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Amaryllis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:25 AM
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NY Times killed Bush back bulge story because could have changed election
Edited on Fri Feb-11-05 01:26 AM by Amaryllis
(Except it couldn't really have changed the election; they just would've had to hack more votes.)

The Emperor's New Hump
The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election—because it could have changed the election

Extra! January/February 2005

By Dave Lindorff

In the weeks leading up to the November 2 election, the New York Times was abuzz with excitement. Besides the election itself, the paper’s reporters were hard at work on two hot investigative projects, each of which could have a major impact on the outcome of the tight presidential race.

One week before Election Day, the Times (10/25/04) ran a hard-hitting and controversial exposé of the Al-Qaqaa ammunition dump—identified by U.N. inspectors before the war as containing 400 tons of special high-density explosives useful for aircraft bombings and as triggers for nuclear devices, but left unguarded and available to insurgents by U.S. forces after the invasion.

On Thursday, just three days after that first exposé, the paper was set to run a second, perhaps more explosive piece, exposing how George W. Bush had worn an electronic cueing device in his ear and probably cheated during the presidential debates.

The Bulge The Device

It's clear even from unenhanced photos that George W. Bush has been wearing some kind of object under his clothing, both during the debates and at other public appearances. The enhancements done by NASA scientist Robert Nelson show a rectangular object with a long "tail"; in some shots a wire leading over Bush's shoulder is visible. This configuration closely resembles a PTT (Push To Talk) receiver with an induction earpiece, a device used by some actors, newscasters and politicians to allow for inaudible voice communication in a public setting. The particular model pictured here (which does not appear to be the exact type Bush wore) was manufactured by Resistance Technology, Inc. of Arden Hills, Minn.

More:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2012
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:30 AM
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1. i read this a couple days ago and am so angry about this
i could hardly believe they had the story and killed it!

you're probably right. they would've had to hack more votes--but at least it would have been more work and it would have made things appear more obviously shady.

who in the white house was sleeping with the ny times to keep this story out of the paper???

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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:32 AM
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2. Call me sceptical, but if starting a war based on lies and then
screwing up that war didn't cost him the election, I doubt this story would have either.
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Amaryllis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:34 AM
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3. That's what I meant at the top of the post where I said they would just
have to have hacked more votes to win.
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:46 AM
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9. Must've missed it earlier
It just amazes me, thinking about the litany of the failures of this Administration and yet they still won. Even accounting for vote fraud, a huge percentage of people in this country are just not rational.
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Amaryllis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:48 AM
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11. There are a lot who would not have voted for him if they got the truth
from the media.
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garybeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 11:02 AM
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15. nothing can stop a stolen election
except getting caught and a huge uprising.

that's why I say, nothing else matters until we fix the problems with the election
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XOKCowboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:35 AM
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4. It explains a lot though..
as to why Bush sounded so inept during the debate. If you've ever wore an IFB and tried to talk while someone was telling you something, it's incredibly hard too keep a straight thought even for an intelligent person. With Bush it explains his rambling and blurted, incomprehensible remarks.

The thing is though, even though he was obviously beaten in all the debates it didn't matter to his "faithful". That's the big shame of all this. They still voted for him because his media machine was better than ours.
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Amaryllis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:41 AM
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6. Don't know if better is the right word. His media machine lied more.
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rwenos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:36 AM
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5. Still Need the Details
It's still a story. It's evidence of lying and dissimulation by a sitting President. While it might not rise to the level of election fraud . . .

IT'S A CHARACTER ISSUE. IT'S A VALUES ISSUE.

We have to know more about this. You got information, lay it on me.
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Amaryllis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:42 AM
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7. Bush said it was a poorly tailored shirt.
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:43 AM
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8. Self Delete
Edited on Fri Feb-11-05 01:43 AM by LeftCoast
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Amaryllis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:47 AM
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10. Ha. I can imagine your response to the poorly tailed shirt explanation!
Edited on Fri Feb-11-05 01:48 AM by Amaryllis
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zann725 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 01:53 AM
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12. And that he'd fired the WH Tailor who did it. Then the WH Tailor spoke up
and said he was NOT fired at all...but still on the job, as always!

That's when MSM got kind of lax in their coverage of the story...as clearly it was a "wire" by that point. And to discuss it further would prove "the Emporer has no clothes"...which most would prefer just not knowing.

Ho hum.
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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 04:01 AM
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13. I thought the interesting thing about the Bulge story was how the...
lapdogs fussed about Kerry's pen (as if Kerry needed to cheat by taking notes with a forbidden pen! ). Remember that? That's what convinced me that the Bulge was a cheating device for Bush--because they obviously had a predetermined attack story ready (and they probably planted the pen, too). I've noticed this VERY OFTEN in the news cycle two-steps that the Rove Rats do. Whatever they accuse anyone of, they have already done--or are about to do--a thousand, a million times more, and far worse. And if they're about to do something really bad, they have an accusation story all prepared in advance, to throw dust in everybody's eyes.

If the Republican Pod People get up in the Senate and spout some B.S. accusation against the Democrats for "politicizing" the "advise and consent" debate on Bush's nominees for Sec of State or Atty Gen.--all in lockstep, all saying the same thing (it got to be funny!)--you just know that THEY have a highly political motive, and a political game plan, in those nominations.

