[FedCom] The hump on Bush's back

gary lists at lazygranch.com
Thu Oct 14 00:47:19 EDT 2004


Without this degrading into my candidate is blah blah blah and your 
candidate is blah blah blah, can anyone comment about those news stories 
about the bump on Bush's back, with the assumption that he is wearing a 
listening device.

Trying to be as objective as possible, here is what I noticed. On the 
first debate, at one point Bush blurts out "let me finish" at a time 
when the debate moderator certainly wasn't required to stop Bush from 
speaking.  In the town hall session, I spotted him fiddling with 
something inside his jacket, which I thought might be a volume control.

This link seems to be the best I found on the net regarding the hump:

http://cryptome.org/bush-bulge.htm

Most interesting is this paragraph:
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Suggestions that Bush may have using this technique stem from a D-day 
event in France, when a CNN broadcast appeared to pick up -- and 
broadcast to surprised viewers -- the sound of another voice seemingly 
reading Bush his lines, after which Bush repeated them. Danny Schechter, 
who operates the news site MediaChannel.org, and who has been doing some 
investigating into the wired-Bush rumors himself, said the Bush campaign 
has been worried of late about others picking up their radio frequencies 
-- notably during the Republican Convention on the day of Bush's 
appearance. "They had a frequency specialist stop me and ask about the 
frequency of my camera," Schechter said. "The Democrats weren't doing 
that at their convention."
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I' m just amazed nobody with a scanner has found this audio (if it exists).




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