A seemingly incriminating photo has been making the rounds that appears to show Barack Obama checking out the butt of a 16-year-old Brazilian girl at the G8 Summit. The video, however, tells a different story. Obama instead seems to be offering his hand in a gentlemanly gesture to another woman walking up the steps.

The real culprit here is French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is clearly gawking at the girl. Gotta love the French.

See the photo, watch the video, and judge for yourself.

When it comes to awkward diplomatic overtures, Obama is going to have to try a lot harder if he wants to live up to the legacy of President Bush, who once gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel an uninvited neck massage at a G8 Summit.

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"The Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has announced she is stepping down. Friends of Governor Palin are saying that she is resigning because she is tired of attacks from the media. Thank God I didn't say anything." ---David Letterman

"It's an emotional day. A lot of us are still mourning the loss of one of America's most entertaining figures, who left us all too soon. But don't worry, folks, Sarah Palin will be back. Comedians everywhere are praying." -- Conan O'Brien

"Since resigning as governor, many say Sarah Palin is now going to spend some time working on her memoirs. Alaskans are saying they can't wait to start reading Palin's memoirs and then quit halfway through." --Conan O'Brien

"In a recent study, the United States was ranked the 114th happiest country in the world. Then Sarah Palin stepped down. Now we're at 17." --Conan O'Brien

"Anybody here from Minnesot? Congratulations, you have a brand new senator, our old friend, Al Franken. Al is an interesting guy. Went from being a comedian to politician. George Bush, the other way around." --David Letterman

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As Sarah Palin prepares to step down as governor, we salute her unforgettable time in the national limelight by looking back at her political life in pictures. OK, they're fake pictures, but they tell a story of a woman who is destined for a higher comedic calling.

Letterman Contributed to Palin's Resignation

Joking about Sarah Palin's resignation Monday night, David Letterman quipped, "Was it something I said?"

As it turns out, the answer is yes.

Sarah Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein said in an interview with CNN that Letterman's jokes about Palin and her daughter contributed to her decision to resign.

"When people don't accept normal bounds of decency making jokes like that about children, maybe this is not good for the state right now," Van Flein said. "And maybe somebody else who is not the subject, and whose family is not the subject of this scrutiny, can move the state forward."

So let's get this straight, Palin was prepared to stare down Putin and nuke Ahmadinejad, but a comedian proved too much for her? Lord only knows what she had in store for the likes of Letterman and Tina Fey if she were ever given the power to torture people.

'Department of Law' to Protect President Palin

Sarah Palin's says she resigned because she's been hounded by too many ethics investigations. So what if she were president?

Her answer to that question has been added to our list of the 10 dumbest Sarah Palin quotes of all time:

"I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out," Palin told ABC News.

Sorry, Sarah, there is no Department of Law, but you may have better luck with the Department of Homeland Hilarity.

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Sarah Palin may be leaving office, but she still holds the title of national laughingstock, and likely will for the foreseeable future.

The Palin jokes are sure to keep coming, especially now that she has supplied comedians with a fresh supply of fodder from her bizarre resignation announcement. Here's the first batch of what is certain to be a steady new stream of late-night jokes about the soon-to-be former governor:

"There was a surprising announcement over the weekend. The governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is leaving office. She's stepping down. Something I said?" –David Letterman, referring to his feud with Palin

"President Obama right now is in Russia. Obama went there because from Russia you can actually see Sarah Palin cleaning out her office in Alaska." –Conan O'Brien

"I was talking to a lady here in the audience, she was from Alaska and we were wondering about this. How does a thing like this work? She steps down and she's no longer the governor of Alaska. And we figured it out: Miss Congeniality steps up and is now the governor of Alaska." –David Letterman

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Letterman's Top Ten Messages on Sarah Palin's Answering Machine

10. "Hi, it's George W. Bush. Why didn't anyone tell me resigning was an option?"
9. "It's John McCain--Why did I call?"
8. "Mark Sanford here. Ever been to Argentina?"
7. "I'm calling from Geico to see if you want to renew your dogsled insurance"
6. "It's Letterman. We still cool?"
5. "McCain again. Still no idea why I called"
4. "Hi, it's the dry cleaner. Having trouble getting caribou blood out of your Prada jacket"
3. "Hi, it's Sarah...Oops...Dialed my own number"
2. "Schwarzenegger here. If you want a job, California could use a new governor"
1. "Hey, it's McCain. Who would've thought you'd retire before I did"

