Cheney, naked-lady reflection big news
April 11th, 2008 at 12:51pm Anna Derocher
In this biz, we have slow news days. Today must be one of ‘em. The Associated Press, other national media and bloggers are going nuts over this photograph of VP Dick Cheney.
The photo, which was posted on the White House Web site, shows Cheney wearing sunglasses. Here’s the story from AP:
Cheney sunglasses show reflection that some think is naked woman
It’s not
WASHINGTON — Get real, people.
That is not a naked woman reflected in Vice President Dick Cheney’s sunglasses. Although it kind of appears to be.
If you blow up the picture, you can see it is Cheney’s hand gripping the handle of a fishing rod.
The picture was posted on the White House Web site as one in a series of photos of Cheney outdoors. It created a buzz on the Internet on Friday and some cable television shows.
I don’t see it, but the image ignited discussions across the WWW.
Read more:
Wake up America
Mom Logic
BumpShack
Political Machine
Spin Cycle
We could have posted this as a news story on rrstar.com. Decided it against it. Even though we’re having a slow news day.
Instead, I posted the story here on the blog to see what you all think. Is this news?
Entry Filed under: Slow news day, Naked woman, sunglasses, Dick Cheney
5 Comments Add your own
1. Juan T | April 11th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
It’s not news. Actually it looks more like a Praying Mantis staring at him.
2. Paul | April 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
This really is a stretch and not newsworthy at all. Would probably really be a hot topic if you put it on \"Applesauce\".
3. Matt Johnson | April 11th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
It’s about as much news as a corn flake for sale on eBay. But the RRStar would never put such nonsense on their website. I mean, the RRStar only reports real news. Right? Right? Come on guys, seriously - get off your high horse. All facets of the media are the same.
4. Anna Voelker | April 11th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Matt,
I anticipated that the corn flake would come up. The only argument I’ll offer is that the corn flake did look like Illinois and we chose to “report” for many reasons. One was that the flake was selling on eBay. Then later because it was going for an obscene amount of money.
Plus, our readers did click on that story. Page traffic spiked. Weird, huh. Kind of like what’s happening on this blog post today.
Anna
5. Pat Cunningham | April 11th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Paul: Applesauce is inclined to pay attention to Cheney only when he shoots somebody in the face or orchestrates the torture of terrorism suspects (as we see here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/04/10/BL2008041002069.html?hpid=opinionsbox1)
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