-By Warner Todd Huston
Bush caught trying to trick the cameras?
Before the program began at the Reagan Library for Wednesday’s second Republican presidential debate all the candidates, including three of the four from the earlier, undercard debate, lined up for a group photo. But as the phtogs assembled, some accused Jeb Bush of rising up on his tiptoes and spreading his arms to make himself taller and wider than any of the other candidates.
Bush, who at six-foot-three is already one of the tallest candidates in the filed, stood near the center of the group denoting his status as a front runner for the nomination–at least by CNN’s reckoning. But as the cameras started to click, Jeb can clearly be seen rising up and spreading his arms.
As the Daily Mail jabbed, “Jeb Bush found a surefire way to put himself a head above the other candidates.”
As the Republican hopefuls lined up for their group shot, the 6’3″ Bush was caught on video glancing at Trump and then sneakily pushing himself up to add a few inches.
The trick made Bush – already the tallest person in the group shot – stand out just a little bit more from the other candidates.
Sure enough, Bush is clearly seen doing just this as the cameras click away.
The Daily Mail goes on to point out that Bush didn’t just pull this “trick” once but several times.
But on Thursday, Fox News’ Bill Hemmer confronted Bush on the “photo trick.”
“Were you looking for someone? Or were you looking to be a little taller than the guy there at your right?” Hemmer said referring to Donald Trump.
The former Florida governor denied that there was any “trickery” being employed. He said he was simply rising up to look for his wife.
“I was looking over to the press to see where my wife was sitting because she’s the love of my life and just I need to have eye contact with her before we started,” Bush insisted. “You’ve been married 42 years that’s the kind of thing you do.”
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing news, opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that wrote articles on U.S. history for several American history magazines. Huston is a featured writer for Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart News, and he appears on such sites as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, Wizbang.com, and many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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