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Posted April 10, 2008 7:30 PM
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This White House Web-site photograph of Vice President Dick Cheney happily fly-fishing on the Snake River in Idaho has sparked idle speculation on the Internet about what's reflected in those sun glasses. White House photo by David Bohrer


by John Riley of Newsday

So, the Web sensation of the day is this picture from the White House Web-site of Dick Cheney, wearing sunglasses and flyfishing.

The reason: Some think they see a naked woman reflected in the shades.

We don't see it. But if you put "Cheney" and "sunglasses" into Google, you'll find lots of speculation.

And there's a story about the phenomenon below, which says the image -- enlarged -- is actually that of a hand casting a rod.

Is that really a naked woman reflected in Cheney’s sunglasses?

By Kevin G. Hall and George Bridges
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — He shot his hunting partner, but Vice President DickCheney apparently doesn’t fly fish with naked women.

Since Wednesday, the blogosphere has been atwitter over aphotograph on the White House Web site of Cheney with a caption thatsaid he was fly-fishing on the Snake River in Idaho.

The photo is a tight shot of Cheney’s face sporting dark sunglasses and his trademark grin. What’s stirring all the buzz is the reflection in the vice president’s dark glasses.

Some thought that the reflection looked like a naked woman and, this being Cheney and this being the Internet Age,they immediately shared that thought with the world.

In a Google search for the words “Dick Cheney” and “sunglasses,” 79,300 hits came back at midafternoon today.

On DemocraticUnderground.com, the discussion starts with this question: “Notice anything ... interesting ... reflected in his sunglasses? Something that has little to do with conventional
‘fly-fishing’?”

It wasn’t just the blogosphere. On a Web site called sportsshooter.com, dedicated to sports photography, professionals also did a double take and debated the shot on their message board.

“Naked woman??????? That explains his heart problems!!!” noted photographer Jason Frizzelle of Greenville, N.C.

AOL’s Political Machine online column gave readers a chance to vote on what was reflected in the vice-presidential shades. The four choices were:

—Hot babe sunbathing.

—Alien overlord.

—That’s not Dick Cheney.

—The image was Photoshopped.

The vice president’s office saw little humor in the buzz.

“Clearly the picture shows a hand casting a rod,” grumbled spokeswoman Meagan Mitchell.

As journalists, however, the word of an official spokeswoman isn’tgood enough.

So McClatchy/Tribune Information Services photo editor George Bridges used the latest digital technology to enlarge the picture, took a close look at Cheney’s sunglasses and concluded that Mitchell was telling the truth.

The image is of the vice president’s hand on his fly rod.

“In one lens of his sunglasses you can clearly tell it is a sleeved arm of Cheney or a fishing companion,'' Bridges said. "The other lens has an extreme distortion that, without looking at it closely, could be misconstrued.''

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"TRICKY DICK SPEAKS"

YOU SNOOZE YOU "CHOOSE TO LOSE"

IT'S NO "JAMAICAN DETAINEE" JULIE.

IT'S NOT "THAT WOMAN" OR THE OTHER WOMAN, OR HIS WOMAN, OR THEIR WOMAN.

"IT'S NO JAMAICAN DETAINEE"

"IT'S NO MISSISSIPPI "CHOCTAW INDIAN"

IT'S NOT VICKI ISEMAN!

IT'S NOT "KELLY CONWAY"

IT'S NOT THE "WOMEN NEXT DOOR"

I'M NO HEF, BUT IF YOU SNOOZE YOU "CHOOSE TO LOSE"

NO THAT'S SOME "K" STREET PIE AND YOU CAN'T HAVE NONE.

"IT'S NOT SPEAKER PELOSI"

"IT'S NOT CONDI"

IT'S NOT ALQEDA!

"IT'S NOT MONICA GOODLING"

"IT'S NOT SARA TAYLOR"

"IT'S PARTISAN CHARACTER ASSASSINS AFTER ME.

MAYBE SHE IS FROM COLO SOLO AND SHE IS JUST A GIFT TO ALL EYES TO SEE.

MAYBE IT'S ANOTHER

"IMPERMISSIBLE EXCERCISE OF THE EXECUTIVE POWER"

I HAVE!


After viewing this photo with my state of the art picture programs, the photo is CLEARLY a picture of Hillary working her final chapter of the kitchen sink strategy!!!! LOL!!!!


The only naked lady Cheney could entice would be the same one for which Spitzer put out $4,300/hour, On second hand, she might even turn him down even for that price after he did his infamous sneer. No trick for Dick


Why is our VP out fishing during a war?


I think it's a pack of Camels. There is a naked lady on the camel's thigh.

Also, if you fold the empty pack a certain way..... never mind.


The unemployed left with too much time on their hands.


I don't know; If it's a naked lady, she has a long tail shooting out to the left.


