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Did Kerry Violate Debate Rules By Using Cheat Sheet?
Mensnewsdaily.com ^ | October 3, 2004

Posted on 10/03/2004 6:13:37 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776

Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry may have violated the rules governing last Thursday's presidential debate.

According to Section 5 (pps 4 and 5) of the Memorandum of Understanding that was negotiated and agreed upon by both the Bush and Kerry campaigns:

(c) No props, notes, charts, diagrams, or other writings or other tangible things may be brought into the debate by either candidate. ...

(d) Notwithstanding subparagraph 5(c), the candidates may take notes during the debate on the size, color and type of paper each side prefers. Each candidate must submit to the staff of the Commission prior to the debate all such paper and any pens or pencils with which a candidate may wish to take notes during the debate, and the staff or commission will place such paper, pens and pencils on the podium, table or other structure to be used by the candidate in that debate.

On Sunday, INDC Journal and Daily Recycler produced a video and close-up stills showing that Senator Kerry apparently violated the rules signed by his campaign.

The video shows Kerry pulling what looks like crib notes from his jacket and placing them on his lectern at the start of the debate.

The website zombietime.com has posted a frame-by-frame view of the event here.

Use of crib notes during the debate would constitute a material breach of Memorandum of Understanding, though it is unclear if Kerry would be sanctioned.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cheater; firstdebate; kerry
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To: trek

I'm sure Lehrer isn't innocent. At very least he probably knew about the cheat sheet. I think it best to focus solely on Kerry, however, and that cheat sheet. The public will get that, the rest is unsubstantiated.


41 posted on 10/03/2004 6:26:31 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: kimchi lover

Kerry wants a "global test" because he's prepared with a cheat sheet for it.


42 posted on 10/03/2004 6:27:39 PM PDT by pierrem15
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To: Soul Seeker

Is there no camera shot of the "object"?


43 posted on 10/03/2004 6:28:08 PM PDT by USA_Soccer (Try a better (free + open source) browser -> Mozilla Firefox @ mozilla.org)
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To: GOP_Proud

That is soo obvious on that vidoe. You can see him unfolding a paper.


44 posted on 10/03/2004 6:28:27 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: areafiftyone

vidoe=video


45 posted on 10/03/2004 6:28:46 PM PDT by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: Soul Seeker

My degree deals with debates. I made extra money judging them.

KERRY'S GROUP AGREED TO THE RULES. Extra notes were a violation.
I would have disqualified a student. I would have failed the course had I done that in College.

Yet Kerry gets praise from the liberal commies in the media.

Great example they set for our youth. No wonder kids have become more and more clueless over the past 15 years.


46 posted on 10/03/2004 6:28:49 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud (all)
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To: stockpirate
Kerry is right handed, as am I. When you put a pen in your suit pocket it is with the hand with which you write, and it goes into the opposite pocket

Kerry reaches with his left in this video.

47 posted on 10/03/2004 6:30:16 PM PDT by wtc911 (I have half a Snickers...it was given to me by a CIA guy as we went into Cambodia)
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To: AmericanMade1776

I wonder if anyone has reviewed the entire debate to determine whether he put whatever it was back into his pocket. That might provide an even clearer picture.


48 posted on 10/03/2004 6:31:04 PM PDT by Virginia
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To: Clara Lou

Where is James Baker on this? He should be on this like a bum on a Big Mac! They should have Kerry's boney a$$ on the carpet before the debate commission, or whatever they call themselves.


49 posted on 10/03/2004 6:31:15 PM PDT by Tucker39 (God bless the U.S.A.)
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To: ladyinred

So?


50 posted on 10/03/2004 6:31:45 PM PDT by Restorer
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To: AmericanMade1776

Kerry has some spailing to do!


51 posted on 10/03/2004 6:32:05 PM PDT by mowkeka
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To: Soul Seeker
"The public will get that, the rest is unsubstantiated."

But Lehrer's misbehavior is important in its own right. We can change the politicians all we want. But until we root the radicals out of the other institutions like the press and the academy the country will continue to sink. Rathergate is opening many people's eyes to the fact that the fourth estate is really a fifth column of our enemies. It is extremely important to expose Lehrer and the rest of the PBS crowd as the hard left scoundrels they are. Blowing Lehrer's fraudulent claim to the role of neutral moderator would be a great first step.

52 posted on 10/03/2004 6:32:47 PM PDT by trek
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To: trek
This notes business is a minor scandal

Yes, minor in a technical sense. However, it sends Kerry's "ickiness factor" through the roof. He'll pay for it, because he's already intrinsically unlikeable.

IF this makes it big, then a) Bush's silence on the matter is a huge plus for him; b) the pajamahadeen are going to have scored two incredibly huge victories within a month.

53 posted on 10/03/2004 6:32:54 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: AmericanMade1776
I have a digital TIVO and it slow motions really clear, frame by frame. Kerry clearly took what appears to be note cards out of his jacket when his back was to the audience. He then slid them onto his podium and read and sorted whatever he took from his pocket. I doubt Kerry knew there was a rear camera rolling when he pulled the maneuver.

So where is the news. Dims cheat, lie and steal. We knew that. Watch for fraud in the election. Bush just walked up to his podium and stood there. Bush clearly had nothing with him.

HOWEVER, it is likely a mistake to focus on this. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Time to buck up and move on. Plenty of time left to get back ground lost. Let's roll.
54 posted on 10/03/2004 6:34:09 PM PDT by Tarpon
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To: Restorer

A clear picture of the cheating Kerry:

http://www.capitalideasblog.com/


55 posted on 10/03/2004 6:34:55 PM PDT by drill_ANWR
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To: AmericanMade1776

If anyone is surprised that Kerry would do this, tell them to read "Unfit for Command."


56 posted on 10/03/2004 6:35:21 PM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: Our man in washington

I bought the book , UNFIT TO COMMAND, but have not read it. I lived in Massachusetts for 19 years, there is not much you can tell me about Kerry that would change my mind about him, as being a shallow,self centered, suck up.


57 posted on 10/03/2004 6:37:08 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: USA_Soccer

Sure, there are a number of threads around here with photos of Kerry and the cheat sheet. Search Drudge as a keyword and you'll find quite a few threads on the subject. There is clearly a rectangular white object being pulled from his pocket, then smoothed out on the podium


58 posted on 10/03/2004 6:38:18 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: AmericanMade1776

I saw the video. Looks to me like Sen. Kerry pulled something out of his jacket. What was it?

I seriously doubt it was a pack of Marlboros. And I don't think it was a picture of the Blessed Virgin either.

This story has legs. Everyone who has ever studied late for an exam in school just to see some jerk come in with a cribsheet knows what this is like. People can identify with it.

I t would be interesting to hear some teachers weigh in on this.


59 posted on 10/03/2004 6:39:14 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat
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To: AmericanMade1776

Here's a great comment from someone responding to the story on the Wizbang blog:

"As a professor, I have seen the "Slight-of-Hand" cheat sheet manuver too many times. I could not believe my eyes when I saw it during the "debate." Thank God for Digital Video Recorders!

The cheat sheets I recovered over the years all had either the questions, the answers or both. I wonder which group Kerry's crib notes belongs in.

Prior access to the moderators questions would fit with the other media escapades witnessed during the past few months. I guess that's impossible given the right-wing media culture at PBS.

Posted by Frostbitten at October 3, 2004 07:45 PM"


60 posted on 10/03/2004 6:39:39 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
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