WHITE OUT: Cocaine in the Obama White House?
| January 12, 2010What you are looking at below, Save Jerseyans, is a screenshot of the website 4chan.org.
Yesterday afternoon, someone anonymously posted a photo taken from his/her iphone. The photo shows three lines of cocaine "cut" on this mystery employee's work desk. You can view a larger image of the picture by clicking here: http://i.imgur.com/Vf7DA.png.
Here's where it gets interesting. Really interesting. Someone else logged on to the same site and analyzed the coke photo's point of origin. This second individual was able to ascertain the location where the photo was snapped since it was taken with an iphone. As you may or may not know, iphones transmit GPS data of where pics are taken when they're uploaded to the web if the GPS is turned on. You can look at the metadata and see where it came from. It's a brave new world!
Guess what longitude and latitude turned up? 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. That's the White House for those of you who bombed civics in high school.
I've provided a Google map of the coordinates:
You can also click here to see the basic image photo information, including more evidence pointing to its origination at the White House.
If those coordinates are indeed correct, then somebody on high has an AWFUL LOT of explaining to do. All I know is that you wouldn't have had this problem in the Bush White House!
UPDATE: An unrelated snort incident from Politico back in October '09 -- Comedian David Cross admits doing coke at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (click here).
UPDATE 2: Then-candidate Obama admits using cocaine, a revelation unearthed from his memoir back in early 2007 (click here).
What a dynamite post! Why haven't I seen this on drudge??????
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Wayyyyyyyy too good to be true.
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OMG Save Jersey! Yes, we certainly did get change in the big house didn't we.
Now I know never to post phone pictures....EVER. LOL
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The WH work load must be stressful. Coke beats the hell out of cornflakes!
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Seriously? Based off a random bulletin board post? Rooney is the biggest sensationalist on the web! Shame.
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Matt's story is 150% more likely to be true than global warming. I'll take those odds to the bank! You'd sing a different tune if it was 2005 and a Bush staffer's butt was on the line.
Keep it up, Matt! Don't let the Obama stormtroopers scare you off the trail.
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4Chan? Seriously? A board frequented by hackers and pranksters?
This is dumb and obviously a hoax.
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You have obviously drunk the KoolAid....
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lol what? Because we dont immediately think a random screencap from a random thread on "We did it for the lulz" 4chan means were brainwashed? Cripes, what kind of drugs are -you- on?
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It *is* possible to edit the photo's EXIF data to change GPS coordinates and other details. However IMO it's as likely this could be a genuinely pissed off WH staffer as a prankster or saboteur.
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It's possible that this is a hoax.
It's also possible that an Obama White House employee -- who is paid with taxpayer dollars, by the way -- is doing cocaine in the White House while on the clock.
Doesn't this warrant an investigation? If you have someone in the White House who is doing cocaine, it is possible that that person could be blackmailed and now you have our national security compromised.
After the "party crashers" scandal where the Secret Service had to take the fall for Obama bringing a bunch of clowns into the White House to work for him, we can't be too sure or too careful.
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The operative point - hoax or no hoax, this story is believable. It's an indictment of Obama and the ship he runs.
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Not a geologist or geocacher or anything close, but using various online tools I find elevations at the WH ranging from 11 meters to 20 meters - nowhere near the 49 in the EXIF data. Unless I'm doing it wrong, this points to somebody having edited the EXIF data, which as I pointed out earlier can be easily done using tools found online.
Boo...I love it when a good scandal comes to light (and the current WH crowd disgusts me), but unless someone with more topographical brains than me can show otherwise, I think this is a manufactured scandal.
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Elevation is known to be the least accurate of all GPS measurements. Why would someone go through the trouble of editing the exif data to change the latitude and longitude, but not change the altitude that is right above it? It took 15 seconds to find an altitude online for the White House. For such an elaborate hoax with possibly massive implications, wouldn't you bother to do that?
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I didn't know that about altitude & GPS.
Someone pointed out elsewhere that while you can modify EXIF data it's difficult to do without leaving traces. The created/digitized/modified date/time are exactly the same. Has anyone tried an EXIF editor to see if they can fake it?
I did pull the image into Photoshop & monkey around with the levels to see what else I could make out. Not much, really - a brandy snifter with what looks like brandy in it. Can't make out anything on the razor blade. iPhone cameras are bad enough; in the hands of the average person they're worse, especially in low light.
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Brandy snifter? I don't think lower level White House personnel have brandy snifters in their office. Is it possible this is a higher-level person? It would have to be someone who's a bit younger to be posting on 4chan in the first place.
There's no shortage of young hot-shots with tech savvy in the Obama inner circle. I wonder who it could be... wouldn't surprise me if the 4chan people were able to find out! They are very good at that kind of stuff.
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How many floors does the White House have, hmmmmmm?
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Even with the improved GPS on the GS, the elevation accuracy sucks. Even the certified aviation quality GPS's only do a fair job of determining elevation unless there is a local WAAS transmitter...
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Having a razor in the White House is unlikely.
But, I agree that this is more likely than global warming.
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Obama has numerous friends that use boxcutters
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Getting a link in the comment section over at hotair
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/13/ppp-poll-tomorrow-reids-all-but-finished/
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Libs, be happy: This explains a lot.
Somebody at the White House is stoned to the beejezus.
