New York Times Photo Mystery (Drudge): Where did the Mic Cord Go?

New York Times via Drudge ^ | August 27, 2006

[Conservomax]

Not much of a mystery - if the cord moved while the shutter was open, it would have blurred and would then become more difficult to see against a dark BG - if you look you can see the blur.

I just hope the wife of the soldier in fron t doesn't see this pic.

What is up with the non-stories on Drudge today?

[1rudeboy]

The mic cord . . . schwing!

[Rumple4]

I don't know, looks like it was photoshopped out.

[mware]

I don't see a blur.

[Obadiah]

What is up with the non-stories on Drudge today?

Ernesto is now a non-story, and there is no other calamitous weather around to panic over.

[freedomson]

It's a hair on the surface of the film.

[54skylark]

Who cares what happened to the mike- I am still studying photo

[demlosers]

Slimes practicing the art of deception.

[Charles Henrickson]

You must know.

[orionblamblam]

The singer's left hand is slightly motion-blurred. This indicates that a swinging mic cord could easily have been *really* blurred. The room was probably a bit dim, and the exposure fairly long.

[mware]

Damn that is a worse photo shopped then the billows of smoke from Lebanon.

[Osage Orange]

So....the bottom of the cord wouldn't move too????

[Azzurri]

I need to see more evidence.

[demlosers]

Who is she?

[llevrok]

That's the new camo BDU's the guys are wearing. No wonder the cord is not visable!!

[saganite]

What mike cord? I don't see a mike cord.

[Charles Henrickson]

This story has legs.

[Parley Baer]

I can see the blur or maybe the photo shopping.

[Perdogg]

What mic cord?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Green Helmet Guy's got a heck of a set of gams on him.

[Conservomax]

If you look at the soldier in between the one in front and the tall black soldier, you'll see his head is moving and it too is blurred - albeit slightly.

[CT-Freeper]

Honestly...I have to go with the "blurred cord" hypothesis on this one. What would anybody gain from photoshopping out half of a microphone cord? Plus, there's a slight blur that extends up from the visible part of the cord to the top of the picture.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I can't believe nobody's asked who's legs those are.

Who's legs are those???

[SpartacusII]

And just who would be looking at the mic cord?!!

[Frapster]

It's not photoshopped - it's blurred. The bottom of the cord wouldn't necessarily move if there's enough play in the 'free' portion of the cable.

[r9etb]

So....the bottom of the cord wouldn't move too????

Not necessarily.

[tophat9000]

I don't see a blur.

Look close it's been photoshopped out... look like a "water stain" streak running down the photo where the cord would be

[operation clinton cleanup]

I think the mic cord was actually photo shopped in.... but why. I must see the upper half of the photo!

[mware]

I see the blur now, near her right calf.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'm guessing Jessica Simpson.

[cripplecreek]

There's a faint shadow of a blur right up the front of the girl onstage.

[hosepipe]

[ This story has legs. ]

LoL...

[Conservomax]

Unless you have a photoshop file composed of various layers, you can't blur something without affect what is behind it.

That is, unless you want to spend a few hours playing with it.

[stimpy17]

Hehehe,
What did Bob Hope say? "I just wanted to remind you what your fighting for"

NOTHING is too good for our GI's.
May God bless, and girls wearing Cowboy boots rule!

[Carling]

I see the blur too. It is pretty obvious. Either a bad photo edit or the cord was moving at the top too fast for the speed of the camera.

[curtish]

Jessica Simpson

[martin_fierro]

YEAH DAT. *what* cord?

[Jeff Gordon]

She was in the process of being teleported back to the mother ship. The disassembler always starts with the highest density objects first. In this case it was the mic cord.

[mware]

I see the blur you refer to but where the heck does the cord go on the left side of her. It disappears so clearly. Could that much of the cord be blurred???

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What mic cord?

[BaBaStooey]

This is the biggest non-anything I've seen in quite some time. Much ado about nothing.

Photo was not photoshopped. The blur running down the middle of the picture is the moving microphone cord. Case closed.

The bigger mystery is why such a small room with such a small crowd to see those legs? Couldn't be Jessica Simpson, she's a bigger draw than that.

[Osage Orange]

Ah...I see a "wipe out" shadow...right where the cord should be.

This photo was manipulated.......

[LA Woman3]

Who's legs are those???

Caption under the photo.....

Inside the Haditha Dam in Iraq, a member of the Purrfect Angelz dance group entertained American troops.

[moehoward]

Looks like Simpson.

[roses of sharon]

I don't get it.

[Incorrigible]

Yep. Blurred cord.

You can see it on the wall over the heads of the soldiers.

[jongaltsr]

Oh wait !
I know !
I figured it out !
Oh, oh, oh ....
It is simple.....
It isn't a mic cable at all
it is just a cable with an erection......!

[GraniteStateConservative]

It's really amazing that Jessica's body looks like that un-airbrushed.

[lionheart 247365]

I recognize it as the rare black moumba native to the local area and very poisonous to boot .