CHARLIE GIBSON, ABC NEWS: What the hell was that on your back in the first debate?
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, you know, Karen Hughes and Dan Bartlett had rigged up a sound system...
GIBSON: You're getting in trouble.
BUSH: I don't know what that is. I mean, it is -- it's -- I'm embarrassed to say it's a poorly-tailored shirt.
GIBSON: It was the shirt?
BUSH: Yes, absolutely.
GIBSON: There was no sound system that day.
BUSH: Of course not.
GIBSON: There was no electrical signal. There was no...
BUSH: How does an electrical -- please explain to me how it works, so maybe if I were to ever debate again I could figure it out.
"Credible news organization have taken a serious look at that and decided not to run the story," said Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel. "People have been spending too much time dealing with Internet conspiracies. It's ridiculous."
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Asked by AFP about the bulge, a
White House spokeswoman simply rolled her eyes.
A Bush campaign spokeswoman said it was nothing more than a question of tailoring.
"There was nothing under his suit jacket," Nicolle Devenish, the Bush campaign's communications director, told the Times. "It was most likely a rumpling of that portion of his suit jacket, or a wrinkle in the fabric."
