[internetworkers] Bush's bulge bothers bloggers (and others)
burnett at pobox.com
burnett at pobox.com
Fri Oct 8 10:41:35 EDT 2004
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2004, at 6:51 AM, Paul Jones wrote:
>
> > Was Bush Prompted (illegally) by Radio? Bush's bulge is bigger that
> > Kerry's pen.
> >
> > http://www.isbushwired.com/
> > http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/08/bulge/index.html
>
> What the $@#!#!!! My first reaction was Photoshop since there seems
> to be a single image going around. However, Dave Lindorff of Salon says
> he's checked the C-SPAN tape of the 1st debate and the bulge is indeed
> there as well. And then there's the fact that the Bush debate
> negotiators requested that no cameras be placed behind the candidates.
Almost-decade-old fictional precursor that I thought of the moment I
heard the allegation last week:
Stephen Bury's novel _Interface_ printed in the spring of 1995: A chip
wired into a US Presidential candidate's brain after a stroke gives him a
link to a constant-updated polling system of the American populace, so
that he senses the changing mood of the polled populace. Tag line for the
book was something like "He's not a politician, he's a special effect".
(Stephen Bury is a pen name of Neal Stephenson, of Snow Crash/the Baroque
Cycle fame).
regards,
Steve B
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