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Overexposed! A photo of Dick Cheney is unexpectedly
revealing. (Help find the pic!)
Milwaukee Magazine | December 2004 | Peter Robertson

Posted on 11/10/2004 7:28:03 PM PST by July 4th

Joining Dick Cheney's motorcase in Green Bay,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer Dale Guldan
hoped to capture a unique image during an otherwise
scripted campaign visit in September.

Did he ever.

Jumping on and off the press bus, Guldan says he took
hundreds of pictures at well-orchestrated photo
opportunities.

On the way to Milwaukee, however, former Green Bay
Packers quarterback Bart Starr convinced Cheney to
make an unscheduled stop to Glendale to visit local
favorite Kopp's Frozen Custard, according to New York
Times reporter Rick Lyman.

When Cheney ordered a decaf coffee and sat on a
concrete ledge, Kopp's manager Scott Borkin graciously
brought him a sample of frozen custard. "The guy came
all the way from the White House," Borkin says. "He's
got to try our custard."

The normally serious Cheney flashed a winning smile
for Borkin, and Guldan snapped an attention-grabbing
photo that would later be chosen for the September 11
Metro section.

Guldan got a call from readers the next day. "Did you
notice anything unusual about that picture?" the
reader asked.

Upon closer inspection, it seems the Vice President's
smile was not his, ahem, biggest asset.

"You're not imagining it," Guldan says of the
unintentionally revealing photo.

Let's just say the snugness of Cheney's pants left
little to the imagination, and we're not talking about
his waistline.

One Journal Sentinel reader pointed out the blooper in
an e-mail to Dave Luczak, Carole Caine, and Kevin
Brandt, who had a hoot talking about it during their
popular morning show.

"It's nice to have someone of that magnitude in the
White House," Brandt joked.

"He's got a porn career right there," Caine snickered.

"Now we know where his unmitigated confidence comes
from," Luczak quipped.

We've seen the photo, and it's hard not to notice
something so, well, unmistakeable.

Guldan explains that he took 100 to 200 photographs
that day with a digital camera, chose six to eight
images for possible publication, and didn't notice
anything odd in the Kopp's image because Cheney sat in
the shadows. Incredibly, a dozen or so editors saw the
photo before publication, and no one raised the red
flag.

"I got a chuckle out of it when I noticed it, too. If
I had noticed it sooner, I would have cropped it,"
Guldan says, referring to the standard practice of
trimming a photo without altering the accuracy. "I
wasn't out to put him in a negative light."

While such a photo of the VP is clearly inappropriate,
it's also a harmless mistake and could be seen as -
dare we say - flattering. Just ask WKLH's Caine, who
dug through her recycling bin to find the photo.

"It's like a Scud missile, for crying out loud," Caine
said.

Want to see the picture for yourself? Catch it while
you can at your library periodical desk, because
chagrined Journal Sentinel officials are not in a
sharing mood.

The paper denied our request to reprint the
copyrighted photo, saying it had decided not to
release the image to the public.

You won't find it on jsonline.com either, though there
are photos of every other Cheney campaign trip to
Wisconsin since April. Matt Stanton, jsonline design
editor, promised to look into this curious omission,
and that was the last we heard from him.

Meanwhile, Mark Hoffman, deputy photo editor,
suggested we try the paper's Photo Sales Service.
Don't bother. To check its availability, we ordered
and paid for a color copy of the Cheney photo, only to
get a call the next day voiding the deal.

Journal Sentinel: "That photo is not for sale."

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--- joeallonby <vze422fs at verizon.net> wrote:
 
> Yo Monroe.
> 
> Did they really run that photo of Cheney with the
> armadillo in his trousers on the front page of a
> Milwaukee paper? 


		
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