Jeez, our fake President didn't even plug the phone in!

[DoYouEverWonder]

Look at this pic from W's photo op yesterday of him trying to look presidential.

Look at the phone. That is an old fashioned corded phone. Yet it appears to not be plugged into anything? This is supposed to be Bush's high tech bunker in Crawford and all he got is a plasm TV with the Weather Channel and a phone that they can't even bother to plug in? Unbelievable.


(Kudos to coffeenap for noticing)

[sniffa]

1. snort

the worLd is his stage.

[tuvor]

2. He demands props from his peeps.

[Taxloss]

3. I think the cord passes through a hole in the centre of the table.

That way you don't get cords going across the floor. You can see what I think is part of this hole just t the top right of the phone, by its dinky little LCD screen.

[elehhhhna]

5. Yep, the other table hole cap is the black thing at the far end.

[Roland99]

4. There's probably a hole behind it where the cables run down

Many conference tables have that.

[izzybeans]

19. Yep, the two on the far end appear to have that conference table whole

thing

[Spinzonner]

6. Could be wired down to a port in the floor through hole in the table

it looks as though there might be a gasket in the top at the other end.

Also could be a wireless handset using WiFi or Bluetooth.

However, he can still be a dumbass never-the-less.

[livetohike]

7. He's wearing glasses

I think this is the first pic I have seen of him with glasses on. But then again, I avoid looking at him so I may have missed others.

[ellie]

8. Ha! I avoid looking at him as

well.

[vickitulsa]

32. I don't even think that's HIM!

Take a closer look ... would you testify in court that that was W? I wouldn't!

This way they don't need so many handlers and can relax about how he could flip out and do goofy things in public view....

~VV

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[FreedomAngel82]

52. I've seen him before with pics

Mostly pics of him in the oval office pretending to be working and signing something.

[peekaloo]

9. All the important calls come in through his shoe phone.

:eyes:

[madinmaryland]

22. Is he talking to agent Smart?

:rofl:

[roguevalley]

55. I'm waiting for the cone of silence to come down.

[meganmonkey]

10. I don't know why he even bothers pretending anymore

no one falls for it at this point.

[DoYouEverWonder]

11. The white phone to his right has no cord either

If it did go through the port on the desk you would see the cord running across the desk. There is no cord from the white phone so I think we can assume that there is no cord going out from the black phone either.

[madokie]

12. I'm inclined to agree with you.

[LiberalEsto]

13. The other end is connected to a paper cup

with a piece of string.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

14. Pardon me for being a Northeastern elitist,

but putting big ugly pictures of yourself in the middle of vast expanses of wall and way up above eye level is an obvious sign that a person has poor decorating skills and may also be an egomaniac.

[TahitiNut]

15. So, he's been reduced to one babysitter, huh? (Meds must be working.)

Of course, the tried-and-true technique of distracting the infantile mind with the cyclopean boob-tube works, too. (At least it works for me.)

[qanda]

16. Not trying to defend him-- God knows I would NEVER do that

But I hate when we look like fools for stuff that doesn't matter. Those black holes in the table are for cords to come through and so from our advantage, we cannot tell if the phone is plugged in or not.

[fooj]

17. This one I've got to recommend! What a loser!

Peace.

[izzybeans]

18. If you look at the far end of the table where the other two phones

sit you will notice that there is a black plastic cap that caps off the whole in the table where the wires go.

[BlueJac]

20. Just stage props

[northzax]

21. it's a conference room

there is one right next door to my office. I just checked, the cords run through the middle of the table. Actually, that's the case in every conference room I've ever been in. this is just silly.

[DoYouEverWonder]

23. There are no cords

running from any of the phones. Look at the other 3 phones.

[pimpbot]

24. I agree

We can't tell on the phone closest, but what about the white phone, and the two at the other end of the table? That white phone is definately not plugged in.

[IChing]

25. I blew this up in photoshop- there are no cords - must be hooked to his

iPod through bluetooth(joke). There are no cords going through or to the cap piece at the other end of the table either.

The cap is still on the table, he' using the new duplex, multichannel, bluetooth, firewire, usb2 infrared, phone

THAT HAS NOT BEEN INVENTED YET.

[IChing]

26. thread is nominated because I want this new technology

that doesn't exist.

[berni_mccoy]

28. How do you know the phones aren't wireless?

I've seen many conference phones with a stretch-cord to a hand-set where the entire phone is wireless.

There are many wireless technologies that can accomplish this:

Bluetooth
802.11 (a,b,g and e)
Cellular

[tcfrogs]

46. This is completely silly

Northzax (and others) are right, the conference rooms I'm in on a regular basis hide ALL the cords through the middle of the table.

Plenty of things to complain about, but this particular "scandal" is just a colossal waste of time.

[The Witch]

27. The AP caption, mind you, said...

...he was having a video teleconference with FEMA agents.

Mm-hm. FEMA agents who have a side job broadcasting on the Weather Channel.

[IChing]

30. He must be using the new iPod video/camera

Podcasting to the weather channel..

