- U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
There’s a wider angle view as well. You can be sure that the moonbats will be barking tonight…
Btw you’d all be laughing you’re asses off if it was Clinton asking Madeleine Albright if he could go pee.
Mantis, do you really want to bring Clinton into a thread about fluids coming from … down there?
It doesn’t say it’s the summit mantis, it says:
U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit…
Big difference.
As to whether or not the image was tampered with, the close-crop picture definately was enhance so that the words can be read more easily. This is seen in the difference in the color of W’s jacket: it goes from light greyish-blue to black between the shots. This also explains the extremenly dark writing from a pencil that was noted before. Someone at Reuters wanted to make sure that we see that Bush asked for a potty break.
Btw you’d all be laughing you’re asses off if it was Clinton asking Madeleine Albright if he could go pee.
If this was Clinton and Albright, Reuters wouldn’t even bother with it. They’d be doing what they did reguarly did back then, namely, running puff pieces on Hillary and publishing unflattering photos of Newt Gingrich.
I always thought he was left-handed and the writer appears to be right-handed…..
His dad is left-handed Estaban, he’s right-handed.
Don’t you just love photoshop?
I don’t get why this is such a big issue but the loons at AmericaBlog seem to find it to be a significant embarrassment to the country.
Why not go over there and let them know how special they are.
Steve L.,
I think the point is that Reuters actually did pay attention to the photo they ran. This was no mistake. If this had been the only picture the Reuters photog had been allowed to take during the entire conference, well then, I suppose I could excuse using it as a matter of necessity. But do you really think that’s the only photo taken session which Bush attended? Do you really think they didn’t enlarge, crop and enhance the original in order to focus on the writing and the potentially (in their minds) embarrassing message? Do you really think that this was all mere happenstance? It wasn’t, and Reuters rightly should be called out for their selective and biased imaging and reporting.
Crying foul when a foul has been committed doesn’t define conspiracy, it defines accountability.
That is darkest pencil lead I’ve ever seen. Where does he get those pencils? Office Depot?
No “war for bathroom breaks”!
This should have been this week’s Caption Contest. LOL
What is Hilary’s position on urination? Do you think she’ll take this sitting down?
Missed this one:
Even Joe Biden poops every now and then.
No he doesn’t. I reckon he’s hermetically sealed. It WOULD explain his complete lack of a sense of humor.
I just posted this to Reuters’ feedback site. It pretty much sums up my thoughts on this.
Don’t your photographers have anything better to do at the UN than to spy on the President of the United States? Taking pictures of his notes is one thing, but then having the pettiness to PUBLISH a picture of a note indicating that he, or someone in his delegation (the context of the note is unclear) has to use the restroom? COME ON! Could you possibly have any less tact? I would expect such garbage from the National Enquirer, but from a NEWS service?
I can’t imagine why newspaper circulation is in the toilet. Maybe your readers just needed a bathroom break you.
Er…. bathroom break FROM you. 🙂
Nice job sticking up for your boyfriend, Varuth! If you keep it up, maybe he’ll let you hold it steady the next time he has to take a whiz.
It doesn’t say it’s the summit mantis, it says:
U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit…
Big difference.
Ok, excuse me, its a meeting taking place at the summit but not technically part of the summit, maybe. Point is, it’s still a public meeting. Press and the public are allowed. If Bush were writing notes on national security in plain view at a public meeting, it would be his own damn fault if they were seen or photographed.
And as far as “why is this news?” goes, it’s not a news story, it’s one of 160+ photos from the summit. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to take a bathroom break.
Edddie…that was a really funny post. Great use of comedic sexual innuendo to pointedly demonstrate the factual deficiencies in Varuth’s argument. Wow.
Hey, jump over here, give it a read and then come back and let me know what you think.
I’m interested in your analysis of the whole “unintentional” theory regarding Reuters’ publishing of this photo.
Thanks so much.
Dude – check the paul email address (ill send it to kevin in a second too…) for some awesome photoshoppage..
It could’ve been worse…..
SOME OTHER NOTES BUSH HAD WRITTEN THAT MORNING:
1) (Doodle of US planes bombing UN building)
2) Condi: I can’t believe how bad the rep. from Suriname smells today!
3) “Kofi sux the big one”
4) What do they serve for lunch here? Probably some curried goat crap. Have these people never heard of BBQ?
5) Condi: I gotta take a shit!
🙂
Did you notice how tiny that pencil is? It’s really thin. Either that or he has very large hands.
i think it’s a conspiracy.
Either that or he has very large hands.
And you know what THAT means.
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big Isotoners.
It was both an intentional and manipulated image.
Looking at it carefully I think I’ve figured out a couple of the words…
Looks like Os, but cursive I is a loopy thing, so the first word is probably “Is”
The second word I am unable to make out. though it looks like a T an I and an S, It’s possible that the second word is “this”
The third word is probably “possible”
The next word appears to start with “Wh” then scribble. Entirely possible it’s Why, What, or When.
So, after careful deliberation, I’ve come to the conclusion that the cursive writing is:
Is this possible(the rest unknown because the hand is blocking the view)
Why, what, or When?
That’s my analysis
Further thought: Now that Reuters has admitted that they intentionally used a manipulated image, I wonder if they’ll release the original? Seems like the reasonable thing to do if they have nothing to hide, since only the “white parts of the picture were overexposed, so a Reuters processor used Photoshop to burn down the note.”
Taken at face value, those assurances would lead one to believe that anyone with reasonable Photoshop user skills could produce the same results.
What do you say, Reuters? Care to give the blogoshpere a go at it?
So that’s where Piers Morgan has been.
Just wanted to say thanks to all of you for your comments. Best laughs I’ve had in a while. That’s all this story deserves. It’s a big joke!