8 Ways to Sunday

The blogosphere is all abuzz with talk that Bush was wired for sound during the September 30th presidential debate.

Video of the debate briefly showed a shot of the President from behind, in defiance of the agreed-upon rules for the debate telecast. In this shot, a small rectangular bulge was clearly visible between Bush’s shoulder blades. Some say it even looks like there’s a cord trailing up from the bulge over Bush’s shoulder.

You can see the bulge in the C-SPAN video at about 23 minutes. Read this story for a catch-up on the rumors, and check in with isbushwired.com for the definitive scoop as the story unfolds.

Updates:

• Another story, with good close-up picture and visitor comments

• A good summary of the story so far

• A hilarious picture-spoof

• A photo capture from the debate, with an enlargement of the bulge in question.

  
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• Vanity Fair contributing editor James Wolcott scolds bloggers for their “baseless rumormongering”:

  Such baseless rumormongering does crude disserve to our president.

  He doesn’t need the assistance of an electronic feed to hear voices in his head.

  Indeed, he is able to tune into favorite frequencies simply by adjusting his head like an antenna trying to pick up a Spanish station on UHF.

  When he turns his head to the right, he hears the voice of Karen Hughes telling his tie gives him secret powers. When he cocks his head to the left, he hears the voice of God telling him that Democrats are a race of devil-men. And when rotates his head semi clockwise and pauses, he hears the ruby-lipped, husky-FM-radio voice of Sister Cocaine telling him she knows her baby would like a taste of her sweet white goodness, yes he would, you know you want it, baby, Sister Cocaine make you feel so fine…and so on, as he begins to sway on his feet and a strange smile strays across his face.

  Actually, that’s not a totally inaccurate description of his debate performance that night…