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Bush Was Wired for NATO Press Conference

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 23 February 2005
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George
W. Bush, who is allegedly on a "charm offensive" across Europe, dropped
the charm and was simply offensive at his NATO press conference when he
once again relied on a hidden earpiece to feed him canned
soundbite answers to reporters’ questions.

As NASA scientist
Robert Nelson proved last fall, George W. Bush relied on a wireless
earpiece in all three of his debates with John Kerry during the
2004 campaign. While bloggers (including Democrats.com, IsBushWired.com, MysteryBulge, Cryptome, and BushBulge.com)
have accumulated overwhelming evidence that Bush was wired, the
mainstream media has consistently refused to report on any of this
evidence.

Investigative reporter David Lindorff

has written extensively on Bush’s earpiece in Salon.com,
MotherJones.com, and Counterpunch.org. On February 3, Lindorff
broke new ground with an expose for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
(fair.org) reporting that the NY Times had a solid story ready for
publication a week before Election Day - but editors killed the story.

Times science writer William Broad, as well as
reporters Andrew Revkin and John Schwartz, got to work on the story,
according to Nelson, and produced a story that he says they assured him
was scheduled to run the week of October 25. "It got pushed back
because of the explosives story," he says, first to Wednesday, and then
to Thursday, October 28. That would still have been five days ahead of
Election Day...

But on October 28, the article was not in the
paper. After learning from the reporters working on the story that
their article had been killed the night before by senior editors,
Nelson eventually sent his photographic evidence of presidential
cheating to Salon magazine, which ran the photos as the magazine’s lead
item on October 29. That same day, Nelson received the following email
from the Times’ Schwartz:

Congratulations on getting the story
into Salon. It’s already all over the Web in every blog I’ve seen this
morning. I’m sorry to have been a source of disappointment and
frustration to you, but I’m very happy to see your story getting out
there.
Best wishes,
John

After the Times killed its story, the Washington Post quickly followed suit:

Nelson says that the same day he
learned that his story had been killed at the Times, October 28, he
received a phone call from Washington Post assistant managing editor
Bob Woodward, famous for his investigative reports on Watergate.
"Woodward said he’d heard the Times had killed the story and asked me
if I could send the photos to him," says Nelson.

The
JPL scientist did so immediately, via email, noting that he had also
been in touch with Salon magazine. He says Woodward then sent his
photographs over to a photo analyst at the paper to check them for
authenticity, which Nelson says was confirmed.

A day
later, realizing time was getting short, Nelson called Woodward back.
Recalls Nelson: "He told me, ’Look, I’m going to have to go through a
lot of hoops to get this story published. You’re already talking to
Salon. Why don’t you work with them?’" (Several emails to Woodward
asking him about Nelson’s account have gone unanswered.)

At
that point Nelson, despairing of getting the pictures in a major
publication, went with the online magazine Salon. This reporter
subsequently asked Nelson to do a similar photo analysis of digital
images of Bush’s back taken from the tapes of the second and third
presidential debates. The resulting photos, which also clearly show the
cueing device and magnetic loop harness under his jacket on both
occasions, were posted, together with Nelson’s images from the first
debate, on the news website of Mother Jones magazine (10/30/04).

The key evidence presented by Robert Nelson was his
enhanced photos of the bulge in Bush’s back, which was attached to a
wire that ran along Bush’s shoulder blade towards his wired ear. The
photos which revealed Bush’s bulge were partly an accident - Bush’s
debate lawyers had insisted on a rule preventing candidates from being
photographed from behind. But when this rule leaked to the public, the
networks decided to defy the rule. In addition, some key photos were
taken while Bush lingered to shake hands on stage.

At
today’s NATO press conference, there was little chance for another
"camera malfunction." Bush walked quickly in and out of the press
conference, and all three cable networks relied on a single camera that
was placed in front of Bush. Bush was also careful to stand square to
the podium, never turning his shoulder to provide a revealing side shot.

But Bush’s obvious reliance on his earpiece could be easily detected from the manner in which he delivered his answers.

