A newspaper photograph of a political figure is less an image of the politician than it is of the editor’s political prejudices.
That said, the picture below is a truly alarming one. (Yes, that maniacal face actually belongs to the Commander in Chief; I had to check the caption to make sure.) Either someone at AP really and truly hates the President, or GWB has really and truly started to lose it.
Or, of course, both.
(Hat tip: William Blaze at American Dynamics.)
Ignatiusing
One of my roommates used to accuse me–perhaps with some justice–of “Ignatiusing,” after Ignatius J. Reilly in A Confederacy of Dunces, who would go to movies and sit in the front row talking loudly and enthusiastically about how bad they…