Friday, November 15, 2013

Triumph of the Won't

From my RWNJ pal Doug Brink, who sees a Leni Riefenstahl at work in the photos of the president with the troops:

This image still bothers me...

The White House poster recently noting Veterans Day weekend... It bugs me...

From the White House Facebook page

Maybe what disturbs me is how it compares with other historical images. [jump]


"Triumph of  the Will" 1935

"Triumph of  the Will" 1935
Obama's fundamentally changing America may be presented in a slick, colorful format. But for those of us who take time to contrast it with black and white warnings of history, we see plenty causing us to feel more than a little uneasy.
I wrote back proposing some of the following—not the pictures, just the URLs—but the moderator (who I presume is Doug himself, this is not a very corporate kind of shop) wasn't having any of it. Jeez, when you think you know a guy, and he turns out to have no sense of humor!

Via.
Via.
Photo by Gilles Hérard.
Gerald Herbert/Associated Press.
Paul J. Richards/AFP Getty.
The most remarkably Fascist-looking picture I found, actually, was of George Herbert Walker Bush, from Thanksgiving 1990:
Photo by Diana Walker.

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