Monday, October 18, 2004

Promptergate: The best evidence

Read this new piece by David Lindorff right now. He presents what may be the best evidence so far that we are dealing with a very real situation.

For those of you who still prefer to believe that the Bush-in-France "pre-echo" was a mere technical glitch, as opposed to evidence of prompting -- prepare to have your comforting illusions shattered.

5 comments:

icone said...

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Anonymous said...

The Chirac video actually demonstrates that it is clearly an audio glitch. I am not a fan of this president in any way. And I am 100% certain there was something under his jacket during at least 2 of the debates (the first and last). However, even if it is a transmitter, the Chirac video does not show precedent. Listen carefully and you can tell that it is, indeed, Bush's voice that is "prompting," complete with identical inflections. Even the phrases over which the president stumbles can be heard exactly from the "prompter." Moreover, the device the president appears to adjust in his ear is most probably a transmitter - for translation. This was a bilingual press conference (French and English), and I believe it's customary for both parties to be provided with simultaneous translation. That's probably what's in Bush's ear. I would very much like to know what is under the president's coat in the debate videos and stills. But the Chirac video is completely irrelevant as it is clearly a bizarre audio glitch (perhaps due to a tape delay in the video broadcast that wasn't synched?). I'm sure some A/V wiz can explain it properly.

Anonymous said...

Hmmm .... well the copy of the video i got definitely has Bush's voice as the echo and even has a matching "loud exhale of breath" though i'm not sure if it's at the same time as David Lindorff suggests.

Now, I either one of us is completely wrong ... or, if you are really in to conspiracies ... there are two videos. Which I guess is possible. Would it not make sense to do a forged copy with a phantom voice added which is just a copy of Bush's voice from the tape, and then distribute it anonymously on the net? This would certainly help to discredit the story.

the plot thickens ....

icone said...

In regards to the Chirac video: This video is still the subject of much speculation. I direct you to a the full story story by DAVE LINDORFF.

While the video may be some sort of audio sync problem, if you listen carefully the voice is, in fact, NOT Bush's, and uses different wording at times. To be fair, this could have been an inadvertant feed of the translation audio. But the fact that the translation audio arrives BEFORE Bush speaks is odd.

I have had contact with several journalists about this video, and the feed was carried by all networks from a pool video source. I hoped to have found a separate source of this video from outside the press pool, but no luck yet.

Also, please read the last Salon.com article as it also covers this issue, and has an eyewitness account of this happening in other situations LIVE. The link to the article is on the All The Bulges in one Place post on my site, as well as a 17 mb video link. A visitor also posted the full text of the article in the comments section.

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Anonymous said...

LET'S GET THE BUSH-CHIRAC VIDEO ANALYSED!

Some of us think that 'the voice' does belong to Bush. Others think that it's some sort of echo. Let's stop yacking on Blogs and get the audio analysed for authenticity and voice print identification. If you know where or how to have such an analysis done, please let us know, right here on this blog.
Thankyou, marsbat