the blog quebecois

Actually I can't tell if she's wearing a merkin or not. Wrong angle and all that.

Yahoo:

BERLIN (AFP) - Germany blasted British tabloid The Sun for printing what were billed to be pictures of Chancellor Angela Merkel changing into her bathing suit.

"You can assume that the chancellor of course has an interest in resting when she is on vacation, spending time with her husband, relaxing and not being constantly exposed to the voyeuristic gaze of lurking photographers," deputy government spokesman Thomas Steg told reporters when asked about the pictures.

"But she decided quickly not to take legal action. She said the public judgment here in Germany of the publication of these photographs in British media is so clear that it is enough for her."

The offending images, first published in the top-selling Sun on Monday, showed a woman from behind with her buttocks partly exposed with the headline "I'm Big in the Bumdestag" in a pun on the Bundestag lower house of parliament.

Of course, I would never publish such scandalous material on this fine blog. I'll bet Matt Drudge would, though. (Warning: NSFW.) Cheeky lad!