Was Bush wired for the debate?

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/11/1097406493527.html

US President George Bush's campaign team have played down reports that the president was fitted with a transmitter to allow him to receive help during a televised debate.

During the public discussion with presidential opponent Senator John Kerry, an apparent bulge could be seen in the middle of Mr Bush's back under his suit jacket.

A number of internet sites have claimed that the president was wearing a device that allowed an adviser to feed him answers to questions during the debate last week.

It was also alleged that on several occasions Bush stopped speaking for a period and stared ahead as if listening to a voice.

Other reports suggested the president could have been wearing a bullet-proof vest.

Dave Lindorff, a reporter with the news and current affairs website Salon.com, was one of the first to suggest the apparent bulge could be a device.
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I don't know how seriously to take this claim. Any more information pro or con?
 
Why would there have to be a buldge? There've been wireless receivers that fit right inside the ear for years. I believe Randi even caught a faith healer type using one once.
 
We all know the bulge is really Dick Cheney's neuro-control transmitter which guides the president to war.

This is why the Bush team is so much better than Kerry: technology. Kerry resorted to crib notes during the first debate while Bush used state of the art audio and mind control equipment thats larger than a cellphone from the 1980s attached directly to his back.
 
I've seen this rumor a while, and for the life of me the only question that comes to mind is, "WHO $%^&ING CARES???"
 
Why wear it there? Why not in his belt?

Bad tailoring. But it's always interesting to see just how many will believe the worst.
 
no candidate would risk being caught with a wire, you would instantly lose any chance of winning the presidency and tarnish your party for years.

silly rumor.
 
This is the stupidest conspiracy theory ever.

Did anyone actually listen to Bush's responses in the debates? Hey, I'm a Bush supporter, and even I think his answers sucked. If he was being fed through a wire, whoever it was feeding him answers, THEY NEED TO FIRE THAT GUY!

:D
 
Luke T. said:
This is the stupidest conspiracy theory ever.

Did anyone actually listen to Bush's responses in the debates? Hey, I'm a Bush supporter, and even I think his answers sucked. If he was being fed through a wire, whoever it was feeding him answers, THEY NEED TO FIRE THAT GUY!

:D
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In all seriousness, there was that very odd point in the middle of one of Bush's responses where he says" Wait, let me finish" although neither Kerry nor Lehrer said anything.
 
zakur said:
In all seriousness, there was that very odd point in the middle of one of Bush's responses where he says" Wait, let me finish" although neither Kerry nor Lehrer said anything.
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That's not particularly indicative of anything...It might've looked like one of them was about to interrupt. Happens to me all the time.
 
True, Cleon. At one point, Bush even said that Kerry "was looking at me like my clock was up."
 
I don't understand why so many here seem to dismiss the very idea that Bush might be wired without much consideration at all.
He may or may not be - I'm not sure myself - but at least there are some odd things here worth considering.

Look at this picture from the second debate. He clearly does have something on his back. I don't see how this one could be a wardrobe malfunction.

And Salon had an article about it a couple of days ago in which a "spyware expert" said of the mysterious bulge that
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.
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Also, there is this odd clip from an earlier Bush appearence in which a second voice seems to say Bushs words before he does himself.

None of this is proves anything. But it's at least suspicious.
 
mbp said:
Look at this picture from the second debate. He clearly does have something on his back. I don't see how this one could be a wardrobe malfunction.
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Why not? The question is: Where did it go (or how did it appear, depending on which pic was taken first) from picture 1 to picture 2?

ehhhh.........the two pictures are from the same debate, right?

mbp said:
Also, there is this odd clip from an earlier Bush appearence in which a second voice seems to say Bushs words before he does himself.
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I am not sure of this clip. Does it show (or "sound") on the soundtrack of the network broadcast debate?

At any rate, I would still want to know: Why on his back? Why not clipped to his belt?
 
mbp said:
Look at this picture from the second debate. He clearly does have something on his back. I don't see how this one could be a wardrobe malfunction.

And Salon had an article about it a couple of days ago in which a "spyware expert" said of the mysterious bulge that
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First one looks like his colar bones jutting out. Second one looks like a fold in the jacket.

1) Doesn't look like anything but what I mentioned
2) the location is the most retarded place to put an electornic device, especially with the belt loop 8 inches away in an area where it wouldn't have been seen.
3) He didn't perform well enough to justify saying he was being fed lines.


I suppose he could have gone to great lengths to have Corky put his colar bone shaped listening device on, then feed him lines, but I doubt it.
 
CFLarsen said:

ehhhh.........the two pictures are from the same debate, right?
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No, they are not. This one is from the second debate.



I am not sure of this clip. Does it show (or "sound") on the soundtrack of the network broadcast debate?
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I don't understand your question.
The clip is from Bush speaking sometime during the 60-year d-day celebrations earlier this year. The sound is as it was broadcast on CNN. (Or so it is claimed. I obviously didn't see or record this on CNN.)


At any rate, I would still want to know: Why on his back? Why not clipped to his belt?
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No idea. Maybe the receiver needs to be very close to the transmitter?
 
Ok... for another ridiculous twist in the conspiracy theory...

What if the evil puppet masters PUT the big square box on his back on purpose, just so that interest in the idea of Bush being wired would focus on that, and be easily brushed aside?

Kind of like that time in Chicago when a cop allegedly dressed in a bunny suit to beat up a suspect, so that nobody would believe the story.
 
1) Doesn't look like anything but what I mentioned
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He's got some oddly shaped collarbones connected by some rectangular thing then, but ok.
It could also be something entirely different such as a heart rate monitor I suppose.


2) the location is the most retarded place to put an electornic device, especially with the belt loop 8 inches away in an area where it wouldn't have been seen.
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It does indeed seem odd that they couldn't come up with something that was harder to detect. That's also my biggest problem with this "conspiracy theory".


3) He didn't perform well enough to justify saying he was being fed lines.
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Speaking and listening at the same time isn't an easy thing to do, I would imagine. Bush does, in my opinion, seem to pause very often and at odd moments when he speaks. This might be the reason why.
 
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