el primero?

Notice they only show the hand, not the man himself writing the note. No bias there whatsoever...

/sarc

is that a real photo? It does not look like it.

Huh? Is this photoshopped?

I have no words.

Too much disgust for media.

Must contain urge to kill all reporters.

Well, I guess even the President has to puke after hearing all the drivel at the Star Wars bar scene.

sh*t does anyone think that GWB would allow an al-Reuters cameraman into that position?

This is ludicrous.

a joke?

I have lots of cursive fonts in Photoshop.

Off to check and compare them to this note.

THIS is news? That the president might have had to pee? Breaking news..really breaking news.

Who was the photographer? Mohammad Mohammad Mahmud al-Mahmud?

I figured the ridiculous photo of Robert's eyes yesterday was just an isolated incidence.

They can keep up the trivial crap. They keep losing credibility and I don't think they even have a clue.

This is obviously faked...

A real cowboy woulda said, "I gotta take a leak - bets I can hit kofi from here?"

I think Bush wanted to puke after listening to Kofi talk.
The accompanying article doesn't mention that Bush said the UN loses credibility when it puts nations guilty of gross human rights abuses on the Human Rights Commission. In fact, that statement hasn't been mentioned in any coverage I've seen of this. I need a transcript.

This was probably written right before they walked out on the Iranian President.

Dammit, that's every bit as genuine as a Microsoft Word-generated Air National Guard memo!

Damn shame they didn't do this during the Clinton years -- now that would've made for some fun reading! Watching the "Simpsons" 'Mayor Quimby' makes for a decent fascimile, I suppose.

So why is Al-Reuters zooming in with a high end camera to see what is being written inside the UN?

Oh my goodness...this is really sad.

I have no words to describe how disgusting the current state of media is.

Smudger LET font in Photoshop (without rotating, skewing or adding serif to the I's)

Of course, the old MSM low-tech method is just to shoot a picture of a handwritten note.

So relevant, as usual.

I thought it was hilarious

This reminds me of the time GI Joe - the action figure - was captured in Iraq. Remember that? Reuters already had the political angle covered, until it was clear no Barbie was going to tearfully beg for the early withdrawl of every action figure from Iraq.

Let's not stop there! Here's an Al-Reuters photo of John Roberts. (hat tip: Curmudgeonly and Skeptical)

#6 hannitized:

You must have been doing Jedi mind tricks, because that's what I was thinking earlier today when the UN 60th season of wackyworld started:

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

Re: 19

On a quick glance, the I's are different. Other letters don't match up either, but the I's are the most obvious.

I think it may be a real note. What I gather from it is that:
A) GWB is human. If he's got to go, he's got to GO!
B) He has incredibly good hadwriting for someone who has to GO!

Let he who doesn't Pee cast the first stone.

OHMYGOD! Breaking News! The President is human! And...pees!

The media is disgusting! Do these people actually have journalism degrees, or do they just get the job because they are somebody's brother, friend, etc? I mean, c'mon, the free world is about to possibly have to deal with a nuclear holy war, and all they can report on is that the Pres needs a bathroom break?!

#25 ArcherB

On a quick glance, the I's are different. Other letters don't match up either, but the I's are the most obvious.

Reuters wouldn't bother to Photoshop a fake note, they would just do the low-tech handwritten fake note with somebody's hand holding a pencil.

Here's the real note. (Just me having some fun with Photoshop)

27 Alouette:

True, why would they bother photoshopping something so easy to fake.

BTW, you do excellent work. Have you sent your resume and portfolio to CBS?

I'm curious about this image and have a few questions:

Why would Bush need to write this down - could he not simply have leaned over to get Condi's attention?

Where is the camera bank for the UN chamber? That would appear to be a zoom lens shot, but something about that image strikes me as being off.

Oh yeah, what about that handwriting -

This is one of many images of Bush's handwriting, and the way he writes his 'I's are completely different than we see in this image. Different form.

I call BS.

Actually, just realized something - Bush could have been responding to someone else in the US delegation having to go - and he was simply writing a response. The bottom portion of the letter seems to have Bush's handwriting - the top portion is someone else's.

This entire thread has me on the floor. You guys are too much!

