There is one big, huge, gigantic difference between a TelePrompTer and a PowerPoint slide however.
And now you see why President Barack Obama rarely risks speaking without his traveling teleprompter.
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Mr. Cain did not need a teleprompter or pre-packaged, poll-tested quotes to make his point.
John McCain hardly fares better, squinting as he does at the teleprompter during his victory speeches.
As the only speaker to use a teleprompter, Ryan is still on autopilot from the campaign.
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Yes, this means you must learn your material well enough not to need notes or a Teleprompter.
Follow the example of the president, go buy yourself a teleprompter and blame everything on the last guy.
Speaking to the seriousness given to his speech, Boehner employed a teleprompter to help him deliver it smoothly.
Even as fuel costs accelerate, Obama will man the teleprompter with menacing presence to scold speculators and oil companies.
The popular narrative from conservatives -- that Obama stumbles when he is off the teleprompter -- is becoming more believable.
Am I suggesting you go out and rent an expensive Teleprompter machine for thousands of dollars before every presentation you give?
One of the biggest misconceptions about PowerPoint is that it can and should be used as a TelePrompTer for a speaker.
In fact, one year I remember editing directly on the teleprompter a few minutes before the Governor was due to start.
They included contact lenses that helped her read the teleprompter, makeup, haircuts, manicures, teeth whitening and subscriptions to magazines and newspapers.
If they can fit that mouthful of media players on a Teleprompter.
Cut to a video of an IBM dude woodenly reading from a teleprompter (his eyes dart quickly left-to-right) about the cell processor system.
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In Tampa, when John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, departed from his approved script, a red light beneath the teleprompter began flashing frantically.
" "He related to the people from his heart, he wasn't just looking at the teleprompter, he was coming through in a big way.
The TelePrompTer projects the text in front of the newscaster so that it is easily seen by the anchor, but is invisible to the viewers.
Walton's first job, as a video journalist, was to tear apart the five-part carbon scripts for the anchors, producer and director, then run the teleprompter.
Aides said the speech has been in its final form for several days, and that Bush has been practicing the speech with a TelePrompTer.
He also asked that a teleprompter be placed near the stage to help him remember song lyrics, something Jackson had never used before during a concert, he said.
They will hold various items including live feeds from reporters on location, photograph images, graphics, the different camera angles in the anchor studio and even the teleprompter script.
He had a teleprompter, whereas other events that Obama has done out in Iowa and elsewhere, has been really casual, just him kind of wandering around with the microphone.
But if you are standing directly in front of the Teleprompter, where the politician is standing, you can see all of the words to your speech scrolling across the glass.
Candidates could not use notes or a teleprompter at the dinner, and, in the weeks leading up to it, Obama stayed up late each night memorizing a new speech based on the strategy memo.
It turned out to be the first time anyone had used a teleprompter in such a situation and of course, the Great Communicator, read his lines with aplomb but was not speaking extemporaneously at all.
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