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I can't blame him. That mu... (Below threshold)1. Posted by caltechgirl | September 15, 2005 1:24 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I can't blame him. That must have been a long damn session after his morning coffee.
I had to get up and pee just watching it on tv.....
1. Posted by caltechgirl | September 15, 2005 1:24 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 01:24
2. Posted by jc | September 15, 2005 1:31 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
2. Posted by jc | September 15, 2005 1:31 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 01:31
3. Posted by LibraryLady | September 15, 2005 1:32 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
They are bouncing between euphoria and suspicion. They think it may be a Rove photoshop trick to bait them! Was there a pencil on the desk or only Sharpies? Where did the clip go in later pictures? Why did he have to ask Dr. Rice? It is a confusing night in moonbat world.
3. Posted by LibraryLady | September 15, 2005 1:32 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 01:32
4. Posted by Strick | September 15, 2005 1:48 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
That's odd, that doesn't look like the example of Bush's handwritting that US News & World Report had analyzed in 2000.
Here's a reprint of the article:
http://handwritinguniversity.com/newslettersamples/candidates/gbush/gbkaty.html
The complete sample is here:
http://handwritinguniversity.com/newslettersamples/candidates/gbush/GWB2.JPG
Photoshop?
4. Posted by Strick | September 15, 2005 1:48 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 01:48
5. Posted by Strick | September 15, 2005 1:55 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I take it back, comparing the printed letters in the US News sample, they do look the same. Look at the "N" in each.
5. Posted by Strick | September 15, 2005 1:55 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 01:55
6. Posted by Henry | September 15, 2005 2:12 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
oh, right, and they're ALL writing dissertations on world hunger?
I bet half of them are writing doodles with an uncle sam and a dagger placed strategically.
It IS the United Nations, after all.
6. Posted by Henry | September 15, 2005 2:12 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 02:12
7. Posted by Sean Gleeson | September 15, 2005 2:20 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yeah, the N is close enough, and so is the W. But it's still weird. His US News handwriting is all cursive, the letters all connected. The Bathroom Note is block printing.
It's also weird to have to write any note at all about a bathroom break. If it was me, I would have worked out a discreet signal for something like that beforehand.
It's also weird that the pencil writes in jet black. Pencil lines just aren't that dark. I suspect the photo has been selectively 'posterized,' and this manipulation has not been noted in the cutline. Ask a photojournalist if this is considered ethical.
7. Posted by Sean Gleeson | September 15, 2005 2:20 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 02:20
8. Posted by PTG | September 15, 2005 2:35 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I wouldn't use any of the toilets at the UN. Maybe Condi carries those sanitary seat covers.
8. Posted by PTG | September 15, 2005 2:35 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 02:35
9. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 15, 2005 2:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'm suspicious. The original Reuters photo shows no context, no identifiable faces, no proof that it's Bush, that I can see. Someone show me the wider angled shot that this was cropped from.
Also, good point, Sean, on the darkness of the pencil lines. No pencil I have writes that thick and dark, especially when viewed through a telephoto lens from the press box and with white light glaring down on top of it. I think this was enhanced in Photoshop. Note the dense and blotted text of the memo at the top. If Bush's note is clear enough to read, why isn't that? I'm also suspicious of the mixing of block letters and lower case cursive writing for a 12 word, 6 line note.
Also, Sean asks why they would write this stuff down. Well, I think it's so open microphones don't pick it up. If that happened CNN would run it every 10 minutes for 2 whole news cycles and it would forever be a fixture on the web. Also, it could be President Bush's way of being respectful to whoever is speaking at the time by not engaging in sidebar discussions at the table.
OMG! I just put 7 minutes of time and thought into the circumstances surrounding the President of the United States' bodily functions. Too much. I'm going for another run.
9. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 15, 2005 2:46 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 02:46
10. Posted by JB | September 15, 2005 2:52 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Bush peed while people in need. Bush doesn't care about black people.
10. Posted by JB | September 15, 2005 2:52 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 02:52
11. Posted by Henry | September 15, 2005 3:11 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
that is interesting about the mixing of lower case with block letters.
I don't know of anyone who writes in such a weird style. It's either one or the other.
Even me, I write in a semi-cursive way. I never understood cursive when I first learned it and I always thought it to take way too long to write properly, so I've developed my own style of writing that is fast for me.
but this just looks weird.
Problems with picture
-extremely dark graphite?
-I find the second half of the note extremely hard to read while the first half reads very well
-mixing of proper caps/all caps lettering
-mixing of block with cursive lettering
-No proof this is Georgie
11. Posted by Henry | September 15, 2005 3:11 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 03:11
12. Posted by owlbear1 | September 15, 2005 3:14 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Even has to ask permission to use the bathroom.
How proud y'all must be...
12. Posted by owlbear1 | September 15, 2005 3:14 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 03:14
13. Posted by JB | September 15, 2005 4:38 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ah, but if he didn't, the evil Bushitler would be accused of rudely interrupting the session!
How proud ya'll must be to play the grade school "heads I win, tails you lose" game.
13. Posted by JB | September 15, 2005 4:38 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 04:38
14. Posted by Patty-Jo | September 15, 2005 4:59 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I don't know what GW's hand looks like, but this one looks pretty young. Shouldn't there be some lines or wrinkles or something?
14. Posted by Patty-Jo | September 15, 2005 4:59 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 04:59
15. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 15, 2005 5:10 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
And there you have it, folks! Exhibit A: owlbear1's comment. That's the real reason why Reuters cropped, enhanced and ran this photo. Not to report anything newsworthy, but to attempt to embarrass the President. "U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting..." Holy crap! Stop the presses! The President just wrote a note. That's news.
Without a party, without a leader, without a message, without solutions, without direction, without a constituency, without hope and without a future this is what the drooling, baby-boomer, nothing-to-show-for-a-lifetime-of-failed-social-activism Left is reduced to - moronic giggling about someone going potty.
Stroke out and stop biting at our ankles; you idiots had your chance.
15. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 15, 2005 5:10 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 05:10
16. Posted by owlbear1 | September 15, 2005 6:01 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dubya don't need no help making hisself look like an idiot...
nosireeboob...
16. Posted by owlbear1 | September 15, 2005 6:01 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 06:01
17. Posted by LCVRWC | September 15, 2005 6:02 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Of course, any sign of being a normal human will be seen as a sign of weakness. The man had to go to the bathroom for Pete's sake! Even Joe Biden poops every now and then.
Nancy Pelosi, OTOH...that would explain why she's a fucking lunatic...
17. Posted by LCVRWC | September 15, 2005 6:02 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 06:02
18. Posted by Faith+1 | September 15, 2005 6:11 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
If Reuters's cropped, copied, faked, enhanced, Dan Rathered or otherwise did anything to produce this well I'm just going to do.....nothing. It's irrelevent. Worse possible case is that the other side can say he wrote a note saying he had to pee?
Ummmm, so what? That isn't news.
If he stood on a table during the final vote and pee'd on the various anti-American economic policy proposals surely to arise out of the summit then it would be news.
Shoot, his dad puked all over a PM's lap and that was far more newsworthy.
18. Posted by Faith+1 | September 15, 2005 6:11 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 06:11
19. Posted by Chris Meisenzahl | September 15, 2005 6:38 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Let me get this straight ...
Now Bush even uses the bathroom?!? This man knows no limits! Who does he think he is!? ;-)
Chris
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/
19. Posted by Chris Meisenzahl | September 15, 2005 6:38 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 06:38
20. Posted by Bruce | September 15, 2005 7:05 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I usually use my left hand to steady the piece of paper I'm writing on. Unless it's a Post-it Note, but that looks liek plain white paper to me.
There, I've thrown my two cents into the conspiracy.
20. Posted by Bruce | September 15, 2005 7:05 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 07:05
21. Posted by meep | September 15, 2005 7:07 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Mixing lower case and block capitals? I do it all the time in notes. Especially for EMPHASIS.
Anyway, how dare Bush be slacking on the job. He should be catheterized.
21. Posted by meep | September 15, 2005 7:07 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 07:07
22. Posted by Natty Dark | September 15, 2005 7:08 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yet another example of what a failure this president is - can't we find one that doesn't ever have to pee? Anyone know any Democratic candidates without a bladder?
No urinate in 2008!
22. Posted by Natty Dark | September 15, 2005 7:08 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 07:08
23. Posted by Natty Dark | September 15, 2005 7:13 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"And, if elected, I pledge to have a catheter and colostomy bag installed to perform work for the American people. No $#it!"
23. Posted by Natty Dark | September 15, 2005 7:13 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 07:13
24. Posted by B Moe | September 15, 2005 7:20 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This is news. Unbelievable.
24. Posted by B Moe | September 15, 2005 7:20 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 07:20
25. Posted by Jim Hines | September 15, 2005 7:51 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's at great risk to my own life that I inform all of you here at WizBang "I need a Bathroom Break" is CIA code for "Have that guy from Iran Whacked!"
25. Posted by Jim Hines | September 15, 2005 7:51 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 07:51
26. Posted by Mike | September 15, 2005 7:59 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Give me a break. Was this a slow news day or something? Who cares. Reuters - just another supermarket rag.
26. Posted by Mike | September 15, 2005 7:59 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 07:59
27. Posted by tongancat | September 15, 2005 8:30 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The NEWS story here isn't that Bush may or may not have had to go to the toilet. The NEWS story is that REUTERS is so desperate for something to use to disparage a sitting president that they will even attempt to embarass him for going to the toilet.
27. Posted by tongancat | September 15, 2005 8:30 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 08:30
28. Posted by BoDiddly | September 15, 2005 8:32 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'm disappointed. You guys are usually brighter than this.
This is big news. See, it's been the general consensus that Bush caused Katrina. This proves he isn't deity, because we all know God doesn't have to either pee or ask permission.
That leaves all roads pointing towards . . .
KARL ROVE!!!!
28. Posted by BoDiddly | September 15, 2005 8:32 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 08:32
29. Posted by taz | September 15, 2005 8:40 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Kevin
You are a tad late with the Britney Spears announcement.
29. Posted by taz | September 15, 2005 8:40 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 08:40
30. Posted by Steve L. | September 15, 2005 8:44 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This is one of the silliest arguments ever. Who really give a f*** if he wrote Rice that note or not? He's a human being. Human beings go to the restroom at times. He wrote a note to Rice to explain why he might be getting up.
People on the right: there's no conspiracy. People on the left: Bush is a normal person not some imbecile who needs permission to go to the bathroom. Reuters: please actually pay attention to the photos you run so that you don't inadvertantly get everybody's panties in a wad.
30. Posted by Steve L. | September 15, 2005 8:44 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 08:44
31. Posted by Chris | September 15, 2005 8:45 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Although I am all for anything that makes Bush look bad, this is a little silly. And I'm sure some liberal bloggers will have their 15 minutes of fun with it. It also does look faked. I wouldn't be so quick to accuse Reuters, though. The rules news organizations have against doing any alterations to a photo are quite strict, and there's plenty of examples of people being fired.
On a more serious note, doesn't it bother anyone that the President writes a note to the Sec. of State during a sensitive UN meeting, and the contents can be photographed and distributed on the news. Who's to say he couldn't have actually written something sensitive?
31. Posted by Chris | September 15, 2005 8:45 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 08:45
32. Posted by ed | September 15, 2005 9:07 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hmmmm.
Man. BDS has gotten more toxic than New Orleans well water.
32. Posted by ed | September 15, 2005 9:07 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 09:07
33. Posted by Murdoc | September 15, 2005 9:15 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The VRWC in action, folks. If it's no big deal, why bother writing a note? Why not stand up and say it publicly? Is he ashamed?
If it's not part of something bigger, why are we just hearing about it now? Thank your stars some journalists are getting the truth out into the open.
This is an enigma wrapped inside a mystery locked in a whodunit surrounded by a crossword puzzle!
33. Posted by Murdoc | September 15, 2005 9:15 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 09:15
34. Posted by Murdoc | September 15, 2005 9:16 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hey, has anyone tried to overlay this note with the same message written using Microsoft Word? That kerning looks suspect...
34. Posted by Murdoc | September 15, 2005 9:16 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 09:16
35. Posted by DaveD | September 15, 2005 9:17 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Considering that the writing in the line "I think I may need a bathroom break" is different than that in "is this possible" suggests to me something got inserted over another message.
35. Posted by DaveD | September 15, 2005 9:17 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 09:17
36. Posted by andy | September 15, 2005 9:32 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I don't know of anyone who writes in such a weird style. It's either one or the other.
I write in such a weird style sometimes. Hey, I'm qualified to be President, hooray!
While this certainly isn't news, I have little doubt that had it been Hillary at a conference of some sort doing the same, it would be all over the right-wing blogosphere with snickers and guffaws.
36. Posted by andy | September 15, 2005 9:32 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 09:32
37. Posted by Murdoc | September 15, 2005 9:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's possibly a note from *someone else* needing a bathroom break and Bush is answering. Why else block letters above and handwriting below? He usually writes in cursive, I think.
And it's probably not *from* Rice either, at least if her note to Bush about Iraqi sovereignty (the "Let Freedom Reign" note) is typical.
Just a thought.
37. Posted by Murdoc | September 15, 2005 9:41 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 09:41
38. Posted by Jim Hines | September 15, 2005 9:43 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Bush can write?
:)
38. Posted by Jim Hines | September 15, 2005 9:43 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 09:43
39. Posted by DaveD | September 15, 2005 9:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
andy
Whether Hillary or W, it is worth snickers and guffaws. As a "right-winger" myself, if it had been associated with Hillary and despite my pleasure in that I would know that it is a clever joke. I am just not sure the "lefties" would catch on since W is the target here. And if it had been Hillary it would probably be something like "hey can you go see where Bill went to again?!"
39. Posted by DaveD | September 15, 2005 9:46 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 09:46
40. Posted by Dwayne "the canoe guy" | September 15, 2005 9:47 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
There would have no problem whatsoever if "Chimpy McHitler" had wanted to use his 'elephant trunk' for the main reason is was created (recreation/procreation) like his predecessor, rather than just wanting to tee-tee
"Make babies, not water!"
40. Posted by Dwayne "the canoe guy" | September 15, 2005 9:47 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 09:47
41. Posted by JAT0 | September 15, 2005 9:49 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Stupid is that stupid does! So here goes.
Rice is Sec of State - she can and does get the floor even before Bolton I think at the UN.
Bush is a guest - though head of a government.
Therefore, at some point, Rice may ask the President of the Assembly for a recess - DUH! Not Bush.
But, Bush, certainly can mention to Rice, time for a break...
So what...
Oh! Reuters is trying to invent NEWS! Humans, no matter who, have bodily functions! Stop the PRESSES!
Back to work...sorry!
41. Posted by JAT0 | September 15, 2005 9:49 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 09:49
42. Posted by Old Coot | September 15, 2005 10:06 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What Steve L. said.
42. Posted by Old Coot | September 15, 2005 10:06 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 10:06
43. Posted by stoj | September 15, 2005 10:06 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I thought Drudge was portraying this as a note FROM Condi to GWB, and this pic is him writing back (so possibly it was her that needed to pee).
I just want to know who had to piddle, when they had to piddle, and whether they eventually piddled or not.
The public has a right to know.
43. Posted by stoj | September 15, 2005 10:06 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 10:06
44. Posted by Mikey | September 15, 2005 10:18 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I thought he was a poo-flinging ChimPresident.
Learn something new everyday.
44. Posted by Mikey | September 15, 2005 10:18 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 10:18
45. Posted by mcg | September 15, 2005 10:40 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Good point, stoj. Now that I look at it again, Pres. Bush is using different handwriting than the bathroom note. You may be right. And if that's the case, the NOW crowd should be out in force blasting Reuters for invading the privacy of a woman! Oh, wait, nevermind, she's a conservative woman.
45. Posted by mcg | September 15, 2005 10:40 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 10:40
46. Posted by Jewels | September 15, 2005 10:54 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
he could be writing his response to her at the bottom. Although that does look like his handwriting. Not that that means anything.
Oi. Surprise! Conservatives pee! How stupid is this. Why did Reuters feel the need to photograph it?
Challenge- what other things could Reuters "reveal" to the public about the president?
Hey! he belches after drinking pop too! Sometimes... he gets tired.
::gasp!:: no!
Yes! he does!
46. Posted by Jewels | September 15, 2005 10:54 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 10:54
47. Posted by bullwinkle | September 15, 2005 11:04 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Would they have run the story if it had been a state secret they were communicating? Or would they have just informed the subject of the note? If the note had said, "He's lying, and we'll prove it when we get our man out of the country with the blueprints of the nuke they've built"? That's the method the two would be using to communicate state secrets, if it is a real picture something is really lacking in security.
47. Posted by bullwinkle | September 15, 2005 11:04 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 11:04
48. Posted by Jinx McHue | September 15, 2005 11:16 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Omigosh! BUSH IS HUMAN??? Why didn't anyone tell me???
48. Posted by Jinx McHue | September 15, 2005 11:16 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 11:16
49. Posted by mantis | September 15, 2005 11:30 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
That's the method the two would be using to communicate state secrets, if it is a real picture something is really lacking in security.
It's not the situation room, it's a damn UN summit. The press are allowed. Btw you'd all be laughing you're asses off if it was Clinton asking Madeleine Albright if he could go pee.
You know all those crazy conspiracy theories they come up with at DU that you all like to make fun of. Well, have another look at this thread.
49. Posted by mantis | September 15, 2005 11:30 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 11:30
50. Posted by Henry | September 15, 2005 11:34 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
actually, if it is true that this combined note was on the piece of paper, then it is quite a funny piece of paper.
I think it's just there for humurous value.
50. Posted by Henry | September 15, 2005 11:34 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 11:34
51. Posted by McGehee | September 15, 2005 11:39 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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?
51. Posted by McGehee | September 15, 2005 11:39 AM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 11:39
52. Posted by bullwinkle | September 15, 2005 12:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
52. Posted by bullwinkle | September 15, 2005 12:06 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 12:06
53. Posted by scrub_oak | September 15, 2005 12:13 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
53. Posted by scrub_oak | September 15, 2005 12:13 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 12:13
54. Posted by OregonMuse | September 15, 2005 12:26 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
54. Posted by OregonMuse | September 15, 2005 12:26 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 12:26
55. Posted by Estaban | September 15, 2005 12:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I always thought he was left-handed and the writer appears to be right-handed.....
55. Posted by Estaban | September 15, 2005 12:29 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 12:29
56. Posted by bullwinkle | September 15, 2005 12:35 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
His dad is left-handed Estaban, he's right-handed.
56. Posted by bullwinkle | September 15, 2005 12:35 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 12:35
57. Posted by Jim | September 15, 2005 1:00 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
57. Posted by Jim | September 15, 2005 1:00 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 13:00
58. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 15, 2005 1:10 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
58. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 15, 2005 1:10 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 13:10
59. Posted by Peter F. | September 15, 2005 2:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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
59. Posted by Peter F. | September 15, 2005 2:11 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 14:11
60. Posted by eLarson | September 15, 2005 2:11 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What is Hilary's position on urination? Do you think she'll take this sitting down?
60. Posted by eLarson | September 15, 2005 2:11 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 14:11
61. Posted by eLarson | September 15, 2005 2:14 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
61. Posted by eLarson | September 15, 2005 2:14 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 14:14
62. Posted by Varuth | September 15, 2005 2:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
62. Posted by Varuth | September 15, 2005 2:54 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 14:54
63. Posted by Varuth | September 15, 2005 2:55 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Er.... bathroom break FROM you. :)
63. Posted by Varuth | September 15, 2005 2:55 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 14:55
64. Posted by edddie | September 15, 2005 3:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
64. Posted by edddie | September 15, 2005 3:01 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 15:01
65. Posted by mantis | September 15, 2005 3:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
65. Posted by mantis | September 15, 2005 3:54 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 15:54
66. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 15, 2005 4:36 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
66. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 15, 2005 4:36 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 16:36
67. Posted by bender | September 15, 2005 5:00 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dude - check the paul email address (ill send it to kevin in a second too...) for some awesome photoshoppage..
67. Posted by bender | September 15, 2005 5:00 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 17:00
68. Posted by shark | September 15, 2005 5:40 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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!
:)
68. Posted by shark | September 15, 2005 5:40 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 17:40
69. Posted by Jewels | September 15, 2005 6:28 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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.
69. Posted by Jewels | September 15, 2005 6:28 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 18:28
70. Posted by eLarson | September 15, 2005 9:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Either that or he has very large hands.
And you know what THAT means.
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big Isotoners.
70. Posted by eLarson | September 15, 2005 9:59 PM |
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Posted on September 15, 2005 21:59
71. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 16, 2005 12:45 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It was both an intentional and manipulated image.
71. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 16, 2005 12:45 AM |
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Posted on September 16, 2005 00:45
72. Posted by Darby | September 16, 2005 1:21 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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
72. Posted by Darby | September 16, 2005 1:21 AM |
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Posted on September 16, 2005 01:21
73. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 16, 2005 2:08 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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?
73. Posted by Cardinals Nation | September 16, 2005 2:08 AM |
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Posted on September 16, 2005 02:08
74. Posted by Andrew | September 16, 2005 9:15 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
So that's where Piers Morgan has been.
74. Posted by Andrew | September 16, 2005 9:15 AM |
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Posted on September 16, 2005 09:15
75. Posted by writeaway | September 18, 2005 3:55 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
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!
75. Posted by writeaway | September 18, 2005 3:55 AM |
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Posted on September 18, 2005 03:55