Charlie McCarthy For President?
Dave Lindorff of Salon stares at Bush's bulge -- the one visible underneath his suit, from the back, in Fox News' footage of the last debate. (You have to sit through a Salon commercial to see the photo.) Was the bulge the control portion of a secret radio-controlled mic/lifeline to Karl Rove? Or was it simply an official mic pack for the debate or the outline of a bullet-proof vest?
Bloggers stoke the conspiracy with the claim that the Bush administration insisted on a condition that no cameras be placed behind the candidates. An official for the Commission on Presidential Debates, which set up the lecterns and microphones on the Miami stage, said the condition was indeed real, the result of negotiations by both campaigns. Yet that didn't stop Fox from setting up cameras behind Bush and Kerry. The official said that "microphones were mounted on lecterns, and the commission put no electronic devices on the president or Senator Kerry." When asked about the bulge on Bush's back, the official said, "I don't know what that was."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.
What's your guess? Charlie McCarthy for president? Bullet-proof vest? Or does Bush simply have one extra-large, rectangular vertabra amongst all the others?
Every ounce of me wants to say it was Karl Rove via remote ... but don't you think if it was Rove that the President Select would have done much better?
Looking forward to smirk and swagger tonight.
david at October 8, 2004 4:18 PM
I think he took a dump in his pants.
Lena Cuisina at October 8, 2004 7:24 PM
Amy, Amy, Amy, we've covered this: When you wear a foil hat, the shiny part goes on the OUTSIDE.
A guy who wanted a second term wouldn't have bothered with a readily-detected wire at a debate... He'd simply skip the invasion of Iraq. And for Chrissake, did it help? It's like Letterman usta say when people accused him of wiggery: "If I was going to wear a toupee, would I buy one that looked like THIS?"
See also:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002058469_bushbulge09.html
So, from now on, I want all you Grassy Knollers to play nice with the Single Bullet Theorists.
Anonymous at October 9, 2004 10:07 AM
I think Bush shit a brick.
Sheryl at October 9, 2004 9:01 PM