Did any of you feel that it really wasn't "Dubya" last nite in that speech?

[Bullwinkle925]

I just had the odd feeling whilst watching the so-called 'surge speech', that the person on camera wasn't doing the usual tics and jaw clenching. It seemed so surreal to me. The thought crossed my mind that it might be a body double, but what do I know?
:shrug:

[Kelly Rupert]

1. I think you need to readjust your tinfoil

;)

[Bullwinkle925]

3. hahahahahaha ....

the person onscreen seemed more poised than usual and I just couldn't get the same sense as I usually did when the idiot is televised.

[Kelly Rupert]

7. He's usually pretty poised for the big war speeches.

Dig up a copy of his speeches for the beginning of the Iraq war, or his 9/11 speech. He turns off his bumblin' down-home Texan man-of-the-people act and turns on his Great Man Of History act.

[Erika]

2. He was shell shocked

Or a Stepford being.

[Bullwinkle925]

5. Maybe sedated. But it just didn't seem like his usual bumbling, tic-ing self.

[Kutjara]

4. They don't need body-doubles any more.

If you've seen those annoying HDTV ads featuring Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke or Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown, they can morph lips and features so well now, that characters on screen can be made to say things that the actors who played them never did. If they needed to, they could do the same thing with Incurious George.

[Bullwinkle925]

9. That's a thought.

Something just seemed 'off' to me. I'm sure we were watching something recorded and had to be done with a Brazillian takes.

[bananarepublican]

16. MKULTRA advancements perhaps? n/t

[fooj]

18. Hmmmmmm...

[JVS]

6. Legend has it that Disney World always has the current president's robot...

at the ready for the hall of presidents, just in case something happens. Maybe it was the robot giving the speech. :tinfoilhat:

[RC]

19. Back in the early 60's I saw President Lincoln at Disneyland

in California. He was so life like in his movements. Back then it was all hydraulics and mechanics. Just think how far they have come since then in the control with computers. That thought was going through my head as I watched giggling murder the other night.

[TomInTib]

8. He had days to rehearse.

He can do the 'wind him up and let him go' far better than when he actually has to try to pull it off.

[MnFats]

10. "What have you done with the real Bush?"

that occurred to me in kind of a halfassed way...i wrote it off as just a halfassed effert by Bush, the real one..

[XemaSab]

11. He didn't move his body AT ALL.

He's usually one to use some body language. :foilhat:

[Dumak]

12. Multiple Takes

I would guess they taped it several times until it turned out ok. Was there a reason why we should assume it's live?

[Webster Green]

13. It looked like a hologram or something..

Maybe it was just the "deer in the headlights" effect he had going on, combined with the anti-smirk medication.

[progdonkey]

14. He didn't need to actually think on his feet or try to convince a group of reporters, etc...

So he wasn't as nervous as he'd be in front of a group of people. When it's "read exactly this, word for word," he's not as bad as when he has to try to make up something on the fly to respond to a reporter's question.

ie. If there'd been a Q&A afterwards, all those tics and his coke jaw would return with a vengeance.

[Der Blaue Engel]

15. Highly medicated? n/t

[G Hawes]

17. You're kidding, right?