I can see her plain as day. Dirty old crimminal. Rotten to the core. DIRTY DICK Cheney!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYI7JXGqd0o&NR=1


And the great civil rights leader, James Bevel, was just convicted of "breaking in" his young daughter to sex. Cheney's reflection is a big "so what" compared to that.


The reflection in Darth's shades is the flashback from the WMD's he's using to blow up fish with.


Morris
maybe it's not a tail. Maybe it's,,,it's,,, oh my god!!


Kind of like seeing the face of Jesus in the markings of a cow...


He's watching a Gitmo interrogation...


That is really funny Lenin!! I laughed good and hard on that one!! I can't wait to see what Logic Prisinor sees in those glasses......


I've never met a fly fisherman I've liked. I've never met Mr. Cheney, but he fits the mold of a typically arrogant SOB who'd rather fly fish than be with something that might only smell like fish.


More tapdancing. And, he's not attending any troops' funerals who he sent to be killed in order to line his own grotesque pockets. Yes, he continues to smile. His grandchildren will be shamed when they read about him in years to come. It's good that not all of his grandchildren are of his gene pool--fewer to perpetuate and inherit (the nature side of nature v.s. environmnt) of his character deformation. Nature takes care of things in ways that man could never do. Lets hope the given social environment of the grandchild's time does the other 50%. Children can't be insulated all the time--or they rebel.


Dick Cheney is a genius. He really has the Swampune jumping through hoops.


Mr. Riley,
Are going to get the answer to what it is?
It looks like a flapper holding a Studebaker buggy whip to me.


**I think it's a pack of Camels. There is a naked lady on the camel's thigh.

Also, if you fold the empty pack a certain way..... never mind.

Posted by: C.Morris | April 10, 2008 8:41 PM **

It's actually an image of an anatomically co-erect man. It's been around for years, one of the earliest subliminals in advertising.

In cheney's case though, I don't think it's a naked lady. Maybe a cabana boy, but not a lady.


I see him laughing at all the pseudo-patriotic, republican dean enders who mindlessly do his bidding. He's laughing all the way to the bank like the crimminal genius he is!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwNiVZWuQpE&NR=1


What do I see?

LOL like Hillary OMG like LOL like Hillary LOLOLOL OMG omG kitchen sink oMG hillary hillary omG LOL OmG like LOLOLOLOL OMG sooo funny LoL LOL

I see a fourteen year old boy who types under the name Xcellentform and can't see past his own obsession.

As to the picture..ok i will play along..A hand flipping the bird...ok a deformed hand flipping the bird...or a woman in a bathing suit


I hope she likes waterboarding and corporate greed.

DICK Cheney = Succubus!!!


He's probably laughing at a dead American soldier.

Doctor death ain't got squat on tricky Dick Cheney.


Dewey, I bet he's wearing an onion on his belt, too. Because that was the style at the time.


You liberal Democrats have too much time on your hands.
Of course the Vice President doesn' have a naked lady in his sunglasses.
With hype of George Soros Move On.org I'm surprised you used the word lady instead of tramp or xxxx.
This election is about saving our free enterprise system from a tax cheat Soros' plan to legalize marijuana and turn America over to socialist B Hussein Obama and his tax raising plans. Enough already! Jerry White, Springfield, IL


STIGMATA


So, who's doing the fly fishing anyway. . .?


Jerry White,
Kloo from Earth arriving in;

5,4,3,2,1, mark...

Nobody thinks it's a naked lady, fool.


No one answered me. Why is our VP out fishing while we are at war? What happened to the calls of sacrifice at home? They should be wearing body armor every day of the war to share in some minimal discomfort for their decisions. And yes, I did vote for him the first time but not the second.


it does look like a naked lady. it's definitely not the madonna. he's probably thinking about how he's going to dispose of the body when he's done, therefore the un-cheney-like smile. they should drain the river. something happened to the guy that used to say that attacking iraq was not a good idea in the 90's. an extra heart attack and a stint at ceo of a oil corporation? what happened that created one of the worst gov. officials in our history. a truly dispicable person. would do anything legal or illegal, or immoral, to make war with iraq. if there is an afterlife he is not going to the nice place.


such imaginations, oh my word. clearly it's just a reflection of his hand on his rod.


Killing Me writes: "Why is our VP out fishing during a war?"

Are you kidding me? I knew this story would result in a bunch of people, most likely Democrats spinning things into the ridiculous, which is what you've done.

Republicans would do the same if the shoe were on the other foot.

Does that make your statement right? No. It only emphasizes how ridiculous politics have become.

You say what you did. So wouldn't it be fair for Republicans, for example, to ask:

"Why was President Clinton busy banging an intern on our tax dollars, instead of getting Osama Bin Laden, who was busy in his first attempt to bring down the Trade Towers, later would bomb the USS Cole under Clinton's watch and eventually Sept. 11 happened?"

Give me a break.


KillingMe, no one's answered you because you're annoying and no one wants to debate the merits of wearing body armor while fly-fishing.


Internet cheap shots for the liberal idiots who have shunks for pets and are amazed when conservative thinking smothers their smelly arguments.


Of course she's a naked lady. And look at the size of her implants. She's probably a Dolly Parton wanna be.


Posted by: Matthew | April 11, 2008 10:39 AM

I think the wingers have created a new time record for the shortest measure of time...the time it takes for them to bring Clinton's b-job into an argument they're losing. The NY cabbies must be mourning the day.


The pic was probably snapped just as he was about to sacrifice a virgin to Satan or drink some blood. I can see why they wouldn't want that to get out, but this administration has already learned that they can get away with that kind of stuff.


For allayas that haven't a clue: That's the smile of a fly-fisherman whilst he fishes. Nothing more...nothing less.

Try not to cry about the big bad Republican VP fishing while there's a war going on...it makes you sound REALLY petty, dip stick.


For allayas that haven't a clue: That's the smile of a fly-fisherman whilst he fishes. Nothing more...nothing less.

Try not to cry about the big bad Republican VP fishing while there's a war going on...it makes you sound REALLY petty, dip stick.


Mathew wrote:
" You say what you did. So wouldn't it be fair for Republicans, for example, to ask:

"Why was President Clinton busy banging an intern on our tax dollars, instead of getting Osama Bin Laden, who was busy in his first attempt to bring down the Trade Towers, later would bomb the USS Cole under Clinton's watch and eventually Sept. 11 happened?"

Give me a break. "

That's a completely valid question. You neocon fanboys assume that anyone who criticizes the administration is not a Republican. I don't think any of our leaders should go on any vacation while we are in a shooting war.


As usual, Dick has a big smile on his face while he's hunting down and killing poor people or fish.

Is it just me or is his office in Washington DC??? What is he doing at a river in Idaho??

Remember this: "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"


Here's a really liberal argument for you:

But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.
(Nehemiah 5:15, NET)

I gave myself to the work on this wall, without even purchasing a field. All my associates were gathered there for the work.
(Nehemiah 5:16, NET)


Republicans can slam Democrats all they want. Democrates from now until the end of time will always have the upper hand because all they have to utter are the words, "George Bush".


Looks like someone next to a ski doo.


Naked yes - lady - no.


"Beauty is in the left Eye of the beholder"


Liberals see a picture of a hand and confuse it with a neked woman.

This explains much.


I think it's naked guy.


I think Jerry White has drank a few too many. I rather have this country run by people who smoke marijuana than the alcoholic and DUI guy we currently have. He has killed over 4,000 of our service personnel to avenge his daddy. COWARD! Afraid to talk to anyone.


Posted on: April 11, 2008 12:38

mbr47:
Republicans can slam Democrats all they want. Democrates from now until the end of time will always have the upper hand because all they have to utter are the words, "George Bush".

No, we just answer "James Carter."

The point you make, however, is a valid one.

Republican's voted for Bush and he turned out to be a tax and spend liberal democrat.

They should be mature enough to admit they were fooled.


At last some none news that the lemmings of the left and right can finally relate to.


It is obviously NOT a naked woman - what woman would be crazy enough to get naked for that evil man?! **shiver**


huh huh - they said 'hand on rod'...


Morons all of you......It;s a reflection of his hand holding a fishing pole.

Get a life.

Another wacko leftist attempt to bring down the Bush Admin.


Who cares what the reflection is. At least he isn't shooting someone in the face!


The one thing you can be sure it isn't is a conscience.


This might help.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/photoessays/outdoors/images/v081905db-0162.jpg


Or you could keep speculating on this SLOW newsday.


He's fishing for those WMD in Iraq....


A hand holding a whip. He's trying out for his next role. Indiana Jones : Closet Full of Skulls.


"Republican's voted for Bush and he turned out to be a tax and spend liberal democrat.
They should be mature enough to admit they were fooled.
Posted by: Adam S | April 11, 2008 1:24 PM"
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Hey, my fellow Swamp Lefties; Adam proved our prediction of two years ago that in the end, when the full disaster of the Bush Republican presidency became apparent to all, the cons. would call GWB a liberal.


If it is a naked woman then Dick is stepping outside the Republican party lines. The usual Republican sex scandal doesn't included women and takes place either in cyberspace soliciting young boys or in the bathroom stale of a mens room at night.


If it's a naked lady, it's a 2 foot tall conehead, or a very skinny and disproportioned like a barbie doll. I wouldn't be smiling, I'd be horrified!!


I would Love to go hunting with VP Cheney!
Id never go for a short ride with Fat Teddy Kennedy


How stupid can people be. Jusy be raising the maginification of the picture to 200 the left lens is clearly V.P. Cheney hand holding a fly rod. At 400 magnification the right lens clearly shows the hand, arn and hand of the fly rod. A bunch of witchhunters and shades of Macarthism.


Typical Democratic party response. As usual they don't know a naked hand from naked woman. This may also explain the long term decrease in members of the democratic party. Bring back Bill, he knew the difference between a naked woman and a naked hand.


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