Still Hiding the Bush Bulge

[Judi Lynn]

Still Hiding the Bush Bulge
author: Dave Lindorff e-mail: [e-mail]

Spiking of a story about the Bush bulge is an "internal matter," a Pasadena paper says. -------------

Pasadena residents didn't get to read about the exploits of local celebrity Dr. Robert Nelson, who, besides being a Jet Propulsion Lab photo analyst who helped present those dramatic photos of Saturn's rings and moons, also gave the lie to White House claims that the bulge seen on Bush's back during the presidential debates was "just a wrinkle."

They didn't get to read Nelson's account of how his photo analysis of Bush's jacket--a story that would have increased speculation that the president was wearing a hearing device during the debates--almost made it into the New York Times before being killed by top editor Bill Keller (Extra!, 1-2/05).

They didn't read all this in their local daily, the Pasadena Star-News because senior editors at that paper killed the story on Saturday, April 30, right before publication in the Sunday edition--apparently for political, not journalistic, reasons.

The Star-News is the oldest holding of MediaNews Group, a newspaper and television station chain owned and run by William Dean Singleton, one of the U.S.'s more conservative media moguls. Singleton was singled out by Editor & Publisher (1/26/04) as one of several newspaper chain owners who contributed money to the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign last year. MediaNews Group also owns the Denver Post and the L.A. Daily News.
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http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/08/322593.shtml

[Alexander]

1. I was the only person who, during the third debate,

Actually TRIED to listen in on various radio frequencies to catch Bush cheating.

I got lots of shit for it, had lots of people ridicule me - in fact, only then did I figure out who my true friends were. They were the people who, even if they didn't believe me, at least took me seriously, because I knew what the hell I was talking about.

5 minutes before the debate started, all frequencies were jammed. I didn't have any counter-jamming equipment.

I remember reading in the local press that at the first debate somebody had more sophisticated equipment than I did, actually heard something, and was approached by what APPEARED to be a Secret Service agent, who switched off their equipment and told them to forget what they heard.

He was fucking wired, there is no doubt in my mind. I would testify to that in court.

[Gyre]

4. You're a patriot!

:toast:

Gyre

[cliss]

5. That's awesome, A.

I'm glad you tried to figure out what those weasels were up to. It would have been great if you had actually heard a bunch of blabbing, and tape recorded it.

Then, you could have sold the tape recording to People magazine and finished the cockroach, once and for all. What a scandal it would have been.

[cliss]

2. Notice how nobody talks about this anymore?

The public must have collective amnesia. Or am I the only one who still wonders about this? I've actually posted, "The man has a box on his back, for God's sake".

I never did find out what it was. I've read that it was a listening device, a defibrillator, some kind of drip-device which keeps him from having a seizure or falling down, a box which gives him an electrical current (now that I like!!), or a 'wrinkle' as the White House claimed.

After seeing close-up photos, I concluded that it was a listening device. There is a very small plastic tube going from the box to his ear. Since he probably doesn't get medication in his ear, it's probably someone talking to him.

Poor Poppy. What a disgrace your son is.

[cornermouse]

3. Things no one talks about any more list.

1. The bulge
2. Tom Delay's scandal
3. Ken Lay
4. The great submarine/fishing boat attack
5. The airplane which our friend China returned in little pieces

There are many many more.

[Selteri]

6. Wow, history really can repeat itself.

Something in the back of my mind tickled about the familiarity that there was some sort of Submarin and a fishing boat incident or something.