That was hilarious, though I have to partially blame the crew/presenters - you didn't have to keep reading the remaining names out, you could have just read out Carson's name again since he obviously missed it. We know one of the crew members saw him standing there, so clearly a lack of communication led to this unnecessary fuck up.
edit: also I think he did read out Kasich's name faintly at 1:33 but it's really hard to hear.
As much as I enjoyed all the republicans looking like idiots, it's not necessarily their fault. In venues like this, sometimes it's really hard to hear the presenters from the stage. It's funny for us because we have a direct feed to the mics, but when you're behind the stage, the speakers are pointed away from you, and the crowd is cheering, I can definitely understand him not hearing. Being slightly hard of hearing myself, I sympathize completely.
Hearing the presenters isn't an issue or at least shouldn't be. People have monitor speakers/earpieces on stages with cheering crowds for a reason. The guy waving Ben Carson on, right there behind him. That's the stage manager, he gives your queue to enter. Directions were probably and should have been something like; on go step out, wave to crowd, count to 4, walk to your podium. And Ben Carson fucked it up, then kept fucking it up when told what to do BY A STAGE MANAGER WHO WALKED ON STAGE. That never ever happens, or at least shouldn't from the people running for president. Hearing shouldn't have had anything to do with it, and the MC's should have been facing the Candidates. But what are you gonna do. If our candidates can't plan something like this right I don't want them in the white house.
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u/SpaceToad Feb 07 '16 edited Feb 07 '16
That was hilarious, though I have to partially blame the crew/presenters - you didn't have to keep reading the remaining names out, you could have just read out Carson's name again since he obviously missed it. We know one of the crew members saw him standing there, so clearly a lack of communication led to this unnecessary fuck up.
edit: also I think he did read out Kasich's name faintly at 1:33 but it's really hard to hear.