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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.
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Reuters Says Bush Photo Not ‘Malicious,’ Reports Wide Interest In it.
i wonder if condeleeza wipes his backside for him?
this is the great american way to get into the president’s kishkes. remember when the president had some polyps removed how they went into his kishkes to describe in great detail all about those polyps? i don’t know if there’s another country in the world where they krich arein in the head of state’s kishkes like here.
they reported on clinton much much worse (remember monica) so this is no big deal.
this is news worthy so it was reported.
I liked it and so did you, so it is the job of the press to report.
have you ever found the media maliciously intent? they’re a bunch of big tzaddikim. all they wanted to accomplish is that there should be clear signs where the mens room is.
how did the picture happen?
According to Hershorn, Wilking was one of several photographers covering the United Nations Security Council meeting between about 11 and noon yesterday. He was part of a pool stationed on a balcony that faced Bush’s back; a group of White House photographers was on a balcony facing the president.
Wilking shot about 200 images and sent two memory cards to the press room at the U.N., where Hershorn was working. Hershorn looked at the images on a computer and initially decided not to send any of them.
But a few hours later, he started to wonder about a note that Bush was seen writing in three of the pictures. Out of curiosity, he zoomed in to see if he could read it.
Once he saw what it said, Hershorn decided the note was interesting and worth publishing. The white parts of the picture were overexposed, so a Reuters processor used Photoshop to burn down the note. This is a standard practice for news photos, Hershorn says, and the picture was not manipulated in any other way.
Around 4:30 p.m., Reuters transmitted two versions of the photo, including one that was tightly cropped around the note and Bush’s hand.
The caption says that Bush was writing the note to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice; Hershorn says Wilking saw Bush write the note and hand the note to Rice.
Hershorn says heads of state seldom attend Security Council meetings, and it’s possible that Bush was simply asking his secretary of state what the proper protocol was to be excused.
Online, some accused Reuters, and the media in general, of being insulting or juvenile. A letter writer to Editor & Publisher wrote, “You ought to all be ashamed of yourselves for this stupid trivia and childish focus.”
It’s unclear how widely the picture was published; Hershorn says The (Toronto) Globe and Mail published it but he wasn’t sure of any other outlets. Hershorn says he decided to transmit the picture because it was interesting.
“There was no malicious intent,” he says. “That’s not what we do.”
they probably did put its just not published yet
Noch a mazel The press didn’t follow him into the bathroom
if anybody had any doubt about the press being anti-republican/Bush here’s your proof. Do you think they would have done this with Clinton or any Democrat? and print this in the newswires for the whole world to see?
And Condeleeza knows where the Mens room is 🙂
maybe he just didn’t know where the mens room is
sounds like he ask permission to go
what’s the big deal, the president is not human? he’s not pharoah