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Battle of the Bush Bulge
cyberman11 writes "Get out your tinfoil hats! Salon.com is running an article about Internet speculation that Bush uses an earpiece prompter and
ignores his teleprompter while making speeches. Bush exhibited peculiar pauses between sentences while speaking during the debate and a large solid object appears between his shoulder blades as he leans over the lectern. He also interrupts himself in the middle of one of his responses by interjecting "Let me finish!" while he still had time remaining to answer and no one else had spoken." If Bush was wired, the receiver would be the size of a deck of cards or smaller, not some giant thing strapped to his back. Update: 10/09 16:10 GMT by J : The NYT contacted the Bush campaign and got a few answers that rule out the innocuous explanation that I had assumed.
> Let's be real people. Most of us dislike George W. as much as the other guy but do you really think they would try to cheat at the debates?
Yes. There's not much his inner circle wouldn't do to win the election.
> And don't you think that if they did cheat Bush would have done a better job?
That's debatable.
Pro the rumor:
Con the rumor:
Who knows. But it will be interesting to watch him in the upcoming debate.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Oh please. Not since the Vietnam war has America been so bitterly divided politically, with each party's lunatic fringe trying to out-do the other. I for one am just as likely to believe this story as I am the memory hole video about a missile hitting the Pentagon on 9/11.
From my experience, it is common for shirts that are not tailored well (or at all), and thus loose-fitting, to be pinched behind the back - a sort of taking up of slack in the shirt, so that your forward appearance is as crisp and clean as possible. I had a few modeling sessions (no, I'm no looker - it was a face-of-the-corporation thing for PR/advertising). Wasn't there a news anchor many years ago that admitted to sitting on his shirttails, his secret for keeping the unwanted billowing out of his camera view? In my military service, we were encouraged to tuck our dress shirts into our briefs/boxers to achieve a similar effect.
To me, that's what this looks like, since the bulge appears more of a thick cable, like the folding or rolling of cloth, than a black box or the uniform displacement of a flack jacket.
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Apparently Kerry doesn't like the lights either.
Maybe not, but Kerry has years of experience with them in the Senate. They use the same system.
Kerry took a note out of his pocket
Sorry. Already proven wrong. It was a pen.