# A very unfortunate photo of Mitt Romney. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171 "2012-10-09T03:49:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/41 "2012-10-10T15:53:59Z")
> [@2gigch1](#): > > Does anyone remember the bruhaha about a photo showing the French president and Obama looking at a lady’s butt on some stairs? Yes, I sort of linked to it in post #5. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/42 "2012-10-10T15:54:48Z")
I don’t see anything wrong with that photo. It just looks like a man being in a good mood while a gerbil is being shoved up his ass. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/43 "2012-10-10T16:10:51Z")
“OMG! It’s Bill O’Reilly’s nose!” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/44 "2012-10-10T16:12:08Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > He didn’t say that this is what finally caused him to decide that the media sucks. In fact, as I read his statement it doesn’t seem to be a trashing of the media in general at all, just of this particular incident. Very true, but I suspect that his post was the one that invited the comments. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/45 "2012-10-10T16:41:52Z")
It’s pretty obvious that the girl isn’t looking at Romney’s butt, she’s looking at something to his right. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/46 "2012-10-10T16:47:26Z")
I see the humor in the photo … and still think it’s a cheap shot at a candidate. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/47 "2012-10-10T17:14:07Z")
> [@bup](#): > > [_Fox News_ takes this story very seriousl](http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/09/ap-publishes-unflattering-pic-romney-bending-over/)y. They posted it under their **BIAS ALERT** banner on the front page. By “BIAS ALERT banner” I thought you meant the Fox News logo. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/48 "2012-10-10T17:20:27Z")
They have to find that girl and ask what she was reacting too. LOL funny pic. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/49 "2012-10-10T18:38:19Z")
Romney is auditioning for the part of the uncle in the stage version of ‘Fanny and Alexander’… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/50 "2012-10-10T18:51:06Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > It’s pretty obvious that the girl isn’t looking at Romney’s butt, she’s looking at something to his right. It’s his magic underwear. [QUOTE=Douglas Adams] The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub- Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood - and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess’s undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/51 "2012-10-10T19:17:52Z")
I never get invite to those sorts of parties. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/52 "2012-10-16T18:06:18Z")
I dunno if anyone else noticed the ‘gap’ in the picture. There’s a girl applauding on the left side of MR, then there’s MR in the middle of the picture, then there’s the wide-eyed girl on MR’s right. You can barely see it, but there’s the hair of some short kid directly behind MR. It seems to me that, during the applause, that short kid is showing the wide-eyed girl something astounding, probably on a cell-phone. Or perhaps that short kid is holding out a cell-phone getting ready to take a digital picture, which the girl thinks is outrageous for some reason. Is it outrageous to snap a picture of a presidential candidate’s back-side? Perhaps. —G??? I’ve seen your picture Your name in lights above it This is your big debut It’s like a dream come true . --Fagen/Becker (Steely Dan) . _Peg_ . Aja ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171/53 "2012-10-16T18:17:21Z")
I think the kid in the middle just put a tack on his chair. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-unfortunate-photo-of-mitt-romney/637171.md?page=2)