There was a very odd moment in today's press conference. It was so odd that I checked two different video captures to make sure it wasn't an edit. About 1:55 into this clip, he stops mid-sentence, softly mumbles something with his eyes closed, and then resumes. Maybe he's whispering to someone off frame, but it looks like glossilalia or a fugue to me. Just strange.
Is he listening to Karl in his earpiece? (Sorry, I don't have the fortitude to watch the Pres right now.)
The whole affair is ugly, so I can't blame you for not looking. He does not appear to have an earpiece, but I suppose it could be an in-ear wireless system.
someone tries to re-construct the mumbling
Check him out in this clip, also in about 1:55
I recall seeing that clip. Three words: organic brain damage.
Bob Harris reconstructs some of the notes on the podium during yesterday's press conference. Apparently, Bush needs notes to regurgitate trite, vacuous talking points.
Organic brain damage or "just not into it anymore."
Contrary to what the Shakespeare-reading pundits loved to spout after 9/11, Bush did not "grow" from Prince Hal to King Henry--he's still a little boy and things aren't going his way and he's bored.
In his previous life, this is the point where his Dad's friends stepped in to bail him out.
I think Dad's friends are trying. Couple years too late though. This train's going round the bend.
43 + 41 = 84 Prevailing wisdom has the 43rd and 41st presidents locked in an Oedipal struggle, with W. very different from his one-term, Saddam-sparing dad. But interviewing people close to "84," Todd Purdum discovers just how much the two Bushes share—including a dangerous stubborn streak. heard here on lopate
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- mark 8-22-2006 10:48 am
Is he listening to Karl in his earpiece? (Sorry, I don't have the fortitude to watch the Pres right now.)
- tom moody 8-22-2006 10:52 am
The whole affair is ugly, so I can't blame you for not looking. He does not appear to have an earpiece, but I suppose it could be an in-ear wireless system.
- mark 8-22-2006 12:11 pm
someone tries to re-construct the mumbling
- mark 8-22-2006 12:28 pm
Check him out in this clip, also in about 1:55
- steve 8-22-2006 1:21 pm
I recall seeing that clip. Three words: organic brain damage.
Bob Harris reconstructs some of the notes on the podium during yesterday's press conference. Apparently, Bush needs notes to regurgitate trite, vacuous talking points.
- mark 8-22-2006 8:30 pm
Organic brain damage or "just not into it anymore."
Contrary to what the Shakespeare-reading pundits loved to spout after 9/11, Bush did not "grow" from Prince Hal to King Henry--he's still a little boy and things aren't going his way and he's bored.
In his previous life, this is the point where his Dad's friends stepped in to bail him out.
- tom moody 8-22-2006 9:06 pm
I think Dad's friends are trying. Couple years too late though. This train's going round the bend.
- jim 8-22-2006 9:29 pm
heard here on lopate- bill 8-22-2006 10:24 pm