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That curious Bush family election night video.

Maureen Farrell of wrote the following in her Nov. 9, 2004 BuzzFlash article:

"On election night, Peter Jennings looked measurably surprised when he learned that President Bush had provided a tape of himself, sitting in the White House, commenting on his impending victory. It was an unprecedented move. No sitting president had ever addressed the nation while polls were still open. It was just not done. But there was George, exuding confidence, offering an election day reminder of our leader's legitimacy."

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/11/far04038.html



A similar observation was made by Hunter S. Thompson four years ago in an espn.com column on the 2000 election:

"There was one exact moment, in fact, when I knew for sure that Al Gore would Never be President of the United States, no matter what the experts were saying -- and that was when the whole Bush family suddenly appeared on TV and openly scoffed at the idea of Gore winning Florida. It was Nonsense, said the Candidate, Utter nonsense. ... Anybody who believed Bush had lost Florida was a Fool. The Media, all of them, were Liars & Dunces or treacherous whores trying to sabotage his victory.

They were strong words and people said he was Bluffing. But I knew better. Of course Bush would win Florida. Losing was out of the question. Here was the whole bloody Family laughing & hooting & sneering at the dumbness of the whole world on National TV.

The old man was the real tip-off. The leer on his face was almost frightening. It was like looking into the eyes of a tall hyena with a living sheep in its mouth. The sheep's fate was sealed, and so was Al Gore's. ... Everything since then has been political flotsam & Gibberish."

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/thompson/001127.html



I was reminded of Osama Bin Laden's video-taped recordings released immediately after 9/11. The TV networks were cautioned not to air them in their entirety for fear that they might contain hidden messages. A certain hand gesture, for example, might signal Al-Qaida sleeper cells to carry out whatever terrorist attack they had planned.

And I got to thinking, what was the purpose of that election night video of the Bush family? Along side him was his wife, his daughters, his mother Barbara, his father George Sr., and some others. The whole family was there expressing confidence in his imminent victory.

I thought the timing was a bit odd -- it came out when the exit polls predicted a sure Kerry win. It was also strange that after the broadcast of this video, the tide began to turn in Bush's favor.

I have a theory: the video was a secret signal from the Bush family to their vote riggers across the country to begin stealing the vote. The plan must have been to let the election proceed normally and see if Bush could win it fairly and honestly. Only if it became obvious Tuesday night that he would lose, would they give the go-ahead for "plan B", which was the plan to steal the vote. The tape of the entire Bush family exuding confidence of his victory was the green light for the vote-stealing operatives to spring into action.

That Bush has to communicate with his vote-riggers in this manner says certain things about the nature of the operation. Perhaps the guys in charge keep a good distance from the operatives who work in the field. They don't communicate with each other directly in order to reduce the risk of detection. Or perhaps the conspirators do communicate with each other directly -- they just want the order to steal the election to be certified by the president himself. Whatever the case, there were probably many operatives, installed in precincts all over the country, all waiting for their signal.

If all this is true, then we need to determine when the Bush video was broadcast. The precincts that had already reported can't be tampered with anymore, so they can be used as a control group. The tampering can only be done on the precincts that have not yet reported at the time of the broadcast. By comparing these two groups, we might find statistical anamolies.







Here is a web report, posted 9:45pm election night, mentioning the tape:

"Bush Invites Pool reporters into White House
ABC News reports President Bush has invited the Press Pool in for a quick interview. According to ABC, this is highly unusual and may have never happened before during an election night.

UPDATE: ABC Ran the tape, but it did not have any sound. Pres. Bush had his family around him, including his daughters, wife and Pres. Bush Sr. and the former First Lady.
Not sure what the point was… "

http://www.command-post.org/2004/2_archives/016983.html

Here is another web report, posted 10:14pm election night, mentioning the tape. This is a long web page, and the entry is about one fifth of the way down. Do a search on the page for "Bush Family" and it'll take you to the right place.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...?referrer=email

I believe the following is the actual Bush video, hosted on the Washington Post website:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedi.../110204-15v.htm

well if the voting machines were rigged he could relax on his video?

Oh, my goodness, now I know I've spent too much time on this forum, this conspiracy theory sounds sane. Maybe that's why Kerry sent his video this afternoon, partly to mock Bush and let him know where the REAL power is.

Interesting theory. Time will tell.

Don't forget fox was being homeland security to postpone the election. Even Karl Rove was on fox election night saying Bush would win. All the Bushies were out saying Bush would win.

