A day and a half ago, I blogged about the malicious insinuations by a cross section of ReTHUGlicans, regarding President Obama’s use of Teleprompter Technology.

This morning I came across Michael Gerson’s article posted on WashingtonPost.com — a forceful and eloquent defense of President Obama’s addictive use of Teleprompter technology.

Gerson writes:

“….it is a mistake to argue that the uncrafted (speech without a Teleprompter) is somehow more authentic. Those writers and commentators who prefer the unscripted, who use ‘rhetoric‘ as an epithet, who see the teleprompter as a linguistic push-up bra, do not understand the nature of presidential leadership or the importance of writing to the process of thought.”

“Governing is a craft, not merely a talent. It involves the careful sorting of ideas and priorities. And the discipline of writing — expressing ideas clearly and putting them in proper order — is essential to governing. For this reason, the greatest leaders have taken great pains with rhetoric. Lincoln continually edited and revised his speeches. Churchill practiced to the point of memorization. Such leaders would not have been improved by being “unplugged.” When it comes to rhetoric, winging it is often shoddy and self-indulgent — practiced by politicians who hear Mozart in their own voices while others perceive random cymbals and kazoos. Leaders who prefer to speak from the top of their heads are not more authentic, they are often more shallow — not more “real,” but more undisciplined.”

Obama’s goal at his recent news conference was less elevated — to express his thoughts on the economy with precision, as he faces a crisis in which a stray word could have a tremendous cost. [ READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE ]

I am yet to read an opinion better crafted than Gerson’s — enough to inform a fair-minded techno-midget, but probably insufficient to placate the “Rush Limbaugh – Sean Klannity – Bill Osama Bin O’Reilly” iron-clad triangle of delusioned THUG viewers and listeners.

According to a study by the Pew Research Center in 2006, for the People and the Press, Rush Limbaugh’s listeners placed second in the category of “high knowledge.” Seventy two percent of these Limbaugh listeners are “White Christian Males.”

High knowledge? I do not dispute that, but you wonder — why any intelligent person would want to listen (and believe in) to this twisted, racist, hate-filled, drug-snorting propagandist, and for that matter, to Gestapo maggots like O’Reilly and Hannity!

The video below offers some clues:

The answer is simple: The majority of Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Hannity listeners are BIGOTS looking for a FIX, the rest are divided into two groups — those looking for “Jerry Springer Like” entertainment, and those like me — who want to keep in touch with what the ENEMY is up to.

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