IS THAT A BULGE

[Misteraven]

http://salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/08/bulge/index_np.html

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

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?

[diggity]

heres the subscriber version aka the whole article.

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

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.

salon.com

[niseNSF]

yeah BBC world was running this down last night on NPR....i doubt it was a prompting device, but its crazy the white house is saying "its just a rumple in his suit"...when its clearly a perfect rectangle.

they only feed Blogger conspiracy theorys by denying that it is anything at all... but you know damn well after the CBS Blog fiasco, no networks gonna jump on this at all.

the more credible answers suggested on BBC were that its most like related to security, like a vest or a gps, something to protect or locate him at all times. id buy that before a prompting device.....even Karl Rove wouldnt take that risk...if it came out, it would collapse a campaign theyre most likely going to win.

[diggity]

it doesnt help that when speaking before a lady's voice was clearly heard over the microphone telling him what to say.

[fermentor666]

Bush is a puppet. Laura Bush is the real communist mastermind.

[SteveAustin]

whoa.
this is the first I've heard of this.

I love how the administration tries jedi mind tricks.

'That is not a rectangle...it is merely a rumple in his suit'

ha-ha...what are you...some stinking jedi?

edit for sp.

[KING BLING]

Originally posted by diggity@Oct 11 2004, 01:32 PM
it doesnt help that when speaking before a lady's voice was clearly heard over the microphone telling him what to say.
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Care to expand on this point and give some sources? I looked around and did see a few mentions on Indy media sites but nothing concrete from a reputable source. Also, can you tell what is being said?

[SteveAustin]

^ yeah...I was kinda wondering about that as well.

[crave]

well damn, I hadn't heard about this.

but I wouldn't be surprised at all if it was somehow proven to be true.

[SteveAustin]

I'm not surprised about much anymore...especially the bush administration.

I find that kinda disappointing.

[Nekro]

I don't really believe this, if only based on the absolutely retarded answers he gave to most of the questions.

[POIESIS]

Originally posted by Nekro@Oct 11 2004, 04:11 PM
I don't really believe this, if only based on the absolutely retarded answers he gave to most of the questions.
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yea, and i don't think he'd be able to handle something like that anyhow,
it would confuse him.

[Jimmy Jump]

audio clip. http://bellaciao.org (http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=3562)

[ledzep]

pimple.

[why write?]

damn this thread isnt what i expected it to be :heated:


* emotions is spelled wrong in the smilie pop up window on fast reply 'emoticons'

[porque]

...yeah i don't buy it...they would have just kept saying, "jesus...why the fuck did you just mention poland again?...even the stupid rednecks know that didn't count"...

[ghostvandal]

funny thing too..he said at least 100 times in his campaign that the world was safer with saddam hussein in jail...when its the complete opposite. The world has never been at risk like it is now due to the preventive war he setted on and killed thousands of innocent people. Now they are having schools in the mid east with books that says "The ossama ben laden quest: his combat against the usa terrorism..." I say KILL BUSH!

[MANOWAR]

Although i would like to think that this is true, it just does not make sense...He just comes off as such a repiative mush-mouthed tool, if it is true the transmitter is probaly just hooked up to his butthole.

[diggity]

Originally posted by KING BLING+Oct 11 2004, 05:52 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (KING BLING - Oct 11 2004, 05:52 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-diggity@Oct 11 2004, 01:32 PM
it doesnt help that when speaking before a lady's voice was clearly heard over the microphone telling him what to say.
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Care to expand on this point and give some sources? I looked around and did see a few mentions on Indy media sites but nothing concrete from a reputable source. Also, can you tell what is being said?
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I watched the press report where it happened, i heard it, cant really tell you when it was but it was in the last year.

more than likly, that hump on his back is a kevlar vest, this isnt the 80's, electronics are alot smaller now.

[Weapon X]

dude, Karl Rove isn't that dumb. If he was talking to anyone, it wasn't Rove, because Rove would be like "fuck you, man - I can see that rectangle from here! I'm having nothing to do with this."

It was probably Jeb Bush constantly reminding him to not scowl.

[imported_El Mamerro]

You guys are all tripping. That isn't a transmitter.

The bulge is obviously the key which, when turned, makes Bush crash his cymbals together.

[diggity]

Originally posted by El Mamerro@Oct 12 2004, 01:57 PM
You guys are all tripping. That isn't a transmitter.

The bulge is obviously the key which, when turned, makes Bush crash his cymbals together.
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HAHAHAHAHA

i stand corrected

[hottnickels]

i wish bush was as dumb as his detractors make him out to be..
then maybe he'd be justified in his inanity.

i totally think he has the brains to channel Rove.

think about it, the guy was born in connecticut, went to yale and harvard, dodged the draft, fucked up numerous oil companies, and still painted himself as a good ol' taxas boy.

he's not so stupid that he couldn't repeat what a transmitter told him to say.

that what makes this administration so fucking evil.
they know exactly what they're doing.
they chose their candidate well.

[diggity]

update
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/...r/index_np.html (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/13/transmitter/index_np.html)

Technical expert: Bush was wired
A Bush spokesman tells Salon there is nothing to the story. But as the final presidential debate looms, speculation grows about the mysterious bulge.


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By Dave Lindorff




Oct. 13, 2004 ***|*** Speculation continues to run wild about President Bush's mystery bulge. Since Friday, when Salon first raised questions about the rectangular bulge that was visible under Bush's suit coat during the presidential debates, many observers in the press and on the Internet have wondered aloud whether the verbally and factually challenged president might be receiving coaching via a hidden electronic device.

