A note written by Bush to Condoleeza Rice during a meeting.
I thought it was a hoax but to my delight it ain’t
A note written by Bush to Condoleeza Rice during a meeting.
I thought it was a hoax but to my delight it ain’t
Here’s a close up
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leave room for the possibillity that she may have written the note to him (including the question “is this possible?”) and that he may be writing an answer
It was for a number two.
Trust me.
Word gets around in the circles I travel.
thats pretty funny. it is really real right.
I say its fake. Theres no way whatsover to tell that thats Bush, and it has nothing to do with Condi.
Ha ha, your president has to go to the bathroom from time to time!
From snopes.com
Permission Slip
Claim: Photograph shows note scrawled by President Bush requesting a bathroom break during a U.N. meeting.
Status: True.
Examples: [Reuters, 2005]
I saw this link posted on a website, and I was wondering how authentic it is (for the world’s sake, I hope it’s fake).
Note
Origins: The above-displayed picture (distributed by the Reuters news agency) was taken by former Reuters staff photographer Rick Wilking in New York during a 14 September 2005 United Nations Security Council meeting attended by U.S. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The image purportedly captures an over-the-shoulder shot of President Bush using a pencil to scrawl a note on a white pad inquiring about the possibility of a bathroom break: “I think I may need a bathroom break? Is this
possible . . .”
There’s no reason to doubt the authenticity of the photograph, as Rick Wilking is an established photographer with 12 years’ experience shooting news photos in Washington (including various White House assignments) who recently covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (leaving that city only, according to Editor & Publisher, “after his laptop and two cameras were stolen from his car parked near the convention center”). As well, Reuters carried other pictures of the same scene from the United Nations, including one that appears to have captured the back of President Bush’s head.
According to Gary Hershorn, news editor-photos for the Americas at Reuters, at the time Rick Wilking snapped the pictures he was unaware of the contents of the note President Bush was writing :
. . . Hershorn said that the photojournalist had no idea what Bush was writing on the paper. Wilking assumed the president was taking notes on what some other official was saying.
“Rick had no idea what he was shooting, or what Bush was writing,” Hershorn said. “If Rick knew what he was writing we’d have 25 pictures of this, not two.”
The photo was taken at 12:08 p.m. and it was Hershorn, about three hours later, who took the trouble to examine the photo closely. It was only then that he noticed the writing and decided to put it on the wire after 4:00.
Rick Wilking said that he did observe President Bush pass the note to Secretary Rice and shortly afterwards leave the room and return, and Gary Hershorn opined that the whole thing was likely a matter of protocol:
There’s a simple explanation, even a serious one, for all of this, he adds. Bush, he points out, is not used to attending meetings at the U.N. and probably did not know what the protocol was for exiting a room and returning. His question to Rice was “proper” and not all that surprising, “asking someone with more experience there about protocol,” he said.
(We note that although President George W. Bush’s father, former president George H.W. Bush, is a southpaw, President Bush himself is not, so the right-handedness of the person depicted in these photos is not a contradiction.)
In any case, that even U.S. Presidents have bodily functions is hardly the least bit remarkable. The only unusual aspect to these photos is that the public is not generally privy to mentions or visual reminders of that fact.
its too good to be true.
BAHAHAHAHA he THINKS he MAY need a bathroom break!!!
gotta love’im he’s so charming!
I think there’s more to the note then that. Look at the different hand writing. All caps then not caps? I never heard of these Reuters people and I dont trust snoops.com for anything. Though all through that it could be true. The whole acount of what happend could have been made up. Those meetings can be very long and if you drink how much is recamended you do have to go sometime.
Some folks would argue that this particular president can’t even ride a self-balancing Segway without taking a nosedive…or string together a coherent sentence to save his life. Juxtaposing that against this “I need to potty” note makes it more humorous for these people.
Complete threadjack here: Did anyone notice that Kerry’s grades at Yale were actually lower than Bush’s? Talk about misleading the public.
National news brought to you by the Reuters Elementary School AV Media program interning at the UN.
let me ask you a question, why is this NEWS??? By the way i got to go to the bathroom now!!
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are you a democrat?
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THAT IS SO FUNNY, THE PRESIDENT HAD TO GO TO THE BATHROOM, THIS DOES DESERVE ITS OWN THREAD!!!
no see, what really was funny was that Bush was not sure wether or not he needed to go to the potty.
he said: "I THINK that I MAY need a bathroom break
lol, he did fall off a segway. It was when they first came out, they had a problem with the battery. When it ran out, the thing stopped short and thats basically what happened. So far thats the only thing good that has come out of the segway.
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it was all over our TV news last night
with clips showing him get up and walk aout while condi takes his seat
the newsreader summed up why it’s funny when he said
‘it’s refreshing to know that even the most powerfull man in the world needs someone’s permission to go’
this is right up there with the pretzel incident and hard-core conspiracy theorists like myself want to know why, how and thu who did this make it to the news