MITT ROMNEY BEING FED HIS ANSWERS!!!

I'm a professional audio engineer. I record music, and have done sound design and recorded voiceovers for cable TV. I watched/listened to this clip at least a dozen times, and watched the whole debate live, just after a recording session and dinner. Let me explain the possibilities.

If he was wearing an ear piece and was being fed the lines, then his microphones level would have to be so high that two things would go wrong. First, the background noise would probably have been much louder than the ear piece, and what we could hear from that would have been of very low, indiscernible quality, Second, when he spoke, the levels would have been so high, that there would have been massive distortion, and possible speaker damage. Obviously he wasn't 20 times louder than he was supposed to be, so we can discount that the mic picked up his feed.

There is the nefarious possibility, however slim, that he was being fed, and via the official CNBC CFR channels. What we heard was his feed accidentally routed the wrong way, into the main output we heard, as well as into his ear-piece. A maladjusted aux send might have done this. This is, of course, very unlikely. If CNBC were going to try stuff like this, I'm sure they wouldn't have had such a loser sound guy, and probably would have used completely separate systems.

Come to think of it though, they had lapel mics as well as podium mics. The lapel mic would have been wireless, of course. A feed would have been too. There are set frequencies on these, like channels that can be chosen for different signals, to avoid interference, or crosstalk. It's possible that the frequency for the feed somehow drifted to another frequency, though I never heard of that. The oscillator crystal could have had an issue, I don't know. Interference happens. Watch the Jimi Hendrix live at Monterey. He's playing Machine Gun, and you can hear a security guard's radio for a minute. (Actually, I was just playing drums on that song the other day! You can jam out on that FOREVER!) Again, it's REALLY REALLY unlikely that they would have used a sound guy and equipment for this that would have allowed for such an error for such a sensitive task.

I noticed other sound problems with the show, mainly too much auditorium sound. The Florida guy asking questions once, you could only hear the auditorium mic picking up the hand held mic's amplification in the room, and not the direct signal of the mic. This happened with Ron Paul once too, though it was corrected part-way through his response.

The most likely scenario by far, is that another moderator simply stated "he raised taxes" to clarify the question, or a bit less likely, another participant muttering it to themselves in recollection. All the while they had a lazy sound engineer, or gunk in the mixer.

It's all very interesting, but we don't need to be wasting our time on this. But keep on the prowl!

It sounds to me like it was Williams. Either way, someone was trying to help him out, which is NOT RIGHT. Russert's question was a "gotcha" attempt because raising taxes is what Reagan actually did to fix the problem and Russert intentionally did not specify. Someone is telling Romney "he raised taxes."

dam... that's crazy. obviously the MSM will never expose it....

There is a thing called reverb aka short for sound reverberation. A simple way to describe reverb it's that it's a varying form of an echo. In this case a very short and faded echo since it's in a large spacious hall filled with people among other items that actually absorb the sound rather than bounce it back. If you listen closely you will hear the "whisper" reverb back over the sound system for all to hear.

Meaning....everyone in the audience heard it too.

It was not someone speaking from outside the closed hardwired system or from a reporter inside a van or something like that. It was from someone that had an open microphone inside the debate.

He looked nevervous other debates he was loose looking around he was stiff almost scared looking

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" Thomas Jefferson

was trying to hear something I thought it maybe one of the other people someone needs to do a voice analysis this could be big
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"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" Thomas Jefferson

Everyone with an account at FreeRepublic should post this video there. Most of them were Thompson supporters until he dropped out, and now they're talking about switching to Romney. We need to show them how corrupt he is; otherwise, they'll never leave the shelter of their echo chamber long enough to be exposed to the truth.

Please Digg the video, and also this: MSNBC covering Manchurian Mitt's backside for him.

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now that everyone else seems to of heard it, I don't feel crazy. I forgot about it until I read this. I did tivo this, and I am so going back to watch it and figure it out. At least what I think it might be. I am a recording arts major so I might be able to figure out if it is from a mic or a secret ear piece. Actually I don't think my major will help, but it is worth looking back at. Oh yeah, to me it sounded like a womans voice.

like bleed from russerts mic. as if he was clarifying it for someone near him. But let's boycott msnbc just in case:)

I thought it was a producer giving directions to someone at MSNBC.

Feeding answers to candidates are nothing new. Watch this and let your eyes open real wide:

http://www.guba.com/watch...

I dugg it but am not sure this is a good idea. Since it links back to Ron Paul TV - they are all going to say its the ron paul whackos again with their conspiracy theories.

But then again, maybe there is no such thing as bad publicity?

They keep picking different candidates to push in different primaries. My observance.

www.ronpaul2008.com

There is life at the end of the tunnel my friends!

There is no way for the whisper to be coming from an ear piece.

The microphones are hardwired and will not allow for a wireless transmission to be broadcast on it. If it actually was a wireless communication it would have sounded like a hum or static noise and definitely not an entire clearly audible vocal statement.

Also, on the reverse side, if it is said that the sound was being transmitted from an ear piece to the microphone... at that volume it would have literally blown out Romney's eardrum as well. I can't even believe anyone could make such an assumption without knowing how audio systems work.

It was obviously one of the other candidates whispering into their mic. For the sake of argument It could also be said, yes, that it could have come from one of the moderators. Anyone with an open microphone could have said it. Since it was only broadcast on msnbc (they had the only camera angle) we can't see who said it since the camera was zoomed in on Romney's face at the time.

