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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.
I just submitted this story along with this image. Its an high resolution version (independent from salon), much improved using frame interpolation. It shows something smaller then a deck of cards. Why the big wire is another thing though. The radio microphones used on stage have bigger wires then your usual headphone becouse of the wear and tear with the amount of movement they get. Wear and tear doesn`t mix well with... sweat. (ask google about something called a "sweat-out" one day, when you are not at work...)
Also electoral-vote mentions that the group organizing the presidential debate confirmed one of the agreed rules was that bush was not to be filmed from the back.
I only checked electoral-vote.com to see if I screwed up calling this SOAP webservice, I started blaming the reversal in the numbers compared to yesterday on SOAP, I guess it doesn`t suck as much as I think it does.
Instead of an in-ear prompting device, could it be a vest-type body cooler? There are quite a few of them around, though most are passive devices that you cool by freezing, etc. before you put them on.
I can imagine keeping the "calm, cool, and collected" look was a high priority for the candidates, and neither wanted to look sweaty and nervous.
No, you may not. Someone called into to C-SPAN the other day to suggest the exact same thing, and it was quickly ruled out because (a) John Kerry, who is also under secret service protection, would have had one on as well and (b) security for the debates was super tight.
When you get to hell -- tell 'em Itchy sent ya!
I hate conspiracy theories, but explain this video: http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/BushAndTheOddSy nc.wmv
The democrats should get Parker Lewis to jam Rove's signal and make Bush say "I.. uh.. love snorting unborn babies" during tonight's debate.
.. do you really think they would try to cheat at the debates?
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hell yes. do you not know what is at stake for the neo-con radicals, here? you brought up karl rove; do you really know what sort of individual he is, what sort of position he takes on world politics? ever read any of his treaties on the subject of the american statehood, personally?
And don't you think that if they did cheat Bush would have done a better job?
have you not been paying attention to the un-disputable litany of Bush public-speaking gaffs/monkey-business that we've had to endure since he came to power? Bush has counsel.
good as he is among the corn-fed, he loses his touch when exposed to the rest of humanity, and put in situations where he must cover rather large fault, or deny something evidently proven as fact. even outside of debates, Bush has proven a constant source of embarrassment for the GOP
Do you really see Karl Rove (boy genius ®) couching him to say "It's hard work" over and over again?
yes. rove is prompting/'minding', it is a low-rate approach to keeping Bush 'on point' and 'in frame'. i would wager that they would go to such lengths, under the guises of National Security, to ensure that they have a strong leader in the eyes of the populace whose resources they intend to control for another 4 years or so
now, if you think this is all too 'tin-foil', all you need to do is read karl rove's papers yourself. it couldn't really be more black and white.
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --