Reply #81: I'm inclined to believe that this isn't a Peter Popoff moment.

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Popoff, as you may know, is a minister/"faith healer" who was exposed as a fraud; someone was talking into his earpiece, telling him who to talk to and what each person's physical ailment was.

I think what we witness in that video is not Bush being prompted; the voice is his - the cadence is the same, the pronunciation is identical to Bush's. If someone were prompting him, I can't imagine it being someone with an identical voice.

It's quite possible that Bush is prompted in press conferences; I just don't believe this is proof of it. I'm going to chalk this up to a technical glitch for now. It could even be a feed from the French translator's headphones finding its way onto the audio feed. I'm just not sure.