Bring In Da Noise. Bring In Da Bush.

April 29, 2008 at 9:05 am

Today’s Yeas & Nays has this wonderful graphic, a sound chart showing that President Bush barely beat out Craig Ferguson for noise at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner Saturday night …

YaNSoundChart.jpg

How’d they measure the noise?  Multi-faceted Jeff Dufour used this hyper-sensitive (think New York Times) atomically-calibrated decibel counter, presumably on loan from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.  Or Radio Shack.

Jeff Dufour Howard Mortman sober

President George Bush

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  1. Leslie Bradshaw said,

    April 29, 2008 @ 9:37 pm

    Perfect follow up — was wondering how it all went down. I think I have a video clip of Jeff explaining the device. Remind me to dig it up :-)

    - LB

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