Be very careful. The bathroom break photo may be a set up.

[Writer]

Rove. To discredit the media for attacking "poor little" George.

The picture is odd. It looks to be cut from an original. We need to see the original picture and double and triple check with the photographer to make sure that it is legit.

The angle also is suspect. It's much to convenient an angle for the UN.

I do not believe this is real.

/print

Edit: to include link to photo

[aquart]

1. Lotta strange pictures of George turning up.

[DemInDistress]

2. Where's the picture??

[MissB]

3. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4772605

[LSdemocrat]

Here's a dKos diary with the original

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/14/18157/2068

[Writer]

7. That's good. That's much better. The original needs to be circulated.

Not the cropped version. It does the entire petulance of this enough service while seeming more legitimate.

[fob]

14. Holy shit! Look at the other pics at that link. There's one with bolton

looking down towards condi, it looks like she's showing him the note! In the next pic bolton and condi are both LAUGHING! It looks like condi has the note folded on her knee in the laughing pic.

He*s a complete fucking JOKE and HE* doesn't even know it.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. He's holding a pencil in writing the note but a sharpie pen in the others

Anyone notice that? I'm not saying that the Reuters photo isn't true. In fact, the presumption would be that it is genuine considering the source. But the fact is that in that one photo with the note, he's writing with a pencil. Yet the other photos at the DailyKos site show him holding a pen in the right hand.

On Edit: After looking at the Daily Kos photos again, it appears there IS a pencil in one of the photos showing Bush holding a pen. It's located right next to his glasses where his right hand would have been.

[KoKo]

34. Just noticed he's hold a pen in all these photo's. There's NO pencil

anywhere on the desk. Who uses pencils these days? Most of these people at the UN would have their own special pen.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

36. There IS a pencil on the desk, right next to his glasses

in one of the Daily Kos photos. Apparently, he's using both pens and pencils. So far, the photo looks legit, but you never know.

[DoYouEverWonder]

39. There are two pencils in the upper right corner of the desk

They are definitely there. Why he switched from a capped sharpie pen to the pencil, who knows? Maybe he's anal about making mistakes?

[SW FL Dem]

35. Yes but if you look closely, there are pencils on the desk

in front of Bush.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

38. That's what I pointed out on edit if you read the post n/t

[stillcool]

4. somethings wrong with the backround...

it doesn't look like Yahoo or Reuters...too stark.

[fob]

16. look at the dkoss link pics above! You can see by the looks on

bolton and condi it's all too real!

[Bouncy Ball]

5. Oh oooooooo scary!!!

LOL!!!

Yeah, like people are making a federal issue out of a picture of him writing that he thinks he might need to take a bathroom break.

:rofl:

Ooooo what a scary trap!

[notadmblnd]

17. the only thing that is scary is that he doesn't know

if he has to go or not. Time to break out the Depends maybe?

[SaveAmerica]

26. gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now...

[sendero]

33. There ya go..

... foiled by the genius Rove again. Pissing away our credibility!

[justiceischeap]

6. He's a different version

[Rex]

12. Error...bzzzz....illogical no one can be that stupid (mommy I gotta pee?)

bzzzzzzz.....zot...ping!!!
:evilgrin:

[Arkana]

29. Much better angle--his fat head is in frame.

[tyedyeto]

8. It was taken by a Reuters photographer

Link to text about it

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001137252

Link to the Reuters pic:



On the first page, there is the link to the page with the pic.

[highplainsdem]

9. E&P story about this -- the photog sounds very credible

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?schema=&vnu_content_id=1001137252&WebLogicSession=QyjUIwqiVeonLZMnAN1VyRS67214cl1PoDR6koIuTjHLP8hd2i3U|2622585377979273461/181605428/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1

[democracyindanger]

Reuters link

Can't paste it in here for some reason, but go to Atrios, 3 posts down he has the Reuters link.

It's real.

http://www.atrios.blogspot.com

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. It's real. Two angles and verifiable chain of custody (Reuters).

[moobu2]

11. It's very real. nothing wrong with anything

reuters version



Edited because I cant spell

[justiceischeap]

13. Though I have to say

If you look at the index finger, there is a white "glow" outside the finger that is sort of covering up the text. Hmmmmm....

[moobu2]

15. It’s obviously real, I’d bet money on it

We’re just so use to seeing shopped photo’s, we cant trusy our own eye's.

It's real.

[justiceischeap]

18. Do you see what I mean though

about the glow around the index finger?

I think it's real, I'm just saying I can see why folks would think it's fake, especially if they're seeing the Yahoo! one and not the Reuters photo.

[Catherine Vincent]

19. To prove it is a setup, Rove and company would have to admit

they put the pic out there. Please.

[Writer]

20. They didn't admit to it with Dan Rather, the Newsweek source, and

the bin laden tape, did they?

[Catherine Vincent]

28. No, but this would could be easily proved.

By Reuters.

[Writer]

30. Yar! n/t

[hlthe2b]

22. No, it is real. Editor & Publisher has the story-- photog was

a Denver-Based Reuters photographer that had just done more than a week's duty in NOLA. That likely explains his eagerness to capture the Chimp in all his "glory."

Check out Editor&Publisher.com or Americablog.com or DailyKos for the details.

[riverwalker]

23. Rick Wilking

Is one heck of a GREAT photojournalist.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054354

[moobu2]

24. Confirmation, it’s real ...I knew it.

Published: September 14, 2005 7:35 PM ET

NEW YORK In what seems destined to become one of the most yacked about photos of the month, if not year, a Reuters photographer today seems to have captured President George W. Bush scribbling a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice suggesting that he needed to take a "bathroom break" during a session at the United Nations.

The photo by Denver-based Rick Wilking, taken over a man's shoulder, shows an official -- identified in the caption (at Reuters' official site) as President Bush -- scribbling in pencil on a small white piece of paper the words: "I think I MAY NEED A BATHROOM break?"


editorandpublisher.com

[Fox Mulder]

25. How could it be a fake?

It's by Reuters, for God's sake.

Why would they fake something like that?

[Arkana]

27. Yeah, well, if Rove is trying to dupe the media, they're gonna be

damn pissed if they figure out this was a trick.

[Bouncy Ball]

32. Yep, and they're already breaking ranks.

I'd love to see it if they pissed off the media even more.

Hee hee.

[cynatnite]

31. bush needs to go to the little boys room and asks Condi?

How does that discredit the media? I don't get it.

[aquart]

37. The photographer's identity is known.

And he was in New Orleans.

[Dora]

40. He's STAFF Photographer at White House!!!!!

Another DUer found out.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4775019&mesg_id=4775182

[mirror wall]

41. I'm thinking that it may have been Condi that asked for permission to wee.

Bush tends to write in all cursive, I think. See this link:

http://www.handwriting.org/main/samples/gwbush.htm

That might be the setup. Although I'd like to see a sample of Condi's to compare it to.

[katamaran]

43. Some of the letters look alike

I have no life. But I do have Photoshop ;-)



1) Cursive "I" are the same
2) lowercase "th" at the beginning of words
3) lowercase "s" the same
4) Capital "M"
5) Printed "I" is the same

[applegrove]

42. Perhaps to make him look human?