Hey, have you seen that picture of Barack Obama checking out the young woman’s ass?
No. No, you haven’t. There is no such picture, because that’s not what was happening.
Yesterday, bloggers on the right, from Ed Morrissey to Ann Althouse, gleefully posted pictures of Obama (and Sarkozy) purportedly staring at what Wikipedia calls “rounded portions of the anatomy located on the posterior of the pelvic region” as they passed by on their way to a group photo lineup. Althouse, the most ridiculously puerile analyzer of still photographs ever*:
The foot closest to the woman, like Sarkozy’s, is planted and aimed forward, but the other steps off in the direction of the woman, bending the knee upward into a bit of a crotch-squeeze and forming the base of a dramatic tilt of the entire body into a flexible S-shape that leans toward the woman…His mouth is open as if to say: That’s what I want.
“Crotch-squeeze”? Is Althouse accusing Obama of playing hands-free pocket pool?
Morrissey, for his part, chickens out when he finds out the woman may be under 18, and switches to another photograph, supposedly showing Obama staring at a staffer of some sort as she bends over in front of him: