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Saturday, February 26, 2005
Audiogators, take note:
Bob Fertik of Democrats.com has noted another possible instance of Bush displaying his inability to get through a speech without a hidden helper. In this case, the occasion was a NATO press conference. You be the judge...
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The link makes an obvious but compelling point -- Bush often speaks with long, contextually meaningless pauses between relatively short phrases. I'll add that he uses exactly the same intonation, for each phrase, as if he doesn't know what he's saying. This phenomenon has been on display for years.
However, no one could read a text (even one he didn't understand) this way naturally -- it's not how written language is paced or punctuated. Similarly, the rhythm Bush employs is wholly unnatural to English speech (and we already know what Bush sounds like when he's speaking extemporaneously).
The only reasonable explanation for these speech patterns is Bush repeating phrases one at a time, as they are read to him. In fact, he sounds like he's taking an oath -- repeating back what he's heard, with little or no comprehension.
What could be more obvious? It all fits. Now, if only the mainstream media....
I don't think it matter much who's behind the curtain....
The problem here is, the "media" already knows Bush uses this device. But it's not willing to cover the story, even when "cheating" and lack of integrity was at issue, as during the debates.
In some ways, the enormity of Bush's incompetence and dishonesty protects him.... The truth is so terrible, that no one will print it.
On second thought, it's not difficult to imagine how the Bush campaign finessed this matter.
They quietly explain to Kerry (and to the NY Times, which was on the verge on running the story, but killed it) that the President's security arrangements are secret, but the campaign will make an exception in this case in the interests of national security, by revealing that the President always remains in contact with the Secret Service, in public and quasi-public places, post 9/11. Consequently, he wears a listening device at all times, outside any secure area.
A media already highly deferential to authority will drop the story immediately, upon hearing this line (now they can't pretend they don't "know", but they can't legally or ethically report what they've been told).
The Kerry campaign finds itself similarly hamstrung. Monitoring the transmission frequencies during the debate to ensure Bush wasn't being coached -- much less jamming them or playing loony tunes -- would constitute a federal crime.
So, in effect, the Bushies once again use "national security" for political advantage. The absurdity of their shifting explanations (the tailor, the shirt, Martians, etc.), becomes righteous disinformation, pursued in the national interest, and they do so confident that no one in major media will call them on it, since everyone has the cover story by now.
On second thought, it's not difficult to imagine how the Bush campaign finessed this matter.
They no doubt quietly explained to the Kerry campaign (and to the NY Times, which was on the verge on running the story, but killed it, allegedly after a phone call from Rove) that the President's security arrangements are secret, but that in this special case the campaign will make an exception: namely, the President always remains in contact with the Secret Service, post 9/11. Consequently, he wears a listening device at all times in non-secure locations.
Thus enlightened, the "media" can't legally or ethically run the story, or question the veracity of either the claim or the abuse of the monitoring system for political advantage, because to do so is tantamount to revealing a state secret, on sheer speculation that Bush cheated (the White House having conceded that Bush was wired, but for another purpose).
The Kerry campaign was similarly hamstrung. Monitoring the transmission frequencies to ensure Bush wasn't being coached -- much less jamming them or playing loony tunes on those frequencies during the debates -- would constitute a federal crime.
So, in effect, the Bushies once again use "national security" for political advantage. The absurdity of their shifting explanations (the tailor, the shirt, Martians, etc.) becomes righteous disinformation, all in name of national security.
4 comments:
The link makes an obvious but compelling point -- Bush often speaks with long, contextually meaningless pauses between relatively short phrases. I'll add that he uses exactly the same intonation, for each phrase, as if he doesn't know what he's saying. This phenomenon has been on display for years.
However, no one could read a text (even one he didn't understand) this way naturally -- it's not how written language is paced or punctuated. Similarly, the rhythm Bush employs is wholly unnatural to English speech (and we already know what Bush sounds like when he's speaking extemporaneously).
The only reasonable explanation for these speech patterns is Bush repeating phrases one at a time, as they are read to him. In fact, he sounds like he's taking an oath -- repeating back what he's heard, with little or no comprehension.
What could be more obvious? It all fits. Now, if only the mainstream media....
I don't think it matter much who's behind the curtain....
The problem here is, the "media" already knows Bush uses this device. But it's not willing to cover the story, even when "cheating" and lack of integrity was at issue, as during the debates.
In some ways, the enormity of Bush's incompetence and dishonesty protects him.... The truth is so terrible, that no one will print it.
On second thought, it's not difficult to imagine how the Bush campaign finessed this matter.
They quietly explain to Kerry (and to the NY Times, which was on the verge on running the story, but killed it) that the President's security arrangements are secret, but the campaign will make an exception in this case in the interests of national security, by revealing that the President always remains in contact with the Secret Service, in public and quasi-public places, post 9/11. Consequently, he wears a listening device at all times, outside any secure area.
A media already highly deferential to authority will drop the story immediately, upon hearing this line (now they can't pretend they don't "know", but they can't legally or ethically report what they've been told).
The Kerry campaign finds itself similarly hamstrung. Monitoring the transmission frequencies during the debate to ensure Bush wasn't being coached -- much less jamming them or playing loony tunes -- would constitute a federal crime.
So, in effect, the Bushies once again use "national security" for political advantage. The absurdity of their shifting explanations (the tailor, the shirt, Martians, etc.), becomes righteous disinformation, pursued in the national interest, and they do so confident that no one in major media will call them on it, since everyone has the cover story by now.
On second thought, it's not difficult to imagine how the Bush campaign finessed this matter.
They no doubt quietly explained to the Kerry campaign (and to the NY Times, which was on the verge on running the story, but killed it, allegedly after a phone call from Rove) that the President's security arrangements are secret, but that in this special case the campaign will make an exception: namely, the President always remains in contact with the Secret Service, post 9/11. Consequently, he wears a listening device at all times in non-secure locations.
Thus enlightened, the "media" can't legally or ethically run the story, or question the veracity of either the claim or the abuse of the monitoring system for political advantage, because to do so is tantamount to revealing a state secret, on sheer speculation that Bush cheated (the White House having conceded that Bush was wired, but for another purpose).
The Kerry campaign was similarly hamstrung. Monitoring the transmission frequencies to ensure Bush wasn't being coached -- much less jamming them or playing loony tunes on those frequencies during the debates -- would constitute a federal crime.
So, in effect, the Bushies once again use "national security" for political advantage. The absurdity of their shifting explanations (the tailor, the shirt, Martians, etc.) becomes righteous disinformation, all in name of national security.
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