At least you now have an explanation for what these people are doing.
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Palin's email "hacker" also posted to 4chan and was exposed.
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Not yet convinced. Here's why: I plugged the GPS coordinates provided into Google, Yahoo and MapQuest -- and ALL of them put this location smack-dab on Constitution Avenue, on the Mall side of the street, approximately where E. Execute Ave. would intersect Constitution Ave. if it were extended through the Ellipse.
Anyone get different results? If this is 1600 PA Ave., I'd really like to plug in the GPS coordinates and actually get a positive result.
P.S. Having said all that, this is still bad. What's odd is that there are no buildings to speak of at the location. (Is it possible that GPS coordinates around the White House are somehow obfuscated in the public GPS-coding databases, to produce inaccurate results? Don't know...)
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Forgot to mention: the coordinates I extracted from the PNG file were:
38 53.520 -77 02.119
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oh man. the polls and the divided democrap party have caused someone at the white house to turn to coke.
Ill bet its michelle.
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Not that I find it unlikely that coke is and has been used in the White House of several administrations, but this particular thing stinks.
My gut instinct is that someone manipulated the metadata in the picture. There are very few working offices in the White House itself. A staffer would almost certainly be crammed into the wings. Moreover, my strong suspicion is that in the close proximity of the White House, there will be GPS jammers and scramblers, so any picture actually taken on the white house grounds would probably report a coord off by a 100 yards or more.
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Is anyone surprised? The flap-eared usurper in the white house has admitted to a lot of drug use. He said he couldn't do coke because he didn't afford it. He can now. It does explain a lot of what's happening in Washington now. Only a stoned fool would think that anything they are doing is right.
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lol, trolled
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It's amazing what people will believe if they want to believe it.
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Some people should not be allowed on the internet.
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This has gone on for too long, we need to impeach barry for this. Think about the children! first he has them singing songs in his praise, and now he does this?
This is not what we meant by the white house!
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FROM THE START...
"The photo shows three lines of cocaine" WHITE POWDER
I know plenty of people who crush their Ritalin tablets into powder and then snort them.
Plus the whole thing smells of a scam.
Nothing to see here, move along.
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Quick! Send this to Jeff Gannon stat. He'll know how to escort this story to the proper channel.
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roflol people really fell for that??
its easy to fake the metadata of a picture lol
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Haha, 4chan is laughing their asses off at you guys.
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Are you... did you... really take this seriously?
How fucking stupid ARE you.
No, seriously. You seriously think 4chan is a reliable source for breaking political news. How fucking stupid ARE you?
For fucks sake, you morons.
Can you faggots just shut the fuck up about Bush Derangement Syndrome? I mean, seriously. Right now the right isn't just grasping at straws, it's grasping at non-existent straws orbiting the fucking moons of fucking JUPITER.
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You people are taking something from 4Chan seriously? Really?
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"If those coordinates are indeed correct, then somebody on high has an AWFUL LOT of explaining to do. All I know is that you wouldn't have had this problem in the Bush White House!"
You idiot, Bush was a druggie too. Amusing story, but take your fucking partisanship and stick it up your ass.
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I'd believe it. Drugs is the only rationale excuse to explain some of Obama's decision-making!
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Typical conservatives: totally clueless when it comes to technology.
Piece of cake to edit the EXIF data. Plus, the photo totally looks staged for effect (i.e., no one uses a double-edged razor blade to chop coke, and certainly wouldn't lay it across a 'rail').
Finally, it's *4CHAN*, you farking 'tards!! Get a brain, morans.
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Always assume stupidity before conspiracy!
Someone should investigate it at the White House.
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I'm not a supporter of this administration but, if this pic is factual, then I would have to say that this person has some large kahunas. More so than the last Dem. administration. You know, "I smoked marijuana but I didn't inhale."
What a joke Clinton was. If you're gonna smoke pot, don't ya think you'd wanna take advantage of its effects/affects? What a wuss.
To whomever sent this pic: C'mon dude suck it up or quit wussin' out. Geez!
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Why?
Besides blind partisan hackery why?
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ok, so what we've got here is a blown outta proportion, 3 yr old article. an overhyped, partially true story. why waste our time with this? first off, NOONE knows whether we can believe you ot not. second, even if it is true, it turns out that it's apparently someone attending a party @ white house, not a member of the gov't. lastly, you claim obama confirmed his cocaine use as if it was yesterday or something. just like him admitting he'd smoked weed. it was something in the past. good god it must be a slow work day @ this website, but seeing how it includes the word 'jersey' in it, it must be garbage.
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These people are amusing, Matt! If we were talking about the Bush White House and cocaine, they'd be all over it like flies on stink! But since it's the Lord Obama, they're screaming at you for partisanship!
It's possibly a hoax. It's also quite possible that some dumbass staffer did drugs and left the GPS function turned on!
Amazing.
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The FRAUD is a regular user of the drug.....he has it shipped in on a regular basis.....he gets away with this just like he gets away without showing America his credentials.....this man is evil and needs to be shown the door!!! The whole government is corrupt.....GO SCOTT BROWN.....the Scott heard round the world!!!
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ummm...you are an idiot
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Im familiar with metadata,, however im going to assume that in this day and age it is very possible to hack/edit it. This would be a prank right up 4chans alley. but then again,, who can know for sure? Maybe time will tell
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