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Did Kerry Use a Cheat Sheet?
mrbrown1602 writes "The Drudge Report is reporting that repeated viewing of video from the first Presidential Debate shows Senator John Kerry reaching into his coat pocket for what looks like to be a piece of paper, and he proceeds to unfold it on the lectern. According to the rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, candidates are not allowed to bring anything with them on stage (even something as simple as a pen, which is what Kerry's people says it was), and everything they may need (water, tissues, pens, etc.) are provided at the lectern. So what DID Senator Kerry bring out there, anyways?" There's also a QuickTime movie.
According to the rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, candidates are not allowed to bring anything with them on stage
So he was naked then?
Slashdot is not biased!
(Okay, mostly sarcasm).
You know how it gets when you spend hours studying up for your big presedential debate...you get so busy that you can't eat.
Come on...give the guy a break! He just had a case of the munchies...
Goo goo g'joob.
I was all set to vote for Kerry but this is such an outrage that I'm swinging all the way to the right for this election! Sure, the economy is in the shitter, we're in a quagmire in Iraq, and the deficit is at an all time high. But at least Bush would never dream of bringing a cribsheet with him onstage for a largely symbolic dual-press conference! This madness must stop! I emplore all of you to forget about the PATRIOT Act, Gitmo, and all those other things and concentrate on this vital issue of the cribsheet!
Seriously, who gives a flying fuck? Yes, I know it's against the rules. Big whoopie. These are serious times, people. Let's not get obsessed with minutia. I can't believe I'm reading about such trivial concerns here on slashdot. I have no objections to a Politics section here but, please, make the Politics stories interesting and important. Not this idiotic bickering over pointless crap.
And outdated. But not yet duped.
Well you need a tin hat. Make sure it fits tight cuz Pudge has special lazers to control your mind.
I heard he threw his pens over a fence. I don't know about you, but I think that's sort of disrespectful. Talk amongst yourselves.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
What, you think everyone uses a cheap dollar-a-bag Bic push-pen like you?
This clearly shows that Kerry is out of touch with the common man.
a big can of whoopass!
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Thats obviously an alien mind control device.
Boy I bet the aliens were pissed when they realised they wasted all that money.
It was a pen...a PEN!
A PEN FOR GODSAKE!!!!
PEN PEN PEN
Everyone is in agreement that it was a PEN now...I can't help it if the idiot Drudge wants to keep up his reputation as the National Enquirer of the net.
I've seen the video...over and over...IT'S A PEN! You can even see when he puts the top of the pen on the back of it to get ready to write.
And yes, according to the rules, they could bring PENS out there with them.
Again, in case you didn't get it...it's a PEN!
Now, get back to real issues like 1000's dying every day in Iraq, the economy in the crapper and oil prices sky-high etc etc etc...but no, we have to focus on this stupid STUPID PEN!
Also, I'm voting for Kerry not because what he stands for or his policies...I'm voting for him because he's NOT BUSH. That's right, I'd rather take an unknown over what Bush has done so far! Hell, I'd vote for Hillary before I'd vote for Bush again (yes, I voted for him in 2000).
Again...PEN
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
I'm pretty sure Bush's head is his least vulnerable and least used part of his anatomy. I wager Bush uses his balls in place of his brain so I'm guessing he must wear a bullet proof jock strap. Anyone have photos with bulges down that way?
@de_machina