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.
And
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/archive.html?blog=/politics/ war_room/2004/10/08/Bush_wire/index.html
"Rory O'Connor at Media Channel.org successfully reached Mark McKinnon, the Bush campaign's media director, for comment.
"I love this. Am tempted to say, 'I cannot confirm or deny,' and let the story get some legs," McKinnon responded by email to O'Connor's inquiry. (As a top media operative for Bush, McKinnon should probably know that the story has already run a marathon through the blogosphere.) "Or, how about, 'Since we put the metal plate in his head, we have had some measure of success with audio transmissions to the President.' Or, 'Yeah, but it clearly broke down during the debate.' Unfortunately, the truth is not nearly as interesting. The answer is, 'The President has never been assisted by any audio signal.'"
While McKinnon was not without a sense of humor in denying the existence of any audio aid, it's intriguing that he said nothing about what that odd little bulge actually might have been.
With an official denial now on record, O'Connor wonders if anyone who can prove otherwise will step forward: "Any media professionals -- like the 'top Washington editor for Reuters' who reportedly told 'isbushwired' last spring that 'Sure, Bush uses an earpiece sometimes. State of the Union -- he had an earpiece for that. Everybody knows it.' -- please identify yourselves.""
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