They’re Calling It An “Oral History” … Oh, It’s “Oral” Alright
We Called It “The Telephone Game” As Kids
Do you remember that game? You passed a sentence along from person to person, and by the time it got to the last person the original sentence was completely changed and wrong?
Here’s some of that “Change” we’ve been hearing about for months …
Guess they’re starting with the ‘history’ of the George W. Bush Presidency.
Brief quotations plucked out of 8 years of ‘context’ and served up as main courses.
Call Me ‘Paranoid’ … Accuse Me Of A ‘Persecution Complex’
The following is the left’s [near] last stab at a President and his Administration before their ultimate Messiah takes office and can do no wrong …
Can take no bad photograph.
Speaks only in poetry that every grade school child should be forced to memorize.
Is so sexually stimulating that even sloppy numb skull TV anchor slobs can rub their inner thigh over.
The Vanity Fair POS is slated for the February 2009 edition.
Oh, it’s “Oral” alright … I just didn’t realize some folks could bend and contort themselves so easily as to perform it on themselves so beautifully. Apparently it was a regular Ménage àtrois of “Oral” for these three [writers].
It’s here if you wish to look.
Farewell to All That: An Oral History of the Bush White House
The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong? A sweeping draft of historyâ€â€distilled from scores of interviewsâ€â€offers fresh insight into the roles of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other key players.
by Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum February 2009
With assistance from Philippe Sands.
January 20, 2001 After a disputed election and bitter recount battle in Florida whose outcome is effectively decided by the Supreme Court, George W. Bush is sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States. In foreign affairs he promises an approach that will depart from the perceived adventurism of his predecessor, Bill Clinton, in places such as Kosovo and Somalia. (“I think the United States must be humble,†Bush said in a debate with his opponent, Al Gore.) In domestic affairs Bush pledges to cut taxes and improve education. He promises to govern as a “compassionate conservative†and to be “a uniter, not a divider.†He comes into office with a $237 billion budget surplus.
On the day of the inauguration the White House chief of staff, Andrew Card, declares a moratorium on the Clinton administration’s last-minute regulations on the environment, food safety, and health. This action is followed in the coming months by disengagement from the International Criminal Court and other international efforts. Nonetheless, the early presumption is that the administration’s affairs are in steady hands, though some disquieting signs are noted.
In the Oval Office on January 20 the first President Bush and the new President Bush greet each other with the words “Mr. President.â€Â
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There is not a celebrity or person of importance that wouldn’t like to have been photographed by the famous Annie Leibovitz. And many have been.
Here are my 4 thoughts on the pictures contained here:
1) I have my own Freudian translations about the ‘group shot’ above … but I’ll not taint yours.
2) It is obvious Vanity Fair had the last word in the choice of pictures used in the article
3) I feel an ‘artist’ (and photography is an art when done properly) soils their reputation when they intentionally set out and produce such distortions as those below … it’s no better than photo-shop, or the ’staged’ bullshit we have seen throughout the Iraq War and now in the Israeli war on Hamas
4) Annie Leibovitz WILL be called on, if not already, to photograph Obama and his wife … as well as members of his Administration … You’ll NOT see hideous shots as those below taken of any of them …
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