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WASHINGTON POST WOULD RUN MORE PHOTOS OF McCAIN IF HIS FACE WASN’T ALWAYS MELTING OFF: “Obama and his backgrounds are simply more photogenic. … McCain also is often wearing a baseball cap outside to protect his skin from another melanoma, and it shades his face.” [Washington Post]
1:04 PM
on Mon August 4 2008
By
Sara K. Smith
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“Obama also got more color photos, 72 to 49…” Well, duh. Isn’t every photo of Obama a color photo?
The ancient natives of America also believed the camera stole your soul.
V572625694: Most of WALNUTS’ early pictorial depictions were actually painted portraits, as the camera was still 200 years from existence.
McCain stands still too long as he thinks they still have to change out the flashbulbs.
Walnuts looks a little old in that photo. No wonder the WaPo is shielding the public from his appearance!
Et Tu Nesfaratu?
freakishlystrong:
win!
Or maybe it’s the same reason ‘People’ magazine runs more photos of Angelina Jolie than Ruth Buzzi.
rpeg: Did I mention that McCain is old?
This is also like Phyllis Diller whining that Angelina Jolie gets more magazine covers
Author of the article writes that McCain has a “great smile”. Sure, it’s a great smile. In a “90 year old shaven hyena” kind of way. I’m kind of thankful for the hat’s face shading properties.
Of course there’s less photos of him. Flashing lights frighten him.
V572625694: My thoughts exactly.
How could Cindy “Trollop” McCain go for this guy? I mean, she used to be kinda cute. And very rich. Does she have a fetish for skin dripping mummies?
The Incomparable Tiny Valdez: Apparently I’m comparable.
McCain’s harder to photograph because he’s plain harder to find. He’s out doing a tour of rural post offices and half-empty hinterland diners — I pity any photographer who has to follow him around to take pictures of him in front of some dreary dilapidated building while he drones on about how great everything’ll be once he’s out of office.
This is such typical liberal media bullshit. There are some wonderful daguerreotypes of McCain and they’re just refusing to run them.
…I always thought the reason they didn’t take his photo was because the flash bulbs caused flash backs to the siege of Constantinople
Vampires hate bright lights.
obfuscator: You know who always has a “great smile”? The fat, ugly person you don’t want to insult, but you would never actually date.
Example:
Mother–What about Doris? What’s wrong with her?
Me–Nothing. I like Doris. She’s got a great smile.
tunamelt: Please tell me you had to look up the spelling of “daguerreotype.”
sanantonerose: I didn’t. Because I use Firefox, and it has spellcheck.
I just love seeing photos of the Dark Knight! Those photos of Heath Ledger as the Joker are fucking awesome!!!
Oops, my bad. It’s just another shot of John McCain looking so serious.
dear god…please don’t let this be the start of a fairness campaign
leading to more photos of mccain’s rectum death grin.
sorry…i can’t spell ricktus or rictus or whatever, and rectum seemed
the most apropos alternative offered by spellchek.
Poor guy, he can never see his reflection again, he’s no idea how hideous he is!
A cheerful reminder of his sunny face.
http://www.kidsspudclub.com/Product.aspx?id=347&type=potato
More bad news for McCain. Apparently, the documentary of his life lost out to no. 1 in the box office to The Dark Knight. I believe its called “The Mummy: Tune of the Draggin’ Temp. Horror”
rpeg: The ancient natives of America also believed the camera stole your soul.
Yes, but in the case of McCain, that’s roughly equivalent to being worried about shoplifting in a Soviet-era GUM department store.
tsunami: i love it…rectum death grip…..
the perfect name for a band..
If only MSM newspapers would the WSJ’s pen ’n ink line drawings, then McCain has this election thing won.
shortsshortsshorts:
Here’s McCain energizing his base:
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l245/squiggyfm/TeddyMcCain.png
tsunami: oops i misread…im a little hungover today..
shortsshortsshorts: Woodcuttings, or ocher and charcoal drawings smeared on cave walls.
He also can’t go outside in the heat too much or Madam Tussaud gets upset. He’s only on loan, after all.
My avatar has been appropriated
I swear to Yahweh, last week one of the femme talking heads on CNN pronounced breathlessly: “Coming up, we’ll give you the test results from the latest piece of skin excised from John McCain.”
“…the latest piece of skin excised from John McCain…”
The Mrs. and I just looked at each other like - did she really just say that - and began laughing so hard we both spat up dinner.
loudmouthredhead: You can find many of WALNUTS’ childhood works among the petroglyphs in Eastern California, where he was a child of the paiute indian tribe. His most famous work is called “sun,” done on a granite vernacular.
…isn’t this an indictment of the so-called “news” organizations?! Who’s fault is it that John McCain isn’t photogenic or chooses shitty locations? This is a symptom of a greater problem in the media, which is the perpetuation of so-called infotainment. Politics is all about perception and by the media not showing actual reality they are changing peoples perception. Why do you think the Republicans created so-called “Free Speech Zones” during the 2004 elections? Because it would have been embarrassing to see 50,000 people booing the president during his inauguration speech! John McCain deserves his share of new coverage; whether he has 2 people in the audience or 2 million. By them shading their coverage they open themselves up to the attack that they are currently receiving, which is “they don’t cover John McCain as much as Barack Obama”. This arguement is particularly ANNOYING because anyone with half brain knows John McCain is receiving a free ride because his lack of coverage. If in every photo John McCain looks like Smeagle giving a speech in a empty warehouse then maybe its because HE IS Smeagle and he is in an empty fukkin warehouse!!!
It seems that people whose job is to make the newspaper visually appealling decide to run pictures of the handsome guy instead of the ugly guy. And they run more of them above the fold, that part of the paper that a potential buyer/ad reader sees in a newspaper box.
How strange.
AngryBlakGuy: Oh c’mon.. Git off his lawn will ya?
tunamelt: Oh. Well, carry on, then.
AngryBlakGuy:
Amen, Dude.
And, if the media had unflattering pics or videos of Barry (e.g., stumbling on his words, making constipated faces, mistaking Shiites for Sunnis, taking about the border between Iraq and Pakistan, etc., etc.), you can bet they’d use them all the time.
AngryBlakGuy:
Who’s fault is it that John McCain isn’t photogenic or chooses shitty locations?
God. It’s God’s fault.
No snark here, AngryBlakGuy got it exactly right. The newspapers and televisions should cover John McCain more. 50/50, side by side.
AngryBlakGuy: I applaud you, having the longest post in at least 2 threads today alone. Keep it up, because everyone loves angry rants not given by Dennis Miller.
Hey Walnuts!
Obvious solution for any western State person - wear a cowboy hat.
There. Sorted.
McCain chose poorly.
Pretty people sell papers. If McCain doesn’t like it, he can go back to Communist Cuba or wherever it is he’s from.