Start a meme watch: Is President Obama too dependent on his teleprompter?

The Rightosphere has been trying to pump air into this question for a while now. For example, see this "Fox News report" from controversial conservative academic John Lott Jr. (who reportedly sock-puppeted reviews of one of his books on Amazon). AOL blogger Tommy Christopher debunks Lott's story handily.

Still, the meme appears to have legs, no doubt because the technology itself is glitchy. For example, RedState catches him and the Irish PM in a minor teleprompter-flub yesterday.

Here's how references to Obama and teleprompter appear to be tracking in the blogosphere:

Ever wanted to be able to show someone exactly how a "meme" moves across the web in real-time? Anthony Hamelle of Linkfluence has posted a video doing exactly that. He zeroes in on two political videos that made a big splash at the height of summer: the McCain campaign's successful viral attack on Barack Obama as a "Celeb," which compared him to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in the wake of his European tour and scored well over a million views; and Paris Hilton's snarky response, which ultimately overtook McCain with something over three million views.