Foxfyre wrote:Quote:In the past, snagging a photo of the attorney general in front of the statues has been something of a sport for photographers.
When former Attorney General Edwin Meese released a report on pornography in the 1980s, photographers dived to the floor to capture the image of him raising the report in the air, with the partially nude female statue behind him.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/01/29/statues.htm
Foxfyre wrote:Because you can't provide lessons in art history everytime you print an article in the paper re what the attorney general says. Personally, I don't blame any national figures from avoiding giving a hostile press more opportunities to make them look ridiculous and thus dilute anything important they might be saying.
Do I believe the press would do that? I absolutely do.
Politicians take themselves too darned seriously. I mean, come on - and? Anyone who gets fussy about a playful gag like that, let alone going as far as covering the statue of justice up over it, really just takes himself too seriously and should get a little less uptight..
Anyway, after that little to-and-fro between Parados and Lash there, I'm gladly reassured that Lash apparently doesnt really think the Democratic mainstream is nuts - unless something more is still said on that. Rhetorical (and dare I say slightly tiresome) metaphorics it all is, still.
Now whether the mainstream
here is nuts, that question has now once again wholly been eh, resurrected.
Perhaps if that other thread is opened again, someone else might gratefully adopt that most colourful of metaphors there...
Well, I should have put the laughing smiley after the shocked smiley. 
