Is the M$M using photoshopped pictures of Bush in their reports?

[Ghost in the Machine]

I save some pictures I find sometimes because I use them to play around with in my paintshop pro program. I'm still teaching myself how to use it through trial & error.

Anyways, I was just looking through some pictures when I noticed something odd about this one:



Notice anything funny about it??

Look under his left arm at the microphone and red stripe on the flag.

Is it just me, or does something not look right there?

I don't remember where I saved it from, but I don't go to very many other sites besides here & my own sites. Anyone have any thoughts or insight on this?

[LakeSamish706]

1. You better be more descript than that for me.... Guess I am a slow learner...

but, what the hell am I looking for under his left arm?

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. Look where the microphone crosses the red stripe of the flag

why is the microphone red there? See it?

[Bicoastal]

2. In the original picture, Bush was picking his nose.

But in all seriousness, what they DO do is take his speeches and clean up his "um, er, y-y-y-ya see" stuff for the radio. NPR admitted to doing so about a year ago, just so people could actually hear what he had to say through all the stamering.

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. I remember hearing something about that. Then there's his Fo-NET-ick

notebook to remember also

[TroglodyteScholar]

4. If you're talking about what's going on in the flag...

Edit: OH I see, the microphone is red. WTF

[Ghost in the Machine]

7. strange, huh? n/t

[sakabatou]

5. I think it's just the lighting and the artifacts

in the digital picture.

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. I didn't know what it was. All I know is how to point my digital camera,

take the picture and upload it to my computer.

[TomInTib]

9. I am seeing his little, tiny hands with tan on them.

And you know what they say about small hands....

[Ghost in the Machine]

10. He's got those little bitty hands and those little bitty feet and a little bitty

voice going peep, peep, peep....

[TomInTib]

11. This is the first time I have laughed all day...

and that is a doggone shame.

Thanks, G i t M,

Tom

[Ghost in the Machine]

15. Glad I could make you laugh, my friend

Everyone needs to smile at least once a day.

Whenever I find myself in need of a smile I just pull this picture up. It actually makes me laugh til my face hurts. Try it out:










:hi:

Peace!

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Yes. I found the original!

[SergeyDovlatov]

14. haha

[Ghost in the Machine]

16. LOL!

Good one!

[Warren DeMontague]

20. You know, I envisioned it actually ending up looking a little more obscene

but it's probably for the best, this way.

In serious reference to your OP, my hunch is that what you're seeing has to do with high compression on the image, artifacts and the like. Although with the way the media is now, who knows? Honestly, though, if they were going to spend a bunch of time photoshopping his pictures, you'd think they would make him look like less of a doofus. That's certainly not the case in that picture.

Of course, the funniest Bush photos are all real--- you couldn't make 'em up in a million years.

[Contrary1]

13. Not just that...

The part of the mic that crosses the white stripe is a different color too.

[Ghost in the Machine]

18. There's something weird about this whole picture. Besides the weirdo in the pic...

[Poiuyt]

17. Color fringing

If the sensor of a digital camera isn't real accurate, you can get some bleeding in areas with fine lines and high contrast.

[Ghost in the Machine]

19. That sounds reasonable....

in a 'ok, I don't really know what you just said, but it sounds like you know what you're talking about' kind of way.

:hi:

It just didn't look right to me, but I don't know if they were chrome or stainless mic stems and maybe reflecting colors, but I couldn't wrap my mind around how the red reflected in FRONT of the mic...