So much for endearing Bushisms

Not surprisingly, the Bush Administration and the RNC have been caught redhanded in another shady, borderline illegal transgression:

When President Bush laid out the potential threat that
unconventional weapons posed in Saddam Hussein's hands last year in his
State of the Union address last year, he became tongue-tied at an
inopportune moment.
The line read, "It would take one vial, one canister, one crate,
slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have
ever known." But Mr. Bush stumbled between the words "one" and "vial."
And when at the word vial, he pronounced the "v" as if it were a "w."
Yet in a new Republican commercial that borrows excerpts from that
speech, Mr. Bush delivers that line as smoothly as any other in the
address, without a pause between "one" and "vial," and the v in "vial"
sounds strong and sure.
Republican officials acknowledged yesterday that the change was a
product of technology. The line, they said, was digitally enhanced in
editing "to ensure the best clarity." [...]
The Democrats asked whether the Republican National Committee had gone
to the White House with sound equipment to have Mr. Bush recite the
line anew for what was the first Republican commercial of the campaign
season here. That might have meant that the party was not being
truthful when it said it had not coordinated with Mr. Bush when it made
the advertisement, a possible violation of law [...]
[Republican] Party officials said the line in question was "cut and
pasted." Still, Democrats were ecstatic over the perceived chink in an
advertisement that they have criticized for days as unfair.
"Audio cutting and pasting is `Bush speak' for them having doctored
their own ad," Jim Mulhall of the Democratic National Committee said.

Imagine that. We have to digitally enhance our own President just to make him intelligible.

Posted by flow Frazao on November 25, 2003 at 05:13 PM | Permalink