Anyone heard about this "Bush Humiliation" incident?

[Lautremont]

Got this in the email, and it seemed that DU would be a good place to help get it out there. Although this is probably one of those things everyone's heard about but me. Anyway, it's timely at least, what with another G8 summit on now:




HUMILIATION OF A PRESIDENT

FACT: The Bush Administration is the most secretive America has ever known.

FACT: Two or three times, each member of the Bush Administration has had to swear that they would die rather than allow any embarrassment to befall their boss, Bush.

FACT: In Gleneagles, Scotland, in July 2005, an incident occurred which even to this day has been covered up with maniacal vigour by members of the Bush Administration, and by Bush himself.

BACKGROUND FACTS: The lodge at Gleneagles was a bustling place. Reporters and photographers were waiting for world leaders to come down from their rooms. That year, the big news was the relationship between Tony Blair and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. When these two individuals came down together on the elevator, there was an explosion of flash-bulbs and shouted questions from the assembled newshounds. The mob followed the two leaders from the elevator into the breakfast buffet.

Except one photographer, an Italian named Puppo Ativasti, stayed behind. He had been ordered by his bosses at his newspaper, O Vittini, to get a photograph of Bush. So he waited, his finger on the click-button.

The elevator door opened and Bush emerged. He was wearing pants that, Ativasti later noted, appeared to be several sizes too big. As Bush strode across the lobby, his feet seemed to get tangled in the drooping cuffs. With dogged insistence, Bush continued to walk, even though each step was forcing the pants lower and lower down his legs. Ativasti started snapping away with his camera, and kept snapping as Bush finally tripped and fell to the floor of the hotel lobby. Ativasti was shocked to see that Bush was wearing no undergarments of any kind.

Aides and Secret Service men rushed to Bush’s side in an attempt to help him. But the President had become aware of Ativasti’s presence, and began shouting “No pictures! No pictures!” As he shouted, he fought off attempts to help him up. Ativasti kept shooting, but soon a Secret Service man ran up to him and pulled the camera from his hands. He shouted words that Ativasti could not understand and then threw the camera to the ground. It shattered.

Later, as Ativasti tried to explain to his bosses at O Vittini what had occurred, they refused to believe him. And yet, their refusal to believe took on, for Ativasti, a most curious air. It was as if someone had spoken to them, Ativasti says, and spoken rather harshly. He felt it was the work of people who were not eager to have the humiliation of Bush become widely known.

It need hardly be said that this is important news, and yet every attempt to break it in the world press has met with derision and stonewalling. Clearly, there is a sophisticated cover-up at work here. This can not be allowed to continue. Please, won’t you do what you can to get the story out to the peoples of the world?