During Thursday’s Presidential debate, walking room to room, from a radio broadcast to a television broadcast, a several-second delay became obvious. The radio played the debate before the television. Live television delays its’ broadcasts several seconds so they may be cut off to protect viewers from seeing, for example, a pierced and bejeweled body part, impetuously exposed by a live performer.
Why did television time-delay the debate? Possibly to protect viewers from seeing one candidate run across the stage to drag down the other’s pants. Would Bush or Kerry be most likely to pants the other? Would the panted candidate attempt a counter-pant?
Would the Secret Service agents assigned to each candidate hurl their pant-clad legs in hand’s way? Would the agents join in the counter-panting and defensively wrestle each other’s pants to the ground? Would President Bush’s agents out-rank Kerry’s and order them to back off and . . . uh, pull up their pants?
It didn’t happen . . . probably. There were no detectable gaps in the broadcast. However, the President and his advisors may be in a war room right now, planning a preemptive panting to safeguard the security of the Presidential privates.
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