Reply #16: I noticed that, too. I saved some old topics about this in my journal

[highplainsdem]

because discussions of *'s earpiece tend to disappear into the archives too fast. Unfortunately a photo of * at the 2/5/04 prayer breakfast that seems to clearly show the earpiece is no longer online, so that image link in my old topic about it doesn't work, but I also had a link to another DU topic that has a blowup showing the earpiece more clearly, and you can still see that photo.

He's apparently been using an earpiece for years, judging by some articles about Karen Hughes being observed mouthing Bush's comments word for word, a half beat before he spoke, even when he was taking questions from the press in 1999 (I saved the topic on a TNR article about that in my journal, too).