Just damn.
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Posted on 09/15/2005 1:27:32 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Reuters Says Bush Photo Not 'Malicious,' Reports Wide Interest In it
By E&P Staff
Published: September 15, 2005 4:30 PM ET
NEW YORK With confirmation today that an accidental photo of President Bush at the United Nations on Wednesday, writing a note to Secretary of State Condeezza Rice about a “bathroom break,” was indeed real, newspapers around the U.S. and abroad are now planning to run it widely. But many, it seems, will treat it as something more than a joke.
A source at the Washington Post tells E&P that the paper is considering it for prominent play tomorrow morning, in the context that, at least in some minds, it raises questions about overall perception of the U.S. at the United Nations, right or wrong. Reuters reports extremely strong interest in the photo today.
The fact is, according to Reuters--and this has not been widely reported--President Bush did indeed take a bathroom break after passing the note to Rice.
This apparently raised some eyebrows around the room, because American representatives (among others) have a reputation for suddenly bolting, though normally for a far different reason than this latest one.
Since the photo first appeared on the Web late yesterday, speculation has centered on whether the bathroom break reference was just a silly joke and who had written and passed the note.
Gary Hershorn, news editor-photos for the Americas at Reuters, told E&P today that the photographer, Rick Wilking, informed him yesterday afternoon that he had observed Bush pass the note to Rice, and a little later, rise from his seat, leave the room, and then return.
And while some have suggested that Wilking, a well-known photographer just back from taking some of the most gripping images in New Orleans, was out to embarrass the president, Hershorn said that the photog had no idea what Bush was writing on the paper. Wilking assumed the president was taking notes on what some other official was saying.
“Rick had no idea what he was shooting, or what Bush was writing,” Heeshorn said. “If Rick knew what he was writing we'd have 25 pictures of this, not two.”
The photo was taken at 12:08 PM and it was Hershorn, about three hours later, who took the trouble to examine the photo closely, noticed the writing, and decided to put it on the wire after 4 o'clock.
The photo, as E&P observed last night in the first story about the incident, shows Bush scribbling in pencil on a note that already holds the words: "I think I may need a bathroom break? Is this possible." Wilking is a veteran Washington photographer who has long covered Bush campaigns and the White House.
As for transmitting the photo, Hershorn says, "There was no malicious intent. That's not what we do."
There's a simple explanation, even a serious one, for all of this, he adds. Bush, he points out, is not used to attending meetings at the U.N. and probably did not know what the protocol was for exiting a room and returning. His question to Rice was “proper” and not all that surprising, “asking someone with more experience there about protocol,” he said.
"PottyGate"?
This is news?
Maybe he was saying in code that "These idiots make me want to puke." Thus, the need for a bathroom break.
My goodness.
The President is a human being with normal bodily functions!
This is completely unacceptable!
Time for them to grow up
Stop the presses!!!
The President of the United States uses the toilet just like everyone else in the world!!!!!!!!!
It is according to the LameStream media.
According to the media, it was "no big deal" when Clinton masturbated into the Oval Office sink, but it is a major scandal that Bush needed to take a pee break.
Bush's Fault!
For some reason I just thought of the scene in Naked Gun where Frank goes to the bathroom unaware that he's still broadcasting from his lapel mic.
Reuters: "All the Potty News That's Fit to Print"
If that doesn't tell you why the media is a vast incipid wasteland I don't know what does...
That catching someone writing a not about a bathroom break is worthy of 25 photos?????? Yea, they have their priorities correct.....
Clinton didn't take a cr@p for 8 years! What's wrong with Bush?????
Um, that statement kind of undermines your claim that you are not out to get the President, doesn't it?
I just KNEW Bush was a habitual urinator, I just knew it! Just wait, soon it will be revealed that he's not above the occasional "#2" as well.
More evidence that the Left is beyond desperate. The guy's got to take a leak and the WaPo and Reuters have to turn it into a federal case. Unbelievable...bloody idiots.
Just damn.
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And here I thought he didn't care about black people!
An accidental photo? So I suppose it was also an accident when the photographer typed out and posted the caption that ran with the photo:
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...
They think we're fools.
Bush goes to the bathroom? And to think....I voted for him twice.....I can't believe how he fooled me in to thinking he was above all that. Never again...Bush lied....what a horrible man!!!!!
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