What is that 'T' in Bush's back? An expert told Salon it's 'the inductor portion of a two-way push-to-talk system.' In other words, Karl and Karen were feeding Bush his debate lines. Bush is the laughingstock of the world
To warm the hearts of all the conspriracy theorists
>Bush's mystery bulge
>The rumor is flying around the globe. Was the president wired during the
>first debate?
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>By Dave Lindorff
>Salon.com News
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>Oct. 8, 2004 | Was President Bush literally channeling Karl Rove in his
>first debate with John Kerry? That's the latest rumor flooding the Internet,
>unleashed last week in the wake of an image caught by a television camera
>during the Miami debate. The image shows a large solid object between Bush's
>shoulder blades as he leans over the lectern and faces moderator Jim Lehrer.
>
>The president is not known to wear a back brace, and it's safe to say he
>wasn't packing. So was the bulge under his well-tailored jacket a hidden
>receiver, picking up transmissions from someone offstage feeding the
>president answers through a hidden earpiece? Did the device explain why the
>normally ramrod-straight president seemed hunched over during much of the
>debate?
>
>Bloggers are burning up their keyboards with speculation. Check out the
>president's peculiar behavior during the debate, they say. On several
>occasions, the president simply stopped speaking for an uncomfortably long
>time and stared ahead with an odd expression on his face. Was he listening
>to someone helping him with his response to a question? Even weirder was the
>president's strange outburst. In a peeved rejoinder to Kerry, he said, "As
>the politics change, his positions change. And that's not how a commander in
>chief acts. I, I, uh -- Let me finish -- The intelligence I looked at was
>the same intelligence my opponent looked at." It must be said that Bush
>pointed toward Lehrer as he declared "Let me finish." The green warning
>light was lit, signaling he had 30 seconds to, well, finish.
>
>Hot on the conspiracy trail, I tried to track down the source of the photo.
>None of the Bush-is-wired bloggers, however, seemed to know where the photo
>came from. Was it possible the bulge had been Photoshopped onto Bush's back
>by a lone conspiracy buff? It turns out that all of the video of the debate
>was recorded and sent out by Fox News, the pool broadcaster for the event.
>Fox sent feeds from multiple cameras to the other networks, which did their
>own on-air presentations and editing.
>
>To watch the debate again, I ventured to the Web site of the most sober
>network I could think of: C-SPAN. And sure enough, at minute 23 on the video
>of the debate, you can clearly see the bulge between the president's
>shoulder blades.
>
>Bloggers stoke the conspiracy with the claim that the Bush administration
>insisted on a condition that no cameras be placed behind the candidates. An
>official for the Commission on Presidential Debates, which set up the
>lecterns and microphones on the Miami stage, said the condition was indeed
>real, the result of negotiations by both campaigns. Yet that didn't stop Fox
>from setting up cameras behind Bush and Kerry. The official said that
>"microphones were mounted on lecterns, and the commission put no electronic
>devices on the president or Senator Kerry." When asked about the bulge on
>Bush's back, the official said, "I don't know what that was."
>
>So what was it? Jacob McKenna, a spyware expert and the owner of the Spy
>Store, a high-tech surveillance shop in Spokane, Wash., looked at the Bush
>image on his computer monitor. "There's certainly something on his back, and
>it appears to be electronic," he said. McKenna said that, given its shape,
>the bulge could be the inductor portion of a two-way push-to-talk system.
>McKenna noted that such a system makes use of a tiny microchip-based earplug
>radio that is pushed way down into the ear canal, where it is virtually
>invisible. He also said a weak signal could be scrambled and be undetected
>by another broadcaster.
>
>Mystery-bulge bloggers argue that the president may have begun using such
>technology earlier in his term. Because Bush is famously prone to
>malapropisms and reportedly dyslexic, which could make successful use of a
>teleprompter problematic, they say the president and his handlers may have
>turned to a technique often used by television reporters on remote
>stand-ups. A reporter tapes a story and, while on camera, plays it back into
>an earpiece, repeating lines just after hearing them, managing to sound
>spontaneous and error free.
>
>Suggestions that Bush may have using this technique stem from a D-day event
>in France, when a CNN broadcast appeared to pick up -- and broadcast to
>surprised viewers -- the sound of another voice seemingly reading Bush his
>lines, after which Bush repeated them. Danny Schechter, who operates the
>news site MediaChannel.org, and who has been doing some investigating into
>the wired-Bush rumors himself, said the Bush campaign has been worried of
>late about others picking up their radio frequencies -- notably during the
>Republican Convention on the day of Bush's appearance. "They had a frequency
>specialist stop me and ask about the frequency of my camera," Schechter
>said. "The Democrats weren't doing that at their convention."
>
>Repeated calls to the White House and the Bush national campaign office over
>a period of three days, inquiring about what the president may have been
>wearing on his back during the debate, and whether he had used an audio
>device at other events, went unreturned. So far the Kerry campaign is
>staying clear of this story. When called for a comment, a press officer at
>the Democratic National Committee claimed on Tuesday that it was "the first
>time" they'd ever heard of the issue. A spokeswoman at the press office of
>Kerry headquarters refused to permit me to talk with anyone in the
>campaign's research office. Several other requests for comment to the Kerry
>campaign's press office went unanswered.
>
>As for whether we really do have a Milli Vanilli president, the answer at
>this point has to be, God only knows.
posted on October 8, 2004 08:45:38 AMAs for whether we really do have a Milli Vanilli president, the answer at this point has to be, God only knows.
Girl you know it's true......
Well we all know what happened to one member of Milli Vanilli.....
There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
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Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declares: "the area… that coalition forces control… happens not to be the area where weapons of mass destruction were dispersed. We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."
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posted on October 8, 2004 09:22:51 AMit could be his bra strap.
Do you mean the "bro" or the "manzier"?
As a side note for those who like conspiracy theories, the History Channel has a new show that starts tonight on conspiracies. The first show will be about TWA Flight 800.
There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
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Let's have a BBQ, Texas style, ROAST BUSH
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On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declares: "the area… that coalition forces control… happens not to be the area where weapons of mass destruction were dispersed. We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."
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posted on October 8, 2004 10:03:30 AM
If he was in fact wired, it obviously didn't help. I doubt Rove was able to speak slowly enough for him to get the messages.
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Dick Cheney: "I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11..."
posted on October 8, 2004 10:24:10 AM
Maggie, you know I believe the Bush Gang of Girlie men will stop at nothing to win this election including trying to buy a stairway to Heaven. Bush,and his gang are all Girlie men they all ducked out of fighting in Viet Nam. The good news is I heard a Bush campaign guy named Tucker something BOOED AND LAUGHED AT on CNN by everyday Americans. The Bush/Cheney lies and failed policies have caught up with them.
IRAQ 1067 DEAD AMERICAN TROOPS STILL COUNTING WITH NO END INSIGHT.
posted on October 8, 2004 02:32:29 PM
good 'conspiracy' theory, but that kind of inductor to 'push to talk' is more like 70's technology. In the 21st century, they have TINY 'inductors' and it wouldn't be strapped on his back, and we now have; voice recognition technology. (and the Gov't? they would have the best and latest)
If there IS anything there, its more like the bullet proof vest he and Kerry have to wear.
Well, aren't they both going to be standing and walking around on tonights debate, get a pic, or look close again
posted on October 9, 2004 10:29:28 AM
Possible explanation from a Woody Allen short story called Remembering Needleman.
"I can still see him with his crumpled suit and grey sweater. Preoccupied with weighty matters he frequently would forget to remove the coat hanger from his jacket while he wore it."
