president shot in Ireland

[waider]

...by a photographer, that is. I haven't seen any mentions of it in my RSS feeds, but since I've not been checking it over the weekend, it could have slipped off. All the tabloids yesterday morning had the same shot of El Shrubbo standing in his room in Dromoland Castle wearing a vest; the shot was obviously taken from outside. Much furore over "the photo they didn't want you to see" and the fact that a photographer was able to get into the sort of position that'd be really useful for, say, a sniper.

In other photos this weekend, the picture of the €7m^* traffic jam I posted wasn't the best; there was a fantastic picture of "Bertie [Ahern] and Bush" walking somewhere or other, both in perfect step, and both appearing to be goosestepping at that. You could almost hear "Deutschland Über Alles" in the background.

* 14 Swiss-made Mowag APCs, each of which cost us €500,000. I have no idea what we're doing with them all when we don't have Texans running around Limerick for 18 hours.

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[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

The BBC news website had a piece about the vest shot yesterday. IIRC, the person getting the pic was an RTE cameraman, and the pic was pulled by the Irish gummint. The Beeb article quoted a memo sent out to other broadcasters which had been receiving the images, announcing that "These images are the proerty of the Irish presidency and must not be used for transmission by any service."

This stirs up a bizarre cognitive dissonance in my fevered skull. Firstly, I don't like the suppression of the image by the Irish government. On the other hand, I don't see what the fuss is about (on the part of government or media): GWB wears underwear, BFD, Not.a.Fucking.News.Story.

I was going to be lazy and let you look for the link yerself, but generosity took over: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3842335.stm

[waider.livejournal.com]

Well, as pointed out by wisn (and several of the tabloids), if a photographer could get that shot, then so could someone with a more ballistic-type weapon.