Bush's Backdrops Are Getting More and More Elaborate ---pix->>>

[Stephanie]

They're getting out of control with the Phony Photo-Op Backdrops.


Yesterday >



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060109/ids_photos_ts/r2238724666 .jpg



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060109/ids_photos_ts/r1142979186 .jpg



Today >



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060110/480/whre10201101551



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060110/480/whre10101101536



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060110/480/dcev10201101618

[sabra]

1. I see a pattern, as the poll numbers go down, the sets get more elaborate

[Stephanie]

2. they're desperate

they think they need to catapult the propaganda a little harder

[FreedomAngel82]

24. Yep

Getting so desperate.

[Virginian]

3. The third one looks like he is being sarcastic.

He explains something with simple words using right wing talking points.

I wonder why more people don't think he is insulting their intelligence when he does that.

[sakabatou]

20. "I'm a war president. Heh heh heh."

[Poll_Blind]

4. That man is so fake he is always seen in a Potemkin village. n/t

PB

[jjmalonejr]

5. Making the NCLB banner in Bush's handwriting is a nice touch...

...don't you think?

[Mad_Dem_X]

23. LOL! Wait, it can't be his writing

All of the letters are facing the right way.

[jjmalonejr]

26. They gave him a template to follow and he worked real hard.

He stayed up until 9:30 PM (past his bedtime) to get it done.

[Botany]

6. Winston Churchill did it differently .... he worked 1 hour for every 5

minutes he would speak in his speeches.



bush has his folks work more than that making sure that the crowd is clean and his
transmitter & mic are in place.

[peekaloo]

7. A designer friend of mine once told me that if the centerpiece

is boring or unattractive you tend to over-elaborate the surroundings. :-)

[Lisa]

13. although, in Bush's case, it would be difficult ...

... to come up with a background which is MORE displeasing to look at than the speaker!

[Supersedeas]

18. exactly

[leftchick]

8. laugh and smirking while talking of more death to come in Iraq

is extremely disturbing to see.

[cliss]

9. No matter what the backdrop is......

Bush is still a fool. And a clown. Look at that last photo. I can almost read Bush's thoughts on that one.

He's thinking, "how did I do? I see the crowd is not laughing at me, so I must have done OK".

[liberal N proud]

10. They have to have fancy back drops because no one will

stand behind him any more.

[Lisa]

11. remember his trip to Halifax (Canada)?

His team didn't trust the hosts to come through (questioning our competence, at the very least!) so they sent one of their people in advance, to paw through our photo archives, select pics to be incorporated and enlarged, and transmit the artwork to D.C. for printing! Nonetheless, Dubya managed to sit in what appeared to be Stalin's chair. (I am told that the photo is actually not from the historic Yalta meeting, but still ...)



http://www.bowjamesbow.net/2004/12/04/standing_o.shtml

[Stephanie]

16. Oh geez, how did I miss that one?

Unbelievable!

[liveoaktx]

27. Bwahahahahahahh-huge laugh of today

[johnnie]

12. I can't wait to see this one behind him

[goclark]

17. ROTFL nt

[obreaslan]

14. And Tomorrow>

Tomorrow>

[AlCzervik]

15. The irony of the "Gentleman's C" pResident trumpeting education is thick.

[NightOwwl]

19. What's that old saying...

Something to the effect that, the more you brag about something the less effective you really are.

Generally used when a guy really starts spouting off (no pun intended hee-hee) about all the sex he's having. Translated to reality, it means he hasn't gotten laid in a very long time.

[phoebe]

21. "No Child Left Behind" is making millions for his brothers - who own

a hefty chunk of the company which sells the software, etc. to schools. I'm sure they mean "No Left Child Left Behind"...

[KurtNYC]

22. He has a program where kids work their butts off to pay the deficit

he will leave for them. It is called "No Child's Behind Left."

[Batgirl]

25. What the hell is going on in the chalkboard backdrop?

They can't have possibly put up an actual chalkboard, right? Is it a picture of a chalkboard? Is the whole background, dear god, a printed panel, a trompe loeil rendering of a fake wall as might be seen in an actual classroom? It looks like it, because of the weird light diagonal light reflections that appear to be wrinkles in the material.

The "banner" at the top was typeset with a font that is supposed to look like hand lettering. To give a classroomy feel of being printed in marker by a teacher. Then there's the faux chalk drawing on the faux chalkboard, an image of ye old one-room schoolhouse complete with flagpole in front.

After all the effort they put into set designing these things, the Chimp still looks less convincing than a Daily Show "news" correspondent. As his stage settings are getting more hysterically grandiose, Bush increasingly looks like he was cut and pasted in there like something out of an old National Enquirer.

[Stephanie]

29. Yes, it's faux, because the ACTUAL blackboard was not good enough

Here's the classroom - not good enough for the Chimperor >

[Batgirl]

32. That's right, reality isn't good enough

Reality can't possibly convey the might and majesty of our esteemed Superchimp. Somehow he's a folksy man-o-the-people, while at the same time occupying a higher plane of existence.

The way the visual elements of his stage settings are designed, with all vanishing points very formally drawing the eye to rest upon to His Chimpness, reminds me of those ancient paintings where the perspective centered on whatever deity was being depicted. And I'm sure it's used here for the same reason: to impress on the viewer a sense of this person being a sublime figure of authority, both earthly and spiritual.

Now excuse me while I throw up in my shoe.

[Lisa]

30. they also put up a pic of packing crates, when they were in a warehouse!

Feast your eyes on these marvels of graphic manipulation, Batgirl! Let's hope that "backdrops" are going to be a category in this year's Academy Awards!

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/dim.phtml

[Warren DeMontague]

28. The better to camouflage his drunken facial injuries, m'dear. nt

[Swamp Rat]

31. He's on a roll...

:D

[LittleWoman]

33. The first two pictures remind me of "My Pet Goat"

I am surprised they would want to evoke that image again--hardly the image for a fearless, wartime leader. To say nothing of the fact that NCLB is to my mind an overpriced, colossal failure.

[The Whiskey Priest]

34. Leni Riefenstahl --- Triumph of the Will

A little dictator backed by a big spectacle and fronted by the elite.

[Hubert Flottz]

35. And you and I pay for it all!

Bush reminds me of this dude!

[Lori Price CLG]

36. A little Photoshop (or similar program) can take care of that, n/t

[Radical Activist]

37. Yes, its getting really out of hand. Check this one out...

[zippy890]

38. bizarre and FAKE LOOKING

photo op president

the more FORM the less SUBSTANCE

39. but somebody should leave this child far behind n/t