Friday, October 8

Bush's Mystery Bulge - No, it's not Wonkette's favorite kind of bulge post. Instead, Salon is investigating the rumor that President Bush was being fed his lines through an earpiece at the last debate. In fact, some think he's been using the technology for quite some time:

Mystery-bulge bloggers argue that the president may have begun using such technology earlier in his term. Because Bush is famously prone to malapropisms and reportedly dyslexic, which could make successful use of a teleprompter problematic, they say the president and his handlers may have turned to a technique often used by television reporters on remote stand-ups. A reporter tapes a story and, while on camera, plays it back into an earpiece, repeating lines just after hearing them, managing to sound spontaneous and error free.

Do we think that's why the President sometimes has his little issues with pronunciation and word choice? Karen Hughes IS a former television news reporter! You be the judge.