I vote for the low-tech scenario. How else could a cameraman get that shot?

On a more serious note - if this were real, that would mean that al-Reuters could spy on everything that Bush might be writing!

Pretty low in my book.

I'm sure the average american will side with the press...sarc

#29 lawhawk

I call BS too! The instant I saw that note, I remembered seeing the President's fairly illegible handwriting on a condolence book or something, and thought, "Naw..."

I WANT TO KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE FOUND THE FOLLOWING... ODD &/OR UPSETTING.

If you follow the links in the picture above till the end you get the option for the "middle East Conflict" set of photos.

now when you click the "MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT" photos link...the first 4 or so pictures are from a gathering regarding "350 Years of AMERICAN JEWISH life"

Now...here is my problem.

what in the world exactly does "350 years of AMERICAN JEWISH life have to do with the "Middle East Conflict"

now before I get obvious stupid responses, YES I am aware that Israel is a Jewish state, blah blah blah. But if you follow that sort of reasoning is every Jew to be held responsible for every Israeli & Israel? Is there no difference between the two? I think not!

Makes me wonder however if the Yahoo! people see a difference between Israel/ an Israeli & all Jews everywhere.

#34 WOG

I think you have it right. The press seems to think a Jew is a Jew. You've gotta hand it to the liberals, they are so open-minded.

I have to admit, after looking at several samples of GWB's handwriting, very few letters match up. For starters, most of the stuff I see the Prez write is in cursive. Also, when he is printing, his A's are lowerase a's, not the caps like the note you see here. Check out:

Here
and
Here

In the second one, the word "Thanks" is about as close as you can get to "Think", yet very few of the letters match.

Granted, I'm no hadwriting expert and I really don't think it's a shocker that the Prez Pees... or poops... maybe this really was an emergency!

WOG #34

Makes me wonder however if the Yahoo! people see a difference between Israel/ an Israeli & all Jews everywhere.

The Arabs don't, hence blowing up Jewish community centers in Latin America, plots to bomb synagogues in Los Angeles, bombing synagogues in Morocco and Turkey, etc., etc.

What name(s) is/are on the credit(s) for those photos?

Even the President needs a hall pass to go. Even I get to go when I want. Imagine have to have the Seceretary arrange a loo break? What is the protocol? We goes first?

It funny on a lot of levels. (fake photo or not) I'd have to get a high res shot into Photoshop to tell anything. But I agree with some of the comments the top part asking for a break is different writing from what the "hand" is writing.

I am looking forward to seeing the note on the wall in the bathroom of the GWB Presidential Library.

#29 lawhawk #36 ArcherB
I'm thinking it's real. In ArcherB's first example check out the MI in print. They match the print in the first part of the reuters photo. also the second half of the reuters photo switches to cursive and the "I"'s match othe known examples of hiw writting.
How the hell they got this shot is the real problem.

Doubtful.
One. Try to print pencilled items - writing, drawing. They don't reproduce well. It looks as dark as a marker line, but it's a pencil in the hand. So, the photo has been enhanced - at a minimum.

Two, who's hand is it? Gotta take their "very" "reliable" "word" for it.
I'll pass.

Three, tactical mistake on Reuters. Just makes the normal person sympathize with the writer, reminding everyone that the UN is full of long-winded pompous speakers, probably not what the Reuters image-manipulator who cooked up this photo and explanation intended. So for that, it doesn't hurt Bush a whit, real or faked. In fact, continues to add to his iconoclastic Texan persona.

WOG

OK, I looked at the photos, and I know why they were included in the Middle East group. One of them shows the Israeli Ambassador to the US. The others mention in the descriptions that before Bush attended the dinner celebrating 350 years of Jewish life in America, he met with Ariel Sharon and praised Israel for the disengagement.

Apparently, the photos get sorted into categories by key words, and all of the descriptions with these photos contain the word "Israeli."

Here is a sample of Condi's handwriting.

Is she the one who needs to go?

A fake? Is this the start of Potty-gate?

#27 Alouette
Hah! Hah!
Perfect rebuttal !

#19 Aluetta

What a hoot!

Great Job! I wish it were true!

I have this overwhelming urge to...

Never mind, I wouldn't do that even if the Reuters beast's tonsils were on fire.

wanumba 44

Nice pun! :)

#34 wratofg-d wrote:

"Makes me wonder however if the Yahoo!
people see a difference between Israel/
an Israeli & all Jews everywhere."

It's not just Yahoo! bubbe.

That's the opinion of the vast
majority of the non-American -
non-Israeli world.

Somehow they have last the ability,
among other things, to differentiate
between religion and nationality.

Which, I'm sure, must make Ray Hanania's
wife watch her back whenever hubbies
pals [sic] are around. Will Chomsky
appreciate it when his muslim friends
finally decide it's time to murder him
for his crime of having Jewish parents?

But the MSM is not biased. I bet this will appear in NYT, WaPo, etc.

South Park come to life:

The Moonbattish Editor and Publisher already has an article crowing about this major coup, declaring that it will be one of "the most yakked about pictures of the week, if not year."

One can understand the novelty for them: lefty jourinalists never take a shit themselves. That's why they're so full of it.

Al Reuters,

19 SEP 2005, A corpse was found with a rabid, but exhaustedm, wolverine lodged in his rectum. Based upon the paraphanalia, including a live web cam, in the budget hotel foul play is not suspected. The deceased, Rick Wilking, had worked at one time for Reuters.

#40 wanumba
Good point. I think the handwriting matches but there's something not right about the way the writing shows in the photo

killgore trout:

Where are the experts to sort this out? This isn't my purview, but there certainly appears to be two different handwritings on there.

As to your point of wondering how the shot was taken, it beats me. I was wondering the same thing.

Free Republic is tearing into this Rather-doc style.
Potty-gate it is.

While I congratulate Charles on this thread (it is worth many giggles) and I love the posts, I just don't wee what all the fuss is about. Suppose Bush DID write the note; is this one of those "Halt the Presses" types of stories? Doesn't Al-Rueters think people understand that even presidents, kings and potentates have to urinate and defecate (and since Presiden Bus ws at the UN let's not leave out the possibilty that he may have had to throw up)? What's the story here, if any?

PIMF -sorry for the typos, but I've been making them all day. I think I'm REALLY starting to hate this keyboard, not to mention my lack of concentration on such a serious topic.

Points raised at Free Republic:
Does a #2 pencil normally make such wide block letters?
Bush usually scrawls in cursive rather than block letters.
It does not resemble numerous samples of his handwriting.
As raised here, why would they be allowed to get this shot in the Security Council chamber?

#21 I'm with you.

If it were a parody or a fake, it would have said, "I gotta go potty!"

Look at this photo of how GWB holds his pen - nothing like in the al-reuters 'photo'.

Signing Photo

Not conclusive, but enough for me to call bullshit on our repeatedly proven lying anti-bush 'press'.

Anyone use a very sharp pencil? It would not have that sharp of a point after that much writing.
The boldness shows its at least a 2H (soft/black). To get that darkness, he would also have to press quite hard. Again that point would not last.
His fingers are also removed from the tip, that much leverage on a point like that would snap it when yielding that dark of a letter.

I should stop this now and resume my life...

So the Plame leak was really just a photographer with a zoom lens spying on top secret ducuments...

Does Reuters think that we don't notice the constant barrage of anti-Americanism and Republican-bashing? Reuters must be really rich to be willing to @#$% off half of America like this and not care about the consequences - all the customers they have lost forever and the additional ones they are losing every day with crap like this.

#57 shiplord kirel:

I believe that the session was held in the General Assembly chambers, which is sufficient in size to hold all the delegations. I've seen photos of parts of the interior, and there are places that a cameraman could be situated that he could get this kind of image with a long lens.

My photoshoppe effort

Code, anyone? The top was written by Condi, advising the POTUS that she wanted to shame Kofi. In his reply at the bottom, Pres. Bush wonders if Kofi has any shame left.

#23 Perpetual Student:

That Roberts photo is a blatant attempt to present the administration's appointee in the most unflattering way possible. It even resorts to deliberately bad photographic technique (or cropping) in order to achieve this effect. Reuters' bias is so transparent that they are honestly now a caricature of journalism. They have ZERO objectivity in their reporting. Honestly, if you took an extreme close-up shot like that of most people's eyes, they would come out looking wierd and unattractive. There is no news value or context to this photograph at all.

Also, much of the responsibility lies with the "news" outlets who continue use Reuters as a "news" source, despite the fact that their blatant political bias is resulting in instances like this where they provide bad quality photographs on purpose to their paying clients. If the "news" outlets are not themselves also biased, they would select different photos from the set available for publication.

Look at this in context of this UN 60th anniversary meeting, When President Bush stands up to leave the room , all eyes are upon him, the meeting stops for all practicality, whoever is speaking at the time would probably consider it an affront, people would wonder if something nefarious was about to transpire ie. terrorist attack etc..., the news would chide Bush the next day for his petulance and lack of manners.

It ain't easy bein the leader of the free world, you have to appear superhuman, bodily functions are for wimps!

What this picture shows is that the President needs a bathroom sometimes. So what? So does a photographer who took this picture, and an editor who published it, and so each and every human on this planet.

I think that Yahoo is being a huge embarasment to MSM as a whole by publishing this picture. It shows a level of the Yahoo reporters and editors covering an event which MSM want us to believe is important. What Yahoo thinks concentrating on the president's blader function contributes to the issue, I would like to know.

I think this would ordinarily be humorous, but not the way Reuters is using it. They wanted to humiliate the leader of the free world by showing him to be either so dumb he couldn't see the importance of the meeting or he was so blaise he didn't care. No picture of the President speaking twice to the UN, but rather a picture of a note to Condi asking for permission to go potty. I think the MSM has really lost any shred of relivance they might have had.

#35 Cowgirl 9/14/2005 06:34PM PDT

#34 WOG

I think you have it right. The press seems to think a Jew is a Jew. You've gotta hand it to the liberals, they are so open-minded.

And yet somehow there are still liberal Jews...

And they think it could never happen again...

Imagine if liberals gain power again ever (G-d forbid!)

unless youre a moonbat or some such atrioshole, everyday folks from all walks of life will see this for exactly what it is piling on, an adolescent attempt by the idiots at reuters to make a piss joke at the expense of chimpy mchitlerburton.

the man has to take a piss and hes looking for a discreet and polite way to get it done. what an evil moron he must be!

folks who are not consumed by hatred of bush will go "wtf is this?"

Now I wanna puke...

During their New York City meeting, US President George W. Bush told Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he is certain he will emerge successful in his reelection bid, pointing out the world likes strong leaders.

Bush added that while he does not intend to interfere in local Israeli politics, if the situation in Gaza following Israel’s withdrawal remains quiet, it will serve to help Sharon’s reelection effort.

Both leaders were in NYC to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

according to Drudge, the top half of the note is from Condi, and Bush is writing a reply. So he's not the one that has to "pee". Makes sense given the different handwriting at the top.

OK here's another juvenile Reuters photo for you. In the midst of a tragedy that has destroyed a city, killed hundreds, and left hundreds of thousands homeless, what does al-Reuters feel is appropriate subject matter for a photo? A deflated blow-up sex doll lying on the steps of a damaged mobile home.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/05091 4/ids_photos_ts/r404176213.jpg" target="_blank">wider shot of the same picture shows the back of Dubya's head in the shot.

We expected this man never to go?

Here's another one of Roberts...

The Talking Head

Of course, they are making a big deal out of it on Usenet, as if he wrote that he decapitated his grandma, but you have to tip the hat to his politeness- He could have just stood up, and marched out, like I do when people are boring me shitless.

Reuters running that photo of a written note about a "Bathroom Break", has to be one of the most disrepectul things ever done on a President of the United States.

I do wish the photographer would be exiled from this country together with all the people who allowed this juvenile prank to happen.

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

BTW, the proportions just do not match.

By looking at this paper with the proportions of the paper with the typed letters, they are equally proportional width-wise.

That means that they are the same size as a regular piece of white paper, or else he was using a really fat Post-It.

This means that he used a regular standard white piece of paper, to scribble like a child an entire request.

This leads to more analysis. The black print on the typed paper fades before it reaches the hand. It should not do that. It should wrap (illegibly) seamlessly until the hand countour.

So how this was done, is a combination of a photo of his hand writing the last sentence he is writing, with some other photo or combination.

