I was in Des Moines, Iowa a few weeks back filming the Des Moines Marathon for Prevention.com. We had hired a 'local' crew - they were based in Omaha - and during a break in the action I quizzed them about covering the caucuses there. Our sound person began to wax about it.
"It's great," he explained, "you get to see and hear the contenders and their campaigns up close. You also get to see the making , or in Dean's case the un-making, of a candidate. For example, I can tell you the moment that George W. became a candidate."
"When was that?" I saked.
"The moment is campaign bought a telepromter." I laughed.
"No, seriously," he continued, "I saw him without it and he was horrible and couldn't form complete sentences. The moment they gave him a teleprompter he sounded like a candidate and could 'connect' with his audience."
Thus the fate of the free world has been decided, in part, by the teleprompter.
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