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 ...
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.
Kerry wants a "global test" because he's prepared with a cheat sheet for it.
Is there no camera shot of the "object"?
That is soo obvious on that vidoe. You can see him unfolding a paper.
vidoe=video
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.
Kerry reaches with his left in this video.
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.
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.
So?
Kerry has some spailing to do!
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.
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.
A clear picture of the cheating Kerry:
http://www.capitalideasblog.com/
If anyone is surprised that Kerry would do this, tell them to read "Unfit for Command."
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.
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
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.
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"
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