Kerry Debate Cheat Sheet

[devolve]

Correct Jeff

My cropped and enlarged .gifs with no filters also show a large white square straight top edged object well above Kerry's dark blue coat sleeve and shirt cuffs

redhawk has a demo program that requires a decent studio video feed per Randy but it gives Mission Impoosible /JPL detail results!

I'd do it but my dinky 56K WebTV Plus is not up to it

How about a simple animated .gif sequence of cropped and enlarged matched sized frames like the famous Ron Brown funeral El Rushbo used on his TV show?

I cleaned up the messy horizontal band and added text and frames here:

http://pro.lookingat.us/Tears.gif





BONUS! :

[PhilDragoo]

Kerry removed a folded paper and unfolded it. A white paper is not a black pen.

Besides, Kerry used an orange crayon.

[swheats]

I saw that too. It was a pen, but that's not the shot everybody seems to be upset about.

[devolve]

Naomi! Naomi!

We need you right now!

[Conservative4Ever]

I'm with you Jeff, it was the squarest flattest pen I ever saw.

Red

[Yaelle]

closeup video

It seems that he has something in his lowered right hand from the start of this clip. Something is weird and the pen doesn't answer the whole sequence. He has something else.

[Yaelle]

There is a sleight of hand trick here. He has some white squarish object in his right hand, the one that seconds ago was pulling on George Bush's arm in that extended handshake.

Did he pull BUSH's cheat notes out of his sleeve? LOL.

Anyway, look in the closeup video in my post above again. See how he is ALREADY holding something whitish and squarish in his right hand? Then he clearly pulls that pen out of his pocket with his LEFT hand. His right hand still holds the goodies.

At that point, he appears to shift his hands' contents around in front of him and behind the podium so that no one can see, but the camera DOES catch a glimpse of something white and square that was NOT the long pad of paper provided nor a black pen.

Wonder why Fox News didn't show the whole sequence from the handshake on.

[TheCrusader]

"A black pen. BUT people say he used a white pen to write with. I think the black pen reflected light and he moved it fast so there was a video artifact giving it a squarish look."

As a former professional videographer and amatuer photographer, I can tell you that black doesn't reflect light, it absorbs it. A white pen would be far more likely to reflect light.

I personally think Kerry initially pulled something other than a pen from his pocket, perhaps the pen was with the other object. Once he laid the "pen" down on the lecturn he began to handle it and move it around; he even looked closely at it and continued to arrange it. That's a whole lot of attention to pay to a pen.

[ApesForEvolution]

It was just a little piece of surrender cheese a monkey gave him for good luck...

[Joe Miner]

I saw the frontal shot on Fox; it was a pen.

Ditto, and there is no doubt that it was a pen.

[Joe Miner]

I personally think Kerry initially pulled something other than a pen from his pocket, perhaps the pen was with the other object. Once he laid the "pen" down on the lecturn he began to handle it and move it around; he even looked closely at it and continued to arrange it. That's a whole lot of attention to pay to a pen.

He pulls the pen out, then he uncaps it and puts the cap on the top of the pen, really! Unless you think FOX has CBS'ed the video, the story is over unfortunately.

[Selkie]

I feel like Im insane to keep harping on this dead horse, but damn if i didnt slow down the video again and see what looks like something in his right hand.

The Great Kerridini

[Names Ash Housewares]

I can tell you that black doesn't reflect light, it absorbs it.

If its shiny though wont it reflect? Lots of really bright lights on stage. I think he pulled some paper up from the bottom storage area of the podium to write on with his right hand and fumbled around with it a little. Im ready to pounce on this guy big time but I dont think we have anything here that doesnt make us look silly right now. We need more data to go further with it. The pen was against the rules though. No question. Cheat Notes? I just dont see anything strong enough yet.

[Selkie]

Is this just his hand or is he holding something white ?

[andie74]

It was a spy camera...LOL

[Happy2BMe]

'White object' visible - BUMP

[Selkie]

Guess Im in lucky I just bought a super hi-res photo printer.
Just to be rude I will print those out and annoy some people.

[MeekOneGOP]

[twigs]

It looked to me like a note card, but it was really hard to tell. Unfortunately, I videoed it in SLP. But as Kerry got prepared to answer the first question, he fiddled with something on the podium for a moment. And I noticed that as Lehrer was asking him the first question that he looked down as though checking out something. And he definitely used two pens throughout the debate--both a black and a white one.

But you could be right about it being Kerry's cuff. That would also have looked like a note card. The lighting made it hard to figure out, not to mention the distance.

[twigs]

Yes, the light did reflect off the black pen. I saw Kerry first use a white pen and later use a black one. At first, I thought the black one was white because of the light. But as he used it, it was obvious it was black. But it made me doubt about whether or not he had used a white one earlier, so I went back and checked. He used a white one initially and then used a black one. I only watched a few minutes into the debate, so I don't know which one he continued to use.