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

New York Times via Drudge ^ | August 27, 2006

[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???