Thursday, October 28, 2004

BushWired: Best foot forward

Salon has a short piece up on the latest BushWired development: A NASA/JPL physicist has performed a science-level analysis of images of Bush's back from the first debate. Conclusion? It is not a wrinkled shirt. It is not Bush's shoulder blades. There is definitely something there, but it also does not look much like a box. This is a relief in a way, since all of the audio techs agree that "between the shoulder blades" is a strange place to put a wireless transceiver unit.

What the processed images definitely reveal is some sort of arrangement of wires snaking up and down Bush's back, between the shoulder blades. Recall, now, that the best-technology in-ear units use magnetic induction to power the in-ear speaker; this requires a wire loop to be laid around the subject's head.

I had thought the case was closed; instead, Dr. Robert Nelson has just blown it wide open. Don't forget: (1) Bush team insisted on no video from behind (and have never explained that request); (2) Bush demanded "Let me finish!" 15 seconds into a 60-second response during this debate.

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