There
are several speaking tics that expose Bush when he is using his
earpiece. First, he pauses between sentences for an extra beat, which
buys him time to hear the answer he is being fed. Second, when a
particular answer is different from his own train of thought, his gaze
drops down as he concentrates extra hard on the voice within his
ear. Third, he sometimes mumbles and speaks gibberish when his brain
and tongue get out of synch. Finally his answers ramble on, going from
one stray thought to another, as he "filibusters" to consume all
available time.

These "delivery" issues have received
less attention from bloggers than the photographic evidence. But they
deserve far more attention now, because the White House is obviously
determined to prevent cameras from revealing any more bulges.

Thanks
to TIVO and video blogging, Bush’s rare public appearances can now be
shared over the Internet and put under close "linguistic" scrutiny. James Poling was shocked when he caught Bush in the act on 12/20/04:

This is very strange. What the hell
is wrong with President Bush, and I don’t mean in the "oh my God you
lied and invaded a country way" I mean in, I think there’s really
something either mentally or physically wrong with him.

Watch this video! [Link to C-SPAN clip that no longer exists but archived here.]
Go to 16:47 in the press conference and keep your eye on Bush. He is in
the middle of speaking to the press and he suddenly drops his head and
mumbles something and then immediately continues speaking. It is
seriously one of the oddest things I’ve ever seen.

Can anyone tell what he says? What the hell was that?

Does he have tourettes? Is he talking into his tie? Did his shoe fall off? Seriously, I have never seen anything like this.

I challenge the blogosphere to look for similar telltale
video moments - as well as knowledgable linguistic experts - to prove
that Bush relies on his earpiece for nearly every public event.

http://blog.democrats.com/node/3519

Forum posts

  • So what else is new?

  • No, it looks like-this time-Bush was just looking down at his notes & muttering the last word he’d just said to find his place in the written speech. But Bush isn’t the only one getting wireless help, some in the American military have oddly paused & lowered their eyes. It was-I think-before America invaded Iraq, an American general with an odd last name who just gave me the creeps. I saw that & tried to see into his ears but couldn’t see well enough. Totally unnatural! It makes me wonder if this effect is also going on in Britain, smoothe operators that they are.

    • Could the American general who gave you the creeps have been the coalition spokesman Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt (kimmittm@skynet.be) ?

  • It is a LifeVest wearable defibrillator.

    He may also wear a receiver, but that would be invisible under clothing.

    The "wire" on his shoulder is just the rolled edge of the LifeVest shoulder strap. Any earphone he would use would be wireless — not having a wire leading to his ear.

    Do not trust "enhanced" photos, regardles of the source. People will use this "evidence" to discredit you.

    I have received "inside" information on the LifeVest use and will reveal it in a few months.

    However, look for further evidence of LifeVest use from President Bush himself in the meantime. Keep an eye on him. You will not be able to prove the bug use. The LifeVest use will come out because his physical condition will demand it.

    C. L. Hallmark

    • Most defibrillators are implanted and tiny, why wouldn’t W get the best medical treatment and why would he need to lie about it? That is some silly excuse that no one believes but keeps getting pushed on us all the same. It makes one wonder if they are afraid of us finding out this truth? Bush’s followers might not believe he is speaking from God if he is being fed lines from a man behind the curtain?

      Bob Fertik is right, besides just the physical bulge, it is easy to see that Bush is wired by his behavior. The ’let me finish’ interrupting himself(Rove?) in the first debate, the long blank stares, then sudden fast answers...once you start looking it becomes obvious. In the words of W right before he said ’let me finish’... ’That’s not how a commander and chief acts’!

    • Why wouldn’t he get an ICD implanted before the election? Are you serious?

      Read Justin Frank’s book: What Bush fears most is his own weakness.

      Also, do you think he could have won the election (it was close, Mr. Freeper) if he admitted he needed a defibrillator? Imagine the headlines: The Cardiac Kids, The Ticker Ticket, etc.