Now a technical expert who designs and makes such devices for the U.S. military tells Salon that he believes the bulge is indeed a transceiver designed to receive electronic signals and transmit them to a hidden earpiece lodged in Bush's ear canal.


I'll post the whole story when i get teh chance.

[sarcasm]

damn i knew bush hit some low blows, but this is just sad. poor dubya can't even think on his own, nonetheless speak the broken messages running wild in his brain/lackthereof

[SteveAustin]

the really, truly funny part of all this is just how shitty he came off with a receiver if it actually was one. ha-ha. I'm looking forward to the dumb looks via split screen.

[niseNSF]

no offense, but just because its in an article on the internet doesnt mean its credible in any way....theres just no way dude was being prompted. as someone said above, he was as dumb as always.

[hottnickels]

yeah, the photo with the huge bulge in his back must be photoshopped.

:rolleyes:

[<KEY3>]

from Dave Letterman (not directly)

Top Ten President Bush Explanations For The Bulge In His Jacket

10. "It's connected to an earpiece so Cheney can feed me answers--crap, I wasn't supposed to say that."

9. "It's a device that shocks me every time I mispronounce a word."

8. "Just a bunch of intelligence memos I haven't gotten around to reading yet."

7. "Mmm, delicious Muenster cheese."

6. "John Kerry initially voted for the bulge in my jacket, then voted against it."

5. "I'll tell you exactly what it is--it's a clear sign this econonmy is moving again."

4. "Halliburton is drilling my back for oil."

3. "Oh like you've never cheated in a presidential debate.

2. "Accidentally took some of Governer Schwarzenegger's 'roids."

1. "If Kerry's gonna look like a horse, then I'm gonna look like a camel."

[<KEY3>]

personally... I think it was a cold pack to regulate his temperature.

[mental invalid]

Originally posted by <KEY3>@Oct 14 2004, 04:25 PM
from Dave Letterman (not directly)

Top Ten President Bush Explanations For The Bulge In His Jacket

10. "It's connected to an earpiece so Cheney can feed me answers--crap, I wasn't supposed to say that."

9. "It's a device that shocks me every time I mispronounce a word."

8. "Just a bunch of intelligence memos I haven't gotten around to reading yet."

7. "Mmm, delicious Muenster cheese."

6. "John Kerry initially voted for the bulge in my jacket, then voted against it."

5. "I'll tell you exactly what it is--it's a clear sign this econonmy is moving again."

4. "Halliburton is drilling my back for oil."

3. "Oh like you've never cheated in a presidential debate.

2. "Accidentally took some of Governer Schwarzenegger's 'roids."

1. "If Kerry's gonna look like a horse, then I'm gonna look like a camel."
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too many good ones to just pick a single line...

[mental invalid]

i heard that it was a bullet proof vest....

[Sixer]

this is my first time in this forum so i'm not sure if this has already been mentioned but for all the info on this go to...


wwww.isbushwired.com

[Poop Man Bob]

It's back. From last night's debate (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/13/bulgefoto/index_np.html):

http://images.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/13/bulgefoto/story.jpg

[<KEY3>]

like there's any question:
http://www.blank-firing-guns.com/holster.jpg

[LaCosaNostra]

Originally posted by Weapon X@Oct 12 2004, 11:50 AM
dude, Karl Rove isn't that dumb. If he was talking to anyone, it wasn't Rove, because Rove would be like "fuck you, man - I can see that rectangle from here! I'm having nothing to do with this."
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hahahhahahaha thaat was fuckig awesome!!! as was the david lettermen shit, there are too many good ones to pick just one like someONE said.

[Poop Man Bob]

Maybe it's a Camelback full of sweet, sweet liquor.

[LaCosaNostra]

hahahaah a camelbak full of liquor.....but seriously, it is probably just a kevlar vest..

[<KEY3>]

I wonder if it had any link to the spittle in the corner of his mouth?
That was THE BEST thing about the whole debate. Bush looking like a mongo.

[Deist]

Is it just me or did anyone notice in the first picture that there appear's to be a tube/wire coming from the box heading towards/over his shoulder?

[Deist]

Also, it seem's to me that if you had the intent of shooting the president and you managed to get a gun into the debate you would aim at his head, not his chest. So the kevlar vest thing seems a little odd to me.

[hottnickels]

the spittle was ill.
pure comedy, and it made several appearances.

did anyone actually SEE letterman?

cuz he showed an "ad" for the debate from "cnn" (wink wink)
that said the last debate would include a special surprise guest!
they had partially obscured his face but it was clearly bin laden.

after the second debate, letterman aired an osama clip from one of his videos
with a voiceover that explained "hey dubya, i know you were supposed to capture me this friday, but i've got a whole bunch of family stuff going on that i can't get out of. how about next week? i'll call you.... ....oh, and death to amerikkka"
:haha:

[SteveAustin]

I've actually seen a few kevlar vests....and I can't say that I remember one having straps on it that would make a bulge through a jacket like that.

I think its all the puppet strings wound around the handle.

[Evoke_Me]

bush is happy, that's a fucking box

[ElectricitySucks]

3. "Oh like you've never cheated in a presidential debate."





halirous...

[FriscoGrl]

really?

[Poop Man Bob]

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20041014/capt.sge.sde08.141004220919.photo00.default-262x380.jpg

Photoshop just isn't necessary.