He's got his earpiece in - listen for it.

[Stephanie]

When he bows his head and stumbles for a second and then comes up with the proper phrase, that's his earpiece.

[Quakerfriend]

1. Hey Steph!

:hi:

Yes he does! Yesterday, I he looked down for a second and I heard him say, "Wait a minute, wait a minute..."

[Stephanie]

2. he'll tap dance for a second, mumble incoherently, then voila

He suddenly arrives at the scripted line prepared for him - he's being prompted through that earpiece for sure

[Stephanie]

3. nobody heard it?

I only saw the last few questions and it was obvious

[DavidDvorkin]

4. I wonder if a modified cell-phone jammer would work on that thing

If someone were to activate such a device during a televised Q&A session, or if that had been done during the presidential debates . . .

Well, it's a nice fantasy.

[Stephanie]

5. Let's chip in and buy one for Helen

Wanna?

[DavidDvorkin]

6. It would have to be modified

Someone would have to get the details about the transmission used for Georgie's earpiece.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. i can't imagine sending ANY sort of jamming

freq in the Whitehouse would be allowed...I see a stint in jail if caught in that one. And it would drive one more nail into the press corps coffin...

sP

[Nikki Stone 1]

8. That's exactly what it looked like

To me

[Stephanie]

9. It's so obvious to me I can't figure out why he isn't called on this

Just watch the tape again with this in mind and it's perfectly clear what's happening.

[Nikki Stone 1]

12. It's interesting that no one ever says a word about this

Is it undetectable when you're in the same room?

[SoCalDem]

13. Mr preznit.Mr preznit".. "Who's talkin' into your ear?"

Karen?? Karl?/ Laura?? Dick?

of course no one dares ask that question :)

[im10ashus]

10. Are you listening from work?

I wish I was able to. :-(

[bobthedrummer]

11. He's more than likely been using some type of a voice-to-skull

system (there are patents on this given to American Technology Corp. of San Diego and Lowery) or just a plain old monitor. There is always a delay.

Since a lot more people are aware of this today, then don't be surprised when you notice that other world figures (including "dead" ones-manipulation of historic figures statements to reinforce agendas) are saying things you'd never believe they'd say.

It's all part of perception management.

[Jose Diablo]

14. Do you suppose when he 'talks to God'

he is using this earpiece?

[Hissyspit]

15. kick

[highplainsdem]

16. I noticed that, too. I saved some old topics about this in my journal

because discussions of *'s earpiece tend to disappear into the archives too fast. Unfortunately a photo of * at the 2/5/04 prayer breakfast that seems to clearly show the earpiece is no longer online, so that image link in my old topic about it doesn't work, but I also had a link to another DU topic that has a blowup showing the earpiece more clearly, and you can still see that photo.

He's apparently been using an earpiece for years, judging by some articles about Karen Hughes being observed mouthing Bush's comments word for word, a half beat before he spoke, even when he was taking questions from the press in 1999 (I saved the topic on a TNR article about that in my journal, too).

[Stephanie]

18. At one point they claimed he had a hearing aid, I think.

REmember that? I think it was during the first campaign. That would be before they got some better technology.

[Blue Belle]

17. I only watched a couple of the questions yesterday...

and it was obvious to me that he had an ear piece on.