FOR FUTURE USE

The wingnut fable about Pres. Obama using teleprompters to speak to 6th graders doesn't seem like it's going to die out so I thought I'd post this from an obviously right-wing source for rebuttal.

Did Obama Use a Teleprompter to Talk to Elementary School Children?

Nope.

BY Stephen F. Hayes

January 25, 2010 9:48 AM

WEEKLY STANDARD

The conservative blogosphere is buzzing this morning about news that President Obama relied on a teleprompter for his remarks to students at the Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia. And it would surely be funny if he had. But it doesn't appear that he did.

Obama held two separate sessions at the school -- the first with students and a second for the media. And while he did use two teleprompters for his comments to the media he did not use them for his discussion with the students.

The White House website offers this picture of Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan talking to 6th graders from the school. No teleprompters in sight.

The caption on this AP photo reads: "President Barack Obama points to the media, as he enters to speak, after a discussion with 6th grade students at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010."

And the beginning of the video posted on the White House website shows that there are no kids between Obama and the news media during the remarks he makes using the teleprompters.

The White House confirmed to TWS that the teleprompters were used for his remarks to the press, not with students.