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@GovRauner breaks out a fancy TelePrompTer to launch his Term Limits political ploy against Madigan @wlsam890 pic.twitter.com/89oXdPtE3m

— Bill Cameron (@billjcameron) July 25, 2016

posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:53 pm

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  1. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

    Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:56 pm

  2. “… who’s the Fairest of them All… “

    Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:57 pm

  3. “… through the Looking Glass … “

    Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:58 pm

  4. “Nope. Take out the part about Sandack… “

    Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:59 pm

  5. Screening support for Trump

    Comment by Rabid Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 2:59 pm

  6. “… I see Goldberg, and ‘ck’… Lance and Diana’s State Employee… “

    Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:00 pm

  7. Smoke and mirrors.

    Comment by Dome Gnome Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:00 pm

  8. A hacker put words in my mouth

    Comment by Rabid Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:00 pm

  9. “Governor, if you would of made rehearsals, you wouldn’t need a TelePrompTer for this episode… “

    Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:01 pm

  10. ZORDON LIVES!

    Comment by AlfondoGonz Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:02 pm

  11. New Pokemon Go

    Comment by Rabid Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:02 pm

  12. Mirror, mirror, on the wall.

    Comment by A guy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:03 pm

  13. “I thought the Google glass was something you wore… “

    Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:03 pm

  14. See, I’m practicing transparency!

    Comment by IllinoisBoi Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:03 pm

  15. “Hey, who loaded the Obama speech into this thing!?”

    Comment by Nick Name Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:03 pm

  16. Governor Rauner demonstrates what he means by “transparency”.

    Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:05 pm

  17. Yep I’ll take the arrows

    Comment by Rabid Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:05 pm

  18. . . . and I see Mikey, and Johny - oh my, they’re naughty boys. And there’s Jimmy, oh, poor thing he doesn’t look lik he’s feeling well. And Christine too! She’s doing such a good job.

    Comment by Jeeves The Cat Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:05 pm

  19. And if I position like this, I won’t have to see all those protesters in the back of the room.

    Comment by GA Watcher Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:05 pm

  20. “… and Bruce Rauner as Stan Jennings in… ‘Minority Report’… “

    Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:06 pm

  21. Hello? Hello? Check, check. Is this thing on?

    Comment by 47th Ward Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:07 pm

  22. “… No, I can’t FaceTime, I’m busy destroying Social Services, Diana… “

    Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:08 pm

  23. When I look through here, every short guy looks like Mike Madigan.

    Comment by A guy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:08 pm

  24. Max headroom

    Comment by Rabid Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:09 pm

  25. “I dunno… I think reading from this makes me look… phony… “

    Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:09 pm

  26. Is it just me, or does every word strolling across here end in g?

    Comment by A guy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:10 pm

  27. Yes, I was once the ‘Opaque Governor’, but as you can kinda see, I’m now the ‘Translucent Governor’. I’m also quite sure, I’ll never be the ‘Transparent Governor’.

    Comment by Tommydanger Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:11 pm

  28. Governparency

    Comment by No Longer A Lurker Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:11 pm

  29. Cryogenic govenor

    Comment by Rabid Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:11 pm

  30. Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the best governor of them all

    Comment by No Longer A Lurker Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:13 pm

  31. “My. Daughter. Got. Perfect. Scores. Perfect. And. I. Think. My. Wife. Called. Arne. Duncan. … It reads choppy, you know… “

    Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:14 pm

  32. “…’Union folk may way too much money’ … Can you bold that, I need to punch that up, really hammer and shake that home… “

    Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:16 pm

  33. IB @3:03, well done.

    Comment by LizPhairTax Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:16 pm

  34. Im not that literate

    Comment by Rabid Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:16 pm

  35. I forget. Is Fox News for, or against, teleprompters for Republicans? (Wasn’t Jon Stewart just talking about that?)

    Comment by Keyrock Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:19 pm

  36. Who ya gonna call, Ghostbusters.

    Comment by pool boy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:20 pm

  37. On Sandack leaving: “I’m in a glass case of emotion!”

    Comment by Ron Burgundy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:21 pm

  38. I think I’ll get one of these for the van.

    Comment by A guy Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:21 pm

  39. “Through a mirror dimly…”

    Comment by DrMark Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:22 pm

  40. The world is my salad bar

    Comment by LizPhairTax Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:25 pm

  41. ck - just read your speech from thebsxreen. I have everything loaded into the teleprompter. It will be easy.

