Bush using Wireless to perform in Debate?

The left is in melt-down mode..

Published on October 12, 2004 By ShadowWar In Democrat

Thanks to my buddy Andy for pointing this one out to me. This is a typical example of how badly the left is melting down and grasping at straws. Don't you think the man in charge of the most advanced nation in the world, with access to all the CIA, DOD, NSA and other technology would do a little better than use a common wireless system if he was going to do this? Maybe a descrete in the ear only, transmitter/ Receiver?

Was Bush packing Wi-Fi in TV debate?
By Thomas C Greene
Published Tuesday 12th October 2004 09:58 GMT
Opinion Wireless technology might explain why US President George W. Bush performed better than usual in the last two presidential debates with his opponent, Senator John Kerry.

Unless he's reading a well-rehearsed speech, the President is normally much given to malapropisms and incoherent syntax. When confronted with questions for which he is not prepared, he typically muddles along unintelligibly when starting a reply, until he finds a path to one of his prepared talking points, as he repeatedly did during his televised prime-time press conference of 13 April 2004. It is not unusual for him to take refuge in his prepared points, regardless of what question is asked, and his answers are often irrelevant as well as confused. That is, he tends to stay "on message," rather than "on topic".

Yet, during both presidential debates, he miraculously spoke in clear, organized sentences that were fairly relevant to the questions asked. He stumbled only occasionally, and then only briefly. The public has declared Kerry the winner of both debates - the first by a wide margin, and the second by a narrow one - but it is undeniable that the President far exceeded his baseline performance when confronting the unexpected. Or, said another way, he may have looked bad in comparison to Kerry, but he looked very good in comparison to himself.

Bush's bulge

Interestingly, screen shots of the first debate, courtesy of Cryptome, show a cigarette-pack-sized object positioned between Bush's shoulders, impressing itself on his suit jacket. A wire appears to run from the object, up towards the President's neck. This is best seen in the first column, fourth picture, and in the second column, fourth picture. (Note: The Register has not verified the authenticity of these images. They appear to come from a C-SPAN feed, but we cannot vouch for that.)

The impression is consistent with common wireless gear used by public speakers and entertainers, enabling a remote coach to offer prompts and suggestions. Typically, a rig consists of a wireless radio transmitter used by the coach, and a wireless transceiver used by the speaker. For stealth, the transceiver is concealed under clothing, and connected to a flexible wire device encircling the neck and worn under the shirt, which generates a signal picked up by a wireless receiver within the ear canal, much like a small hearing aid, and virtually invisible.

Additional evidence
The pictures might be suggestive, if not conclusive, but they are not the only evidence suggesting that Bush enjoyed the benefit of a wireless hookup. The very fact that he rarely stumbled or babbled itself suggests that something extraordinary was afoot. And there were a couple of moments in both debates where Bush's behavior is best explained by presuming a remote coach.

In the first debate, during a reply to Kerry, he ranted, "Let me finish!" Oddly, neither his opponent, Senator Kerry, nor the moderator, Jim Lehrer, was attempting to cut him off, and he had plenty of time left on the clock. One explanation is that he was disoriented and confused, as he often is without a script. But a somewhat better explanation, in view of the pictures and his sudden debating competence, is that he was addressing not his opponent or the moderator, but a remote coach who had prompted him to move on to a fresh topic before he was ready to do so.

In the second debate, Bush went off the rails, again in a way that suggests remote coaching. According to the rules, each candidate answers questions in turn. The one to whom the question is addressed gets two minutes to reply, and his opponent gets ninety seconds to rebut. At the moderator's discretion, there may be a one-minute extension, providing each candidate an additional thirty seconds on each question.

At one point, when Bush had taken a question, and Kerry had delivered a spirited rebuttal, moderator Charlie Gibson decided to extend the session. But he had trouble getting the words out, as Bush leapt up and leaned into his face, repeatedly demanding the very extension that Gibson was attempting, without success, to offer him.

Kerry: "We're gonna build alliances; we're not gonna go unilaterally [into war]; we're not gonna go alone, like this President did."

Gibson: "Mr. President, let's extend for one minute..."

Bush: "Lemme just one question; I, I gotta answer this."

Gibson: "Exactly, and with reservists being held on duty..."

Bush: "Let, let me just answer this, what he said about goin' alone."

Gibson: "Well, I wanted to get into the issue."

Bush: "You tell Tony Blair we're goin' alone. Tell Tony Blair we're goin' alone. Tell Servio Belisconi we're goin' alone..."

A fair reading of the scene would have Bush's remote coach urging him to respond at that moment, with enough vehemence to distract the President from what was happening right before his eyes. "You've got to respond to that - you can't let it go. He's insulting our allies," we can imagine the coach saying. And we can imagine Bush getting flustered to the point that he failed to grasp what the moderator was trying to tell him.

