Obama the Invalid

Oh boy, another insulting photo of the president. I guess it’s been difficult for the press to get the shot that makes Obama look like a fool. Here he is in the orient where respect is ritualized and he’s getting pushed around – and by a woman no less!

I’d rather see my president trying to be a nice guy, than wonder how much John Boehner will tip his caddy now that he’s victorious.

G 20 Summit – walking a tight rope unbalanced with four legs.

It looks like they’re propping him up, but what they did was shoot him down.

I see the Koreans got their revenge for Obama having the guts to tell them where they could put their one-sided
trade agreement.

harrier

That is some seriously unflattering schizzle to have on the front of the paper.

This photo, as much as any I’ve seen in a long time captures, in my mind, the mission of the BAG (not the official mission, perhaps, but what I say to people when I mention my blogging stomping grounds): the visual images that accompany stories are at least as important as the stories themselves and when viewed over a period of time, they have a subconscious and additive effect. In the end, we probably derive our understanding of history as much from the images we’ve seen over the years as we do from the summaries that the historians eventually write. Not analyzing the images and thereby letting the visual editors imprint their ideas on our minds without having to defend them is a form of passivity we can no longer afford – because the visual editors seem to be FULLY aware of their roles.

With that in mind, imagine an editor choosing THIS image to represent the president’s trip. How unkind. How petty. How manipulative. NYT gets the ‘ding’ in credibility for this in my book.