A teleprompter blunder led to President Barack Obama thanking himself as he kicked off a speech at the White House yesterday with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen.
Video of this event is not available anywhere. Robert Gibbs probably ate it. If video ever leaks out, teleprompter president . com should have it.
If President Bush made this gaffe, there would be 90 versions of the video on YouTube already.
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You just can’t make this stuff up.
Whatever happened to the whole intelligence argument with this guy?
This is another testament to Gibbs’ ability to hide the ball–the man is pretty good.
[...] Last week, we brought you news that Obama committed the terrible flub of thanking himself in a speech after his teleprompter malfunctioned: “First, I’d like to say thank you to President Obama!” said President Obama. [...]