If AWOL* was wired wouldn't he have sounded SMARTER?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

:shrug:

[goclark]

1. Check new thread about dementia . A must see!

[aquart]

2. Unfortunately, no.

What you have to think of are the appalling errors he would have made without the device.

[bif]

3. You'd think

That's why I doubt he was wired.

[genius]

4. No. He looked like he was about to go into a coma. At least he had

something to say thanks to the wire.

[displacedtexan]

5. Not if he has an auditory percepton problem.

What causes dyslexia and reading problems?

The main reasons for reading problems are:

1. Ineffective reading instruction
2. Auditory perception difficulties
3. Visual perception difficulties
4. Language processing difficulties

Children with auditory perception problems may have some of the
following characteristics. It is seldom, however, that we would see all these
behaviors in one individual.
The inability to
• Locate the source of a sound (localization)
• Identify specific characteristics of sound (intensity, duration, pitch,
timbre)
•Relate a sound to its symbol
• Repeat what was said without visual clues
• Follow directions without visual clues
• Recognize when a sound changes
• Identify same and different sounds
• Distinguish a specific sound from among others (figure-ground)
• Recognize previously learned auditory material when presented in a
different medium
• Integrate auditory information with other sensory data
• Comprehend words in a song

http://www.uwec.edu/rasarla/research/Adaptive_Music/Auditory_Perception.pdf

[sybylla]

6. Only if it was working

Ask any sound geek. Things that worked one minute, can suddenly and unexplicably stop working the next - AKA shit happens.

[seabeyond]

7. the first debate i think they thought they could get away with

fear, terrorist, 9/11...........POLAND

i dont think they thought they needed any more than that. the people have been letting bushie boy get away with that for four years, and especially his handpicked crowds the last year

last debate, many more words were given him

[GOPEC]

8. Larry King appearance in 2000

In a joint appearance by George and Laura Bush on Larry King in 2000 (I believe it was September 27), Bush is clearly wearing a "hearing aid." I wish I had a screen capture.

[ksoze]

9. That WAS smarter - You should see him w/o wire!

[Beetwasher]

10. No. The Earpiece Can Partially Explain His Odd Behavior and

he really is that incompetent.

His awkward pauses, his talking to his coach "Let me finish!" It's explained by the earpiece...

[Sparkly]

11. Maybe that WAS smarter.

Maybe without it, he'd have sounded even more stupid? :shrug:

[ProfessorPlum]

15. That's my theory.

And I'm sticking to it.

[Zero Gravitas]

12. He's a dumbass

nothing can change that. Just imagine how bad he would be without the nice lady in his head telling him what to say! Maybe some patriots will set up some wireless jamming equipment near the Gammage Auditorium, located on the northeast corner of Mill Avenue and Apache Boulevard in Tempe Arizona tomorrow evening...

[txindy]

13. No, for a number of reasons

First off, Junior had a strict time limit to answer questions. He's not used to that, nor is he accustomed to unscripted questions. On top of that, he had to pay attention to Jim Lehrer, John Kerry, and the voice in his ear. There's also the not-insignificant presence of the cameras broadcasting his image to over 62 million people around the world. And, finally, I personally believe he was having technical trouble with his receiver, which would explain the long pauses he took at times which were followed by a rush of words. He was listening too hard and not considering how his physical responses appeared. I think they worked on that quite a bit for the second debate. It would explain all of his jumping around and even his frantic note-taking while seated. They were masking any reactions he may have had to what he was hearing through his earpiece.

[ProfessorPlum]

14. Here's the deal

He isn't given what exactly to say. It would be impossible to talk with that racket going on in your head.

But they might use keywords to trigger some pre-memorized (almost) piece of information. For example, the Supreme Court question comes up in debate II. Bush pauses, takes a break in between stupid statements, and Rove says "Dred Scott" into the earpiece. The Chimpleton then launches into some incoherent version of what he thinks he remembers about Rove saying something about Dred Scott.

Or the environment comes up. Rove says "hydrogen cars", "Cleaner skies", "wetlands" in between the Chimpleton's phrases. Chimpy sort of brokenly makes his way through those topics, butchering them, but at least he doesn't have to remember what topics to touch on.

He might be able to do it himself, but he would have to sit there a minute and look stupid before he got himself going, and that would be fatal.

[starroute]

16. Exactly -- see these phrases from his environment answer

I've got a plan to increase the wetlands by 3 million. We've got an aggressive brown field program to refurbish inner-city sore spots to useful pieces of property.

I proposed to the United States Congress a Clear Skies Initiative to reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury by 70 percent.

I have -- was fought for a very strong title in the farm bill for the conservation reserve program to set aside millions of acres of land to help improve wildlife and the habitat.

We proposed and passed a healthy forest bill which was essential to working with -- particularly in Western states -- to make sure that our forests were protected.


I was astonished at the time that he could smoothly reel off a complex enumeration like "reduce sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury by 70 percent." Or that he could stud his answer with phrases like "brown field program," "Clear Skies Initiative," and "conservation reserve program."

But these very precise statements were all tangled up with Bushisms like "increase the wetlands by 3 million," "inner city sore spots," "was fought for a very strong title," and "to help improve wildlife and the habitat."

The only explanation that makes any sense is that he was being fed the brief phrases and making up the long mangled ones himself.