November 24, 2008
Nobel Effort
Wow, Krugman and Bush.
I would confidently recommend this image for strangest bedfellows of the year. I especially liked this Getty version — capturing how a photographer to our left elicited that wonderful sideways glance from PK.
I’m sure everybody was quite civil in this Oval Office shot honoring American ‘08 Nobel Prize winners. I’m sure Bush, in fact, was thoroughly disarming with his silliness. The photo did, however, remind me of the phrase: I’m not laughing at you, I’m laughing with you.
(image:Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. caption: U.S. President George W. Bush (2L) poses for photographs with the American winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry Roger Yonchien Tsien (R) and Martin Chalfie (2R) and the winner for Economics Paul Krugman in the Oval Office at the White House November 24, 2008 in Washington, DC.)
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ice weasel said:
If you’re close I wonder if you can smell the alcohol on bush’s breath.
Oh, I mean mouth wash.
ew, bush’s breath.
Michael said:
The more relevant phrase would be “I’m laughing for you.”
indybend said:
when I look at this, I see “can you believe we’re standing next to this guy!?”
yesterday gone said:
ironic considering paul krugman went after and attacked barack during the primary for appealing to bipartisanship.
QrazyQat said:
Ironic because Krugman is at the White House endorsing Bush’s policies?
Well, no of course he isn’t. So merely being civil and appearing next to someone is being bipartisan? Or what is your attempted point, YG?
weisseharre said:
irony: test the edge, forget the point
yg said:
really, qrazy? you see no irony in this photo-op of man who bashed barack as being too kumbaya?
NoContest said:
Everything about that photograph is dispicable, on about 40 different levels. One of the most repulsive I’ve seen on this site in years of checking in. The only individual with any dignity is Roger Yonchien Tsien, all three of the others act like unruly children. Complete disrespect to America. The more you read and listen to Krugman, it becomes obvious that in his own way, he is as big a prick as Bush. And I’ve known Krugman since the early ninties, way before he started chirping from the pages of the NYT.
QrazyQat said:
Krugman looks to me — and this is just me; I don’t insist you see it the same way — to be smiling in a way that he sees some humor in Bush having to invite him to the White House as part of this gathering. No, I don’t see that as irony, but do see it as a sly jab at Bush.
elfpix said:
Well, it sure would be interesting to know why Krugman is repressing a smile and Chalfie is laughing so outright and Tsien looks like he’s just doing another photo op. Is Krugman covering for the shrub’s saying something dumb, Chalfie covering for being nervous and Tsien too far away to hear what happened, perhaps?
Whatever, Paul needs a trim and a haircut. Everything’s grown out just beyond the presentable.
Perhaps it’s only his hair to which that applies.
As for being a prick, one more or less has to be some quantity of a prick to some portion of the people whom one encounters to actually make an impact on the world around one.
BlakeIncarnate said:
“As for being a prick, one more or less has to be some quantity of a prick to some portion of the people whom one encounters to actually make an impact on the world around one.”
I agree with this statement, in fact, I live by it myself. I’m also weary of the “smartest boy in the room”, Krugman, always tripping the action-people and laughing at them lying on the ground. I need him to gewt his hands dirty and DO SOMETHING. But that is the modus operandi of all NYT writers. Dowd, Friedman, Herbert…. everyone except Kristof.
BTW- don’t just note The Krug’s hair and beard, look at that sloppy jacket, shirt and tie. Pure ridicule,- his stock in trade.