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PoliGAF Thread of VP Debate 2008 Trainwreck-in-slow-motion Popcorn Party Edition
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MassiveAttack
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Biden woke up this morning, thought about being nice with Palin and just said, "Fuck it. I'm going Terminator on this shit."
Maxwell House
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The earpiece will probably make her answers sound that more retarded. Of course, I bet they only use it to tell her what to say during her rebuttals while Biden is speaking. 
platypotamus
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Gary Whitta said:
I suppose... but even with her hair down, keeping her ears behind it through the entire debate would require a very still head. I guess maybe the earpiece could be pretty damn small, but still... I'm a bit skeptical that the internet detectives/HD wouldn't pick something up.
Beavertown
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platypotamus said:
wire is kinda old school dude
pretty sure it would be a blue tooth ear piece
MassiveAttack
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Confidence Man said:
No chance. This is the wrong approach. Palin will get crushed using this tactic.
Beavertown
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perfectchaos007 said:
Stoney Mason
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MassiveAttack said:
The earpiece possibility is one that I hadn't considered, and it actually worries me. She's been a newscaster so I doubt she'd fuck up too badly if she had an earpiece. I'm sure this is just GAF conspiracy theories alarming me again but that at least might explain why some of McCain's internal folk seemed more confident in her performance. Still seems really unlikely but who the hell knows with this campaign.
Deus Ex Machina
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Interesting. I want to see her ears.Maxwell House said:
She has her hair down. She never wears her hair down. What does this mean? It means EARPIECE.
platypotamus
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Beavertown said:
I used to be with "it". But then "it" changed. And now what's "it" is new and scary. And it'll happen to you!
Even if she has some undetectable advanced tech earpiece, which I can potentially grant... I don't know... it seems as if that would make her even less coherent.
You guys might be right though...
Maxwell House
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I mean, why would she pick tonight of all nights to wear her hair down for the first time in years??? We've seen interviews with her all the way back to when she first became governor of Alaska..I have never seen her with her hair down...not a single time.
RubxQub
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Fuck this earpiece bullshit! I'm actually really fucking mad now that anything I see is going to be fake. Not the artificial "I've practiced this response for days" fake, but "some tool is feeding me these lines" fake.
Fuck...why don't they make it a policy to do a search of the candidates before they are presented on stage? Surely they wouldn't object...right?
Fuck...
Fuck...why don't they make it a policy to do a search of the candidates before they are presented on stage? Surely they wouldn't object...right?
Fuck...
Gary Whitta
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Yeah I am pretty paranoid about the earpiece thing too. Seems like a prudent thing to do given how awful she's been operating without a net so far. And her experience as a newscaster means she'll be adept at parroting stuff being fed into her ear.
BenjaminBirdie
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GOD DAMN I BEEN WAITING ALL DAY TO MAKE THIS.
Damn being at work and shit.
Damn being at work and shit.
Steve Youngblood
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In all honesty, this entire line of speculation is kind of silly considering that the debate hasn't even started yet. I mean, she could come out of the gates and immediately start speaking incoherently, and if she does, all of this "she's wearing a wire!" talk is going to sound ridiculous.RubxQub said:
Gary Whitta
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LOL @ republican strategist on MSNBC predicting that Palin will "literally reach through the television and connect with voters" tonight.
Justin Bailey
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BenjaminBirdie said:GOD DAMN I BEEN WAITING ALL DAY TO MAKE THIS.
Damn being at work and shit.
Maxwell House
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I kind of hope she puts her hair up so I can stop being paranoid. We'll see in a few hours.
undrtakr900
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Yeah she could probably regurgitate attacks on Biden but all he has to say is "Do you even understand what you just said Palin?"Confidence Man said:
Beavertown
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Gary Whitta said:
She can connect with my penis, but that's all really. And to do that, she would have to not speak.
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Vennt
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Seriously guys, take it from someone who uses IEM's (In Ear Monitors) daily in their work, you can hide these things so they are barely visible to a crowd 20-30 feet away, hiding them so they can't be seen when you're up close and personal? - no chance.
Also, most audio engineers need to get clearance for frequency usage in an area that is likely to be flooded with various UHF wireless audio kit, you know, like say a media broadcast? - There's only a limited spectrum available for these devices, hence the whole "whitespace" debate/fight, stick 2 devices on the same frequency and often neither of the devices will "lock", so where the number of devices increase, we often work with all other engineers on a site to get "our" frequencies clear, very large events will even have a frequency co-ordinator. (Although that is less common here in in the UK)
My take: the hair down thing is to manage image, make her appear more down-to-earth folksy, and get away from the silly Jackie-O like theme they've been dressing her up with.
Also, most audio engineers need to get clearance for frequency usage in an area that is likely to be flooded with various UHF wireless audio kit, you know, like say a media broadcast? - There's only a limited spectrum available for these devices, hence the whole "whitespace" debate/fight, stick 2 devices on the same frequency and often neither of the devices will "lock", so where the number of devices increase, we often work with all other engineers on a site to get "our" frequencies clear, very large events will even have a frequency co-ordinator. (Although that is less common here in in the UK)
My take: the hair down thing is to manage image, make her appear more down-to-earth folksy, and get away from the silly Jackie-O like theme they've been dressing her up with.
undrtakr900
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Don't worry I brought enough for everyoneVerano said:
RurouniZel
Asks questions so Ezalc doesn't have to
*sigh* Sadly, I have a feeling no matter what happens, Palin will come out on top. Biden is fucked from nearly every angle on this one.
Please let me be wrong...
Steve Youngblood
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We all need to calm down here just a tad. Instantaneously, the expectations have shifted from "she's going to bomb so hard and it's going to be the greatest moment in politics ever!" to "oh crap! She's going to deliver a stellar performance and it's because she's going to cheat!" We should at least wait for a few questions to be fielded before we start worrying about whether or not she's getting help.Zeliard said:
Even then, I think it's unlikely that she'll try it, but that's just me.
Beavertown
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RubxQub said:
I'm a weak man.
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