Top 5 Best Quotes About Palin's Resignation

1. "I have said Sarah Palin's political ambition combined with her intellect is like putting a jet engine on a golf cart; lots of horse power and no steering capabilities. Today she proved it." --Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, whom Sarah Palin is threatening to sue

2. "Sarah Palin decided to chuck her responsibilities but still wants to have an impact on public debate. So what does that make her, a community organizer?" –NPR's Michel Martin

3. "Watching Sarah Palin's press conference on Friday was like watching a drunk seal trying to land a plane, or in basketball terms (which Sarah prefers) like watching a grade-schooler try to score on Kobe while jabbering inanely." --Huffington Post blogger David Stemler

4. "Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy." --New York Times columniust Maureen Dowd

5. "I think Sarah Palin is on the verge of becoming the Miami Vice of American politics: Something a lot of people once thought was cool and then 20 years later look back, shake their heads and just kind of laugh." --Republican media consultant Todd Harris

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10. She's pregnant again and is having John Edwards' baby
9. She's "hiking the Appalachian Trail" with Mark Sanford
8. She wants to spend more time teaching abstinence to her family
7. She's joining the cast of "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"
6. She cracked under the strain of watching Russia from her house
5. She wants to devote herself full-time to making comedians apologize for the new wave of jokes they're about to unleash on her
4. Her daughter Bristol is actually having Alex Rodriguez's baby
3. She's taking up Playboy's offer to pose nude as part of their upcoming "Governors Gone Wild" issue
2. She came to the end of the Bridge to Nowhere that is her political career
1. She didn't resign at all. It was an elaborate hoax pulled off by Tina Fey

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Now that Al Franken has become the first comedian elected to the U.S. Senate, or at least the first professional comedian, will the joke now be on him?

As a former Saturday Night Live cast member, Franken may soon find himself spoofed on his former show. Asked about the possibility, Franken said he wasn't sure who might do a better impersonation of him, Fred Armisen (who currently plays Obama) or frequent guest Alec Baldwin.

Most of the late-night shows are off this week, so it remains to be seen whether Franken will become a frequent butt of jokes. So far The Daily Show has weighed in on Franken giving the Democrats a nearly super-duper majority, and Stephen Colbert has been wallowing in the terrible news.

Editorial cartoonists, meanwhile, are having fun riffing on Franken's comedic credentials with a series of amusing cartoons.

As a salute to our nation's first comedian-turned Senator, here's a must-see video from the vault: Al Franken impersonating Mick Jagger on "Solid Gold", sometime in the '80s. Yes, that's the future Senator prancing around in tights and singing the Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb."

Franken may be just what the Democrats need to come up with their own version of the now-defunct Singing Senators.

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A blockbuster Vanity Fair article paints a devastating portrait of Sarah Palin that describes her life as an "unholy amalgam of Desperate Housewives and Northern Exposure." Among the revelations: one of John McCain's advisers called her "A Little Shop of Horrors"; she writes creepy emails to friends pretending to be God; and she's a compulsive liar.

The McCain staffers who trashed Palin in the article say they still suffer a kind of "survivor's guilt":

"They can't quite believe that for two frantic months last fall, caught in a Bermuda Triangle of a campaign, they worked their tails off to try to elect as vice president of the United States someone who, by mid-October, they believed for certain was nowhere near ready for the job, and might never be."

Ouch.

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• Here's a handy Republican Sex Scandal Flowchart, courtesy of Talking Points Memo

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"Gov. Mark Sanford disappeared...and it turned out he was in South America. And then it turned out he was down there because he was sleeping with a woman from Argentina. Once again, foreigners taking jobs that Americans won't do." --David Letterman

"Gov. Sanford may have broken the law because he left the country without transferring power to his lieutenant governor. Yeah, apparently Sanford violated South Carolina's sacred bros before hoes law." --Conan O'Brien

"Today the governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, who's the head of the Republican Governors Association, held a press conference to reveal he had an affair with a woman from Argentina. People were shocked because Republicans traditionally don't do well with Hispanic women." --Conan O'Brien

"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is claiming victory in Iran. It's controversial and he is very unpopular. And the danger is this - he could ruin the political career of his brother, Jeb." --David Letterman

"No, it's sad about Iran, but what do you expect about a country with a government that's propped up by oil, that's led by a religious wacko? Kind of like Alaska." --Bill Maher

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