Based on her interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric, it's obvious Sarah Palin's head is filled with lots of rightwing attitude but virtually no facts. For parts of her Couric interview, Palin needed McCain sitting by her side to throw her lifelines.

Obviously McCain won't be next to her tonight. To make up for it, will Sarah Palin rely on an earpiece - just as George Bush did in the 2004 debates (first uncovered by Dave Lindorff in Mother Jones) and for 3 years afterwards? And if she does, how will we know?

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?