiding from the press, Republicans had to get some payback. Since they are Republicans, it didn't need to make sense. There's nothing to understand except that it gives them emotional release.