The Mystery of the Bulge in the President's Jacket
 

Can you hear me now?

Elisabeth Bumiller

What was that bulge in the back of President Bush's suit jacket at the presidential debate in Miami last week?

According to rumors racing across the Internet this week, the rectangular bulge visible between Mr. Bush's shoulder blades was a radio receiver, getting answers from an offstage counselor into a hidden presidential earpiece. The prime suspect was Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's powerful political adviser.

When the online magazine Salon published an article about the rumors on Friday, the speculation reached such a pitch that White House and campaign officials were inundated with calls.

First they said that pictures showing the bulge might have been doctored. But then, when the bulge turned out to be clearly visible in the television footage of the evening, they offered a different explanation.

"There was nothing under his suit jacket," said Nicolle Devenish, a campaign spokeswoman.

"It was most likely a rumpling of that portion of his suit jacket, or a wrinkle in the fabric."

Ms. Devenish could not say why the "rumpling" was rectangular.

Nor was the bulge from a bulletproof vest, according to campaign and White House officials; they said Mr. Bush was not wearing one.



http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/09/po...n/09bulge.html

he had an erection.

He had his hunchback surgically removed...in Mexico.

Odd that - the town hall debate I thought it looked like he was wearing a vest. A bit of padding in the front and back that didn't fit his profile and the slight outline of arm holes near his shoulder blades.

Maybe he's wearing a vest, maybe he just has badly fitting suits, maybe it's something else entirely. Who knows.

it's a rectangular pen.....just like Kerry's
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/09/po...n/09bulge.html

All the (bad or possibly damaging) News (about Bush) That's Fit to Print

i don't remember reading anything in the Times about the internet rumors questioning what Kerry pulled out of his coat pocket at the start of the first debate.

they're gonna run with this one though. what a surprise. :RE:


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I'd say it's just a glitch in the matrix.

- tg :WA:

Not wearing a vest? That would be Quite Surprising. In a way the bulge also reminds me of the equipment Lance Armstrong was wearing in this year's TDF time trial up L'Alpe d'Huez. Can anyone tell me what that is? ;)

he too has an erection.

these people get them in the strangest places.:eke:

Ms. Devenish then exclaimed that she was the rightful emperor of France, caught and ate a live pigeon, lifted her dress over her head and squatted on the ground for half an hour, insisting that she was an invisible pumpkin.



My theory is that they tried feeding him lines (and whoever 'they' are, they'd be really stupid not to at least think to try it) but alas, in trial runs he couldn't distinguish them from the little voices of Jesus and Satan in his head, so in a last-ditch effort they rigged him with a portable electroshock unit instead, thinking they could at least attempt to wean him from those ultracondescending flared nostril how-in-the-world-does-no-one-get-this-shit-but-me looks with some real-time aversion therapy.

Realizing that the importance of the debates and the dignity of the presidency might merit something a little more state of the art than this device which caused him to appear as if he was cheating on Jeopardy, they'll be using a more advanced and undetectable suppository unit in the third round.

oh that. it was the jammer. :D

- js.

This IS a poodle.

It is most likely a low profile bullet proof vest, probably semi custom. The lump looks like one of the velcro closures, moved further to the back to make it less obvious. As to why it was denied that it is a vest, that would be for security reasons, it is a "nusciance" quality vest for handgun type attacks. An attacker who would jump out of a crowd (think Regan) and started shooting would go for the largest target, the center of mass, in essence the chest or back as it would be easy to hit. If one knew in advance the target was wearing a vest then they might choose a scoped rifle from a distance, which could easily penitrate a vest, or aim for the head.

A radio of any kind would be better hidden at belt level, at the small of the back. It would never be placed so high up the back.

Excuse the spelling, it is late.

Or it could be a GPS tracking unit in case he gets lost.

sometimes when i dry my clothes and lay them on something or put them on a hanger the clothes take the shape of what I hang them on. It will stay that way when i wear them as well.

Thus, the suit coat was wet and he laid it on a dugout that was on the coffe table.

A dugout is a wooden box you put your weed in. ;)

Come on in George it's getting late.
 

I'll go with that.
It sounds the most plausible.

28 different views of the 'bulge'
http://cryptome.quintessenz.at/mirror/bush-bulge.htm

more blogger bits.



lol - the "milli vanilli" prez. :)

- js.

omg this thread is soooooo funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is where cheney sticks the wind up key.... :BL:

Is Bush Wired? New Photo Analysis
 

Keep this text with this image, but spread it widely, put it on web sites, for all must know. The American press seems unwilling or afraid to report or investigate this story, as well as many other questionable issues of the Bush administration.

The American people must know about the probability that Bush was wired and therefore probably cheated during the first Presidential debate. If true, it speaks volumes of the character of this President. The person who put this image together used simple techniques with commercial software used by amateur as well as professional photographers the world over. This person encourages
others to reproduce the enhancements and to improve on them by using better quality video, and averaging more frames.

Get the story out and do not let it die. But remain anonymous. The Bush administration is arresting peaceful demonstrators and will apparently stop at nothing to stop the truth.

American Democracy is at stake. VOTE!


http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles...4bushwired.htm

He's there again
 

Once again Alex has got the goods.
The evidence keeps pilling up.

maybe theyr'e right...

thats awsome...
 

hahahahahahahahahahaahahhaahah thats so great!!!!!! i went to the kerry edwards rally and it was amazing my mom and i had a blast!!!! great pic - im printing now ahahahahahahaahahah!!!!!!! :BGA:

i think it's a bulletproof vest.

give that man a cigar:

http://www.hillnews.com/under_dome/110404.aspx

this president doesn't have aides or security - he has handlers. do you think they feed him, too?

ah jc, ever since i lost my subscription to the weekly world news and the wacky editorials of "ed anger" i can't tell you how much i look forward to your madcap interpretations of world events. you're not quite in ed's league but by golly for the price you'll sure as hell do. :ND:

- js.

"Your precious little Ashlee Simpson"--beloved icon of liberals nationwide, destroyer of the conservative bastion of taste and morality that used to be SNL.

ROTFLMAO

Thanks for the official inside disclosure on the bulletproof vest btw Jughead. It's nice to see at least one of you republican yucks on the TEAM come clean, even though everyone in the administration, including Bush denied it outright.

...apparently not even a human being.

But we'll forgive this concerted LIE since it's in the interest of security, and since LYING to us about what's in the best interest of our security in general is the new black in the party's line of Emperor's Clothing.

Obviously this lie could save his life, as they wouldn't want any would-be liberal yuck assassin to be wise to a bulletproof vest, clueing them into the crazy idea of trying a head-shot.

:PO:

It's kind of the same theory that attacking Iraq is making New York safer right now.

Thank god for four more years of consistency.

Looks like you inherited Rodney Dangerfield's position VW.





Give that liberal a clue.


You're not impressing anyone with your high powered bs jc. State of the art is ceramic plates and that vest sure as hell doesn't have them. VW seems to know what he's talking about.

Wait a minute........according to liberals, if your "Young", then you are automatically a liberal. The Democrats basically ran their whole campaign on this belief. Besides I figured someone would jump on that one. Actually coaxed moana out from unda his rock.

Ok so what the heck was all the whining about the bulge for? Didn't know it was anybody's business what the President wears under his jacket.

As you answered your own rhetoric, the bulge whatever it was, was none of your concern. Too bad as usual the media in its infinite arrogance and ignorance in that it even comes close to dispelling truth had already well saturated the public with its dramatic and untrue reporting/a.k.a. RUMOURS, that once again in order to stop the rumour mill and lies, any speck of saftey or benefit that the rest of thre WORLD not knowing about the Presidents vest may have given him has to be lost completely. Not for the "truth" or "justice" or anything remotely important, no just for ratings and the almighty dollar.

You're a regular one man circus aren't ya?

We crazy liberals never said it was bulletproof vest, at least I never did and neither did the administration or Bush himself (I believe we may have established they were lying, but you continue to cloud the issue) and the crazy liberal media simply reported the official denials...

....so I guess only you ARMCHAIR TACTICAL EXPERTS are to BLAME for this GREVIOUS BREECH OF SECURITY and endangering the president's big fat naked smirking head, which now, because of your irresponsible rumor-milling, EVERYONE REALIZES IS TOTALLY UNPROTECTED!!!

Anne Coulter will probably want you hanged, right up there next to Geraldo Rivera.
:W:

And now, we watch, with great amusement, as the conservative republican TEAM, secure in their collective triumph over the evil liberals, begin to turn on themselves over a completely moot issue.

You know I can't argue that it's a shame that not everyone can keep their heads as firmly buried up their asses as you do, things would certainly go more smoothly. Basic perception is just a bitch ain't it?

Really?
 

So it was a bullet proof vest.
Was it really?
Is that the truth?
Are you sure?
Are you positive?
I wish,I wish I could be so trusting.
"There's no place like home,there's no place like home"
"Home on the range"
That is.
:D

it sort of outlived its entertainment value..:hmm:
whatever it was it didnt make the top 10

The Ten Worst Media Distortions of Campaign 2004

1. Dan Rather’s Forgery Fiasco
2. Ignoring, Then Attacking, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
3. Pounding the Bush National Guard Story
4. Spinning a Good Economy into Bad News
5. The Networks’ Outrageous Convention Double-Standard
6. Swooning Over Edwards’ Image, Ignoring His Liberalism
7. CBS’s Byron Pitts Promotional Kerry Coverage
8. CBS Promotes Fears of a New Military Draft
9. Misrepresenting the 9/11 Commission on Iraq/al-Qaeda Links
10. Equating New Terrorism Warning to LBJ’s “Gulf of Tonkin”

http://www.mediaresearch.org/press/2...ss20041028.asp

LOL

I've never seen even Ramona create so much bullshit out of thin air. It seems you splash most of it back on your own ass. Can you make even more and answer yourself?

I find it odd that the questions were not addressed during the campaign. I think the notion that the secret service didn't want people to know GW wore a vest is invalid. Who wouldn't consider or believe he wears a vest in public.

It might be a vest but if you look at the pictures, you'll notice a distinct line running from the top right, up an over the shoulder. It looks a lot like a chord of sorts to me rather than a strap. And if it's a vest, shouldn't there or wouldn't there be that same strap running over the left shoulder. All vests I've seen fit much higher on the back. This particular "vest" leaves the most critical area of the spinal.

http://images.salon.com/news/feature...ulge/story.jpg

Maybe some of you "in the know" about vests could provide us theorists with a link to the vest that has a single corded strap like the one worn bY GW in these pictures.

the full story http://www.mediaresearch.org/projects/worst/welcome.asp

"I’m talking about the establishment media, not Fox."

ha ha. as the media organ practically of the republican party nothing could be more establishment than fox. it's way past time these whining republcons stopped portraying themselves as poor and oppressed underdogs and started acting like the ruling elite they really are.

- js.

This thread should be closed.

I'd bet the GW admin wishes it was as simple as that. Making the controversy go away.

I'd also assume they simpy ignore it if they aren't interested.

It's not the controversy I'm objecting to here. The topic is a fine topic to discuss in this forum, and the discussion was following through nicely until a week ago. Now it has been trolled to death, and the biggest disappointment is that a few established, respected members of this board are the trolls. :no:

Is everyone quite finished? Have you gotten this childshness out of your system yet, because if you havn't I'd appreciate it if you took it to Forum Camp where it belongs. PA belongs to everyone, it's unmoderated, and this one thread is a blight on an otherwise healthy topical forum. By all means continue to speak your minds, but please be respectful too.

I'm trying not to be oversensitive here. This is the first really negative thread this forum has seen in a year and it's entirely excusable. Just don't make a habit out of it, alright guys?

No thread shoud be closed unless a member has lost a lot of feathers to a troll and bitched about it, is that the case?

IMO, the elections were "fixed" Kerry conceded too quickly for my taste and beside, vote for Bush or Kerry would be voting for Skull & Bones... Both are initiates of the order. No Americans had a choice this time. Heard on the news that Kerry intended to stay in the picture, for a long time. According to some sources, will post them later, he intends to run in 2008.

Hope Skull will not win in 2008.

Mazer, some of us peeps like to beat a dead horse, why not let it be?

What America REALLY NEEDS .......is jcmd62 to run for president. All the bleeding heart... wishy washy ....mamby pamby ....pc correct clones would be sorted out in a flash! Hell I would even move over there just to vote for him. Opps! no I can't without having to go thru a major drama............seems America is hellbent on keeping people out..........they don't want any more terrorists in their country as its already full of the bastards. But DON'T PANIC .......there is hope..... when GW and his cronies are finished invading other countries blowing innocent folk to oblivion instead of targeting those responsible .........But wait he probably would if he could rely on American intellegence..........but alas as has been demonstrated to the point of despair there isn't any.

Stay out of it then you whiney brat.

Aren't you suppose to be researching the Supreme Court like you promised you lying little shit.
http://www.p2p-zone.com/underground/...ad.php?t=20484

Maybe you should study psychology to figure out why you need to make up lies all the time to try to impress people.

It's still the funniest single thread in a long time as far as I'm concerned, I've literally laughed until I cried and I've barely even begun to wring material out of it, and obviously neither have some others:

ROTFLMAO

I've been having such a good time with it that it almost makes me forget to remember to fear the ludicrous clowns that it's about and all their little followers who can actually take them seriously.