When Rick Perry announced his run for president, political observers noted that he managed to deliver a stem-winding speech without using a teleprompter.
“When he reads a speech without his teleprompter, as in Charleston, he is more fluent and natural than when President Obama reads a speech with his.” wrote the Weekly Standard’s Andrew Ferguson.
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Today, however, live video showed Perry delivering his economic speech in Pittsburgh perched behind two teleprompter screens.
Politicians of both parties often use teleprompters to give major speeches. Mitt Romney used one during his foreign policy speech earlier this month in South Carolina.
But with conservatives frequently mocking President Obama’s teleprompter-dependent speeches, GOP candidates have an incentive to go without, when they can. Michele Bachmann went so far as to promise in June that as president she would, “ban the teleprompter at the White House.”
