They applauded right on cue

[justinsb]

a polite smattering of applauce, no real enthusiasm. My guess is that he did this in front of soldiers because they could be ordered to clap, next time they'll used canned applause.

[Cleita]

1. I couldn't tell that he had an audience until that moment.n/t

[meganmonkey]

2. It's so gross

This is so gross.

They don't even have any good new lies.

[Barad Simith]

3. Someone should edit a laugh track into this

[gizmo1979]

5. He did bring up Libya

again.For the 6000th time!

[livinginphotographs]

20. Don't forget Poland.

He mentioned Poland.

[Career Prole]

4. One guy smack in the middle of the CNN shot

kept his hands in his lap.

[IChing]

6. I thought the speech was over on the first applause and

so did the audience.

[rzemanfl]

9. I agree. n/t

[IChing]

12. ABC said that applause was intiated by the White House Advance Team!!!!!!!

[rzemanfl]

7. Sounded like they had applause monitors in the audience or

those old signs from live TV that lit up.

[ThomWV]

8. Clearly On Cue, Clearly Unenthusiastic

This speach was a glaring failure for the Chimp

[FreedomAngel82]

11. I saw a few seconds

and that a lone was just boring. I'm surprised it was that poor.

[LSK]

10. ABC just said the applause was ordered by the White House n/t

[spinbaby]

13. They didn't say ordered

What they said was "initiated by the White House advence team."

[katamaran]

16. Okay, why do I think of the SNL episode....

....with Michael J Fox as Dan Quayle? Phil Hartmann as Tip O'Neill prompted him to clap at the right moments...


...end thought...

[justinsb]

14. CNN said they "interrupted" the president

If I point at you and say "It's your turn to speak now" does that mean you are interrupting?

[RebelOne]

15. Did you notice that some of the troops were not applauding?

[Skip Intro]

17. Very weird. Only applause line. Faked, but why just one?

Weird.

His speech otherwise sounded like a camapign speech and all the applause lines bombed.

That little "outburst" was fake. The applause at the end died down really quickly. There wasn't any in the begining - that was strange too. An audience full of military personnel doesn't welcome their commander in chief. That can't be a good sign for bush.

[justinsb]

19. They were ordered

to applaud right after the stay the course line. Other than that , at least according to CNN, there weren't to make any noise at all.

[katamaran]

18. We all were noticing it here at work

...bunch of us were watching in the newsroom, and all of us noticed that no one was clapping, and there were several angry faces in the audience.