RNC caught doctoring Bush's words in new RNC add

[59millionmorons]

ES MOINES, Nov. 24 — It may be called the Case of the Disappearing Pause.

When President Bush laid out the potential threat that unconventional weapons posed in Saddam Hussein's hands last year in his State of the Union address last year, he became tongue-tied at an inopportune moment.

The line read, "It would take one vial, one canister, one crate, slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known." But Mr. Bush stumbled between the words "one" and "vial." And when at the word vial, he pronounced the "v" as if it were a "w."

Yet in a new Republican commercial that borrows excerpts from that speech, Mr. Bush delivers that line as smoothly as any other in the address, without a pause between "one" and "vial," and the v in "vial" sounds strong and sure.

Republican officials acknowledged yesterday that the change was a product of technology. The line, they said, was digitally enhanced in editing "to ensure the best clarity."

The difference between the speech and excerpt was noticed by strategists for former Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont. They saw it as they put together their own advertisement attacking the spot, which presents the Democratic candidates as undermining the fight against terrorism. Word trickled back to Democratic officials, who retrieved the tape and confirmed that there was, indeed, a difference.

The Democrats asked whether the Republican National Committee had gone to the White House with sound equipment to have Mr. Bush recite the line anew for what was the first Republican commercial of the campaign season here. That might have meant that the party was not being truthful when it said it had not coordinated with Mr. Bush when it made the advertisement, a possible violation of law.



http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/25/politics/25ADS.html

[curse10]

1. Why am I not surprised?

The RNC will stop at nothing-- and this is minor. What's funny is that they are acknowledging that Bush is a horrible speaker.

[maddezmom]

2. hmmmm, interesting n/t

[bryant69]

3. Holy Crap

While certainly this is worth noting, the basic dishonesty inherent in the ad "Republicans want to fight terrorists and protect America; Democrats want to fight President Bush and leave America defenseless" is the bigger story, and that's where we should be focused. That, and the bit about how this ad reflects the old style thinking about Saddam and Osama.

Bryant
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[DoYouEverWonder]

4. The whole audio was doctored

I noticed it the first time I heard it.

They've somehow manipulated his tone of voice and the rhythm of his speech in addition to cleaning up any stutterings.

He such a plastic fantastic pResident.

[LizW]

7. Haven't we seen this before?

This tickles a memory for me that we have noticed before that sometimes replays of Bush's* speeches don't seem as halting and garbled as they did when they were first given.

And I know for a fact that the radio addresses are spruced up before they are played for the public.

[spotbird]

5. Well if the law was violated then nothing will happen.

Welcome to new patriotic America.

[Military Brat]

6. The Rovian Method of Media Training

How long will it be until it isn't bush we see, but a digitally generated computer image ala Lara Croft?

I bet Rove has bush practice saying consonants and vowels in front of his mirror every morning for 30 minutes, just in case the boy king actually has to speak in public.

[spindoctor]

8. Nothing wrong with that

Actually an interesting thought.
We'll have a holographic image of our president, and whoever gets elected to the White House gets to program its appearance and what it says.

Some 15 yr old will then hack the president and make him look like Elmor Fudd and make him say really stupid things.

Future....or present?

[TacticalPeek]

9. Indubitable speech coaching since 2000.

I noticcce lately he'sss essspecially proud of hisss S'sss, the ssssorry sssack of . . .

[burythehatchet]

10. No surprise here

I've seen the ad a few times and it really creeps me out. I finally figured out it was the music. There's something about it that makes the whole thing seem like some kind of bad dream, or like some science fiction horror fantasy. It's hard to explain but its creepy. Am I alone in feeling this way?

[cally]

11. Of course

More lies from the RNC.