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Debate Ensues Over Kerry's Use of Pen
New York Post | October 4 2004
Comment: The arguments are not even about the soft-shoe topics raised in the debate itself, they're about whether Kerry had a pen in his jacket. Who cares? Where is the debate about that fact that Kerry and Bush's policies are almost identical.
Was John Kerry trying to pull something at
the debate last week?
That question was burning up the Internet yesterday after a slo-mo review
of the footage showed the Massachusetts senator taking an object out of
his right pocket before the first question.
Was it a cheat sheet — as some conservative bloggers claimed — or was it something innocuous?
Either way, it would violate the debate rules agreed to by both campaigns: "No props, notes . . . or other tangible things may be brought into the debate."
Many blogs offered links to the "Pocket-gate" footage. One, INDC Journal, even posted frame-by-frame stills purporting to show Kerry pulling out a notecard and placing it onto the podium.
But the mystery was solved when The Post reviewed a Fox News Channel feed from Thursday's debate: Kerry pulled out . . . a black pen.
Kerry campaign spokesman David Wade remained angry at the bloggers' guilt-by-insinuation.
"The right-wing attack machine will say anything to steal a debate do-over," he said.
"We plead guilty to having a pen."
The Bush campaign did not comment.
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