Salon.com -- "Bush had a radio receiver... during the first debate..."

The Democrat at http://www.electoral-vote.com/ ^

[narses]

Salon.com reports that Bush had a radio receiver taped to his back during the first debate so he could receive messages via a tiny hearing-aid-like device in his ear. They back this up with a photo. I have no way of verifying the story, but the Commission on Presidential Debates has verified that one of the rules of engagement the Bush campaign insisted on was no camera shots of the candidates from behind (which one of the pool cameras did anyway). This story is either investigative journalism at its best or wishful thinking. If you are not a Salon.com subscriber, you have to sign up for a free day pass to read the full story.

I obtained a copy of the debate video and the Red Hawk image intensification software (developed for NASA), which combines multiple images into a sharper image and then had the contrast enhanced with Photoshop. Other than cropping and resizing of the image, no other manipulation was done. I stand 100% behind the fact that this image was taken from the debate video, independently confirming the Salon.com photo, but interpretation is up to you.

[narses]

Here is the latest from the left's rumor mill. What hurts is that the site, until the first debate, provided GREAT data and sucked in millions -- including the MSM. Salon.com is a known biased site, electoral-vote.com worked hard to pretend to be 'scientific' and unbiased.

[narses]

More lies from the left.

[sinkspur]

Tin-foil isn't just sold on the right, it appears.

[kimchi lover]

If he had THAT, how come he didn't do better??? Sounded to me like kerry was the one with the earpiece!
This sounds DUMB!

[cripplecreek]

There isn't much the democrats won't swallow. I used to troll the DU with wild anti Bush conspiracy theories just to rile them up.

[narses]

The left reminds me of my right wing friends four years ago. Rabid to the point of incoherence.

[FesterUSMC]

image and then had the contrast enhanced with Photoshop. LOL

[steve8714]

This was so President Bush could coordinate the phony attacks on GOP and Bush campaign offices?

[MHak]

This might explain why Bush didn't do as well as people expected. He was listening the the baseball game.

[sarasotarepublican]

Well if he did, it didn't work to his advantage. That's for sure.

[kddid]

Wouldn't Bush have been much better if this were true? Any conspiracy theory or rumor they can get out there to hurt Bush, they will try.

[ChuxsterS]

Already posted. The consensus is it's a bullet-proof vest.

[patriciaruth]

Everybody who goes on television is wired and miked to talk to the cameras. They all have boxes strapped to weird locations.

They're DUNCES!

[ChadsDad]

Whatever it was, It sure didn't help much. Does this explain the dear in the headlights look for a few seconds before he answered a couple of those 'oh so fair' questions?

[50sDad]

Could the original author possible turn this space-age technology (that would include, by definition, "Space Food Stick" and "Tang") to determining what the hell Kerry palmed on the way out to the podium?

[Tarpon]

Well Bush made good use of it didn't he :-}

Left wingnuts were up late last night I see.

[Servant of the 9]

If he had one, it sure wasn't working, or he wouldn't have run out of things to say.

So9

[pgkdan]

Oh well, it was probably a monitor of some sort. I remeber threads from 2000 where we accused Gore of the same thing and that's what it turned out to be.

[tobyhill]

It was a radio receiver attached to the bullet proof vest by the secret service. I wouldn't expect anything less and the Democrats knew about this and they know it's necessary. I am deeply concerned when a candidate uses national security for the President as a political ploy.

[TommyDale]

If he was listening to anything, it would have been from the Secret Service. But this is BS and everyone knows it.