I just have to post this since we gave the pen story a round.

 

 

 

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

 

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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?

 

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Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

interesting.

I posted this to get back at Capefish already, but the story is getting new play because of tonights debate, so it warrants a repost. Lets see if Georgie does even worse without Rove in his ear. j/k.

Lets see if Georgie does even worse without Rove in his ear. j/k.

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Could he do much worse? What will he do, have no rebuttals?

Honestly, he was so incredibly bad in the that debate I find it hard to believe he had a wire. Never rule anything out though.

Maybe it was a bar holding him up so he didn't fall over.

bullet proof vest?

 

:confused

Yeah I noticed it during the debate but I thought he was miked up or something.

Yeah I noticed it during the debate but I thought he was miked up or something.

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Look at the lectern. See a microphone?

Yeah I noticed it during the debate but I thought he was miked up or something.

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Look at the lectern. See a microphone?

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Yeah I know but maybe I thought they would have on the jacket too just in case he didnt speak loud enough or for backup.

 

That might explain the real long pauses by Bush in the debate.

Rumor has it that the strange object Kerry took out of his pocket :shifty was actually a device to interfere with Bush's transmission... :shifty

well obviously bush wasn't wearing a wire, because it didn't help him.

haha

Yeah, but if someone killed Bush, we'd wind up with Cheney......

 

 

Talk about jumping from the frying pan into the fire.....

That bulge is about where a ceramic trauma plate insert would go on ordinary body armor.

 

I'd guess in public he's walking around with a class 3A vest when wearing a suit coat. Proabbly a 2-2A if in shirt sleaves

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Then how come the White House denied that there was a bulletproof vest under that jacket?

So what was it? Jacob McKenna, a spyware expert and the owner of the Spy Store, a high-tech surveillance shop in Spokane, Washington, 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.

 

Very interesting, especially about CNN picking up a signal while in France and also Bush's appearance at the RNC

So what was it? Jacob McKenna, a spyware expert and the owner of the Spy Store, a high-tech surveillance shop in Spokane, Washington, 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.

 

Very interesting, especially about CNN picking up a signal while in France and also Bush's appearance at the RNC

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Funny that in their denial..they dont even say what it is. At least say its a bullet proof vest.

Maybe it's his boner.

Weird place for that... :blink:

 

 

Guess it would add to the Bush is an alien theories.

just to reopen this one for no good reason...

 

 

 

Dr. Robert M. Nelson, senior research scientist for NASA and for Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an international authority on image analysis (no conspiracy theorist or midnight blogger here) says Bush was wearing a device during the debate.

 

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I will wait for Tony to make his statement to punish Bush for using a wire and not fessing up to it...

 

Oh wait it most likely won't happen...

 

Even though he isn't a Bush supporter.....

 

Go figure....

:lol :lol You guys are burned out with this election it shows :lol

 

Even me, conspiracy theory Queen, don't believe Mr. President was wired. If he was, then they did a terrible job telling him what to say. Either that or Kerry's "cheat sheet" was really an ultrasonic transmitter to interfere with George's signal...

 

See I told you I am conspiracy theory Queen. :mischief

If bush was wearing a wire he wouldnt have sucked so much and run out of material, lets stop being morons. And if it was a bulletproof vest theres security and political reasons for not sayign he was wearing one. Security reasons b/c they dont want terrorists who know about bulletproof vests to know what kind of vest he was wearing b/c then they can make adjustments to their weaponry in an assassination attempt. Second, it makes him come off as living in fear and ready for imminent danger, which doesnt correspond with his america is safer message.