Detection
Technologically speaking, it would be painfully easy for Bush to have received remote, wireless guidance during the debates. But whether he would risk pulling such a cheesy stunt is less clear. Bush may be a generous risk-taker when it comes to spilling other people's blood in Iraq, but when his own political career is at stake, he tends to play a very cautious, conservative game. If the scam were ever exposed, he would certainly lose votes that, in such a tight race, he knows he can't afford to squander. A mere pat on the back from Kerry after a debate would suffice to reveal the game.

There are other ways, too. Surveillance specialist James Atkinson has written a good generic description of the wireless device that Bush would likely have been connected to, along with a list of the radio frequencies that such devices typically employ.

All that remains is for Kerry to pat Bush down during the next debate, or for some enterprising geek to use Atkinson's information to intercept the President's coaching session, and record it. In the interest of public disclosure, we note that the final presidential debate will be held on Wednesday, 13 October on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, at the Gammage Auditorium, located on the northeast corner of Mill Avenue and Apache Boulevard.

Not that we're suggesting anything.

LOL I got a real kick of this article. Keep trying left! You may just sit in a corner and suck your thumb begore you push yourself in a self destructive frenzy.

Comments (Page 3)

drmiler

on Oct 13, 2004

Reply #30 By: Myrrander - 10/13/2004 1:19:25 PM
somebody on another thread said it was his Duracell battery...which I thought was incredibly funny

Yeah. He just keeps going and going.........

shadesofgrey

on Oct 13, 2004

somebody on another thread said it was his Duracell battery...which I thought was incredibly funny

Edwards said that on the Leno show last night.

Myrrander

on Oct 13, 2004

thx I didn't know that

Deference

on Oct 13, 2004

How about this since you are so hard up to know, find a Whacked Out Scientist who has tricked out a De Lorean, go back in time and go there!!

Yep, that's what I thought. Thanks anyway.

Abe Cubbage

on Oct 13, 2004

If you fold the new $20 bill in a certain way you get a very detailed picture of the twin towers attack and if you fold it another way it shows the pentagon attack.

Coincidence or conspiracy?

(this thread is even more amusing than the one about kerry)

COL Gene

on Oct 13, 2004

No matter what Bush used, he could not provide good answers to the questions asked of him. He has been in the White House almost 4 years. He must be a slow lerner.

sandy2

on Oct 13, 2004

If you fold the new $20 bill in a certain way you get a very detailed picture of the twin towers attack and if you fold it another way it shows the pentagon attack.

If I remember correctly, there is another bill thats like that?

Patriot_Flamethrower

on Oct 13, 2004

Who the hell is this Thomas C. Greene anyway, and WHY hasn't somebody put a BULLET in his thick skull?

This SOB is nothing more than a bed-wetting, booger-eating Stalinist who should be tossed into a 6 x 6 cell with his Al Qaeda friends in Guantanamo.

Deference

on Oct 13, 2004

Coincidence or conspiracy?

I remember a friend of mine showing me that trick. When it's folded correctly, the trees look like the smoke coming out of the "twin towers". The story was that someone in the Treasury dept. knew of the govt. plot that would be used to justify certain actions. Pretty unlikely, but incredible coincidence when you see the trick...

Silver_and_Jade_Tears

on Oct 13, 2004

Yet, during both presidential debates, he miraculously spoke in clear, organized sentences that were fairly relevant to the questions asked. He stumbled only occasionally, and then only briefly

Hmmm...maybe he...ya know...PRACTISED BECAUSE HE KNEW PUBLIC SPEAKING IS A PERSONAL WEAKNESS...oh I forgot...he doesn't think he has any weaknesses, just like he doesn't think that he has made any mistakes...

sandy2

on Oct 13, 2004

go here
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/20bill.htm

eieio

on Oct 15, 2004

I had seen this in the Dallas News right after the debate with the 'mystery' bulge

Georges de Paris, who made the suit worn by Bush, said the bulge was nothing more than a pucker along the jacket's back seam, accentuated when the president crossed his arms and leaned forward.

This particular quote is from the Seattle Times Oct 9 issue.

Peter the great

on Oct 16, 2004

i consider myself a democrat, and i could care less if he gets help
does anyone really care? do you know the risk if he were caught? it would probably cost him the election
it's unlikely he's in communication with anyone in this spot

personally, i would like to see Nader our next president, but it's highly unlikely
do i want W re-elected, no
but my life is going well, and i'm content

if Jeb's brother is re-elected, the country will survive
if we can survive a war, in which 15x times as many died as Vietnam [the Civil War], we can overcome almost anything

i think time will tell Bushs' tail
is Kerry perfect? of course not
he's like many other dems and republicans [he's a lawyer, and a politcian]

pete

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