Posted on 11/23/2004 7:07:45 AM PST by finnman69
President George W. Bush (news - web sites), left, talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, as Prime Minister of Australia John Howard, right, talks with China's President Hu Jintao, and Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong , top left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) look on after they attended the Reading of the Final Declaration at the APEC (news - web sites) Summit at La Moneda Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004 in Santiago, Chile. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)
Oh man, you don't want to start the custard picture thing up again. I laughed for days! Please, is is so juvenile. My face hurt...
Then the original Yahoo photo looks doctored. Did you zoom in and check the abnormalities in the crotch area?
Bumping, so my teenage son can read these captions. He will laugh his butt off.
If you really must know...I cannot resist. I can't find the orignal thread, but...here goes.
This may explain why VP Cheney has the grin while he dances onstage in the Jib-Jab video...:)
Overexposed! A photo of Dick Cheney is unexpectedly revealing
Milwaukee Magazine
Joining Dick Cheney's motorcase in Green Bay, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer Dale Guldan hoped to capture a unique image during an otherwise scripted campaign visit in September.
Did he ever.
Jumping on and off the press bus, Guldan says he took hundreds of pictures at well-orchestrated photo opportunities.
On the way to Milwaukee, however, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr convinced Cheney to make an unscheduled stop to Glendale to visit local favorite Kopp's Frozen Custard, according to New York Times reporter Rick Lyman.
When Cheney ordered a decaf coffee and sat on a concrete ledge, Kopp's manager Scott Borkin graciously brought him a sample of frozen custard. "The guy came all the way from the White House," Borkin says. "He's got to try our custard."
The normally serious Cheney flashed a winning smile for Borkin, and Guldan snapped an attention-grabbing photo that would later be chosen for the September 11 Metro section.
Guldan got a call from readers the next day. "Did you notice anything unusual about that picture?" the reader asked.
Upon closer inspection, it seems the Vice President's smile was not his, ahem, biggest asset.
"You're not imagining it," Guldan says of the unintentionally revealing photo.
Let's just say the snugness of Cheney's pants left little to the imagination, and we're not talking about his waistline.
One Journal Sentinel reader pointed out the blooper in an e-mail to Dave Luczak, Carole Caine, and Kevin Brandt, who had a hoot talking about it during their popular morning show.
"It's nice to have someone of that magnitude in the White House," Brandt joked.
"He's got a porn career right there," Caine snickered.
"Now we know where his unmitigated confidence comes from," Luczak quipped.
We've seen the photo, and it's hard not to notice something so, well, unmistakeable.
Guldan explains that he took 100 to 200 photographs that day with a digital camera, chose six to eight images for possible publication, and didn't notice anything odd in the Kopp's image because Cheney sat in the shadows. Incredibly, a dozen or so editors saw the photo before publication, and no one raised the red flag.
"I got a chuckle out of it when I noticed it, too. If I had noticed it sooner, I would have cropped it," Guldan says, referring to the standard practice of trimming a photo without altering the accuracy. "I wasn't out to put him in a negative light."
While such a photo of the VP is clearly inappropriate, it's also a harmless mistake and could be seen as - dare we say - flattering. Just ask WKLH's Caine, who dug through her recycling bin to find the photo.
"It's like a Scud missile, for crying out loud," Caine said.
Want to see the picture for yourself? Catch it while you can at your library periodical desk, because chagrined Journal Sentinel officials are not in a sharing mood.
The paper denied our request to reprint the copyrighted photo, saying it had decided not to release the image to the public.
You won't find it on jsonline.com either, though there are photos of every other Cheney campaign trip to Wisconsin since April. Matt Stanton, jsonline design editor, promised to look into this curious omission, and that was the last we heard from him.
Meanwhile, Mark Hoffman, deputy photo editor, suggested we try the paper's Photo Sales Service. Don't bother. To check its availability, we ordered and paid for a color copy of the Cheney photo, only to get a call the next day voiding the deal.
Journal Sentinel: "That photo is not for sale."
Someone left the barn door open.
Bush lets little Cheney out at the APEC Summit at La Moneda, Santiago, Chile
There is no way I can answer that question and retain my dignified reputation on FR. ;o)
I'll leave it to photo experts to determine if it's been photoshopped.
(psssst...........I couldn't tell, but don't let anyone else know I said that).
Whenever I see anything from Yahoo these days I am skeptical. I assure you that my only interest in the Presidential exposure is to "expose" possible Yahoo shenanigans.
Custard picture? What are you referring to?
>>I see Bush did institute a draft...<<
Oh, you have my vote for best caption!
Thank yew!
>> It is a good thing that Bush was a pilot and not a SEAL. SEALs do not wear underwear!<<
What?! Please explain.
I wouldn't put ANYthing past the MSM.....
Howard and Hu at the same meeting? Bush'd love that.
Bush: How, Hu. Hu, How.
Paging James Watt, and a taxi to Ware.
Double Lu?
It's a good thing one Double Loo can beat the two Johns!
Here's a link to the story behind the picture:
http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/122004/pressroom.html
And here's a link to the photo itself. I won't post the actual pic because the Admin has pulled almost all threads that show it. (It's not exactly offensive IMHO)
http://sayanythingblog.com/archives/004967.php
I have been waiting for that photo for what seems like weeks.
Now I can die a happy woman.
No wonder Lynne always looks so cheerful.
THAT'S THE INFAMOUS PHOTO! WHOA NELLY!
Thanks.
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