Bush is lying -- he wore some kind of device in all three debates

[EastofEdon]

http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/11/10_407.html

Was Bush Wired? Sure Looks Like It.


A NASA photo expert's analysis makes it clear: Bush is lying -- he wore some kind of device in each of the three debates. So why won't the media go near this story?

By Dave Lindorff

October 30, 2004

A leading NASA scientist who normally spends his days analyzing and enhancing photo images sent across the depths of space by the Cassini and other space probes has turned his expertise to images of the president in his three debates. His conclusion: "George Bush is obviously wearing something -- probably a receiver of some kind -- under his jacket for each debate."

Robert M. Nelson, who has worked for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology for some three decades, provided a dramatic photo of the bulge under the jacket at the first debate to Salon.com which posted it Oct. 29. Now -- working at home and using his own computers -- he's done the same analysis for MotherJones.com on images of Bush's back taken during the second two debates. Nelson, a top-ranked senior research scientist at JPL and past chair of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, says that by enhancing the contrast and the edge definition in digital photographs taken of video broadcasts of the three debates, the object under the jacket can be clearly delineated.

Nelson told MotherJones.com, "In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right. In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction. This is consistent with the hypothesis that a pad was inserted to conceal the T-shaped device seen in the first debate."

The new photos, together with the image from the first debate, strikingly refute the series of contradictory explanations that have come from the White House, from the Bush/Cheney campaign, and from the president himself -- explanations that only addressed the obvious bulge in his jacket that was noticed at the first debate. Bush and the White House have not acknowledged -- nor has the mainstream press even asked about -- the other two debates.

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[XanaDUer]

1. And the amazing thing is, he still could not give a coherent response...

...

[wurzel]

2. Could you imagine the media if this was Kerry using a device?

Something will have to be done about this media during Kerry's first term.

[kokomo]

4. Bush never gets called on his lies.

[Lerkfish]

8. you seem to forget their uproar over the dastardly inkpen...

they DID castigate Kerry with no evidence at first.

[wurzel]

3. Perhaps the device didn't work in the first debate.

That is why he looked so angry and did so badly.

[Disturbed]

5. What is this?

[Lerkfish]

9. I STILL say, watch the first debate when Kerry claps him hard on the back.

at the beginning, you see an incredibly angry double take from Bush. I think Kerry inadvertantly dislodged the device. You can see the wheels turn in the empty space of Bush's cranium as he realizes he can't do anything about it.
the flop sweat was Bush was just winging it.
That was why they painted the Les Nessman dotted white line on the second debate, bushies didn't want that happening again.

[Cat Atomic]

6. You know what I find interesting about this story?

Even if you don't think it's true, the story persists.

Bush is so widely believed to be a cretin, a liar, a puppet, and a cheat, that this story resonates with people.

[RC]

7. Granted, he needs all the help he can get -

but, if it were a receiver of some kind, placing between the shoulder blades is not a very good hiding location. Also, why go big?
Something the size of a deck of cards in the hip pocket would be undetectable. And with todays technology something 1/4 the size of a deck of cards would be adequate and much easer to hide.

I lean toward the back brace myself. His evil has to twisted him, he can not stand up straight with out one.

[charlie]

11. I figured it was kinda chunky

for a mere receiver too. The article addresses that, though:

Alex Darbut, technical and business development vice president at Resistance Technology, Inc. of Arden Hills, MN, a company that makes back-mounted transceivers that link to wireless earpieces hidden in the ear canal, says he is certain the president was wearing such a device. Darbut, whose company sells such a device to "the military and to professionals," including actors and people in communications, says, "There's no question about it. It's a pretty obvious one -- larger than most because it probably has descrambling capability."

Not definitive, just more speculation, but it puts it back into the realm of the plausible.

[leftchick]

10. Photo from debate 3.....

I really did not think he would try it at that one after all of the speculation in the news. He was coughing up a lot of statstics that night that I really did not think he could remember on his own.