A '''teleprompter''' is an [[electronic]] imaging system that enables speakers and newscasters to look into the [[television]] camera (or at a live audience) and read the text of prepared remarks without the viewers realizing it. It operates like a one-way mirror, with the reflection of text scrolling on the screen for the speaker and the viewers seeing through the text like a [[transparent]] mirror.
President [[Barack Obama]] has had difficulty speaking without the assistance of a teleprompter, making frequent bloopers and saying embarrassing things.<ref>http://www.teleprompterobama.com/</ref> Specifically, President Obama is essentially unable to give a coherent speech or run a press conference unless he can read from a teleprompter. As Vice President Biden jokingly observed:<ref>httphttps://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74027.html</ref>
{{cquote|What am I going to tell the president when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? '''''What will he do then?'''''}}
When Obama addressed the [[parliament]] of [[India]], politicians there were astonished by how he needed to set up teleprompters simply to speak to them. Indian politicians do not rely on teleprompters.
==Historical use of Teleprompters==
It was first popularized by former No major American politician has ever relied as much on a teleprompter as Obama does.<ref>http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_teleprompter-to-make-its-debut-in-parliament-when-obama-speaks_1456549</ref> Former President [[Herbert Hoover]] at a [[Republican]] national conventionwas the first to use the technology at a major event (a Republican National Convention), when but he gave candidly let the audience in on the secret away by complaining to a national audience that telling the teleprompter needed to restart the scrolling of the text after he paused to improvise. But Republican Presidents rarely almost never used teleprompters at press conferences, as Obama frequently does. One advantage for uninformed politicians is how a teleprompter can spell out the phonetic sounds of names and places. This was occasionally used by President George W. Bush for names such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee) and Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH-bee), as well as countries such as Kyrgyzstan (KEYR-geez-stan).<ref>http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/jorj-booshs-fo-ne-tik-promt/story-e6frev20-1111114505516/</ref>
Another advantage of Unfortunately, the telemprompter is teleprompter used by Obama did not tell him that it serves "corpsman" has a silent "p", resulting in an embarrassing gaffe as a reminder of Obama sounded out the pronounciation of names and places. This was occasionally used by President George W. Bush "p" for names such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee) and Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH-bee), as well as countries such as Kyrgyzstan (KEYR-geez-stan).<ref>http://wwwthe familiar term for an enlisted man in the [[U.dailytelegraphS.comNavy]].au/news/weird/jorj-booshs-fo-ne-tik-promt/story-e6frev20-1111114505516/</ref>
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==External Linkslinks==* [httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOVSFW7jmqk Obama's teleprompter malfunction video]
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