Wires Reject Handout Photo Of Bush Speech

[CatWoman]

The White House broke with tradition Wednesday night and refused to let photojournalists shoot still pictures of the president at the podium after his prime-time address on the Iraq war.

As a result, newspapers and wire services had little choice but to run low-quality frame grabs from the video of the speech. An official handout photo from the White House, which most news outlets rejected, was the only other option. Caught in a bind on deadline, some newspapers ran the official White House photo with no disclosure that it was provided by the government.

Two major wire services, the Associated Press and Reuters, refused to accept the handout photo. They sent their members notices explaining that frame grabs from the White House video pool would be their only photo coverage of the speech.

"Reuters News Pictures regrets that due to restrictions imposed by the White House, Reuters will not be able to provide still photographs from President Bush's White House address on Iraq," the Reuters bulletin said.

http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003531816

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Reuters News Pictures regrets that due to restrictions imposed by the White House...

oh SNAP!

[monmouth]

2. Would that be because the speech was taped???

[havocmom]

4. Was it edited too?

I just don't have the stomach to watch anymore.

[libnnc]

5. that's the first thought that came to mind watching it...

it was taped.

...besides the thought I had to go into the kitchen and drink everything in the liquor cabinet.

Cuckoo-crazy talk goes down easier with Jim Beam, I've found.

[Trekologer]

25. Why not in the Oval Office?

The first question that came to my mind was why not in the Oval Office. If it was done in the Oval Office, Mr Bush would have been in fromt of the window and you'd be able to see the approximate time of the day. If it was taped, you'd need to be in a place where there were no clues to the time of day that it was taped. Second, why standing at a podium? He looked frankly terrible standing there stifly and unconfortably. Bush's handlers dropped the bag.

[libnnc]

37. I thought it weird too. The whole "library" setup looked so staged

You're right about the Oval Office and the windows. That makes sense.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

40. Videotape is a good guess

When I watched *'s stem cell speech from the pig farm the view through the window was of a twilight sky. It was pitch dark here in California, though.

BTW, the lights used for the stem cell speech attracted insects which in turn attracted several bats which were darting all around *'s head throughout the speech. Fitting, I thought.

[originalpckelly]

9. I bet that's why there were audio glitches...

it's like someone deleted the audio track in a video editing program.

[Grateful for Hope]

3. Do we know

if journalists were there with him when he made the speech? I know a lot of people (myself included) think the speech was taped. Just wondering if it actually was live and if journalists were there.

[magellan]

6. Der Fuhrer speaks

No cameras, please!

[CatWoman]

11. hey!!

that episode was just on Wednesday night :)

[magellan]

17. Primetime, all national networks?

23 minutes long, writers and makeup artist obviously missing or drunk?

[CatWoman]

18. i'm talking about that Star Trek Episode

Patterns of Force

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/TOS/detail/68764.html

[magellan]

21. Oh, I thought for sure you were talking about Bush**'s speech!!

:rofl:

Coincidence or a station programmer with an ironic sense of humor? I tend not to believe in coincidence much anymore...

[madeline_con]

24. It was mentioned at work how

it should have been done in the Oval Office.

I said Dick was probably busy in there at the time. :rofl:

[sakabatou]

47. LOL

[Rosemary2205]

7. Friend of a friend of a friend says no press was allowed there live.

they were ALL watching the feed. The source works for Christian Science Monitor and said normally these occasions call for at least several news agencies to have access to a speech live, chosen by lottery. As far as he knows no one but white house staff was present during the speech and there was speculation even before it aired that it was taped.

[cui bono]

36. And if there was no press there, then whose camera was it?

I suspected it being taped when he didn't fumble over his words as I expected and when I saw the pics circulating with timecode on them.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

45. Another DUer suggested it was Fox. nt

[originalpckelly]

8. Well, I guess this confirms my suspicion that Dick was behind the camera...

with a nug pointed at dimson. I thought it looked like a hostage tape.

[Selatius]

10. Is a "nug" slang for a shotgun? j/k n/t

[originalpckelly]

12. M*A*S*H joke...

"Henry what's a 55mm nug?"

In the context of a scene where Frank Burns asks Henry Blake for a gun to shoot down enemy fighter planes. Henry reads the requisition upside down. Hence the nug. (I guess, it just looks backwards not upside down.)

[blonndee]

20. LOL

I thought you were referencing an episode of Frasier. :rofl:

[Jackpine Radical]

14. Read it backwards.

"nug," I mean.

