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To: tejek who wrote (327801)	3/2/2007 11:49:06 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1576893

Claim: Photographs show Presidents Clinton and Bush peering through binoculars with the lens caps still in place. Status: Undetermined. Origins: The photographs above have been a favorite item of political humor on web sites since for years, the first appearing in 2001 and the next one following a year later. Whether real or manipulated, these photographs don't necessarily demonstrate anything beyond the trivial: As much as we may enjoy poking fun at our politicians for being so clueless that they don't know binoculars don't work with the lens caps in place, hardly anyone among us hasn't accidentally raised a capped pair of binoculars to his eyes for a few moments before realizing the problem; the difference is that most of us don't have a crowd of photographers hanging around us all day long just waiting to snap such a picture of the moment. Also, there are reasons why binoculars (especially types used by the military) shown in a photograph might appear to be capped when they really aren't: the lenses could be coated with a non-reflective material to cut down on glare and prevent gleams of light from reflecting off the lens and revealing one's position to the enemy, or the binoculars could be NVD (night vision devices) which also work in daylight (provided they have caps with small holes in place to block out most of the light). Another photograph of President Bush taken from the same sequence as the one above demonstrates that even if his binoculars did initially have their lens caps in place, they weren't there for long: snopes.com