Very interesting...

When that scene appeared on TV it was the first time I felt a twinge of apprehension about the election. I remember thinking, "Oh s**t, they did it again." I'd thought about the possibility of a repeat of 2000, but didn't think they'd have the nerve. I knew if they did tamper with the results, they wouldn't do it in the exact same way, but I thought Kerry would win by such a landslide, they wouldn't be able to do it, without it being too obvious. Then that d**n tape, or live broadcast, whatever, came on, and the obvious calm and the smugness got my alarm bells clanging. It does seem to me it was just shortly after that things started to get hairy with the returns. I can't recall just what time it was, but it seems it was fairly early. That cozy family scene is etched in my memory. Weird...wonder if there was a connection. Hmmm...

That should be begging sorry for the typo

Actually if you really look at the body language in that video footage it tells alot.
His father had a grimmace. His mother had her back to him... like distancing herself from it all. The smiles were not genuine... it was all plastic and fake... lets see ...hmmm... like the ELECTION!

Lightbulbs going off here.

I have to be honest, it was a rather smart move. Showing confidence, whether feigned or not, in the *heat of battle* unnerves one's opponent and convinces a few fence sitters to swing your way. Good marketing. Kerry should have done the same.

where's the interview. You know the one that daddy bush gave talking about michael moore leaving florida. How he was sure his son had lost and them Rove told him not to worry. Where is it? Someone here must remember it and have it.

Obviously, Bush doesn't know anything about computers.
The programmer could have screwed up and sent the votes
to Kerry instead of Bush! Wouldn't that have been a hoot!

I think everyone got the feeling that something wasn't right when the video aired ... it reminded me of Carol Burnett giving her ear a tug ...

But Kerry didn't call the entirety of the press into his private quarters to announce that he was confident that he would win....

This move by Bush was very strange... took everyone by surprise. It is unprecedented for a candidate, esp. prez, to call the press in mid evening while the polls are still open.

The media anticipated this would be some sort of a push to get people to the polls, etc. It wasn't. It was GW kickin back, saying he would win in an awkwardly overconfident way.

I was switching back and forth from the Ohio SOS site and the Fla one. Refreshing every few seconds. CNN was on in the background, they had a report of 94% of the Fla vote counted, when in fact, their website only reflected 89%. I knew there was something wrong as I was watching the websites. The larger counties in Fla and in Ohio that were typically Democrat had not reported many votes, and the CNN newscasters had a grave look about them and were predicting a bush win.

All I know is that was the longest nite of my life!!

Why didn't they have a video of Kerry and family on election nite??

Remember, we are talking about the most anti-press President in the history of this country (see fewest press conferences since these types of records have been kept), yet he invites the press into the White House on Election Day night to announce his blind faith optimism that he will be re-elected?

No thanks, I don't do drugs.

yeah, kind of goes back to the story about the ap rigging it. they had the numbers and were giving them to the media.

I couldn't understand why the smug look they all had throughout the election. Kept expecting a major catastrophe to happen to turn the tide to their favor. When nothing happened, I wondered if someone had already set a plan in place (because of the smugness). But, I knew we could possibly have a landslide. I kept thinking if it were a landslide, we didn't have to worry about a repeat of 2000. And, like I stated before, when we phone banked, the Kerry supporters would always volunteer that they had their children, aunts, uncles, etc. register to vote for John Kerry and John Edwards. Didn't hear that when we would talk to the bush supporters.

Oh God -- this is for real.

The hypothesis makes perfect sense. And it is a very common "black ops" strategy.

Don't intervene unless you have to. Then, if you have to intervene, send out a signal to all operatives that they have the green light to carry out "plan B".

This is right out of the CIA textbook. Does the Bush family have any history with, or connections to the CIA? Seems I remember something about Bush Sr. having something to do with the CIA. Probably some low-level position or something.



A similar plan was used in the Kennedy Assassination. There were two shooter teams placed to the rear of the motorcade as it went down Elm Street -- one in the Texas School Book Depository, and one in the Dal Tex building. These two teams were supposed to do the job, but if they failed, there was a back-up plan -- plan B.

The two shooter teams behind Kennedy DID miss, at least partially. The shot from the Dal Tex building missed, ricochetted off the pavement a good 100 feet past the motorcade, and a fragment of that bullet hit a Mr. Tague in the cheek. The shot from the TSBD hit Connally. The president was also hit in the neck, but the origin of this shot is too bizarre for most people to believe (see www.prouty.org for an explanation of this shot. Colonel Prouty was a CIA agent and a black op guy for many years, and he explains the neck shot very clearly).