      You know nothing about modern electronics. Cueing receivers look nothing like what is on Bush’s back. Have you seen any other speaker with a device like that? Of course some spy equipment salesman might say so, but medical suppliers have to adhere to strict ethical standards. None will tout their products this way.

      Dr. Nelson’s story reminds me of a NASA engineer named Wisenant, who claimed to have "helped put a man on the moon" and who wrote a book about the world ending during Ramadan, based on NUMEROLOGY! Every evangelical church in my small town was advocating this theory, just because it allegedly came from NASA. I think he at least was retired at the time.

      Dr. Nelson should distance himself from the claim Bush was wired, since he says he has staked his scientific reputation on it. He could never get a peer-reviewed paper published on anything but planetary science, and he knows it.

      Do not use doctored pictures unless you, like Bush, have something to hide. Pictures can be altered to reveal almost anything (they were retouched before they were digitized). All the bug theorists are doing is spreading disinformation, intentionally or not. This makes it harder to get at the real truth, which will bring Bush down. He lied about his job qualifications; and that, like discrediting one’s employer, usually leads to losing one’s job.

      The fact is, Bush was wearing a LifeVest wearable cardioversion defibrillator.

    • I am so angry about the NYT killing the story of the bulge in Bush’s suit during the debates and everyone letting them get away with it. Why didn’t the media DEMAND an explanation! If not the American media, what about other countries? I have sent dozens of emails to various columnists and news media begging them to continue this story.

      Bush said it was a "wrinkle" in his suit, yet he has the same square "wrinkle" in his T-shirt while riding in his own truck on his own ranch. That photo is actually on the white house web site. Since it is obviously not a wrinkle, THE PRESIDENT LIED! Even if it is not an electronic cheating device—which it probably is—we ALL know it wasn’t a wrinkle and now we have to accept that he lied to us. Bushies would love to believe that it was not a cheating device that their hero used so they prefer the story of the medical device. Nonsense!

    • As I said, the Nelson story reminds me of another story. It was over 16 years ago, so I was going from memory. Over 4.5 million copies of the book were sold, but the "NASA scientist" who predicted the end of the world based on his knowledge of mathematics and other subjects is almost forgotten.

      http://www.revelation2seven.org/WebPages/SideLinks/TheHarmonicConvergence.htm

      http://www.letusreason.org/Proph7.htm

      "1988 Edgar Whisenant, a NASA scientist, published his book "88 Reasons why the Rapture will Occur in 1988." Many were convinced and over 4.5 million copies sold. Wisenant said the rapture would occur Sept.11 and 13 1988. He used pyramidology, astrology numerology as well as psychic Jeane Dixon for some of his date setting. When this failed he reset his calculations it became Sept.30 1989 or possibly Oct 14-20 1989. It is now almost 11 years later."

    • * Bush was wearing a LifeVest *

      Bull. The straps on the vest don’t match the lines in the pictures; the central bulge is the wrong size and rather misplaced, other strap lines that should be visible are not, the hip pack with the battey should be visible but isn’t.

      What’s more, the LifeVest is for intermediate use, not long-term, and is primarily intended for people who are candidates for implantable defribrillators but can’t afford them.

      As for the notion that Bush wouldn’t get an ICD because he "fears his own weakness," are we seriously supposed to accept that he would find wearing a device strapped around his chest - which should serve to remind him even more and even more regularly of his "weakness" - an acceptable alternative?

      If the intent was to keep a heart condition a secret - even though Cheney’s four heart attacks don’t seem to have been a factor to anyone - an ICD, which involves just an overnight stay, could easily have been arranged during one of those "breaks" from campaigning with very little chance of being noticed.

      On another note, your purile attempts to discredit Dr. Nelson by referring to something someone else did on some other subject some other time are a waste of space. I’ll note for the record that Dr. Nelson has not said Bush was wired, what he staked his reputation on was that something was there. He did not say he could tell what it was. Please know what you’re talking about before you start spinning tales of "doctored" photographs. Remember, digitally enhancing photographs is exactly what Dr. Nelson does for a living.