Posted on 10/03/2004 10:31:18 AM PDT by conservativepoet
Caught on Video: Kerry Cheated by Using Notes Cards in Debate
How would Kerry know what to write on these note cards UNLESS he ALREADY HAD THE QUESTIONS!? This DEFINATELY needs to be SHOUTED FROM THE ROOFTOPS! We all know rules are ONLY for Republicans.
Exactly.
All items, including props, were to be placed on the podium before the candidate's entrance. If you wanted a sweat rag, a rabbits foot, paper, pen, whatever; it was not to be produced from your jacket pocket.
Of course it was serious. And, it would have been received as more serious if Bush hadn't stumbled his way through the debate.
Look, Kerry's words are ultimately what will be remembered IF Bush does a better job on Friday.
Well, to spare us having the same argument next Sunday, I hope he has the performance of his life. LOL
Glad I'm not the only one who feels that way!
Then you must like pain if you watched enough to give us a blow by blow description. You almost sound masochistic about this. Quit beating yourself up and ask yourself why you dwell on this negativity.
so he cheated ...... we knew he had the questions before hand.... he had the answers ...... just like the next debate...... and the one after that.... so get over it...
W needs to get out the vote..... volunteer for the last 72 hrs... get the churches out and to the voting booth...
come folks .. spend energy where we can make a difference....
surely some 527 somewhere can play the audio from kerry calling the republicans "cheats" and "liars" while showing the debate video of kerry pulling something from his pocket...voice-over then, "Whose cheating now?"
It really looked like a pen to me -right after he pulled it out he pulled the top off the pen. But the video probably does reveal much more when slowed...
Direct your comment to the person I was quoting. I certainly did not say President Bush cannot think on his feet. I was disputing that assertion from another.
Further proof that James Baker is an incompetent boob. How that man has managed to make himself out to be the brains in any outfit is downright staggering. What has he EVER succeeded at doing to government besides making it bigger?
Lee Atwater, RIP.
While I understand your concern for the more weighty things involved in this campaign, I always wonder why it is that people think that we cannot "focus" on those things and persue something like this at the same time.
Further, exactly what would you suggest we can actually DO about these other issues except pray?
THnaks for the pings..........Kerry got caught [again].
Oh my god, it is totally a piece of paper. What an a$$hole, who doesn't even hold sacred the importance of following debate guidelines.
Exactly, Tortoise. An uncompressed QuickTime file off the original will be fine, but these things we're seeing here on the net are low-rez and compressed to the Nth. Even a super-clean recording off DirecTV will still be a recording of a highly compressed signal. As small as the object is within the frame, I need something as close to the source as possible in order to have the best shot at extracting meaningful detail. Video enhancement, unfortunately, as you no doubt already know, is not as portrayed on the movies and CSI.
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I used to respect your opinions as well thought out and pragmatic and never nutty or mean,just curmudgeonly. That is past tense,you sound viscerally angry, aloof,and hard hearted. President Bush came to Florida because people are hurting especially in Central Florida hit three times by dangerous hurricanes. He did what he does best and met with an elderly man that he helped get military disability after trying for 58 years and getting screwed over by everyone. The man is deaf and in his 80's,and had no power in his home but was so thrilled that he met the president he could not sleep and is still exhilarated. The day of the debate he also was faced with the headlines of the murder of 35 Iraqi children. He was out in this terrible heat and carnage in Florida,and in hindsight he probably should have postponed his sympathy trips because he seemed like he was very dehydrated and very tired. Good reason to beat him up on all the threads because he thought he could do it all and did not accomplish this. He is not a robot,he is human.
The fuss about the lights makes the cheating plausible.
Kerry sometimes gets flustered when being interviewed by reporters; his temper even shows. His camp was angry about the lights on the podium and thought they would be a distraction. They threatened to take them down.
They didn't do that, but they covered Kerry's a-- by making sure he had notes to cover his main talking points or key statements (lies) that he wanted to get across. They weren't going to leave it to chance that he would get flustered by the President, the questions, or the lights.
I saw him reach into his pocket when the debate first started and simply assumed he was getting out note cards. I didn't know then that they were not allowed to bring anything to the podium. The cards (or paper) were pulled out when his back was mostly to the audience. Where was Lehrer looking when this happened?
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