Yesterday, a Reuter’s photog snapped a pic of the President jotting a note to his secretary of state: “I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible wh…,” and he the shutter closed before he had finished.

It seems likely that he wanted to know when would be a good time to take a break without interrupting the proceedings.

The Reuters caption reads:

“U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005. World leaders are exploring ways to revitalize the United Nations at a summit on Wednesday but their blueprint falls short of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s vision of freedom from want, persecution and war.”

This shows a President blowing off the U.N. “Boring, think I’ll take a wizz, what’s on TV?”

A Reuters spokesman told Editor & Publisher”

“The photographer and editors on this story were looking for other angles in their coverage of this event, something that went beyond the stock pictures of talking heads that these kind of forums usually offer,” explained Reuters’ Stephen Naru. “This picture certainly does that.”

No, and the picture is inappropriate. It has nothing to do with the nature of the summit or the President’s participation therein. This would have held true had it been a President Bill Clinton scribbling a note to the “babe from Switzerland.”

(see also Michelle Malkin)