I happened to flip to a local channel...was going to check out The Price Is Right since I haven’t seen it in years...and what do you know...Billy’s favorite McPolitician was on announcing this brilliant mandate! Beyond all the “blah, blah, blah”, what I found hilarious was the guy off-screen that stepped in each time they switched speakers to wipe down the speaker’s podium! He would quickly run some type of cloth over the two edges (where you could rest your hands/arms) and the top where speaker notes would sit.
Note, that not one of the speakers (at least what parts I saw) touched the podium or laid any notes on it! Wiped it down anyway each time. What useless theater it was!
Also, some of the media questions at the end were down right ignorant...big surprise there! MickyM even got a little testy with one.