As to who actually said it I'll leave that up to someone else with more time on their hands to figure out. You could figure it out by doing a vocal spectrum analysis without much work. I seriously doubt it's worth it for such a small question without any major conspiratorial implications.

the only person's microphone that was live at the moment was Tim's. So it HAD to be Williams whispering. If you'll notice, his hand also points to something on the side of the screen likes he calling Russert's attention to something.

It was Brian Williams reminding Tim Russert to say more about the issue (I think it was to say something about cutting taxes). If you'll notice, Russert then added more to his question. Campaigns were sending in reports to talk about through the debate and I think Brian was helping get the point of the article/question across to Russert.

Help make this thing go viral!!!

Let Romney explain it, don't bother trying to figure it out yourself--you weren't there!!!

MSNBC took out the whisper-to-Romney, "raise taxes", on the 9pm west coast re-broadcast -- I rewound twice to be sure. I clearly heard it during the 1st airing & it's obviously on YouTube, re-posted on LibertyPost.org. People need to push MSNBC to release a statement/explanation as to whose voice that was and why they edited out of the re-broadcast.

People are discussing the whisper on Yahoo Answers, also as well as on msnbc's blog, although the link to the latter comment was mysteriously down/unable-to-be accessed the second time I tried it. I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories but something is definitely not kosher with this.

it is a possibility....

is it possible that the cue was for russert and romney heard it? because russert then interrupted to mention that reagan raised taxes. Could have been producers correcting russert's question.

?????

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(google Murray Sabrin)

Don't think it was an earpiece or anything... it sounds like another candidate or pundit said it in their microphone. Perhaps the other pundit said "raised taxes" to clarify the question. It is definitely not bleed from an ear piece into Romney's mic. I am an audio engineer and it sounds like someone talked into a mic which was being fed into the TV feed i.e. from another candidate or a pundit... It is very strange indeed!!!

Sincerely,
Rich Clarke

I heard it and thought someone in my empty living room whispered it-- after a thorough freakout I rewound the tape.

What in the world is going on? He doesn't have an earpiece-- does he?

Maybe they're using one of those super directed ultrasonic speakers to feed him lines, and accidentally nudged it into the mic.

digg it!

Make them prove that it WASN'T someone cueing him in his ear piece! Until then.... ASK QUESTIONS, DEMAND ANSWERS!

There's a posted link below to DIGG!! Digg it til the cows come home!

http://digg.com/2008_us_e...

Look, stop debating whether it was really someone whispering. These bastards have played dirty since day one. It's time we do it!!!

MAKE THIS THING GO VIRAL!!!!

FORGET WHETHER IT'S TRUE!!!!

WE ARE AT WAR!!!

Reddit link to the video:

http://reddit.com/r/polit...

Vote up!

Better yet: The "Hoarse" Whisperer LOL

That sounded too quick to be an uninformed advisor. It seemed more like Tim Russerts original question was "Will you do what Ronald Reagan did, raise taxes". And someone finished the question from a sheet of questions in hand as it was meant to be read. I doubt anyone sitting on either side of Russert would be so intent on ensuring that his question would be read correctly- so Im left to speculate that someone in Romney's camp had a list of the questions. If Romney had them yesterday he would KNOW and have practiced that answer- so I bet someone slipped Romneys camp the questions right before the debate. Whether thats a behind the scene accepted fact that is secret but normal or if there was some inside shady business is the question in my mind.

i have it all on tivo

sorry for double post

Very Interesting to see if it is still there. The rebroadcast is happening right now. It was at EXACTLY 20 min. after the hour. That is 40 minutes from this post. I will be watching. If it is censored or altered, that would speak volumes.

MAKE THIS GO VIRAL!!!!

I'm sending this to:

Raw Story

Donald Luskin

Anybody who will probably post it.

Go to work, get this out there!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/wa...

AMERICAN NEEDS!

Ron Paul!

It sounded like someone in the room, to me. I thought Romney definitely responded directly to it. It was like they thought he might not know what Reagan did, so they told him quickly so he could answer properly.

make it go viral

Tim Russert to Romney: "...Will you do for Social Security what Ronald Reagan did in 1983?"

WHISPER to Romney: "Not raise taxes"

NEXT BREATH OUT OF ROMNEYS MOUTH:
Romney: "I'm not going to raise taxes!"

The whisper & Romeny said basically the same thing. You don't have to be a genius to add 2+2.

Does it matter that he was fed his answers? We all know hes an incompetant fool.

Don't think it was an earpiece or anything... it sounds like another candidate or pundit said it in their microphone. Perhaps the other pundit said "raised taxes" to clarify the question. It is definitely not bleed from an ear piece into Romney's mic. I am an audio engineer and it sounds like someone talked into a mic which was being fed into the TV feed i.e. from another candidate or a pundit... It is very strange indeed!!!

Sincerely,
Rich Clarke

Randy, there's a master control board with all the audio
for the studio. So we didn't hear the feed coming out
of Romney's ear but rather the one going in.

http://www.justin.tv/ronp...

the time of the debate but i thought it was Roussert after asking the question but that voice says i will not raise taxes and then romney says the same thing, OH MY HE DID WHAT BUSH DID IN 2004 _______
INCREDIBLE !!!!!

Even if Romney did have an earpiece, how the heck would a whisper into his earpiece be heard so loudly through his microphone? come on