“Moderate” Kevin Drum is questioning the “transmitter under Bush’s suit” nonsense. For those in the fever swamps, Drum states:
The White House flatly denies it, and I guess I don’t believe it either. Salon thinks this picture is proof positive that Bush was wired during the second debate, but that’s a little too far out there for me.
But if it’s not a transmitter hidden under Bush’s jacket, what the hell is it? It’s no suit pucker, that’s for sure. There’s something there, and it’s a square about six inches on a side.
Some kind of back brace? Doesn’t seem like it. A medical thingamajig of some kind? Could be, I guess. Is that why Bush decided to skip his annual physical this year? So he doesn’t have to fess up to some kind of health problem during the campaign?
Notice how his left arm is raised Kevin? Now. Repeat after me: SHOULDER BLADE.
Also at the Washington Monthly, I learned that Karl Rove forgot to send me the newest book of ‘code words.’ These people have lost their minds, as Tom Maguire points out.
Kelly
weird, bush’s shoulder blade is right in the center of his back?
Kelly
I’m not aware of shoulder blades that result in rectangular bulges. How does the kool-aid taste, though? Do you know what “suit pucker” means? How does the reading comprehension class taste today?
bg
Christ, calling Drum a fake moderate again are you? I thought I’d convinced you to knock that nonsense off.
Again, like I asked you to do months ago, just fucking ask him if he’s a moderate would you?
Or read this post from 2003 where he places himself in the “leftward 20% of the country.”
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2003_07/001562.php
Jeff
Only someone with extremely poor eyesight can insist that Bush isn’t wearing something under his clothes. Photos from both debates make this abundantly clear, as does the picture of him in a T-shirt taken in 2002.
Whether you agree that it is a wire, which makes sense given his complete inability to speak extemporaneously, there is something there. Perhaps it is a back brace or a medical device. But is sure as hell isn’t a trick of light.
Joey
Has anybody considered the possibility that this is some newfangled piece of security/tracking/life monitoring equipment that ALL future presidents will be required to wear when they’re in public and semi-public situations? (This being the post-9/11 world and all.)
Just a thought.
Ralph Gizzip
Most likely it was a bullet-proof vest.
Roo
Check this libsite out,,, guess Bush needs help driving his TRUCK too.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/13/transmitter/index_np.html
That Oregon guy
Hey, juicy boy… Are you really trying to tell us that Bush is some sort of biological mutant who has a square shoulder blade in the middle of his back on top of his spine?
You crack me up…
Ivor the Engine Driver
Shoulder blade?
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