# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/41 "2016-09-28T21:31:40Z")
It turns out that the person feeding answers to Hillary was none other than [Sen. Al Franken using a mobile satellite uplink](http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.snl.com/SNL_0544_07_Update_2_Al_Franken.png). ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/42 "2016-09-28T21:37:08Z")
Let me see if i can put all the pieces together… She’s a chinese/mexican built cough-surpressing, anti-seizing, holographic projecting, robot lizard body double from space with wireless in-ear receivers? Did I miss anything? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/43 "2016-09-28T21:47:21Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > I CAN’T see anymore I am blind just from the thought of this ! Don’t worry, the other senses will sharpen to compensate. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/44 "2016-09-28T21:53:44Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Don’t worry, the other senses will sharpen to compensate. You’ll be able to \*hear \*how orange Trump is. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/45 "2016-09-28T22:00:13Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > It’s probably [the earpiece George W Bush supposedly wore in 2004](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18734-2004Oct8.html) There was another pic of him with the same apparatus under his t-shirt, taken in a pick-up truck on his ranch. So obviously not a communication device, but I’ve long wondered what it was. ---
**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, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/46 "2016-09-28T22:02:31Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > You’ll be able to \*hear \*how orange Trump is. And smell the Cheeto dust he showers in. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/47 "2016-09-28T22:03:35Z")
> [@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. My theory is that Clinton had Donald Trump kidnapped and replaced by an actor, paid to act like an idiot. The real Donald Trump is being held captive somewhere, assuming he’s still alive. Remember Vince Foster! ---
**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, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/48 "2016-09-28T22:18:43Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > You’ll be able to \*hear \*how orange Trump is. You Momma so ugly, she walked past a blind guy and he gouged his ears out! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/49 "2016-09-28T22:18:46Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’ve just seen on Facebook… OK, that’s all I need to know. The answer is NO. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/50 "2016-09-28T22:24:49Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > My theory is that Clinton had Donald Trump kidnapped and replaced by an actor, paid to act like an idiot. The real Donald Trump is being held captive somewhere, assuming he’s still alive. Remember Vince Foster! My theory is that Clinton displayed fiscal responsibility and let the real Trump do it for free. ---
**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, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/51 "2016-09-28T22:26:50Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > My theory is that Clinton had Donald Trump kidnapped and replaced by an actor, paid to act like an idiot. The real Donald Trump is being held captive somewhere, assuming he’s still alive. Remember Vince Foster! You should leave comedy to the people that can pull it off successfully. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/52 "2016-09-28T22:46:15Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Let me see if i can put all the pieces together… > > She’s a chinese/mexican built cough-surpressing, anti-seizing, holographic projecting, robot lizard body double from space with wireless in-ear receivers? Did I miss anything? Yeah, she didn’t pay tax on those wireless receivers. That makes her smart. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/53 "2016-09-28T23:04:33Z")
> [@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. Oh thank you very much. I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to go back to the store for more brain bleach, but you blew that right out of the water!! > [@snfaulkner](#): > > She’s a chinese/mexican built cough-surpressing, anti-seizing, holographic projecting, robot lizard body double from space with wireless in-ear receivers? Did I miss anything? You forgot the Illuminati! She’s the political director for the Illuminati!! I…wait, what’s that noise, they are comi… ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/54 "2016-09-29T00:21:43Z")
> [@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. We’ll know for sure if she comes out with a solo album. Has anyone played her part of the debate backwards? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/55 "2016-09-29T00:25:43Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I heard that it was a gizmo that produces strange behavior in mics that are positioned 12 feet away from the device. And produces strange behavior in the users of said mics that are also 12 feet away. > > Plus it was built in Mexico and imported without paying any tax. If that is the explanation for Trump saying stupid things, it works a lot further away than 12 feet. I built an app to make the insides of Trump’s head explode. But when I turned it on, it came back with this: Error 404 Brain not found. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/56 "2016-09-29T01:40:05Z")
It was obviously a solar powered personal massage device. It’s what caused her to “shimmy”. [https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/780597846814982144](https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/780597846814982144) (will vote for her but wanted a different candidate) ---
**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 29, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/57 "2016-09-29T02:04:50Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > …a chinese/mexican built cough-surpressing, anti-seizing, holographic projecting, robot lizard body double from space with wireless in-ear receivers? OHMIGOD I have been waiting all my LIFE to vote one of these in as President! NOW we will be able to invade the other planets and enslave their life-forms! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/58 "2016-09-29T02:31:41Z")
Let’s think this through. How do we know they aren’t the kind of life forms that make atrocious puns on a message board? ---
**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 29, 2016, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/59 "2016-09-29T04:15:51Z")
Klaatu banana nikto! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114/60 "2016-09-29T04:18:09Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Let’s think this through. How do we know they aren’t the kind of life forms that make atrocious puns on a message board? > [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Klaatu banana nikto! I, for one, welcome our highly appealing Overlords. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-clinton-have-outside-help-during-the-debate/767114.md?page=4)