Who was that whispering bandit? (Republican Debate)

[RamboLiberal]

Source: MSNBC

Calling for tax cuts? Noted. Bashing the Democrats? Recorded. Sounding tough on security? Check.

The coverage of the MSNBC Republican presidential debate Thursday hit all the requisite notes.

Except one.

“So, what on earth was that whisper all about?” queried the Carpetbagger Report.

It — and much of the rest of the political blogosphere — was chewing over a mysterious whispered voice that could be heard during MSNBC’s live coverage of the debate in Boca Raton, Fla. It popped up as Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and moderator of “Meet the Press,” was asking former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney a question about Social Security:


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22848324/

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Anyone check Romney for mysterious bulges? Just an audience member? Right! :sarcasm: Just like the MSM never investigated that so visible bulge on Bush during the debate.

[1monster]

1. "Trust us," the article said. Hmmm, ummm, yeah, sure. Whatever.

:eyes:

[deacon]

2. Katherine Harris. n/t

[CAG]

3. My first impression is that it was one of the other candidates whose

mic was on.... but thats just me

[progdonkey]

5. Me too...

A sarcastic comment made by one of the candidates--believing that his mic was off--makes a WHOLE LOT more sense than some weird "Romney has a prompter" conspiracy theory.

[MindMatter]

6. How incompetent would a person have to be

To have a prompting system for Romney, and then plug it into the network feed for a few seconds?

I don't even know how you could do that.

[alfredo]

4. His ass was prompting him on the answers.