It's time to give Brainless Brian Williams the "Rathergate" treatment. The airhead anchor stood inches away from George W. Bush for an hour while Bush relied on his earpiece to answer Williams' questions (full transcript). The earpiece is obvious from Bush's rambling answers, his stringing together of non-sequiturs, his little mumbles waiting for the next sentence, and the turning of his eyes off into the distance while he listens to his ear. Yet Williams didn't have a clue of the scam going on right in front of his eyes - and ears!

Bush clearly lost the feed through his earpiece at 1:23 in this video, as captured by Veredictum. Bush spoke to reporters briefly at Camp David on 8/17/06 after a Federal judge in Detroit ruled Bush's warrantless wiretapping program unconstitutional and was asked about that ruling.

"I made my position clear about this war on terror.
I uh...
And uh... by the way, the enemy made their position clear, yet again, when they...
when... wwwwww... when... when umm... we were able to um... stop 'em, see."

Once again George Bush went before the Corporate Media and repeated answers fed into his earpiece by Karl Rove. And once again the Corporate Media pretended the answers were coming out of Bush's alcoholism-impaired brain. When will the Corporate Media acknowledge what everyone in the world can see with their own eyes - that Bush is always wired?

And here's another question: is Fox News' White House correspondent Bret Baier spending his nights at the White House - like former White House correspondent "Jeff Gannon"?

The reason I ask is because Bush repeatedly smiled and winked at Baier - which was especially weird and disturbing because the topics being discussed were the death and destruction across the Middle East resulting from Bush's utterly failed policies.

During his press conference on Tuesday, Bush had a massive "earpiece malfunction" - and Blogenlust caught it on tape.

While Bush listens to a reporter ask his question, Bush nods with mild contempt and mentally formulates his dismissive answer.

But then Karl Rove starts speaking into his earpiece (always kept in his right ear), which causes Bush to turn reflexively towards his right - a dead giveaway that he is wired!!!

Once again, George Bush went before the world without a single idea in his head, just an earpiece in his ear feeding canned answers from Karl Rove. And once again, the press acted completely oblivious to the farce in their faces. When the truth about Bush's earpiece comes out, the entire corporate media will collapse with the Bush administration and the GOP.

Bush appeared to answer the first question from the AP - whether Iraq was in a civil war, as Iyad Allawi said this weekend - from his own head. But then his brain was too fried to answer Reuters reporter Steve Holland's question, so he tuned into the earpiece and mumbled his way through the answer.

On Monday morning, Bush spoke a total of 250 words to the media on behalf of Sam Alito.

Even though it was a trivially short speech, filled with talking points he's recited many times before - and even though Bush was wide awake in the best hour of his day - Bush couldn't even deliver those 250 words without waiting for most of it to be fed to him through his earpiece!!!

Paul -V- has the scoop, with a photo assist from jbnow of DemocraticUnderground.

"I'm not into conspiracy theories, but I suspect Bush may have been wearing a receiver during his press conference earlier this week.  (a.k.a. "Bush Bulge".)

Watching President Bush on Monday as he attempted to justify warrantless wiretaps of Americans, I was struck with a  massive case of deja-vu when he made this statement:

The secret cabal that controls Bush's mouth through his earpiece declared "the results are not acceptable."

Bush mouthed the words, but his brain didn't produce them.

Just watch his delivery. Watch how he utters sentence fragments, not full sentences. Watch how he pauses while he waits for the full sentences to be delivered into his ear.

Another press conference, another earpiece.

Crooks and Liars nails Bush again:

Right after the woman from CNN asks her question, Bush says about 10 words, stops, looks down like he's listening to something, mumbles something like "hold on" or "OK", and continues talking. This lasted about 2-3, maybe 4 seconds.

We'll ask our question once again: Is there a single journalist in Washington DC with the guts to ask Bush or his taxpayer-funded liars whether Bush was wired?

George W. Bush made history today.

He gave the first Presidential press conference in which every single word he spoke was fed to him through his earpiece.

How do I know?

Forget the famous debate bulge photos - we'll never see the likes of those again. First, the White House will never again permit a camera behind his back which might take tell-tale photos. Second, the gadget wizards at the CIA have come up with a far less conspicuous gadget. Third, they found a new tailor who can hide the gadget better.

But the evidence is nevertheless completely obvious. All you have to do is watch his face when he's speaking - especially his eyes.

Let me repeat my observations after Bush's NATO press conference on February 22:

There are several speaking tics that expose Bush when he is using his earpiece. First, he pauses between sentences for an extra beat, which buys him time to hear the answer he is being fed. Second, when a particular answer is different from his own train of thought, his gaze drops down as he concentrates extra hard on the voice within his ear. Third, he sometimes mumbles and speaks gibberish when his brain and tongue get out of synch. Finally his answers ramble on, going from one stray thought to another, as he "filibusters" to consume all available time.