While Mr. Obama was addressing media in this video, the use of the teleprompters in a grade school classroom shows the president cannot seem to leave the White House without his trusty glass and monitor friends beside him. The caption on this AP photo reads: "President Barack Obama points to the media, as he enters to speak, after a discussion with 6th grade students at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010."
– Conservative blogs are beside themselves with glee today, jumping on President Obama for using a teleprompter to talk to 6th graders last week. “It would surely be funny if he had,” says the Weekly Standard. “But it doesn’t appear that he did.” Photos of Obama’s sit-down with the kids reveal that there were no teleprompters. Obama brought them out later before speaking to the media, but videos of that speech reveal that no children were present.