Is the Bush "wears an ear bug" fact or fiction?

I have long heard that Bush uses it while answering questions & giving speeches.My question is, is there any PROOF or any known FACTS that support this claim?

I heard my brother say back in 2000 that he heard the receiver was picking up transmissions from cel phones & police scanners.He said in one of the Debates with Gore,Bush was talking very loud as if he couldn't hear what was being said to him because of the audience.He also said some reporters could hear another voice faintly when Bush was speaking.

Can any of this be backed up?

But can't back it up. It would explain a lot of his style of "speaking."

Of course there is also that worm that is eating his brain . . .

http://www.wgoeshome.com

I posted that the first time I heard him speak...and all the time I thought I was making it up!!!!!

when a cell phone goes off? Can't hear what Rove is telling him to say? HA!

Would love to see that happen!!

Let's do it! He can't walk and chew gum at the same time! Especially during the debates! Just don't have them ring...just vibrate or they might ban them for disrupting the event!

When he gave the speech that night, the audio was screwed up and I could hear the prompter cueing him. It lasted for maybe 30 seconds before they fixed the audio. I know I'm not the only one who heard this. I heard it on ABC in NYC. I don't know why we don't have footage of this. Kerry should get his hands on it.

"adjusting" his ear piece on tv..watch for it.

when that idiot is trying to talk. Considering how bad he is with a teleprompter, what sort of gibberish would he spew without coaching?

You are either with us, or you are a pan pizza with thick crust, and an order of bread sticks."

I'd love to see that happen. :P

Then feed him some lines. You could have him say anything, and he wouldn't notice.

college"... Let's see if we could get Lewis Black on the correct frequency to feed bush* lines. What a hoot that'd be.

Hey, any chance of getting Black on the VP list? :evilgrin:

If we say it enough, he'll have an aneurism, right?

on Bush's Meet the Press adventure. He said it was unmistakable. Besides, you could easily tell when he was listening.

He stalled before answering a question. Said he didn't understand then started speaking. Looked like he nodded his head a touch just before he started answering. Glad I was not the only person who saw this!

and those were still the best answers they could come up with? damn.

"Thassa good question...uh...good question..." Then he'd kind of tilt his head and lean into the ear with the bug. He's very well trained with it, but he's also too stupid to make it seamless.

your post is confusing please elaborate...

I'd said that that might explain Bush having to rehearse his Meet the Press appearance for days before.

What I meant was - - and I'd heard he was practicing, having his staff throw him whatever questions they were expecting Tim Russert to ask - - that if he was going to use an ear bug, that would take a lot of practice to make it look smooth.

I imagine it takes a certain amount of skill to use one of those things without looking confused, and his performance was pretty jerky on MTP.

As for the questions, I can't imagine Kerry, or Clinton, or General Clark, for instance, having to rehearse a talk show appearance.

I mean the President, or somebody who wants to be the President should already know the answers to any questions!

But you know his people would want him to rehearse with an ear bug, so maybe he'd have a chance of looking cogent on national TV.

;)

precisely those of someone with an ear bug who has practiced being told what to say... he speaks in a 4 beat pattern. Notice his short sentences.

You can do it yourself, by repeating what he says when you hear it, along with him AS you're hearing it.

Irrefutable. Rove is whispering in his ear. No doubt in my mind at all, whatsoever.

Notice his short sentences

I was thinking that it would explain why he pauses so often and speaks in short phrases. Incredible!

Now, it would be verrrry interesting to know who is talking to him.

no question about it.

The coked up Mr. RoViagra...

It's the same cadence he uses. I'm convinced he s being prompted just about all the time.

I seriously think someone should try the jamming that's being talked about. I don't understand anything at all about "rf jamming" or whatever, but it would be a hoot to see what happens.

Could someone tell me how cell phones would interfere with the receiver?

All you need do is transmit so that your words drown out Karl Rove's words. A nice big transmitter--in the case of an ear-bud setup, fifty watts would be overkill--a receiver so you can find the frequency Karl's on before you start sending, and a speech in which he admits that we went to war over oil, that he ran around the country like a scared little bunny after the WTC collapsed, that he stole the election or whatever else you want to have him say are all you need.

notice his offbeat pattern of speaking? It drives me insane...please turn him. Off.


PS: I know you are all going to tell me not to. Turn him on in the. First place, but someone has to hear what the enemy is saying.

needs to be made aware, or are they already??

During the 2000 debates I distinctly remember him pausing during an answer, have a look of intense concentration come over him, then say, "Oh ... right" and start speaking again.

Here's a perfect example of Bush waiting to be fed an answer...like this guy, who confuses the word "hostile" with "hostage," would use the word "asinuation" in his own words:

http://images.indymedia.org/imc/washingtondc/media/video/6/9_11laugh.mpg

(7.3 megs)

That is truly frightening. He has absolutely no clue what to say if he can't hear the man behind the curtain. I

wonder if he even listens to the questions, or is he just daydreaming about the good old days of chasing skirts and snorting rails of coke?

