Who’s rocking Dick’s boat?

Take a look at this photo of Dick Cheney. It appears on the White House's official website and seems, at first glance, innocent enough. But now take a peek at the reflection in the vice-president's mirror sunglasses - could it be a naked women? That would certainly account for the huge grin on Mr Cheney’s face.

The White House insists it is an innocent photo taken on a fishing trip to Snake River, Idaho. But this hasn't stopped the photo becoming a massive talking-point in the blogosphere. A search for 'Dick Cheney' and 'sunglasses' on Google turns up close to 100,000 hits.

No doubt inspired by this interest, a clothing company called Zazzle have rushed out a T-shirt carrying the photo of Dick Cheney with the not un-entertaining caption 'Dick Sees Chicks'. The vice-president's office are unamused. "Clearly the picture shows a hand casting a rod," said a spokeswoman primly.