"The next day president Reagan died, all other news stopped."

[donsu]

http://www.buzzflash.com/mailbag/04/10/mai04279.html

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Subject: Bush uses an earpiece

Bush has been caught using an earpiece before, but no one has thought it to be a big deal. It should be during the debates. Do a Google on "Bush earpiece" and take a look at the websites and also the entries in "Groups." I found the following at: http://theleftist.blog-city.com/

The Bush Earpiece (The Leftist)

I'm wondering if any one else caught this, President Bush met with French president Jacques Chirac around the second of June. Both men were in France at podiums in front of a large press core. Bush had an earpiece in, I thought nothing of this since Bush has not yet mastered English, him knowing any French is a long shot. Soon after turning on CNN, I noticed that some one else was carefully dictating Mr. Bush's exact words before he actually said them. At first I thought this simply must be a tech problem, like an echo of some sort, but that was not the case. I could distinctly discern that these were two separate voices. The voice was different, as was the annunciation. Okay, I thought, this is just weird, so I flipped it to MSNBC, same deal, Faux News (maja props to skunx), amazingly the same, but the first voice was much lower in volume on Fox.

It was surreal, Bush was being fed his lines through an earpiece, I could come to no other logical conclusion. We all well know that Mr. Bush is not the best speaker, but if he can not even read his own speech, then he is not qualified to be a member in AA, let alone the president of the United States.

It did not end here however, Bush was going to take a few questions from the press, everyone always notes how well the president is with names, well the voice in the earpiece is much better with names, because he told Mr. Bush who to call by name, and without fail the earpiece had all the answers to the reporters' questions as well. I was just in awe at this point, some clever techy in France had exposed one of Bush's puppet masters. This would be all over the press in no time. I was ecstatic. The next day president Reagan died, all other news stopped.

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I remember reading something about this back then, once.

[knowbody0]

1. dude was unplugged, he'd been dead awhile

[ewagner]

2. Saw that in France

there was some buzz on DU about the voice so I ran downstairs and turned on the TV to CNN...sure enough, the voice was clear as a bell.

As I always do when I see something I don't understand, is start looking for plausible explanations. The earpice thing was the first to come to mind but then another came up. It goes something like this:

At that event there were representatives from a lot of different nations. Like the United Nations, they have interpreters and each of the participants has a headset into which the interpretation is read. I assumed it was an interpreter reading from the prepared text BUT then why was it English to English? I still suspect it might have had something to do with the interpreters and maybe something to do with a time-delay of the audio and video signals but I can't prove it either way. Still can't explain the english-to-english though.

[dogtag]

4. Shrub may be dumb as a post, but he doesn't quite need

a translation from English. The big tip off was that he didn't repeat the words verbatim, but made small changes. That makes feedback or echo impossible. I've never called "helloooo" in a canyon and had "hey there" come back.

And I also heard the voice say "point to John" when they got to the Q and A.

[dogtag]

3. I've posted on this subjet before and I also saw the

press conference. I'll go to my death swearing that this is true and it wasn't feedback. However, in my recollection, Reagan's death was announced shortly after the press conference on the same day.