Are you ready to ruuuummmmmble?!?!

[Happy Monkey]

From today's electoral-vote.com:

Salon.com reports that Bush had a radio receiver taped to his back during the first debate so he could receive messages via a tiny hearing-aid-like device in his ear. They back this up with a photo. I have no way of verifying the story, but the Commission on Presidential Debates has verified that one of the rules of engagement the Bush campaign insisted on was no camera shots of the candidates from behind (which one of the pool cameras did anyway). This story is either investigative journalism at its best or wishful thinking. If you are not a Salon.com subscriber, you have to sign up for a free day pass to read the full story. I obtained a copy of the debate video and the Red Hawk image intensification software (developed for NASA), which combines multiple images into a sharper image and then had the contrast enhanced with Photoshop. Other than cropping and resizing of the image, no other manipulation was done. I stand 100% behind the fact that this image was taken from the debate video, independently confirming the Salon.com photo, but interpretation is up to you.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Say it ain't so, George, say it ain't so.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

From today's electoral-vote.com:

With so much at stake, I doubt either side would want to take the chance of being caught doing something so stupid. Besides, I can't imagine Bush tanking that badly in the first debate with prompting. If that were the case, you would think someone would mention to him that the cameras are picking up his expressions and he's looking like an idiot. Since he didn't change his behavior, I doubt he was getting prompted.