Posted on 07/21/2004 1:24:40 PM PDT by petercooper
Photograph by: Diana Walker, 1999 Secretary of Defense William Cohen, President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger hear, see and speak no evil.
Diana Walker: This is to show you that not everything is serious at the White House. This is one of those behind-the-scenes pictures that you could—you could never get this picture in an open photo op. It just would never happen. And I was on assignment photographing Secretary Albright just prior to her trip to Bosnia. And, the President and Mrs. Albright were in a holding room at the NATO conference. And I—in my book, I went back to talk to all the Presidents about these pictures and I said to President Clinton, "What—What was going on, I can't even, you know—What happened?" He said, "Well, we all were sitting next to each other and I looked at this line of us and I sort of said, "Gee, we look like those monkeys." And suddenly, you know, Cohen was doing "Hear no evil," I was doing "Speak no evil," and Madeline was doing "See no evil" and Sandy Berger at the National Security Advisors simply said, "Well, I guess that makes me just evil." So I took that picture, and you won't be surprised by the fact I said, "Well that's it. I can leave now."
(Audio excerpt from The Littlefield Society Symposium, March 28, 2003, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas)
I must admit, Maddie's pose is a distinct improvement.
"Hear no evil...Speak no evil...See no evil...I have secret documents in my pants."
This picture together with Clinton's saying they were laughing about Berger's taking the documents could make a powerful campaign ad.
WUHAHAHAHA VERY TRUE
And most nothing was serious at the Clinton White House. Particularly National Security!
What do you think Bubba's holding onto with his left hand?
Even here it looks like Sandy has slipped something into his pocket.
Ah, I think I see a personality trait that may have earned you the moniker, dirtboy.
Klintoon looks like he just saw a lawyer at a deposition.
Rush talked about this today and obviously did not know this explanation.
Maybe all these years what we thought was his spare tire was just a bunch of documents he had misplaced down his shirt.
Either that, or he looks like Maddie just told him that she wanted to have his love child.
Wedgie-Gate
I caught that also. It seems immediately evident what they're doing, yet Rush cluelessly rambled on with his own interpretation of the pic. Kind of made me wince in embarrassment for the big guy.
BUMP
Or, Klintoon is explaining to them that "if Monica had just done this, I could have avoided all that trouble."
typical attitude of the Clinton administration towards terrorism and all tough choices.
And another thing, this seems to be the typical attitude of the entire baby boomer left. By God I can't stand those hippies. I am of Gen X and I'm happy to report that my generation is the complete opposite of those pinko thugs. Pro God, pro America, pro military.
These people were actually in charge of our country. How did we ever survive...
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