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No ear mics allowed for debate moderators; But what about the candidates?
World Tribune ^ | 9/25/2016

Posted on 09/25/2016 7:01:23 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

The presidential debate moderators will not be allowed to wear earpieces, according to published reports.

But what about the presidential candidates themselves?

A voter in Maryland wrote Federal Elections Commissioner Matthew Petersen on Sept. 8 seeking a "clear response" to that question.

"I read reports that during the televised event questioning each of the candidates on their qualifications to serve as Commander in Chief, that Secretary Clinton had a microphone in her ear to receive prompting and guidance from advisers off stage," wrote Laurence B of Columbia, MD.

[A check of his name and address at the Maryland State Board of Elections Internet site verified the writer's identity as a registered voter.]

"Surely this is a more serious violation of competition than the doping which the Olympics have had to clean up. ... Can you please confirm that your commission will take conclusive steps to ensure that no such cheating takes place during the debates?" the letter concluded.

When he received no response to his letter, he wrote again on Sept. 21: "I've got to say I'm really discouraged not to have received a confirmation from you or from your office that your policy will be to disallow the two candidates to wear ear microphones. Am I to interpret your lack of a response to mean that such behavior will, indeed be accepted?"

(Excerpt) Read more at worldtribune.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016debates; aflac; bfac; boom; debates; earpiece; pow; presidentialdebates
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To: granite

“Or hijacking the signal and providing misinformation.”

Or hijacking the signal and providing some seriously brutal heckling. Lol!


41 posted on 09/25/2016 8:18:00 PM PDT by FreeInWV
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To: sockhead

Thanks for the link to Doctor Raoul’s tribute. Lots of funny in there!


42 posted on 09/25/2016 8:22:13 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Mogger

What's all this about an ear 'mic'??

...never mind

43 posted on 09/25/2016 8:28:19 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: Jamestown1630

Good points.


44 posted on 09/25/2016 8:39:49 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Read the article, people. This is a travesty. The commission won’t even say whether they allow or forbid them or how they would police it. I agree this is worse than doping at the Olympics.

This needs to go viral. The commission needs to speak about this. Hillary has won’t an earpiece several times recently. She is getting good at it.


45 posted on 09/25/2016 8:44:49 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: jetson

Hillary will wear a Mao collared knee length thick jacket, either in a burlap style plaid knit or a wooly tarp in a solid color. Underneath will be pants with a generous width to allow for a bag of urine strapped to one leg. She will wear low heeled shoes and her hair will be covering her ears, one of which has a tiny earpiece in it. She will wear pearl earrings and necklace, and of course a wedding ring.


46 posted on 09/25/2016 8:49:51 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Jamestown1630
I had to laugh, a microphone is not even needed for a job like this. In this arrangement the spooks are watching/listening to the debate real time live so they would know when to feed her responses or retorts. Funny stuff. And I am in no way suggesting Clinton is wired up. But ya never know ☺ Anyway, watch for media/Clinton collusion, like they display on a daily basis.
47 posted on 09/25/2016 8:52:48 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: gaijin

Yes, liberals are from a different planet. It’s the only reasonable explanation.


48 posted on 09/25/2016 9:01:36 PM PDT by stillfree? (My My My)
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To: Yaelle
Lol!

"Underneath will be pants with a generous width to allow for a bag of urine strapped to one leg."

49 posted on 09/25/2016 9:03:45 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: sockhead

She talks out of her butt so much she needs a “rear” mic.


50 posted on 09/25/2016 9:08:39 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: mlo

Putting a mic in your ear doesn’t sound very effective.
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LOL... You beat me to it, mlo! I was reading the thread to see if anyone else picked up on that.


51 posted on 09/25/2016 9:31:28 PM PDT by octex
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To: octex

It’d be a good way to catch what Joe Biden is saying when he’s “talking” to the women that attend his public appearances.


52 posted on 09/25/2016 9:42:26 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: rightwingcrazy

53 posted on 09/25/2016 9:49:25 PM PDT by Salamander (More deplorable than deplorable...)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; All

Microphones are for capturing sound, as in newsrooms, and athletic announcers. Ear buds are for playing sound. Ergo, why would anyone wear an ear mic(rophone)?


54 posted on 09/25/2016 11:31:24 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: octex

Ok, I’m going to say something really nerdy:

A speaker and a microphone are the same thing; an electromagnetic transducer. It’s like the two paper cups at each end of a string. The cups can be both a microphone and a speaker.

It would be easy to convert one to the other.


55 posted on 09/26/2016 5:01:33 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: Yaelle
She will wear pearl earrings and necklace, and of course a wedding ring.

.Hmmm...secret mic?

56 posted on 09/26/2016 6:20:48 AM PDT by jetson
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To: 867V309
Trump should ask for a closeup of his ears. Let cankles follow or not, the damage has been done.

seconded.

57 posted on 09/26/2016 6:23:45 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
There are ear receivers available expensively that are small enough to fit invisibly deep into the ear. Mrs Bill will have one of those regardless of rules. They are not detectable with cursory visual inspection.
58 posted on 09/26/2016 6:38:57 AM PDT by arthurus (Hillary's campaign is getting shaky)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Seriously, someone needs to get a spark gap generator and use it in the parking lot of the place. It will jam her earpiece guaranteed.


59 posted on 09/26/2016 6:45:03 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: mlo

“Putting a mic in your ear doesn’t sound very effective.”

It would help the rest of us to also know what the voices in her head are saying! :)


60 posted on 09/26/2016 6:45:55 AM PDT by CodeToad
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