At any rate, the president was still alive, so the conspirators had to kick in plan B. If you watch the Zapruder film -- the famous home video taken of the assassination, you will see two men standing by the Timmons Freeway sign on Elm Street. As Kennedy drives by in the limo, one of the two men -- a latino guy -- starts pumping his fist furiously up and down. The second man next to him is holding an open umbrella (on a 70 degree day without a cloud in the sky) and he starts pumping the umbrella up and down. This was the signal for plan B to kick in.

Plan B consisted of a third shooter team hiding behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll. These two men (the shooter and his assistant) were dressed in Dallas policmen's uniforms. Before the assassination, they had parked their car in the dirt parking lot behind the picket fence, positioned themselves in this area, and had cleared out other people "for security reasons".

When the signal was given for plan B to kick in, the shooter in the third team raised his rifle over the fence, balanced it on the fence, took aim, and shot. That shot took off 1/4 of Kennedy's head. It was a frangible exploding bullet, possibly filled with fulminated mercury. It couldn't leave any bullet fragments, because the incriminating bullet had to come from "Oswald's gun". This was a potentially dangerous move for the conspirators, because the grassy knoll area was relatively exposed. However, after the shooting, the two assassins, dressed in the Dallas police uniforms, immediately stashed the rifle in the trunk of the car they had driven behind the picket fence, then started running around with their pistols drawn, "looking for the assassin", and steering other people away from the area. After things had settled down a bit, they got in their car and drove away, with the murder weapon in the trunk.

Photos taken of the two signal men after the assassination show the latino man sitting on the curb, talking into a walkie talkie, then stuffing the walkie talkie into his back pocket while walking towards the grassy knoll. I refer you, again, to www.prouty.org for these photos.

Folks where there's smoke there's fire, the AP and Karl Rove issued out orders and its highly likely (98.9% chances) that they had CyberNET international sell all the computers and pieces to districts who would be doing the hacking.....Auditing all those reports we can see a whole lot of ugly school districts being linked back to the hacking, CyberNET made most of the software, they were in the same trade Union as Diebold, Sequoia owns part of them and they front runned the testing certification which is completely illegal. Spanish lunatic neo named Guitterez is linked to them at the top, linked to Dr. Peter Blass who uncovered this programming code up in Michigan state, and smells all the way to the top of Election Fraud 2004. Four university schools it is believed, no more then that, helped do the scam of stealing across up to 5 states, and those 20 students were paid off with the head official hacking the tabulator in....the white house.

Bush, Sr., was in charge of the CIA for a time. As for the video of the Bush family on election night, it immediately seemed suspicious to me that they were in the midst of celebrating a victory they officially hadn't won. Just from the looks on their faces, I knew they knew what was going to happen. And I knew, once again, we were being taken for a ride.

So the report about Rove whispering into Bush's ear "we've lost the election" after hearing the exit poll reports as they flew back to Wash. D.C. is a smokescreen? Possible.

I want to believe everything negative about Bush, but isn't it likely that the Bush family just knows how to play the press better?

But then, I remember the election night Bush threat that if Kerry didn't concede soon, he (Bush) would go on the air and declare victory............. I thought that horrible at the time.

And I am convinced that this election was stolen.

Oh, I am so confused!

At least Kerry's letter today said the votes were still being counted......

so how do you prove all of this? I mean is there someone collecting this info and putting the pieces together for a trial or are we just gonna watch them get away with all of this.

What the heck is up with the green shoes?

Jason, give me a break, what do the shoes have to do with anything?

I would say it stands out as just very odd someone wears green shoes in a room full of black shoes....Its strange that everyone else wears strict black, and there is one pair of shoes that are green in the whole room.....

Not to allege anything but "CIA and officers used to use color coding flags" in order to issue orders...In other words, color code, which could tell someone on/off camera exactly what to do. With Bush crime family's background as a CIA director, I would not put it beyond their reach to use signal flags for the crews doing the rigging of the election....

And then again, it could be a fashion statement. :D

Okay, while we are in full-blown conspiracy mode, what's that thing on the floor, a dog toy? And, using National Enquirer type reasoning, what's up with dubya by his lonesome? Everyone else is touching someone or very close to them and he's on his own throne?

all

I remember being here on the West Coast at 7pm our time, 10pm eastern, and seeing on the johnkerryforum a posting showing that Zogby exit polls showed Kerry winning by 311 electoral votes to Bush's whatever...

