MEDIA BLITZ!...Romney Whisper! FOX Now Onto It!
Submitted by mefleabyte on Fri, 01/25/2008 - 13:39
I've started sending below to all msm I can find, except MSNBC. This is too important to let go. Something is potentially too rotten to let them get away with ignoring it. Please join me, copy/paste, modify, whatever.
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What is the whisper? "he raised taxes" which is what Reagan did with SS as part of answer to question asked. Why is no media reporting on this. WE DESERVE ANSWER! This is not just spliced in on youtube....check MSNBC own video for proof. Thousands of people are reporting hearing this as they watched last night! All kinds of theories but nothing holds water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NlIMQ31EjY
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I've got the answer:
I'm telling you-- they were feeding him lines through one of those ultrasonic directed speakers. The beam accidentally got too near the mic.
Ventriloquism.
Romney was practising. It is a new career, since he is spending all of his money and will soon be broke. This way he will have a back up job, in case this President thing falls through.
When you got millions, it is easy to bribe someone in the know
Mitt may have had an emergency microphone in his suit, in case he was blind sided with a trick question. Perhaps Mitt had previously paid someone off to obtain access to the questions in advance, and Russett found out, thus, giving Mitt an incomplete different question. Since Mitt was not prepared for this question, Mitt's team decided to help him with the answer via the hidden microphone which was a little too loud.
glmeadors
Ok...
If Williams heard it in his ear piece, then it would have had to come from a producer or higher, right? Especially since it was heard over the network's equipment.
Which makes me wonder if MSNBC was actually directing Romney... maybe it wasn't his campaign at all. Which, would make this all the worse!
And Mitt did "win" last night's debate with 41% over Paul's 40%.
Kinda strange ...
whoever cued Romney in seems to have jumped the gun ... because Russert started adding in the fact that SS taxes were raised just after Romney said "I won't raise taxes." If this was someone on Romney's team, then perhaps he knew the questions ahead of time, and whispered a bit too soon.
MSNBC claims none of the candidates heard it, they do NOT say it was Russert, and it couldn't have been, since he went on to add to his own question -- Williams said he heard it in his earpiece, and it wasn't him, and he looked around and couldn't imagine where it came from -- the open mike story is really ridiculous -- really folks, who does this leave? A wizard behind the curtain.
Also notice the
exessive blinking going on just about the time you hear the whisper; a signal that he needs help maybe?
And check this out; not as obvious as the first one, but around 00:16 you hear something like "rephrase it"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zK408oqEyOU
I can't tell
I can't tell if you are trying to be funny or not. Excessive blinking?? Cues for live feed into his ear-piece??
I think it was obviously Williams whispering to Russert.
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Looking at it again. It certainly does look as if he is listening and getting cued. I thought from seeing it the first time that he glanced to Russert's right at whoever whispered, but no, he did not. Someone thought he would not know what Ronald Reagan did and so they told him. And it certainly does look as if he was the only one who heard it---except THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!! That is interesting. Now I do believe he was prompted. I didn't before rewatching this clip.
Not surprising at all
Folks like Romney and such personalities always depend on their advisors when it comes to PR stuff. Romney still thinks it is just another private venture that he has started ( and hence so much of his personal money) and is acting accordingly. Essentially, the businessman in him never grew big enough to understand that campaign is not another business deal. Things at stake here cannot be justified just based on ROI and identification of problem statements in a board meeting. The job of presidentship of US requires people of much higher intellect and understanding but of a different kind than what is required to being in the board of directors of a major corporation.
Romney can be an excellent business person but not the president of USA. If it were so, Buffet and Bill Gates would be way more qualified than Romney. For that Forbes might be better than Romney and we know what happened with Forbes. For Romney, it might be a matter of fact to be prompted by his advisors but unfortunately the people of US need more depth and understanding of the candidates.
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NBC says...
"As far as figuring out the mystery of who or where it came from, that is being worked on, and we hope to have an answer soon"
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/MSNBC_blames_Romney_whisper_on...
Romney whisper
whisper voice said,
"he raised taxes, i'm not gonna"
Romney said,
"I'm not gonna raise taxes ..."
So what are the chances that?
1) a mic in the audience was left accidentally open,
2) only recorded this one whisper right after a question was asked,
3) Romney didn't hear it, but gave almost the exact same answer.
I'd say close to zero.
^^^^^^^^^^
If you take MSNBC's statement completely literally however, it can be true:
1) an open mic picked up a whisper from the audience,
TRUE, the whisperer was Romney's coach who was in the "audience" of 20 million or so people.
2) it is unclear who it is that says it, but it was not said by any of the candidates,
TRUE, the coach wasn't one of the candidates obviously, and it's not clear to MSNBC who Romney's coach is.
3) was not heard in the hall,
TRUE, only Romney and the TV audience heard it; hall was probably too noisy to pickup whisper.
