Monday, January 30, 2006

What's A Staged Event Among Friends!

While the practice of providing news organizations with staged photos of events involving the president goes back decades, veteran shooters at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue say it has become almost a regular occurrence with the Bush Administration. A review of Associated Press archives found that during the entire eight years of the Clinton administration, only 100 handout photos of events were released to the press. During the first five years of Bush's presidency, more than 500 have been distributed.

When everything is staged, including photographs of standard events like a visit to the Smithsonian or the Kennedy Center Honors (where the press was not allowed to photograph), doesn't it stand to reason that there is some truth to all that gossip about GW? Like being back on the bottle, and his habit of flipping people off?

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