Is Bush Wired? 2: The President As Manchurian Candidate

Following up Derek's post: In reading the Is Bush Wired? website, it started off like consipracy theorists. Voices were heard by some viewers watching CNN while Bush gives a speech. Voices were heard by other viewers while Bush gives another speech speech. It's classic: a lot of people hearing voices. Uh huh. Whatever, turn the page.

And then there's this:

"'Sure, Bush uses an earpiece sometimes,' a top Washington editor for Reuters said to me last spring. 'State of the Union -- he had an earpiece for that. Everybody knows it,' he said, or assumes it. But everybody doesn't know it, I said. Why hadn't Reuters investigated? The editor shrugged and said it wasn't so different from using a teleprompter.

Except that a teleprompter isn't a secret. And Americans have the right to know if the president can't or won't speak in public without covert assistance.
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Woah, wait a sec, "Everybody knows it?" No, everybody does not indeed know that the President of the United States is being fed his words by someone else, off stage, when he answers questions, when he gives speeches, in his public appearances.

It is not reasonable that our President is not thinking and speaking for himself when he talks. It is not acceptable that our President is not thinking and speaking for himself when he answers debate questions. If it is true that the President goes out to these occaisions -- like the first debate -- wired up so that he can have voices whisper in his ear what he should say, then we have a Manchurian Candidate on our hands -- a President who is not himself, who is not his own man, but who simply mouths the words given him by someone else who controls him.