You gotta love McClatchy "Truth to Power" Newspapers. Not for their reporting, but for their entertainment value. McClatchy editors last night won an MRC DisHonors Award for an October 2007 headline that bemoaned the drop in business Iraqi gravediggers saw with the drop in violence thanks to the U.S. military surge.
Now the newspaper chain is highlighting the rampant online speculation on whether a photo of Dick Cheney shows a naked woman in the reflection of the vice president's sunglasses. Yet not until deep in the article did reporters Kevin G. Hall and George Bridges render a McClatchy photo editor's verdict: the reflection in the glasses is of Cheney's hand holding his fly fishing rod.
You can't make this stuff up. (see screencap below the page break)
(h/t NewsBusters contributor and MRC News Analyst Scott Whitlock)
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Just watch Fox news,
April 11, 2008 - 10:58 ET by red_dragon311Just watch Fox news, with Megyn Kelly the hotest news women on TV,
IT'S HAND HOLDING A FISHING ROD!!!!!!!!!!
I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist
haha
April 11, 2008 - 11:00 ET by pwozI love the sig. I just got into Arrested Development after a friend recommended it... why would they ever cancel that show?!!?
True dat
April 11, 2008 - 11:18 ET by jpatchArrested Development was my girlfriend's favorite show, she turned me onto watching it. Beside The Office, it has been the best TV show on in years. I have no idea why they cancelled. Too complex for the usual idiot TV watcher?
Ya, here's another chapter of the liberal playbook. It doesn't matter if the person is innocent or guilty; throw an accusation out there for a while to get everyone nice and worked up, and they'll remember the accusation, and not the fact that the person is innocent. Kinda like the reverse-O.J. No, wait...
Let's just call this the "Mike Nifong" attack. Broad brush strokes of horrific rape accusations that included racial overtones. Does anyone remember how "Whitey" was taking all the heat during that incident, especially because it was in Durham, with all of the poor blacks? They turned it into a huge racial issue, with the rich, white kids, and he poor, disenfranchised blacks. Turns out, the BLACK girl making all of he accusations was just a SKANK looking to mess up a white boys life. And our media was all too eager to instigate a race war...against "Whitey", of course.
and lets not forget, that
April 11, 2008 - 11:23 ET by red_dragon311and lets not forget, that when the black whore was found to be a liar, the story was dropped, move along, nothing to see here, these arn't the droids your looking for.
they did a close up on fox news and you can clearly see his hand holding a fishing rod.
I just liked how the fact that he was smiling, THAT was the smoking gun that poved it was a naked broad.
I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist
It's a wonderful
April 11, 2008 - 12:04 ET by Hero SquadIt's a wonderful show!
*****
"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will
Hey, we all know....it's
April 11, 2008 - 11:01 ET by motherbeltHey, we all know....it's not the nature of the evidence, it's the seriousness of the charge...
Speculation is as good as fact, I guess. Well the DUmmies had a good time for a while anyway....
Caught this on LGF earlier,
April 11, 2008 - 11:15 ET by SchnikeysCaught this on LGF earlier, Charles said how while some readers are "suggesting it shows Cheney appreciating a bare naked lady, others think it may reveal a creature from another galaxy."
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Kucinich watching
April 11, 2008 - 12:25 ET by acumenKucinich?
"I need to get a pair of
April 11, 2008 - 12:06 ET by Hero Squad"I need to get a pair of those sunglasses." - Bill Clinton
*****
"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will
HS... ROFL! Glad I read
April 11, 2008 - 15:34 ET by bigtimerHS...
ROFL!
Glad I read the comments first, I was thinking of posting along your same Clinton line...he is the first thing I thought of.
"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill
I can't say who first noticed this...
April 11, 2008 - 12:11 ET by sarcasmoBut I can guarantee one thing: He's a guy. :)
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Sarc, I think your wrong. I
April 11, 2008 - 12:14 ET by bassndudeSarc, I think your wrong. I bet it was one of those feminists that permeates the liberal media.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Ok, then.
April 11, 2008 - 12:15 ET by sarcasmoA guy or a lesbian. :)
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Now your on to
April 11, 2008 - 12:17 ET by bassndudeNow your on to something.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
I dont see any hand or
April 11, 2008 - 13:23 ET by general companyI dont see any hand or pole, but what I do see might make me smile too ; ]
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
MIB! MIB!
April 11, 2008 - 12:23 ET by CobraManPeople thought that it was a reflection of a naked lady? LOL! Only of she was a Conehead who was pointing a gun at him!
I don't know about others in the Blogosphere, but I've yet to see a woman who has a head that tapers to a point that is five times smaller than her neck. Outside of an SNL skit, that is.
"Yet not until deep in the article did reporters Kevin G. Hall and
George Bridges render a McClatchy photo editor's verdict: the
reflection in the glasses is of Cheney's hand holding his fly fishing
rod."
Let's give a little credit to McClatchy, shall we? They exposed the reflection for what it was in the first paragraph. It wasn't "until deep in the article " like you suggest.
Via the link you provided: "WASHINGTON — He shot his hunting partner, but Vice President Dick Cheney apparently doesn't fly fish with naked women."
Two questions about the VP photo
April 11, 2008 - 14:58 ET by nkviking75Two things should have immediately occurred to anyone seeing this photo:
1) How would a naked woman get anywhere near the VP, especially at a photo op?
2) Given the media's track record of fauxtography, could this be a fake?
Too many in the MSM with too much time on their hands.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Great questions...
April 11, 2008 - 15:24 ET by jpatchIt's gotten that far, hasn't it?
They just wanted to get that photo of Cheney out there to gin up some of that great 'ole HATE. Inducing a mouth-foaming diatribe is as easy as "Dick Cheney-Halliburton-gay marriage".
The libs love nothing more than having something to hate.
It must because they all have such, how should I say, "discriminating" tastes?
Rorschach for Sunglasses
April 11, 2008 - 15:32 ET by Cool ArrowNothing surprising about Libs jumping to "Looks like a naked lady to me"
If the picture was of Al Gore, they'd say it was a reflection of his Oscar.
If it were Obama, I'd say it looks kinda like Larry Sinclair.
If it were Hillary, I'd say it looks like a sniper.
If it were John Edwards, it might be a newborn.
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If it were Obama, they'd
April 11, 2008 - 18:11 ET by QueenMumIf it were Obama, they'd say it looked like Jesus.
I am the exotic Queen Mum, and I approved this message.
Another Question
April 11, 2008 - 16:35 ET by NBFIf there was a naked woman cavorting around, why would a photographer be taking pictures of Cheney?
In all seriousness, this is beyond stupid.
For me, this is the money
April 11, 2008 - 19:00 ET by DaBirdFor me, this is the money quote:
"As journalists, however, the word of an official spokeswoman isn't good enough."
And of course my response to that would be, "As a news consumer, however, the word of an MSM journalist isn't good enough."