Here’s an interesting video of what happens when Barack Obama’s teleprompter breaks.

Transcript:

Everybody knows that it makes no sense, and, you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs… when… if you… they just give… you gave ’em treatment early, and they got some treatment, and, uh… a Budweiser Breathalyzer… or, uh, an inhalator — not a Budweiser Breathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours, so.

And that’s just the first half.

Yes, I know it’s an old video. It’s still worth watching. It is a trainwreck. Two things in that first half alone were notable to me though. The obvious is the Budweiser statement, just by the sheer ridiculousness of it. The less obvious is the asthma statement. Let’s look a bit closer.

you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs… when… if you… they just give… you gave ’em treatment early, and they got some treatment…

Is it just me, or is that the beginnings of a scary statement? It seems like he’s saying putting a kid with a “treatable” illness like asthma in a hospital bed shouldn’t happen because it “costs” too much. You know, because it’s “treatable”. If only those stupid parents gave those kids their inhalators or a Budweiser or whatever, they wouldn’t have to take up valuable space in a hospital. Because, you know, asthma’s never life threatening or anything. And if that’s such a bad thing, then what would Obama propose to prevent that? Turn them away? Bill the families with “treatable” illnesses more? What?

Just let that sink in.

As I said, a very scary statement.

Hat Tip: My colleague Kim at Wizbang