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To: Rascal who wrote (43889)	9/14/2002 12:40:34 PM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

My eyes = my illusions! Bush didn't look more than twenty degrees below his horizon, so those screens on the side are irrelevant! So, now you come up with a possible teleprompter in the camera. But he doesn't look at the camera either! Actually he looks at people! Numerous people, and with concentration. And, had you noticed, not the same ones, he is very selective, remembers where his eyes were before. (Something quite hard to achieve, had you ever been on that side too.) Thus your next move is to suggest he probably hears voices, the Joan of Arc bit, the invisible earphone. Next he may have a chip implanted in his brain... It just doesn't strike you that the he didn't need support. That the cowboy has turned into a first class public speaker. Try to beat the oil driller in front of any mirror, with any of your writings, and without half the world watching you...

To: Rascal who wrote (43889)	9/14/2002 1:30:45 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Not to belabor this particular discussion, but I looked up a couple more things. This picture shows the teleprompter pretty clearly: graphics7.nytimes.com Here's one from Yahoo showing teleprompter #2 on the other side: story.news.yahoo.com And here's one from a previous UN speech: msnbc.com Google turned up this bird's eye view from another occasion: usnews.com If you want to really beat it to death, you can view the video at whitehouse.gov , this seems to require realplayer. From the bits I looked at, there seem to be 3 fixed angles W homes in on, he doesn't seem to exactly scan the audience. Anyway, making a lot of W's delivery here seems, well, pretty cosmetic. W has shown himself to be reasonably coachable on stuff like this, his trademark smirk is mostly gone, in prepared situations anyway. And it's not like he doesn't have coachs, or they didn't have time to prepare him on this one. The handlers still seem pretty devoted to avoiding much in the way of spontaneous exposure, like press conferences. Stuff like that is a little tougher.