Even NYT writers can recognize a faux-pas when they see one
"POLITICAL POINTS: Not Quite Ready for His Close-Up
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JOHN TIERNEY
If there was anything Senator John Kerry's strategists were hoping to avoid this week, it was the image of a Massachusetts liberal in funny headgear. This is Boston, after all, the home of Michael Dukakis, whose presidential aspirations ended not long after he was photographed in a tank wearing a helmet that made him look like Rocky - as in Rocky and Bullwinkle.
So what went wrong in Cape Canaveral?
Mr. Kerry's aides say privately that they had no idea anyone would be photographing him when he visited NASA in Florida on Monday and donned a special suit to tour the space shuttle Discovery. But someone was, and the resulting photo made him look like the sperm played by Woody Allen in "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask."
By Tuesday morning, the hooded would-be president was on the front page of some newspapers, and Republicans were outside the convention hall in Boston passing out flyers showing Mr. Kerry's new photos along with the 1988 classic of Mr. Dukakis. About the best that could be said for Mr. Kerry is that unlike Mr. Dukakis's helmet, his headgear was not emblazoned with his name."
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/trail/index.html
As Ren & Stimpy would say : "EEEEEEEDIOTS!!!"
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JOHN TIERNEY
If there was anything Senator John Kerry's strategists were hoping to avoid this week, it was the image of a Massachusetts liberal in funny headgear. This is Boston, after all, the home of Michael Dukakis, whose presidential aspirations ended not long after he was photographed in a tank wearing a helmet that made him look like Rocky - as in Rocky and Bullwinkle.
So what went wrong in Cape Canaveral?
Mr. Kerry's aides say privately that they had no idea anyone would be photographing him when he visited NASA in Florida on Monday and donned a special suit to tour the space shuttle Discovery. But someone was, and the resulting photo made him look like the sperm played by Woody Allen in "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask."
By Tuesday morning, the hooded would-be president was on the front page of some newspapers, and Republicans were outside the convention hall in Boston passing out flyers showing Mr. Kerry's new photos along with the 1988 classic of Mr. Dukakis. About the best that could be said for Mr. Kerry is that unlike Mr. Dukakis's helmet, his headgear was not emblazoned with his name."
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/trail/index.html
As Ren & Stimpy would say : "EEEEEEEDIOTS!!!"
posted by fabulous girl at
3:36 PM
1 Comments:
Did you hear the one about Bush sending Kerry to the moon while he toured Cape Canaveral? Yup. And Howard Dean was in on it. I mean, did you hear him? "We're Goin' to So Carolina, and Oklahoma, and Arizona, and North Dakota, and New Mexico, and the Moon. Agggggggrrrrrrrr!"
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