[vanboggie]

33. That's it!

You nailed it. It looked like a hostage tape. Hmm - Perhaps Uncle Dick threatened to take him hunting if he messed up.

[Stephanie]

13. Here are your low-quality screen grabs >

And that's all that's available still, SFAIK.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3090301

[originalpckelly]

15. Someone needs to go through the video and look for splices...

because I don't believe that fool could deliver a whole speech without more than ten errors.

[CatWoman]

19. according to Jon Stewert, that's his bong on the mantel behind him

:rofl:

[Stephanie]

23. Someone in my thread saw a subliminal S-E-X in the shadows & the bookcase

I see it but it's so off-topic.

[Dinger]

16. Kick - The Media Has Been WAY TOO Quiet On This (nt)

[Octafish]

22. Information Management

Perception Management.

They are something else.

NAZIs.

[crispini]

26. WE ARE ALL IN THE MOVIES NOW

They are not doing any shit REAL anymore.

[Q32]

27. Reuters generally requires comprehensible English from the White House.

Bush can't provide it. End of story.

[CatWoman]

29. welcome to DU

:hi:

love your graphic :)

[Q32]

31. Thank you very much, CatWoman

I rather like the graphic myself. I really appreciate the welcome :)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

34. 100,003... you just missed it

wow. welcome.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

28. And, you know what else is weird...

The image on the white house's website has no exif information on the image. None. Scrubbed.

Hummmm.

Wonder why?

Because it is a lie. It was taped. By the end of the speechification, the decider was asleep in Condi's arms.


on edit... just to check, I went to the WH website and chose 10 images at random... ALL of them had full exif data. go figure.

[cui bono]

35. What's exif data? nt

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Well, only the demonic Librul meeeedia would turn down a FREE PHOTO of his holiness.

I can't imagine what they were thinking.

[Bjorn Against]

32. If that speech was taped then this administration has completely lost their PR ability.

That speech SUCKED not just because of what he said, but he looked terrible saying it. He was obviously nervous as hell and it showed big time. The whole performance was a bomb, a massive bomb. It was probably the worst he ever looked in a Prime Time speech, so if this thing was taped and this was the best they could get you could only imagine how bad the rest of the cuts had to be.

[Warren DeMontague]

38. You can't polish a turd, Beavis.

[PerfectSage]

39. Was that speech the state of the union speech?

I'm Canadian so I don't follow US politics that much. That speech was taped no doubt in my mind. Where's the camera shots of mindless dumbfucks applauding. Like in Bush's other state of the union speech's?

I remember the 2003 state of the union speech with shots of shitloads of mindless dumbfucks applauding Bush.

LMAO at dumbfuck Bush. He can't even muster up a handful of applauding rich fuck's in 2007. ;)

LMAO HaHa

[dragonlady]

48. Not the State of the Union

That comes later in the month, and as you say, is always given in the House of Representatives with the Senate and Supreme Court and other guests also present. In prior years he was riding high and getting his applause. Somehow I think this year will be different, if he even makes it that far.

[frogcycle]

41. FASCINATING thread

I agree it was taped - it explains the library, the no-photos...

If it was taped, it might have been done a day or so earlier. That adds credibility to the speculation about what russert and williams may have seen - maybe he WAS in the bag! Maybe not sufficiently that they dared say so, but suspicious. I rejected that earlier because even tho he looked like crap in the speech, he was too coherent for someone on a bender.

That the MSM hasn't glommed on to this is disturbing, albeit not surprising. Remember his radio device in the debates? That was NEVER adequately explained - they just dropped it. He's gotten so many passes its impossible to add them up. This one though, could be quite the story in the current atmosphere. Someone needs to just grill that puke snow about it mercilessly. I think with enough pressure the lying lackey just might slip up and let the cat out of the bag.

[eridani]

42. What should we be seeing if it were live?

I'm an ignoramus on video stuff. Who was supposed to have been in attendance?

[Bjorn Against]

43. It would just be press people who were ordered to be silent

You would not actually see the difference on your television screen because every one else in the room would be behind the cameras. Although if it were live they probably would have held it in the Oval Office, and Bush would have looked even worse if that is possible.

[eridani]

49. Any chance of getting any of them to blab?

Or would they all be Tony Snow pals and Jeff Gannon wannabees?

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

44. kick

[CatWoman]

46. nother

:kick: