Watch Bush BLATANTLY Listen to His Earwig During the Q&A >>>

[Stephanie]

He is totally listening to his earpiece for the answers. I missed the PC this morning but saw an excerpt tonight on the Newshour. It is OBVIOUS that he is being fed the answers. Watch as he hems and haws, waiting to be fed his line. Watch as he looks down at the podium but does not read his notes - he is STALLING while the answer is given to him. It is well known the entire WH is totally scripted. Why would they take a chance on a press conference? Watch George. When he is really stuck he dips his head, leans both hands on the podium and shakes his head back and forth while he's listening. Then he spews forth his lines before he fully comprehends them. The pauses are off, the phrasing, the emphasis. Watch him search for the word "Constitution." Watch him sputter. George did not do this press conference on his own. And who would expect anything more, from the most stage-managed president in history?

But I want to know: WHO fed him his lines? Karl was sitting in the audience. Was it Scotty? Karen?

Who is the Voice in the Earwig?

Who Is Prompting the President?

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This was the best link I could find, although it's only to one segment of the Q&A. If anyone has a link to the whole Q&A that would be great.

Link to video >

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/bushpressconfquestion1dec1905.wmv

found in this thread - thanks! >

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5637411


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the segment from the Newshour where it was most apparent:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec05/nsa_12-19.html

REPORTER: And why did you skip the basic safeguards of asking courts for permission for the intercepts?

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Well, I -- first of all I -- right after Sept. 11, I knew we were fighting a different kind of war, and so I asked people in my administration to analyze how best for me and our government to do the job people expect us to do, which is to detect and prevent a possible attack. That's what the American people want.

We looked at the possible scenarios, and the people responsible for helping us protect and defend came forth with the current program because it enables us to move faster and quicker. And that's important.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: I -- you know, I swore to uphold the laws. Do I have the legal authority to do this? And the answer is absolutely. As I mentioned in my remarks, the legal authority is derived from the Constitution as well as the authorization of force by the United States Congress.

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some history:


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_10/004835.php

October 4, 2004

THE EARPIECE....The internet is your go-to medium for news of the weird, and this weekend's clear winner in the world of weird speculation was the buzz about George Bush's earpiece.

It all started when Bush looked up halfway though an answer during Thursday's debate and snapped petulantly, "Let me finish." This is a trademark Bush line and normally wouldn't draw any comment except for one thing: no one had interrupted him. He had plenty of time left, Kerry hadn't said anything, and Jim Lehrer hadn't said anything either. So who was he talking to?

The theory making the rounds is that he was wearing an implanted earpiece of some kind and was reacting to advice from whatever handler was on the other end. The hard evidence for this is approximately zero, but it did bring back memories of an odd incident a few months ago: Bush was at a press conference with Jacques Chirac and really was wearing an earpiece, and it appeared that his responses to questions were being fed to him a few moments before the words came out of his mouth. You could hear it on every network that carried the event.

And for even more weirdness, there's the mystery of the strange lump in the back of his jacket. It's been there before at press conferences, and it was there again at the debate (Digby has a picture). What is it?

Weird, weird, weird. But I'm sure there's a good explanation that doesn't involve tinfoil hats. Comments are open.
—Kevin Drum 1:19 AM Permalink | Comments (246)

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[kaygore]

1. Isn't it obvious who??!! Satan!

[Gman]

2. Just like the debates last year

He starts talking before he fully undertands what he's hearing in the earpiece. Its very plain ot see.

[Stephanie]

3. Very obvious if you're looking for it.

Just watch the video again with this in mind and it's plain as day.

[BuyingThyme]

15. Look at #14 below, Stephanie.

I noticed too. We can take this somewhere. (Perhaps Media Matters or something.)

[kath]

25. heck, just like the debates in **2000**. He's been doing this for a long

time.

[FreedomAngel82]

30. Yep

Remember when he out of nowhere spoke "let me finish"? I remember that and the look of confusement of Kerry and the moderator.

[liveoaktx]

34. ALL the questions are on CanOFun-link here

VIDEOS

Now, you'll have to cross reference them with the text to find what you want;, ie, either go back to the link you cited above or look on the White house website to find the text. I split up each one but the initial question asked is in the description of the video.

[Stephanie]

36. thank you!

:loveya:

[azureblue]

4. I'd love to know what band

he is getting his prompts from. find the frequency, make a highly directional antenna, and, in the middle of a speech, broadcast something like "Bush, this is God, & I'm pissed at you."

[Ezlivin]

5. What band? I think it's the Cluless Chimpz, a political rap band

Not exactly a band.

More like a gang.

Word.

[existentialist]

7. Yes, best idea I've heard all day!

except maybe impeachment.

[lonestarnot]

6. The reporter stood up... he was addressing her with "let me finish"

I also wondered the same thing, but the camera panned to her and she had stood back up, maybe gesturing or shaking her head or something.

[Jade Fox]

8. The looking down is very suspicious....

When people are thinking something over (like how to respond to a question) they invariably roll their eyes upward and/or look up.
Apparently, simply rolling your eyes up gives you better access to your right brain, or something like that. Watch people, and you'll see that they do it every time.

Looking down is a hiding gesture.

[Stephanie]

11. Or a listening gesture

Listen right now to traffic or whatever is outside your window. Where does your gaze go?

[Jade Fox]

20. You're right! n/t

[CoffeeCat]

9. Ok, I just have to say this...

...Junior may be an evil, sociopathic, malcontented misfit. However, it really must take some skill to listen to lines and then speak them--as if they are your own.

I feel a bit icky--complimenting this piece of human garbage--but it can't be easy to pull this off. He doesn't do it perfectly. Some people can tell, if they really pay attention. Still, he manages to pull this off.

For someone to have this skill--means that they've been practicing, for many years. Probably decades.

I imagine this halfwit has been fed lines most of his political life. He's used to giving speeches this way. Furthermore, I would guess that the same person has been feeding him his lines lo these many years. He's got a rhythm going with someone and they've got this down to a science.

My guess is that Rove is the bug in his ear. That's why Bush is so dependent on him.

Has anyone ever seen Rove during one of the speeches in which Bush appears to be fed lines? My guess is, no.

[Stephanie]

13. It wasn't Rove today.

Rove was in the audience today. And it's not such a great skill. It was just demonstrated successfully on America's Top Model, when the poor girl could not remember her lines for the commercial and was fed them one by one by the director. Marlon Brando notoriously used and earwig in his later years because he was incapable of learning his lines. It's for the lazy and the idiotic. It does not take great skill.

[CoffeeCat]

10. self delete, duplicate

...

[lonestarnot]

12. Red Rover was supposedly on the floor, couldn't have been him.

[BuyingThyme]

14. You are right. And I can prove it (kinda). LOOK:

I noticed somebody fed him a line which ended with the word "sources" and he misheard and used the word "uses" in an inexplicable context. He quickly received a repeat of the line and corrected it.

Did you guys catch that?

I saw it clear as day.

EDIT:

THE PRESIDENT: Oh, I got you. Yes, sorry. No, I'm not going to talk about that, because it would help give the enemy notification and/or, perhaps, signal to them methods and uses and sources.

[Stephanie]

16. Here is the transcript >

Can you find it in here? I wish we had more video. PM me if you need a password for WaPo or go to www.bugmenot.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/19/AR2005121900375.html?sub=AR

Is this it? >

BUSH: You asked a multiple-part question.

QUESTION: Yes, I did.

BUSH: Thank you for violating the multiple-part question rule.

QUESTION: I didn't know there was a law on that.

(LAUGHTER)

BUSH: There's not a law.

(LAUGHTER)

It's an executive order.

(LAUGHTER)

In this case, not monitored by the Congress.

(LAUGHTER)

Nor is there any administrative oversight.

(LAUGHTER)

QUESTION: Well, without breaking any laws, back on domestic spying. Making the case for that, can you give us some example...

BUSH: Oh, I got you. Yes, sorry.

No, I'm not going to talk about that, because it would help give the enemy notification and/or perhaps signal to them methods and uses and sources. And we're not going to do that.

It's really important for people to understand that the protection of sources and the protections of methods and how we use information to understand the nature of the enemy is secret.

And the reason it's secret is because, if it's not secret, the enemy knows about it, and if the enemy knows about it, it adjusts.

And, again, I want to repeat what I said about Osama bin Laden, the man who ordered the attack that killed 3,000 Americans.

[BuyingThyme]

18. I found it on the other post and added it to my post (#14).

[BuyingThyme]

23. It's at about 3:30 on this video clip:

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/bushpressconfquestion14dec1905.wmv

[Stephanie]

26. and the people responsible for helping us

uh protectndefend

[BuyingThyme]

27. Tinfoil perhaps, but I've been reviewing this clip

and it looks to me like they repeatedly fed him follow-up lines to try to explain why he used the word "uses" out of context. (For instance, see 4:30.)

[Stephanie]

45. I can't look at video on this computer

I hope someone else will take a look and tell us what they think...

[helderheid]

17. It was obvious to me too - forgot to mention it here.

[Stephanie]

19. It was so obvious the second I saw it

I was following the posts today but could not watch. But I was laughing out loud at the gym, watching the Newshour. It is BLATANT. He is not that good an actor.

[helderheid]

21. if it was obvious to us... :)

[Stephanie]

43. then?

not following you...

[gulfcoastliberal]

22. Check this out:

Sunnyvale, CA— Regal Electronics has added a new micro speaker to its product line that is a little over a half inch in diameter yet can handle up to a watt of peak input power. The new speaker has a frequency range of 600Hz to 20KHz. The speaker is especially suited for portable applications such as PDAs, cellular phones, medical devices, modems, and games, where extended frequency range, high power and high efficiency are of real benefit to design engineers. Sensitivity is excellent too, at 82dB. The micro speaker is constructed with a metal frame and Mylar diaphragm.

Source: http://www.regalusa.com/new_micro_speaker_line.html

And that's just the commercial stuff. I'm sure Bushler gets something even smaller.

[Stephanie]

24. It's commonly used in filming -

and Bush's production team comes out of television. No doubt they are using this technology.

[kittykitty]

33. Here's this-Dr Phil used a smaller-than-a-kidney bean-size receiver to

feed lines to a girl on a date so she could find out about the man without asking stupid, inefficient questions. It was flesh colored, rubbery material so tiny I'm surprised it didn't get lost in the ear. But Dr Phil whispered a question, and the young woman immediatly asked it of the date. I immediatly thought, "that's what bush must wear".

[Stephanie]

35. and she learned to do it on one try

it's not so hard. it's a lot easier than learning complicated responses about policy.

[kittykitty]

37. It was effortless! Of course she was probably smarter. nt

[gulfcoastliberal]

39. If we had a real media, they'd have revealed his use of the device in 04

during the debates. But we have a state run media, serving Bush & the RW.

Thanks for the info about the Dr. Phil device. I'd have never known about it!

[Stephanie]

40. Maybe the media is seeing the error of their ways

I think Judith Miller opened a few eyes. Maybe we can expect better of the media from now on.

[gulfcoastliberal]

42. The fact the NYT held the story of the illegal wiretaps for a year isn't

encouraging. We shall see, but I think they'll keep up the shilling when they should be shouting for impeachment. I did hear the "I" word on NPR ATC today, though. Once. Briefly.

[Stephanie]

46. the fact that they finally ARE reporting the stories they should have been

encourages me - now will they take another look at this one?

[Catrina]

28. I remember reading that the NYT withheld

the story about the 'bulge' under Bush's jacket in the debates being a listening device.

Here is one article on that:


Foreign Press Foundation
BUSH AND 'BULGEGATE' - PLAY IT BY EARPIECE?
Mon Feb 7, 2005 05:43


"There was nothing under his suit jacket," Nicolle Devenish, the Bush campaign's communications director, told the New York Times newspaper.
The NYT did not print the truth.

by Henk Ruyssenaars

FPF-07-02-2005 - FAIR, the american organization for 'Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting' published last Saturday a story called "The Emperor's New Hump"
about how The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election: ''because it could have changed the election''.

The NYT apparently had proof that George Bush in the presidential candidate debates illegally used an earpiece, which should have disqualified him in the race for the presidency, as the FPF already wrote earlier on 10-10-2004.*

A clearly on TV and in pictures visible bulge, and wires on the back of Pres. George W Bush during the TV debates with John Kerry, confirmed that he - contrary to the rules - was wired to get outside help. Specialist said the apparent bulge was a radio receiver feeding him answers from an offstage aide.

The Bush campaign managers - by lying - tried to dismiss the claims, saying' it was just a wrinkle in the presidential jacket': a question of tailoring.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=104&topic_id=5642354&mesg_id=5642354

That 'liberal' newspaper, the NYT, once again helps out the Bush administration!! Between Judy Miller, Jason Blair, the 'bulge' story, and now the withholding of the Bush administration spying on US citizens story, how can anyone, ever again, trust that paper to do its job and simply report the news?

[Angry Girl]

31. ARTICLE: NYT Killed Bush's Bulge Story & Changed the Elections

The Emperor's New Hump

The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election —-
because it could have changed the election

By Dave Lindorff

In the weeks leading up to the November 2 election, the New York Times was abuzz with excitement. Besides the election itself, the paper’s reporters were hard at work on two hot investigative projects, each of which could have a major impact on the outcome of the tight presidential race.

One week before Election Day, the Times (10/25/04) ran a hard-hitting and controversial exposé of the Al-Qaqaa ammunition dump—identified by U.N. inspectors before the war as containing 400 tons of special high-density explosives useful for aircraft bombings and as triggers for nuclear devices, but left unguarded and available to insurgents by U.S. forces after the invasion.

On Thursday, just three days after that first exposé, the paper was set to run a second, perhaps more explosive piece, exposing how George W. Bush had worn an electronic cueing device in his ear and probably cheated during the presidential debates.

continued...
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2012

[Stephanie]

32. there you go. they continue to get away with it -

because they continue to get away with it.

[FreedomAngel82]

29. He can't even memorize the talking points?

They're the same question's and answer's all the time and he can't remember it? How pathetic! What is wrong with this fool? The press is in his pocket and he's still pathetic!

[Stephanie]

44. Nope - talking points are Hard Work!

and as we know he's allergic.

[fooj]

38. What klills me is his "shameless" act routine.

What a prick. Wonder what he thinks about outing a covert CIA agent...:grr:

Peace.

[Montauk6]

41. An earwig on a bald head, what a concept!

[Stephanie]

47. kick!

Thanks for bringing this up again, brainshrub!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5658903

[BuyingThyme]

48. kcik