Charlie Gibson’s Bush Interview via Dan Froomkin:

“Final question. What the hell was that on your back, in the first debate?”

Bush chuckled.

Bush: “Well, you know, Karen Hughes and Dan Bartlett have rigged up a sound system — “

Gibson: “You’re getting in trouble — “

Bush: “I don’t know what that is. I mean, it is, uh, it is, it’s a — I’m embarrassed to say it’s a poorly tailored shirt.”

Gibson: “It was the shirt?”

Bush: “Yeah, absolutely.”

Gibson: “There was no sound system, there was no electrical signal? There was –”

Bush: “How does an electrical — please explain to me how it works so maybe if I were ever to debate again I could figure it out. I guess the assumption was that if I was straying off course they would, kind of like a hunting dog, they would punch a buzzer and I would jerk back into place. I — it’s just absurd.”

So it’s the shirt? Sure doesn’t look like a shirt.

I’d say the buzzer Mr. Bush mentioned seems more plausible.

I originally thought it might be suspenders- maybe they should have tried that one.

Other choice quotes:

“I think they pray to a false god, otherwise they wouldn’t be killing innocent lives like they have been.”

I want you to understand, I want your listeners to understand, I don’t get to decide who goes to heaven. The almighty God decides who goes to heaven

Wait- he doesn’t decide? I thought that was in the oath- right after not wiping your ass with the Constitution… eh… whatever.