That is why the first part of the message bears so little resemblance to the last line.

Late thought - though everybody else has probably already thought of it.
Yahoo and Reuters should be pressed to apologize for this forgery, with loud denunciations of the trustworthiness of their "news" product. Reuters lied - readership died...

Intellectually, it's a Junior High quality prank (potty jokes) , but with adult uber partisan viciousness as it is being passed around the world in an attempt to bolster the Left's fantasy that the US Secretary of State, Dr. Condeleeza Rice is playing "Mama" to the President of the United States.

Need a new news service. Whatever happened to UPI? It was purchased, but haven't seen it surface - had some hopes for it...vainly hoping they might come up with a better product. Maybe the internet "Pajama Dude/Dudette on the street is making it obsolete.

OMG! POTUS had to pee! Quick get a picture!

Everyone that believes ChiComm Yahoo, raise their hands.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Faked, just like the rest of the news.

I dub this Pottyquiddick.

What would the press had done if the note read..."Let's get Syria next!"

#85 better yet - how about a laundry list:

Bolton in UN - check
Iran nuke facilities targeted by US forces - check
Special forces in North Korea ready to stage another railway accident at nuke facilities - check
Announce to the world the end of totalitarian regimes as we know it - check
Watch as the dictators in NK, Iran, and China wet themselves - Priceless.

This photo is obviously a fake. A #2 pencil would not look that dark and black as it does. You would probably need a flair or fine Sharpie to write that note.

The treachery of al-Reuters knows no bounds.

My little note to Reuters:

You are no doubt concerned that most Americans with IQ's above room temperature regard journalists as a form of life lower than whaleshit. Should you have any lingering doubts about why, this link should help clear it up for you. Yes indeed, we are breathlessly waiting for your insights on how to solve the world's problems. Hanging on every word. Really.

www.editorandpublisher.com...] target="_blank">

I'm sure if someone took a photo over Hillary's shoulder the National Organization for Women would be so far up Reuters' _ _ _.

Yaknow, looking at the bigger picture leads me to see a trend with WASPY-lefty media types that casts a weird light-

They make attempts to debase this guy with the same homoerotic energies of the "Spock in Chains" fantasies of pimply Trekkie Fanboys.

Heads up!

Drudge is reporting that Reuters admits it was photoshopped!

New Thread ! New Thread !

91 wanumba

Thanks for the heads up.
Too bad it proves my "Spock in Chains" theory too well. They are even resorting to fanfic, now.

This photo has been heavily processed in Photoshop or similar editing software.

Specifically, the contrast was strongly boosted in the left part of the picture to reveal the text. (I'll post a detailed pic showing this).

That this manipulation has not been declared is highly unethical and violates any basic standard of journalism.

Here's a Photoshop analysis of this manipulated photo:

Reuters manipulates news photo

I thought Bush was left-handed.

Points raised at Free Republic:
Does a #2 pencil normally make such wide block letters?
Bush usually scrawls in cursive rather than block letters.
It does not resemble numerous samples of his handwriting.
As raised here, why would they be allowed to get this shot in the Security Council chamber?

Good grief.

It doesn't take much to get you folks worked into a lather, does it?

Rathergate, it ain't.

I liked Jon Stewart's version:

"Hey Condi, I gotta make fudge"

Gary Herson, a picture editor at Reuters, says he zoomed in on the picture of Bush after Wilking sent it in. He says Wilking was not aware of what the note said when he snapped the picture. He was located on a balcony facing Bush's back.

Publishing this photo is a violation of privacy (using a telephoto lens and image editing software) with the intent to protray the president in a negative light. In a time of war, where US military and diplomatic success depends (at least in a small part) on the overseas image of the President and the office, Reuters' crude manipulation and attempt to belittle the President amounts to propaganda for the enemy.

I think your tin hat is WAY too tight.

Or maybe you just need to pee?

A bathroom note as "propaganda for the enemy?"

As far as the overseas image of the President, that has been "in the crapper" for years.

Following up al-Reuters, CNN has now run a "story" on GWB going to the bathroom at the UN:

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

In the video piece, you can see CNN looking at the wacko-left "Atrios" website.

All par for the course with the "mainstream" media...