TranceAddict Forums (www.tranceaddict.com/forums)
- Political Discussion / Debate
-- Did Bush Have a radio receiver taped to his back On 1st Debate??
Pages (3): [1] 2 3 »
Did Bush Have a radio receiver taped to his back On 1st Debate??
| quote: |
| Bush's mystery bulge The rumor is flying around the globe. Was the president wired during the first debate? - - - - - - - - - - - - By Dave Lindorff 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? |
Sigh ... did Kerry pull out a crib sheet when he reached into his pocket to take something out when he got to the podium? The answer to both questions is no. This one is particularly ludicrous because if it were true:
A) The President went to radio shack to buy the biggest radio receiver he could find.
B) He had Cheney tape it to his back in probably the most obviously revealing spot imagineable.
C) They had Jessica Simpson coaching the president on what he should say because what he did say was worthless.
err who cares debate 2 is happening soon!
Complete article
----------------
Bush's mystery bulge
The rumor is flying around the globe. Was the president wired during the first debate?
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Dave Lindorff
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.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
About the writer
Dave Lindorff is the author of the new book "This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy." Reach him at [email protected].
Either way it didn't help him too much
Probably just the angle of the shot if you ask me.
A Milli Vanilli president lol that was funny.. If this is, indeed true, it would be largely unfair for Kerry. But hey, yall don't care! heh
XKaox.. Thanks for the article!!
Yeh this doesn't make much sense. Why would the most powerful man in the world have such a bulky receiver if he needed one? I'm sure he can get better technology than that.
But then again the rules did say the cammeras shouldn't show those angels..
Many unintelligent candidates use one.
Belinda Stronach used one during the Conservative Party leadership debates.
http://www.charlatan.ca/articles/20...ries/78211.html
| quote: |
| Originally posted by josh4 Yeh this doesn't make much sense. Why would the most powerful man in the world have such a bulky receiver if he needed one? I'm sure he can get better technology than that. But then again the rules did say the cammeras shouldn't show those angels.. |
it's a bullet-proof vest that gets crumpled in the middle as he slouches.
I have no idea...but youd think they could find a smaller one, and also even one that large could have been hidden well if it was around the small of his back.
it's body armour people. lets move on.
This should shed some light on the subject. 
| quote: |
| Originally posted by Q5echo it's body armour people. lets move on. |
no. but i wear body armour when i stand watch and it does the same thing. we have only two sizes to choose from, large and X-large, so its more pronounced if i get an X-Large.
his is probably tailored, but its still gonna fold in the back when he shrugs or slouches because the armour is about 1/4" to 3/8" inches thick and does not move like fabric.
it just makes more sense to me than a reciever.
if it was a receiver it didn't help him very much...
| quote: |
| Originally posted by Q5echo no. but i wear body armour when i stand watch and it does the same thing. we have only two sizes to choose from, large and X-large, so its more pronounced if i get an X-Large. his is probably tailored, but its still gonna fold in the back when he shrugs or slouches because the armour is about 1/4" to 3/8" inches thick and does not move like fabric. it just makes more sense to me than a reciever. |
| quote: |
The Bush campaign dismissed the claims, saying it was just a wrinkle in the presidential jacket. It also denied some web reports that Mr Bush was wearing a bullet-proof vest. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3730364.stm |
well i hope you're happy
linkage
Bush aides deny Internet rumors he was wired
Sunday, October 10, 2004 Posted: 9:31 AM EDT (1331 GMT)
What appears to be a bulge in the back of President Bush's coat prompted widespread speculation.
CHANHASSEN, Minnesota (AP) -- Bush campaign aides are laughing off widespread Internet suggestions that President Bush was wired during his first debate with John Kerry, to get help from advisers.
A photo taken during the September 30th event appears to show a small, boxy shape between the president's shoulder blades.
Musings on various Web sites suggest it could have been a radio receiver so the president's aides could feed him answers during the debate.
Spokesman Scott Stanzel calls the idea "ridiculous," and adds, "Some people have been spending too many hours looking at left-wing conspiracy Web sites."
He adds, "Did you hear the one about Elvis moderating the third debate?"
Well, if it was a reciever and they DID want to cover it up, they're moving along right on track.
well it certainly doesnt look like a wrinkle in his jacket. strange that they denied that it was a bullet proof jacket.
anyway, a radio reciever still doesnt really make sense, he was too bad, i must believe that his advicers are better than that. but perhpas not?
No one can tell for sure. It could have beem a shirt bent in a funny way.
Well, there's always rumors on internets.
I thought it was a bit strange for the 1st debate, but he wouldn't pull that shit for the 2nd debate, would he?:
Comparison between 1st and 2nd debates:
And no, these are not doctored. Sorry Repubs.
And finally, what's that behind Bush's tie (just above his left hand)?:
Interesting, ain't it?
| quote: |
| Originally posted by speedracer_mec |
| quote: |
| Originally posted by MisterOpus1 I see. So you Conservative folks can cry "conspiracy" and "bias" whenever you so please, but the reverse cannot occur against your bumbling candidate who might actually need outside help with his debates? Quite revealing, really. |
Powered by: vBulletin
Copyright © 2000-2021, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.