Doug Giebel thinks Bush’s world is falling apart. Readers of FmH know that I have long speculated that Bush is an incurious and malleable patsy of his handlers in the misadministration; a rigid credulous ne’er-do-well of simpleminded faith who has not been lying so much as lied to by his advisers puppetmasters. Giebel agrees, and thinks that what we were seeing in the first debate was Dubya’s dawning realization, despite being the “most insulated leader in our history”, of the contradictions. It is crediting Bush with alot, I know, to think that he is beginning to grasp this. Giebel actually seems to pity the man, which is a neat solution to the pain it causes some of us to hold him in such utter contempt. (Counterpunch)
Related: Here, an intriguing notion of how they might feed the puppet Bush his lines when he is onstage:
Is Bush wired?: “This site is a clearinghouse for discussion of whether President Bush uses an earpiece through which he’s fed lines and cues by offstage advisers. His speech rhythms suggest this, as do some of his word choices and interjections, and his constantly shifting eye movements while speaking. And there’s another form of evidence: Television viewers have sometimes heard another voice speaking Bush’s words before he says them. When Bush spoke at D-Day ceremonies in France last June, for example, viewers watching on CNN, Fox and MSNBC, including mediachannel.org’s Danny Schechter, were startled to hear another voice speaking Bush’s words as if to prompt him. Some said this continued into a q & a. And on the night of 9/11, when Bush appeared on television to address the nation, viewers of one television station in Quincy, Massachusetts heard another voice speaking, slowly and carefully, a few words at a time — words which were then recited by the president. The voice was nondescript, male, definitely not the president’s voice, says Quincy resident Robyn Miller. This went on for at least four sentences, she says, and then the ‘extra’ feed was cut off.” [via
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