"Goatse" image seen on screen during CNN/YouTube debate

[Newsjock]

http://duggmirror.com/2008_us_elections/LIVE_NATIONWIDE_CNN_YouTube_debate_GOATSE_D_on_LIVE_TV_PICTURES

When CNN and YouTube decided to pair up and merge the mediums of television and internet, neither companies quite expected to get all the baggage that comes with user-submitted, online-oriented content. This time, that baggage came in the form of a hidden online secret image, lovingly labeled “GOATSE,” based on the original website “goatse.cx.”

“GOATSE” refers to an image that began circulating the internet and infiltrating innocent users’ internet explorer windows as early as January 2000. But what makes this image so unique is its inherently offensive nature - redacted by Newsjock.

And despite an extensive screening and thorough analyzation of the videos submitted on behalf of YouTube and CNN alike, the image still made it under the radar and into tonight’s debate.

The incident in question came during a question about our nation’s healthcare system. The user who submitted the video was speaking innocuously into the camera when the image of “goatse” was flashed for the briefest moment in 1/24th of a second, ranging just above the framerate treshhold with which television broadcasts.

WARNING: If you click on this link, you will see a picture of the screen shot from CNN, which is VERY NOT SAFE FOR WORK. WARNING.

[meegbear]

1. ...

:wow:

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Comcast blocks Goatse

Small favors, right?

I first saw it bundled with Tubgirl and a few other delicacies, in some spam I got, circa 2000 -- but only IIRC. But I do RC that I got the same item of spam nearly 30 times.

Set my therapy back weeks.

Vile stuff, ain't it?

--p!

[RebelOne]

8. I've seen Tubgirl. Totally disgusting.

I had that image in my head for weeks.

[NoodleyAppendage]

19. Tubgirl - is that the one with the broom stick? It's fake (I hope).

J

[thereismore]

3. What's in that image? nf

[lse7581011]

6. Here's What I Found

Goatse.cx,<1> was one of the best-known shock sites that existed, featuring an image, hello.jpg, of a man stretching his anus with his hands.

[xultar]

7. I can't kick the link, I'm @ work.

[blogslut]

9. If you really want to know I can describe it and save you the memory

n/t

[Az]

10. Do not ask to see Goatse, if anyone gets the image at their work there could be trouble

Goatse was a single photo web page that was used in various debate forums to effectively shut down any further discussion. It is a photo of a man bent over with distended testicle stretching his anus extremely wide such that you can see quite a ways down. It is one of the more visceral and disgusting images to ever come from the net (there are worse trust me do not google tub girl). And its point was to so overwhelm a thread with disgust as to shut discussion down.

[racaulk]

15. It looked kinda like this...

Just imagine that this picture is of a man's anus, and there you have it.

Gross stuff.

:scared:

[Az]

16. There is a subset of the Goatse crowd that tracks these images down

Anything that is reminiscent of the original is captured and enshrined.

[TroglodyteScholar]

24. Ok NOW I'm laughing n/t

[Mojorabbit]

4. OMG

I guess I am really naive...

[xultar]

5. kick

[sniffa]

11. gotta come back after work

[Swamp Rat]

12. Tinky Falwell did it.

:D

[SpiralHawk]

21. Swamp Rat - you rascal you.

Too funny.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

13. That's still floating around out there?

I'm not gonna click on that link, I still remember it far to well.

[Az]

14. The official site was sold off

But the image still exists out there in the wild.

[thereismore]

17. I'm so naive, I didn't know what I was looking at. I saw it now - did I really

need that?

[wellst0nev0ter]

18. I Remember Unknowingly Clicking That Link In A Public Computer Lab

good times :(

[Atman]

20. Can't we file complaints with the FCC? I'd much rather see Janet's nipple.

A massive brazillion dollar fine is in order.

.

[Feron]

23. No.

Cable isn't under the FCC's content jurisdiction.

[Newsjock]

22. UPDATE: Possibly a hoax

http://wonkette.com/politics/dept'-of-the-internet-wins-again!/goatse-picture-shown-in-debate-nation-collapses-281874.php

Wonkette reports that "the YouTube commenters" say it's a hoax.

[Az]

25. I am going with the hoax claim

The graphic is not properly aligned according to the background image. Its squared rather than at an angle similar to the screen it is supposed to be on.