Thursday, September 06, 2012

The Teleprompter as Parliamentarian

You may have heard about the dustup at the DNC convention concerning the removal and subsequent re-addition of references (a) to God and (b) considering Jerusalem to be the capitol of Israel. The second platform change was a controversial moment, as this video shows:


I have some sympathy for Antonio Villagairosa in this case, because it wasn't supposed to be controversial. It does help to have a parliamentarian available to interpret things, as this picture shows:




3 comments:

Brian said...

Oh weird. I just had to update my RNC post with the same info.

Mr. D said...

Oh weird. I just had to update my RNC post with the same info.

Wait, the RNC had a teleprompter parliamentarian, too?

Gino said...

yes, it did.