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July 4th Joining Dick Cheney's motorcade in Green Bay, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer Dale Guldan hoped to capture a unique image during an other wise scripted campaign visit in September. Jumping on and off the press bus, Guldan says he took hundreds of picture s at well-orchestrated photo opportunities. On the way to Milwaukee, however, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Ba rt Starr convinced Cheney to make an unscheduled stop to Glendale to vis it local favorite Kopp's Frozen Custard, according to New York Times rep orter Rick Lyman. When Cheney ordered a decaf coffee and sat on a concrete ledge, Kopp's ma nager Scott Borkin graciously brought him a sample of frozen custard. "T he guy came all the way from the White House," Borkin says. The normally serious Cheney flashed a winning smile for Borkin, and Gulda n snapped an attention-grabbing photo that would later be chosen for the September 11 Metro section. 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 p hoto. Let's just say the snugness of Cheney's pants left little to the imaginat ion, 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. "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, unm istakeable. Guldan explains that he took 100 to 200 photographs that day with a digit al 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 shad ows. Incredibly, a dozen or so editors saw the photo before publication, and no one raised the red flag. If I had noticed it so oner, I would have cropped it," Guldan says, referring to the standard p ractice of trimming a photo without altering the accuracy. While such a photo of the VP is clearly inappropriate, it's also a harmle ss mistake and could be seen as - dare we say - flattering. Just ask WKL H's Caine, who dug through her recycling bin to find the photo. "It's like a Scud missile, for crying out loud," Caine said. Catch it while you can at your libr ary periodical desk, because chagrined Journal Sentinel officials are no t 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. com either, though there are photos of ever y other Cheney campaign trip to Wisconsin since April. Matt Stanton, jso nline design editor, promised to look into this curious omission, and th at was the last we heard from him. Meanwhile, Mark Hoffman, deputy photo editor, suggested we try the paper' s Photo Sales Service. To check its availability, we order ed and paid for a color copy of the Cheney photo, only to get a call the next day voiding the deal.
last I figured I'd post this for all of the female Dick Cheney fans out there. But you guys will have to find the actual picture on your own. Someone probably has it on their drive, since the Journal Sentinel has wiped awa y its existence.
View Replies To: July 4th Interesting story, but I'll pass on tracking down the photo. I just got t hrough an election cycle of having to deal with this one dick from Massa chusetts...
View Replies To: July 4th LOL I don't need to see the any pics, just reading the comments make me p roud to have such a man as our VP. And now I understand better why Lynn is always so happy.
View Replies To: Paul Atreides Just one more thing to drive Maureen Dowd crazy. Yeah, the pathetic witch can't have Michael Douglas OR Dick "Big Time" Ch eney...
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