1996 November 21, Chris Forshay, “re: Looking for Visions of Johanna”, in rec.music.gdead[1] (Usenet):
andy's point about the teleprompters being a necessary evil is quite well taken. however, as far as "visions of johanna" is concerned, i'll take a clean, teleprompterless jerry over a doped-out, teleprompter-reading jerry any day.
2005, Mike Walker, Rather Dumb: A Top Tabloid Reporter Tells CBS How to Do News, Nelson Current (2005), →ISBN, page 98:
But wouldn't it be wise to commit a handful to memory for those teleprompterless personal appearances?
2009 March 20, Christopher Helms, “Re: Making Bush look brilliant”, in aus.invest[2] (Usenet):
Anyone who thinks Obama can't function without a teleprompter should compare George Bush's teleprompterless 2004 debate performance with Barack Obama's 2008 teleprompterless debate performance and get back to us about who seems confused, incompetent and lost.
2011 March 9, El Castor [username], “Re: Newt Says he Had Affairs Because Passion for His Country Led Him to Work Too Hard”, in soc.retirement[3] (Usenet):
Besides, I would love to see Newt tear a teleprompterless Obama to pieces in a debate. (-8
The closest we’ve come to anything happening in the past two weeks has been an empty chair and a few glorious trick teleprompterless moments by Bill Clinton, moments in which he was riding the crowd, reacting to their reactions, riffing in such a way that it was possible to believe he would go off-script in spirit rather than merely in fact.
