On 4 Oct 2004, at 6:56 pm, Dave Land wrote:
On Oct 3, 2004, at 3:24 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Erik wrote:
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 04:37:38PM -0500, Robert G. Seeberger wrote:http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=3562
During the Presidential Debate Bush made what may be his most costly error- he exposed that he’s using an earpiece to help him answer debate questions.
In the middle of an answer bush said, "now let me finish" as if
someone was interrupting him - yet nobody did - he was talking to the
person in his earpiece.
When I heard that, my guess was that Kerry made had just made some contrary facial expression or hand motion (I couldn't see Kerry when Bush made the comment).
Did anyone who COULD see Kerry notice what Kerry did just before Bush's
remark?
I don't suppose that that is out of the question, but unless Bush actually glanced over at Kerry it's hard to believe that he saw a gesture.
I can't get to the video, apparently CSPAN is pretty popular at the moment, is there another site that has the video avalilable?
From the CSPAN video, it doesn't appear that he was talking to Kerry, but to the host. I don't know which camera was covering him at that moment, but It appeared to be pretty close to straight in front of Bush's podium, which would have put it somewhere behind the host, audience-right. In my experience (I've worked in live TV), people who speak to their earpiece generally address a point above and behind themselves on the side in which the earpiece is installed, usually the right. When bush points to whomever it is he's addressing, it seems to be directly below the camera. If he wanted to address Kerry, he would have pointed off-camera, frame-right.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/08/bulge/
Salon has an article discussing the 'mystery bulge' under Bush's suit between his shoulder blades during the debate.
"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."
"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.
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