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Phoenix Woman at Firedoglake ..

[in] October of 2004, Internet bloggers .. were afire over photographic evidence showing that George W. Bush cheated in his debates with John Kerry, in that he was wearing a special hearing aid setup that was visible under his clothes and that allowed his handlers to feed him answers and other commentary on the fly, so he could look more competent than he really was. But interestingly .. the bloggers weren’t able to get any mass corporate-owned media to do anything other than jokey pieces designed to mock anyone who brought up the subject as a “conspiracy theorist”. In fact, a few months after the 2004 election, it came out that the New York Times had spiked a serious story on Bulgegate, apparently because they didn’t want to hurt Bush’s re-election chances .. Dear readers, imagine if the story were reversed: Can you see the NYT — or any modern mass-media paper — spiking a story on John Kerry’s wearing a special hearing aid so his aides could feed him answers during a debate? Yeah, I can’t, either

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