Someone jam the transmission with some gay prono film sound track.

Mr President, what is the latest update from Haiti?

GW: Yeah, that's it boy. Who's yer daddy. You like that, huh?

to skull & bones. there are times when it is audible to him, but most of the time it is at a frequency that targets the subconcious brain. Although he has the same goals as the Illuminati, they cannot take a chance of any malfuction.

pretty cool...I often wondered what was in Syd's ear on "Alias."

;)

That's it! wouldn't it be great to jam!- Is that another reason why jr Powell (Colon's spawn)was against small local community FM stations?

http://slate.msn.com/id/1005730/
Why Was Al Gore Wearing an Earpiece?
Jeremy Derfner
Posted Monday, July 24, 2000, at 10:30 AM PT


Last week, Rush Limbaugh made a stink on his show about the conspicuous earpiece that Al Gore wore on the July 16 edition of Meet the Press. He speculated that Gore was being fed answers by his handlers. What's the story?

According to a Meet the Press spokesperson, all guests wear earpieces while appearing on the show so that they can hear the audio tracks of news clips that are played. The stage managers usually place the IFB (interruptible fold back) on the less visible ear, but in this case Gore insisted on wearing an IFB that had been fitted to his right ear.
Ross Perot previously accused Gore of having answers fed to him via earpiece during their NAFTA debate on Larry King Live.

Next question?


Jeremy Derfner, a former Slate editorial assistant, is a graduate student in American history at Columbia University.

since the Pugs VERY often accuse Dems of doing exactly what they themselves are doing.

Back in early 2001 on the Malloy show I observed that the odd pauses and confusion in some of Shrub's press interactions could be explained by an earpiece radio giving him what to say. At that time it seemed to me that he never showed us one of his ears, I recall the left one, and I scanned some videotape until I found a frame that suggested something was in that ear.

Which was good enough to me to make the allegation. Let them deny it. At the time I was hoping some reporter might some day ask that question of Ari.

Actually, I suspect that the "bug" is a security appliance from the Secret Service, but that it is sometimes used for the purpose I suggest. Were I the Secret Service man in charge, I would want a way to give the President direct instructions and information even when he is in a noisy crowd. Being able to shout "Get down!" directly to the President might make all the difference some day.

His reactions to questions since then have continued to indicate that he is being either fed what to say or has a conflicting voice in his ear giving him other information while he is speaking. The "Peeance Freeance" stumble was especially indicative to me.

-Ben

for his being just the front man for some really smart people who manipulates him and the american people.

:tinfoilhat:

I heard it on 9/11/01 in NYC on ABC during his speech. I know I am not the only one. I discussed it at another forum (American Prospect - forums now closed) with a woman from Boston who also heard it and tried to get the tape from her local station. We never got this tape. For about 30-45 seconds you could distinctly hear a male voice prompting Jr. It sounded similar to simultaneous translation. Jr. looked confused by the audio flub. Finally they corrected it. I heard this distinctly and posted about it at the time. I'm sure others heard it. I don't have cable so the only station I was getting that day was ABC (transmitter atop the Empire State - all the others went down with the WTC).

it may have been Zee Miller, who I think lives in Boston -- so this may be the person you talked with.

I thought we had gone to TAP by then but I guess we were still at TT -I left TT when it went to pay.

It was Zee who was trying to get a tape of it. She knew someone at the Boston station but still couldn't get them to give her the tape.

Other people must have heard this.

Do you think that thread still exists at TT? It was probably a WTC thread.

and I couldn't find any posts by Zee. Maybe you and she *did* discuss it on another board, and somebody mentioned it (or linked to it) on TT?? Otherwise, I'm not sure where I would have heard of it. I'll poke around a bit more in the TT Attic later tonight when I have time...

I'm in NYC and I think when I first posted that night it was at TAP. Zee might have been on both, maybe? I left TT when it went to pay.

I'll try searching at TAP but they closed those forums - I don't know if there are any archives or not.

Remember when Zee wrote all the Pretzel Sonnets? I think that was still at TT.

but if they are doing this couldn't they come up with better answers, or is Former Governor Bush just too stupid to remember entire sentences and words with more than two syllables?

that Dubya is just "being folksy."

:eyes:

Always stunned by the other 50%.....

"He makes surprising pauses", that was what I thought when I heard him in his debate with Gore in 2000. Perhaps he had to listen to his spin doctors in these moments.

i think the president should be able to answer policy questions unprompted, but i wonder if the "amurkin pepul" care?

certainly it could serve as a distraction to keep the white house on the defensive. denying it, saying why it doesn't matter (i want to hear that one), decrying those horrible mean angry liberals more.

kerry could challenge bush to unprompted debates if the issue resonates.

