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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