    1.4% reading from teleprompter “… I have come to the realization that Speaker Madigan was right that the most important thing that we need to work on is the budget. I am wrong to insist on my personal turn around agenda because it is hurting the most needy people in the State …. ha … ck, who wrote this speech …”

    Comment by Huh? Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:25 pm

  42. The mirror all AFSCME members see when they wake up in the morning and walk into their bathroom.

    Comment by Almost the Weekend Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:29 pm

  43. “I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!”

    Comment by Highland Il Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:30 pm

  44. Romper bomper stomper boo, tell me, tell me, tell me do, magic mirror tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play?

    Comment by BBG Watch Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:32 pm

  45. Romper stomper bomper boo, tell me tell me tell me do . . .

    Comment by Anonymous Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:35 pm

  46. Maybe if I stand behind this glass thingy they won’t be able to see my whoppers coming.

    Comment by Mama Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:37 pm

  47. This glass will protect me from the unions and their rotten tomatoes.

    Comment by Mama Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:38 pm

  48. Who cut the funding for that 2nd Teleprompter?

    Comment by Norseman Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:42 pm

  49. channeling his inner Sheldon.

    Comment by burbanite Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:47 pm

  50. This make my head look small?

    Comment by Rabid Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:53 pm

  51. Land of OZ?

    Comment by cardsmama Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 3:55 pm

  52. Candyman! Candyman! Candyman!

    Comment by IllinoisBoi Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 4:00 pm

  53. “Does this teleprompter make my head look bigger?”

    Comment by d.p.gumby Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 4:01 pm

  54. LizPhairTax, that’s hilarious

    Comment by Soccermom Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 4:12 pm

  55. “When you push this button all the ‘g’s disappear? I’m takin’ this thing on the road!”

    Comment by Wensicia Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 4:17 pm

  56. Rauner staff fails on order of rose colored glass

    Comment by Amalia Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 4:35 pm

  57. My head is in a glass bowl

    Comment by Rabid Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 4:47 pm

  58. 1.4% lights a candle, spins around 3 times and says to the mirror “Bloody mary, bloody mary, bloody mary”

    Comment by Huh? Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 4:53 pm

  59. If the glass breaks, General Zod will be released from the Phantom Zone!

    Comment by UsedTo... Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 4:57 pm

  60. “This thing is junk. Please tell me the Firm didn’t invest in the manufacturer.”

    Comment by Arthur Andersen Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 5:49 pm

  61. I thought General Zod was freed from the Phantom Zone by a nuclear shockwave in Superman II. What gives?

    Comment by LGHB Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 8:10 pm

  62. Just like his budget plan-blurry…

    hidden face-kind of like the witnesses who don’t want there faces revealed…

    Comment by downstate commmissioner Monday, Jul 25, 16 @ 9:24 pm

  63. Goldberg said trump used one of these

    Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Jul 26, 16 @ 6:48 am

  64. Let me make this perfectly clear

    Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Jul 26, 16 @ 6:59 am

  65. Strucutural change

    Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Jul 26, 16 @ 7:13 am

  66. I’m one of the good old boys and it’s great to be back at bob’s country bunker

    Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Jul 26, 16 @ 8:20 am

  67. Goldberg there’s a smudge on my sham,wow

    Comment by Rabid Tuesday, Jul 26, 16 @ 9:09 am

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