Why would they call it accidental and then run it anyway ?
They were trying to get photos of something to leak and found out the only thing to leak was the President
He should have turned around and seen if one of them had an empty pocket !
"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."
Right from the start a lie: it is clear that the President is writing a response to whomever (Rice?) wrote the initial scriblings. So it is not "writing a note to" but "responding to."
Reuters sucks.
'“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." '
Uh-huh. And then he accidentally enhanced it with Photoshop.
Thank you Al Gore for your fake "count the votes" fiasco in Florida. You have sullied the office of the President of the USA almost as much as Clinton did.