And it wasn't long before that motive and plan were naked for all to see. They trotted out Andy Young--Andy Young of all people (former lieutenant of Martin Luther King)--who had C. Dolores Tucker (black women's promotion activist) and a few other black women in tow, in an interview in the halls of Congress during the debate, and what they said, in essence, was this: The Democrats should shut up about this nomination and agree to it BECAUSE CONDOLEEZA RICE IS A BLACK WOMAN! (Tucker: "We don't like what's going on here.")

Oh, Lord this was painful to watch.

And every one of those white Pod People men--men with the same political views as the Ku Klux Klan (but with a bit more polish), got up there in the Senate, and just oozed with righteousness and unctuous praise of Ms. Rice's rise from her disadvantaged background in the "era of segregation," and her piano playing, and her academic achievements--the "first African American woman" to reach such a high position in the Illuminati's female annex (...well...they didn't say that, exactly, but you get my meaning).

And so, while they're disenfranchising three million blacks across the country with dirty tricks of every kind, they're driving a wedge into the black community, and separating out those few who will be given riches and a semblance of power, to lord it over the masses as they sink further into poverty and prison.

And their devious political motive in these nominations (which they were loudly and repeatedly accusing the DEMOCRATS of "politicizing"!) became even more naked in the case of Alberto Gonzales. Pod Senators (Orrin Hatch was one) got up and actually accused the DEMOCRATS of being against Gonzales BECAUSE HE IS HISPANIC. I couldn't make any sense out of THAT accusation until another Pod Man (Pete Domenici, R-NM) got up and stated something like, "The opposition has always touted themselves as the most natural representatives of the growing Hispanic population, but Hispanics are not going to be natural Democrats any more." And he sort of sneered in the Democrats' direction.

Gonzales as bait, as a lure to Hispanics: Be good little Mexicans and write torture memos for your Masters, and we will give you riches and power beyond your wildest dreams. And they got Democrat Salazar (newly elected) to endorse it, and poor old Henry Cisneros (now begging scraps from the Bush Cartel table).

My, my, my. So the BushCons have this disgusting, cynical, mind-bogglingly hypocritical political plan to grab votes from African-Americans and Hispanics--the people they are most screwing over--by fronting their mass murder and their torture and their thievery with African American and Hispanic faces.

But it's the DEMOCRATS who are "politicizing" the nominations!

And when Karl Rove gets up there and accuses Harry Reid and the Democrats of being "obstructionists," you can presume that they have some MIGHTY BIG OBSTRUCTIONS that they are planning. (What could these big obstructions be? Obstructing European efforts to prevent an invasion of Iran? Obstructing the Plame investigation? Obstructing good government in California--driving honest CA Sec of State Kevin Shelley from office, with phony corruption charges--for opposing Diebold voting machines--and Schwarzenegger then re-districting California? Or could it just be huge obstructions in Congress for anything Democrats want to do?)

And when they accused Max Cleland--of all people on this earth--of being a friend of Osama bin Laden, they were giving away the fact that THEY are friends of Osama bin Laden.

And when they accused Saddam Hussein of planning 9/11, they were giving away the fact that THEY planned 9/11, or, at the very least, that Iraq and 9/11 were associated in THEIR minds (9/11 as the EXCUSE for taking over Iraq's oil fields, planned out by Dick Cheney, Kenneth Lay and the oil cartel, at their early 2001 secret "energy task force" meetings).

And when they accused France, Germany and Spain of being "old Europe," they were giving away the fact that THEY are "old Europe"--indeed, they are the "Ancien Regime" itself, come back to haunt us all. Corrupt monarchs inflicting fascist rule on Europe, to destroy the peoples' movements of that era for democracy and liberty and justice.

And when they say that so and so is a "liberal," we know that THEY "liberally" steal from old ladies and pensioners and children, and "liberally" lavish themselves with luxuries and indulge in licentiousness, and believe in utter liberality--the license to do anything they wish-for themselves and the privileged few, but not for anyone else.

That Bulge and that Pen told me a lot. Look for it, the next time they accuse anyone of anything.

The funny part is that they have their dogs at the New York Times, and at other dog training schools, trained so well they don't really need the accusation cover story. It's not as if their well-fed pets would ever notice what they are really doing, and what they are covering up, or care.
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seaclyr Donating Member (182 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 09:06 AM
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14. Peace Patriot, that is so true!
It has to be part of a thought-out strategy. Psychologically, this sort of thing (attributing motives to some other person/group which are truly one's own) is common but usually unconscious (the psychological defense of "projection"). With this crew of course it's pure conscious cynical sociopathy. I really believe we have to see through this stuff completely to have any chance of combating it. Thanks for reminding us that this stuff goes on all the time! Also, as Brian Eno pointed out with regard to Iraq, these guys control what is talked about, they establish the agenda.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1020303,00.html
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Machiavelli05 Donating Member (335 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 11:09 AM
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16. White House made a statement
a few days after the election that the bulge was a bullet proof vest.

No reason not to believe that. Makes perfect sense... a lot more sense than Bush getting his answers from a huge bulge on his back that had no ear peice whatsoever.
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Peter Frank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 11:35 AM
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17. The earpiece is wireless...
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 12:45 PM
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18. But Bush explained that it was a poorly tailored shirt
Checks & balances? --All gone!
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SeattleRob Donating Member (893 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-11-05 12:54 PM
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19. More proof of the Liberal Media Conspiracy n/t
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