Can you imagine Bush in an unprompted debate?

Do the Presidential debates adhere to any type of standard?

If anybody is being fed answers, that's cheating, pure and simple.

especially seeing how it isnt bush debating, is another person. how odd is that to have a debate and bush not even show up. should be rightly called debate between kerry adn rove, adn thnking that isnt what the people are looking for

answering some of the questions. That in itself is not necessarily suspicious, but what was weird was the way he would cock his head to one side during the pause, EXACTLY as if he was listening closely to something. The body laguage definitely looked like listening, NOT the way you would expect someone to look who was pausing to gather his thoughts. Also the weird cadence of his speech, as several have mentioned here, goes along with him having an ear bug.

...to see a video of him speaking in his first campaign for governor, as compared to his speech patterns now.

People. We could figure this out, with a little footwork. There must be audios of him making speeches in his early days.

I remember commenting to my husband during one of his appearances, that he spoke like someone was feeding words into his ear. He doesn't seem connected to what he says, unless it's a speech he has given over and over.

As an ADD-type myself, I will add that the way Shrub seems to lose interest right in the middle of a sentence suggests ADD. Has anyone else noticed how he speaks a few words, suddenly spaces out and then rouses himself to finish the sentence? IF he did have ADD, an ear prompter would also be very distracting.

:evilgrin:

There must have been a lot of press there and they were jockeying for position. There were longer shots of Bush from the side, presumably due to lack of space for the photographers.

Anyway, they had a shot with him and the crowd from slightly behind Bush but farther away. And Bush just finished his talking and went to walk off. When he turned a little, stepped back and walked away, I saw his suit jacket part at the pleat on his left side and it revealed a typical looking transmitter pack.

This pack was identical to the ones that are used for inductive prompting. They transmit from the hip through a loop around the neck to a receiver in the ear. The fact that the transmitter (the loop) is so close to the receiver allows the receiver to function with the tiniest batteries and therefore it can be so tiny it is completely undetectable in normal operation.

Here's one brand item that is commonly used for prompting:

http://www.professionalsound.com/catalog/induct.html

The PSC Inductive Earpiece

Professional Sound Corporation has met the high demands for discrete cueing with the development of the Inductive Earpiece. This inductive cueing system is quite simple to use. Audio is transmitted from any source via an inductive loop. The talent can wear a small, flexible neck loop which couples audio via a low level magnetic field into a hearing aid style earpiece. Alternately, a perimeter or "room loop" may be used to encircle an entire room or stage allowing many people to receive the same cue. Both of these two uses allow the talent to receive a discrete cue on camera.

The Professional Sound Corporation Inductive Earpiece is routinely used for cueing of news anchors, actors, stage performers, dancers, and other on camera personalities. Its small size can be worn by both adults and children alike. It is made of a flesh color ABS plastic to provide better on camera concealment. The PSC Inductive Earpiece comes complete with a cleaning brush, ear swabs, a supply of batteries and an attractive carry case. This small Inductive Earpiece comes with a 90 day, limited warranty.

I've been looking for a link - I know it was used.

about Brando using a ear piece. He said that he had started using one too. The interview must have been about ten yrs ago.

I've noticed this several times, but assumed he was wearing an aural prompter because his dyslexia made the use of a traditional teleprompter such a risky endeavor.

Of course, if he's used it in debates, that's just plain wrong and ought to be exposed.

I try to make a point of criticizing * for being a venal, lying, greedy, self-centered fascist. Criticizing him for having a learning disability is just rude.

Jankyn

"'The woman who knew that I had dyslexia -- I never interviewed her,' Bush said.

That would not be relevant in debate, or in the case of the MTP interview with Russert, or any other event where he is not reading a speech.

Do you have some evidence of his learning disability you'd like to share? If not, why are you calling us rude?

when bush threw out the first pitch at the world series after 9/11,

there was a black object on home plate. his pitch started high but

came down right over the plate. his aides said he practiced a few

days for that. i can't find a picture of it, but i thought right off

that something was fishy. the whores played it up in the media that he

a threw a strike. i don't know if it is possible to do such a thing,

but it fits the propaganda pattern with this guy.

...so what we need is for someone who knows what they're doing to get close with a frequency scanner - it'd probably have to be concealed in your "Bush for Bloated Blutocrats!" sign....

bush leans to the left!!! that is, when he's listening to the voice in his left ear. Too bad we can't get in and tell him "this is God! You f***ed up"

people are asked to turn OFF their cell phones when they're attending one of his "speaking" events..

I don't think it is Rowe. I think it is his Babysitter,Condi,talking to him. She has a voice that is clear and precise like a 2nd grade teacher.

Have you noticed that he "can't leave home without her?" I think she gives him his baby bottle and whispers in his ear all the time.

The next time he gives a major speech, let's get our spies out and see who is missing - Rowe or Condi.

:silly: