REUTERS has acknowledged Bush 'Potty Note' photo was enhanced via Photoshop...

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[FormerACLUmember]

Nothing yet

http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001137642

[retrokitten]

LMAO! Good one.

[Tempestuous]

"what's with the third-grade snickering? I don't get it."

- Liberals have the emotional maturity of your average 3rd grader...whats not to get?

[RightWingAtheist]

He looks like he has a fetish for bathrooms, period.

[texianyankee]

Thanks for your explanation. I definitely have a better understanding of the term, "burning it."
Basically in layman's terms, the image is still manipulated or enhanced.

[mother22wife21]

What an empty life they must harbor.

[jincarolina]

Liberals have a sick fetish about every aspect of the body and how it funtions, I have noticed in a couple of stupid movies how they now show people mostly women sitting on a toilet. It is weird how they want to get into every personal thing that people do, things that should remain personal.
I think they want to justify their lurid behavior.

[popdonnelly]

Looks like David Letterman with a bad haircut.

[got_moab?]

Must consume mass quantities!

[SIRTRIS]

Maybe some Photoshop enhancement on his enlarged forehead & clown make-up for the rest ?

[LasVegasMac]

great pix.

In today's news, scientists announced that they are completely baffled by the continuing reappearance of species "Dorkus AmongstUs".

The consensus of the group was that there was no logical reason for Dorkus AmoungstUs to ever be seen or heard in public....."This species self-terminated in the year 2000. It no longer serves a purpose or is of any value to anyone."

LVM

[chicagoray38]

It's alot better than what president Clinton is full of huh. :)

[piasa]

Wow, a John Glen lookalike if he loses any more off the sides.

gee, whiz. Wasn't John Glen the astronaut who was fascinated by his own orbiting crystalized pee?

[FormerACLUmember]

Dear Reuters and Rick "Bizarro Bald Bucky Beaver" Wilking (the photographer):

I am sitting in the smallest room of my house holding before me a copy of your fine Reuters report, which I am reading. Soon it will be behind me.

[jincarolina]

I remember algore had to go to the bathroom after drinking to much iced tea.
I think that was his excuse for missing some important info, I forget what it was.

[aft_lizard]

Is that how we came to the term of taking a no. 1 and a no. 2?

[SoftballMominVA]

If you knew Rick and how he feels about the Bushes, you would be ashamed of yourself. He is a devout Christian and adored working in the Bush White House. He was a gentleman and withheld comment about his time with the Clintons

And yeah, I'm sure of this, we attended the same church when he lived in Va.

[FormerACLUmember]

My post from yesterday when this story/photo/sham broke: Wait a minute. The bathroom text is printed. The person writing the note has different handwriting and is writing in cursive. What's going on here. Are we being hoodwinked?

Major Bump!

[HereInTheHeartland]

So it's true. Bush DID go to the bathroom sometime that day.
He should be impeached and jailed.

[holden]

The note was apparently burnt down to remove the artifacts of what seems to me to have been two distinct compression passes over the image. Turning a bitmap image into JPEG, for example, will leave such tell-tale signs at sharp image boundaries (e.g., white/black, paper/finger). When image boundaries exhibit different sets of boundary artifacts, I consider it evidence that two different passes of compression took place.

In addition to making certain text more readable, that Photoshop activity may have been intended to remove evidence of a different compression of the note's text compared to the compression of the remainder of the image.

HF