Then turning on the news I saw that 'family portrait' and had the same feeling as in 2000 when we all saw the phone calls to FL when the press was 'calling' the state for Gore (which would have proven correct if all the votes were allowed to be counted !) because of exit polls.

BTW, Zogby's results post at http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=927
with exit vs. actual aren't too bad off.

I also saw on Fox News an interview with Dick Morris who was saying something had to be haywire for exit polls to be this bad ! They use them to verify elections in foreign countries as when Jimmy Carter and the UN go out to check elections. Maybe the UN should help us...

In Australia voting is required and you are fined for not voting. We should do likewise. And also get receipts !

Don't know all I'm wondering is was she drunk when she picked out her outfits? How the heck does anyone make that poor of a choice for shoes. The apple don't fall far from the tree is all I'm saying. I hope she isn't loosing brain cells. Remember you are all the ones saying conspiracy mode. I just wondered how the heck do you make that poor of a decission on what to wear. Meaning she has bad taste is all.

Maybe green means go.

I was just about to add that myself wliberty.

Great minds think alike I guess.

The shoes do seem to be a strange choice when she is not wearing anything green other than the shoes.

you know, i really think the theories that have been presented here are quite possible. maybe things like this should not be allowed in future elections.

of course, i guess when you own the media they're not going to refuse to put you on the airwaves.

How can you tell? I can't see everything she is wearing.

Are you expecting people to believe the shoes meant some kind of code signal?

So, she has green shoes on...SO WHAT??????????????

Honestly, you guys, I don't see how you think you can harp on things like this and expect to be taken seriously.

I already blew up the picture and there's a pitch black dress and grey sweater. That's it she's not wearing anything else.

Its not odd in the fact that there are green shoes, but in the fact that the entire room is wearing black clothes and there is only one hint of green being shown is very unusual with Bush having previously led the CIA.

I believe that the Kerry videotape was a message from him to US that he was fighting for this thing. That is why he did it on-line instead of through the mainstream media.

Not healing well here...................

I personally feel that the now infamous green heels were meant for Shrub himself as that would compliment his jade panties and brazier. Probably just a fluke that she wore the shoes!

yes body lanuage does tell us alot....

i've had some time to think thru all this....

john kerry is the properly elected president, there's no doubt about that...

but this abomination we're seeing in this great country, in the land of the free and the home of the brave.... i don't think it's the first time, thru one means or another, that the whole country has been taken hostage for one reason or another....

take a look at the native indians... one minute, an administration was signing a peace treaty with them, four years later they were being overrun....

it's not the first time this kind of monstrosity has occured...

but if play our cards right, and make the appropiate changes, it just might be the last time....

In any event.... John Kerry for 2008 & 2012!

- perry

Brightly colored high heels and handbags are in, especially greens and purples this season. Less Political Science Quarterly and more Vogue please!

I think you are right. I also think it would just be the most delicious bit of humor, worthy of Kerry's intelligence, to get a subtle dig in by using a video. There wasn't a chance of the mainline media carrying it, so he got it to us, in spades!

I do not buy it

He allowed it for the same reason he talked to the press on the plane after the debate. he was DRUNK

he was told all day it looked very bad, so he started drinking

Okay, now even I must admit that were're sounding a little funny right now with these theories. Sadly, I'm not the type to buy into them, but well before this election I thought they would steal it somehow. I was never worried about Kerry losing, I was worried about Bush hijacking the election. This all sounds like something out of a bad movie.

sounds reasonable to me, It wouldn't be the first time messages have been sent this way. Maybe green for GO. Look back through history it has happened a lot in this country.

This topic should get a "reality challenged" award.

all

CNN reports that "total turnout at nearly 120 million people. That represents just under 60 percent of eligible voters -- the highest percentage turnout since 1968, Gans said" and Bush won with 51% of the vote.

This means that Bush's "Mandate" is from 31% of the eligible voters in reality. If total turnout is considered great with 60%, which would have earned me a "D" grade on any paper I turned in in school, well, the world's flagship democracy has a lot of work to do ! This is an abomination--voters are soooo turned off by the politicians/politics essentially since the Kennedy assassination/Vietnam era that they've just given up on the process altogether.

The media should be reporting on this and how the voter suppression drive by the Republicans in Detroit and Ohio worked wonders.

Excellent point EVDebs.