[MADem]

29. Not to bust a bubble here

But that looks like a secure phone--you key it up, and it scrambles your conversations. You can also use them in nonsecure mode.

See that little blob at the end of the table? That might be a hole to run cable, and I am betting that there is one at the other end that supports that phone as well.

The boyking can never look presidential, because he stole the last two elections, and you cannot BE what you have not EARNED, but the poor bastards (many military) who are tasked to support him no doubt hooked up his secure phone properly.

The challenge for him is figuring out which end to talk into, I guess.

[IChing]

31. Sorry to burst your plastic blob, but they didn't run a cable through

and that is the point.

They might also try telling the truth

[jbnow]

33. The truth? The truth?

They can't handle the truth.

[MADem]

37. You do not know that unless you have xray vision

The cabling, which is very thick, is at the back of the phone. The phone likely is resting on the hole where the cable runs.

You can also see that the screen on the monitor is in use; chimpy is no doubt using the hands-free mode to stammer, er, talk. I have used this sort of system and, while his is certainly nicer than the ones I've had experience with, it is the same setup.

I think he is an ass, but I do not think his military communications team consists of a bunch of Potemkin bozos.

[IChing]

39. The phone likely is resting on the hole where the cable runs.

Not unless the center of the table is now on the left side of the table.

I blew this up in photoshop, I can not see it.

[MADem]

44. The holes are not fixed, the techs put them where they are needed

I had a long conference table with one hole at one end, two at the opposite ends, and several in the middle. It was designed to accomodate large videoconferences.

The furniture looks like that shitty GSA stock, fwiw.

[MO_Dem]

34. The challenge for him--heehee

I'm surprised they let him anywhere near such technology. I mean, he could hurt himself. Considering the damage done by a pretzel, a telephone could be serious hazard. And a TV remote control! Think what evil things could happen with that!

[Cleita]

35. This isn't the only picture that makes you wonder.

Pictures of his Crawford Office don't indicate that it is a working office. There is no computer, file cabinets or bookcases. It's just a desk with a pen set on it. I don't remember seeing a phone in that office. Oh yeah, he does have a TV there too.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

36. how can you tell?

from my perspective it looks as if the chord would be running into the black fixture to the right of the phone next to the blue and orange colored paper. it would appear to me that the chord would be hidden by the phone itself if it was running into this hole/fixture.

also, if you could see the text on the phone display that would verify that it was plugged in as it would need power (from phone cable) to be "on".

i'm sure they have a guy whose job is to plug phones in, this is silly.

[nolabels]

38. Wireless multi-line (cordless) maybe

Like phone tech is changing faster than you can blink.


http://www.thephonesource.com/offsohom.htm

I dig how the P.C.'s are starting to give carriers on a challenge on long distance

P.S. that does look like a non-cordless model though :spray:

[IChing]

40. Nice antenna on both phones

Which allows for the central hub phone to pick up the lone wireless set.
get what I mean?

It doesn't really matter, We know it's a propaganda photo op that tells
his adoring public that he watches the weather channel like them, to get his weather news rather than through NOAA.

[progressivebydesign]

47. But he'd STILL need electrical cords to have that base running.

You're showing a cordless set that goes with the larger set. The larger set HAS to be plugged in to at least a wall socket. Doesn't run on solar.

[nolabels]

49. He doesn't need a wall socket

His legs are hidden for a reason, and covertly drilling, even if it's just through a wood table to hook it all up probably sounded good to GWB


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[Hubert Flottz]

41. He don't plug the phone in because he always does all the ...

talking and none of the listening. Even when he's not on the phone he don't listen to anyone.

[BlueJac]

42. He is so phony

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

43. He finished his coloring and now is trying to make a paper plane.

[progressivebydesign]

45. ALSO, those phones need electricity... and it's not plugged in.

That type with the display does NOT run without electricity. Where is the cord for that? I see an empty plug on the wall.... This is sooo bogus.

[novak goes postal]

48. What a lying disgrace

I am so ashamed.....

[FreedomAngel82]

50. Oh good grief

Thanks for pointing this out. I would've never noticed.

[Squatch]

51. Yeah, it's extremely far fetched to believe that

the PUSA would have real telephones and televisions. Must be a conspiracy...that's the only explanation.

[tx_dem41]

54. I believe this affirms my belief that only Cheney is allowed to use...

phones. ;)

[Kire]

53. hole in the desk, perhaps?

look at the two phones on the other side of the desk, there's a hole between them - and a conspicuous black spot next to the piece of paper by the phone up front

[mr blur]

56. Things must be serious,

the other guy has his tie off.

[kansasblue]

57. typical gov table has holes for phones cords in the center of the table.

[flyarm]

58. ok so i zoomed in and the black thing at the end of the table

looks like the tv remote to me..it is not round..it has a thick part at top of pic of it..like a remote for the tv!!
the white phone has no wires to it..and the phones at other end of table have no wires running from them!

thats what i see..it looks like the tv remote to me..it is not round!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

59. Yep

that's what I see too and I live in the pixel world for a lot of my day. That's why I'm here so much. I flip back and forth because you can only look at pixels for so long.