Posted on 10/03/2004 11:56:26 PM PDT by kattracks
October 4, 2004 -- Was John Kerry trying to pull something at the debate last week?That question was burning up the Internet yesterday after a slo-mo review of the footage showed the Massachusetts senator taking an object out of his right pocket before the first question.
Was it a cheat sheet — as some conservative bloggers claimed — or was it something innocuous?
Either way, it would violate the debate rules agreed to by both campaigns: "No props, notes . . . or other tangible things may be brought into the debate."
Many blogs offered links to the "Pocket-gate" footage. One, INDC Journal, even posted frame-by-frame stills purporting to show Kerry pulling out a notecard and placing it onto the podium.
But the mystery was solved when The Post reviewed a Fox News Channel feed from Thursday's debate: Kerry pulled out . . . a black pen.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Bah. Oh well.
How about getting memogate back to the front pages? It died when Kerry Kamp fingerprints appeared all over it.
Yeah Im glad this made it to the post at least
That's what it looked like to me too. I wonder which video the Post examined.
how do you fold out a black pen into a flat sheet?
Is it one of those french pens??? Keep it in your pocket, folds out into a white, flag like object for quick surrender?
The NY Post... come on... let's see that footage they are talking about then... because the footage I have seen, it was definitely not a pen...
How can a BLACK PEN look like a WHITE PAPER? More liberal B.S.
I wish fox would show their enhanced overhead video.
Becaase whatever it was looks white, not black upon enhanced imaging.
No way in HELL that is a "pen".
And solid; not soft like a kleenx - like an index card or cards. . .it is in the FRAME - what are these people looking at!!!
Exactly!
I betcha the DNC stole Carl Rove's mind control technology and is now using the RNC's own weapon against them. Those conniving bastards have stolen RNC technology, minaturized it and put it into something so innocuous as a ballpoint pen. How else can we explain the fact that Bush didn't nail Kerry in spite of being given multiple openings? Evil Dems. ;-)
Seriously, my wife is almost complete apolitical and though she thought that Kerry was a better debater, nevertheless she found Bush more believable and in general agreed more with what he was saying. She appreicated Kerry's debating skill, but she appreciated what Bush was saying. What can I say, I married a smart lady! :-)
He wasn't alllowed to bring a pen either. Pens were already layed out wiht paper on podium beforehand.
Section 5, pages 4-5 of the binding "Memorandum of Understanding" that was negotiated and agreed upon by both political campaigns states:
"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..."
its not a pen!
The folks at the Post must be smoking something fierce.
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