# Did Clinton have outside help during the debate? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114 "2016-09-28T13:16:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/21 "2016-09-28T14:54:35Z")
Y’all laugh, but I uncovered an [ancient documentary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBEIZYCSy5g) that shows that they are all around us… ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/22 "2016-09-28T15:10:48Z")
She’s obviously wearing regular gold earrings, but what if her hair was brushed forward to cover her ears like all those models in the magazines? That might have been more suspicious. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/23 "2016-09-28T15:18:33Z")
“Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly to the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.” – Danny, in _Withnail & I_ ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/24 "2016-09-28T15:44:23Z")
Well, you’re pretty close. She did have two hidden devices for picking up signals that would help her on the debate. They’re wireless, though, relying instead on advanced bioneurologic technology. She deployed one just to the inside of each outer ear. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/25 "2016-09-28T15:48:15Z")
Does Trump’s helping her by being a buffoon count as ‘outside help’? ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/26 "2016-09-28T15:50:49Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > In the next debate, there should be a simple new rule to make sure no one is wearing any hidden communication devices. Both candidates must appear nude. It’s the only way to be sure. How will we tell them apart? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/27 "2016-09-28T15:54:36Z")
Trump has bigger boobs. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/28 "2016-09-28T15:54:38Z")
All you people with your silly little conspiracy theories are really annoying me. We all know the conspiracies are actually circulated by the Hillary camp to distract from the real story: Hillary is still in a coma from her pneumonia attack. It was her body double at the debate. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/29 "2016-09-28T15:55:42Z")
Can I vote for body double? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/30 "2016-09-28T15:56:19Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > All you people with your silly little conspiracy theories are really annoying me. We all know the conspiracies are actually circulated by the Hillary camp to distract from the real story: Hillary is still in a coma from her pneumonia attack. It was her body double at the debate. I’ve got no problem voting for the body double-She did great! ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/31 "2016-09-28T16:50:44Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > In the next debate, there should be a simple new rule to make sure no one is wearing any hidden communication devices. Both candidates must appear nude. It’s the only way to be sure. I CAN’T see anymore I am blind just from the thought of this ! ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/32 "2016-09-28T17:05:46Z")
The only reason we were able to see the receiver in her ear is because _that_ is the mechanical part that fell off when she had to be carried away in NY after her malfunction. The replacement part hasn’t arrived from the manufacturer yet (it’s on backorder), so they had to kludge something together for the debate. I’m surprised no one else figured that out. > [@crucible](#): > > How will we tell them apart? One of them is _orange_. and I really don’t need to know if that’s a whole-body spraytan ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/33 "2016-09-28T17:08:24Z")
I think it was a device designed to jam Trump’s microphone and make everything he said sound stupid. Interestingly, she had forgotten to charge its battery before the debate. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/34 "2016-09-28T17:25:37Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > I think it was a device designed to jam Trump’s microphone and make everything he said sound stupid. That was accomplished just by giving him a good working mic and turning it on. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/35 "2016-09-28T17:46:11Z")
Hey, Clinton’s nude body double is the actress who plays Denise Tarragon in _Game of Thrones_! I am outraged and offended, and will complain as soon as this is over. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/36 "2016-09-28T18:33:37Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > The replacement part hasn’t arrived from the manufacturer yet (it’s on backorder), so they had to kludge something together for the debate. You mean it’s made in China?! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/37 "2016-09-28T19:26:19Z")
You know… Conspiracy theory. Rant. Silly answers. Off to the Pit. Bother me no more. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/38 "2016-09-28T19:32:00Z")
Actually, Hillary was wearing a wire in hopes of catching The Donald making a coke deal. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/39 "2016-09-28T19:37:19Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Trump has bigger boobs. And a combover from his taint. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/40 "2016-09-28T21:04:04Z")
“Someone created a website called [IsBushWired.com](http://IsBushWired.com).” I believe he often was, when he was younger. Sniffle-ly Trump may have been the one wired. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114.md?page=3)