Well, it's pretty sad when someone willingly gets talked into reading something off of a teleprompter without first knowing exactly what is coming up. Granted, he duped and lied to get these folks to do as they did, but they kind of asked for it by being stupid.
^^^This
Anyone reading that kind of stupidity out loud on camera deserves to be more than a little embarrassed. Unfortunately you can bet it'll be used in upcoming negative advertisement campaigns.