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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 agree with you, cheating at a nationally televised debate would be audacious, brash, and brazenly stupid given the likelihood of getting caught. Though the President has almost certainly used in-ear prompters during press conferences, I'm skeptical of their use during the debate. That said, I'll reserve judgement since he certainly has shown all of those aforementioned qualities.
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The "evidence" presented is interesting yet hardly damning up to this point. What I'd like to have confirmed by the President's handlers is how often he uses in-ear prompters, etc. I think they should own it and respond to the accusation quickly if they don't want this ballooning to something they can't sweep under the rug.
It will be interesting to see whether Kerry gives Bush a little pat-down during the pre-debate handshake tonight.
This has to be one of the most unoriginal hoaxes.....Come one, it's about as weak as W's WMD claims, and even he's stopped working that.