4) not heard by the candidates.
TRUE, if by candidates they mean some of the candidates - only Romney heard it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NlIMQ31EjY
Romney would not have reacted immediately verbatim if he did bot
expect it. He knew it was a private message to him. If it came to him through an open mike, he 1. would not be completely sure it was his coach and not a set up, 2. would not repeated it verbatim right away because it would make him look stupid.
Anderson Cooper CNN
Anderson Cooper reported briefly on it. He said it was going viral on the net. They show it twice. Then gave the MSNBC excuse that it was an open mic someone accidently talked into... Uh, huh, Okay, sure...
They have yet to PROVE IT or DENY that Romney was not being FED answers.
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OK this is what I hear...
I recorded the audio from youtube, then slowed it down. It sounds to me like the whispering voice says:
"He raised taxes... I'm not"
Then the rest of the whisper is drowned out as Romney begins his answer:
"I'm not going to raise taxes."
This definitely warrants further investigation; keep pushing to get the message out.
MSNBC's Lame Denials
tell you for sure than Rommel-ney was being fed answers.
I've figured it out you can all relax now...
Huckaboob channeled God and it unintentionally was broadcast from his evil eye so that the Golden boy Willard would hear it because that is what Joseph Smith wanted.
Get it?
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Actually resimc2.. that's wrong.
Listen again. Listen REALLY CLOSELY.
The voice says:
"He raised taxes...
[pause]
...I'm not gonna"
Then Romney starts "I'm not gonna raise taxes." The second part of the prompt PROVES it was a deliberately FED line, not a mistake, not a malfunction. He was CUED, plain and simple.
mefleabyte, what is your theory?
The only possibility I can think of was that he had a wire on, somebody would whisper to him to during debate, but htis was so important that somebody said it loudly and that's why we heard it. If this is true, he is done. How can this be proven?
all a guess....
for now. Hope the pressure stays on MSNBC to come up with a real answer. I don't know enough about the technical end but everyone can see their excuses thus far are just that. It made a few major news outlets but will probably just disappear and be further ignored. Maybe the right tech. people from competitors will expose the truth.
I am not sure the pressure should be on MSNBC -
they are as confused as everybody else and don't want to admit they've been played. Competitors will not touch it. Even RP will not touch it.
There is some evidence on ronpaulforums of another Mitt'st whisper episode in the debate:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=101411
It's sick.
You can see on the video that Mitt heard it
He visibly reacted to it, and then he started repeating the message. I don't believe that any member of the audience had access to the mike. Have you even seen debates of local politicians? It's impossible to get to the mike if the organizers don't want it. So MSNBC explanation only adds to theh suspicion that something was wrong.
Something smells here.
they do owe...
a real investigation and explanation. I've been bombing DRUDGE with this all day and hope others will too.
it was an accidental thing.
# 1 the whisper is still on the debate video on msnbc website.
# 2 Romney had very little time to react, so I say he didnt hear the whisper.
# 3 Tim Russert interrupted romney after the latter said ( I wont raise taxes)then tim said, RR raised the pay roll taxe, he raised retiremnet age & he saved social security), he said that because he realized that his question was defficient, so this whisper "raise tax" may very well came from somebody close to russert alerting him that he didnt mention it.
# 4 we still LOVE RP.
Unbelievable!
why do so many NOT READ the other comments before showing their ignorance!?
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RTFC!
Programmers will know.
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Again...
Do you not understand, NBC claims different vague stories===none of which are "Russert (or other moderator/other) said it."
Shut up already...
How many times and how many people on this thread can repeat...'it was Russert.' Or Williams. Oh...forgot...people don't bother to read the thread/comments before shooting off their mouths.
Duh...if Russert, or other moderator said it, then...why doesn't MSNBC/Russert just say so?
Do you not understand, NBC claims different vague stories===none of which are "Russert (or other moderator) said it."
This is my opinion of an overlooked fact .....
The whisper says " ... he raised taxes .... I'm not gon... (stops abruptly) .
Listen carefully .
The " ... he raised taxes ... " quote leaves room for many different viewpoints on where the comment came from .
But the " ... I'm not gon ....(stops abruptly) ... " quote leaves no room left for a wiggle . No one has any reason for whispering this ... neither in the audience ... nor at the panel desk .
It coincidentally was Romney's exact reply .
This is just the circumstancial event . It's coupled with a personal observation .
Romney knew EXACTLY where Tim was going with the question .... and it was too fast ..... way too fast , to have figured out where he was going .
I pride myself on my history ... and did NOT know where Tim was going with it right away . Romney doesn't strike me as any kind of a historian whatsoever .
So I am of the firm opinion , he was given the answer . That is my evaluation of the matter .
It's the SECOND part of that whisper , that is the key to it all . Go listen to it again .
Maybe Mitt was just thinking out loud.
Maybe Mitt was just thinking out loud.
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