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Explanation of Clinton/Berger/Albright/Cohen "Hear No Evil" picture
Photojournalism and the American Presidency ^ | March 28, 2003 | Diana Walker

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)


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clintonstooge; sandyberger; soxgate
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1 posted on 07/21/2004 1:24:41 PM PDT by petercooper
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To: petercooper

I must admit, Maddie's pose is a distinct improvement.


2 posted on 07/21/2004 1:26:23 PM PDT by dirtboy (Forget Berger's socks - has ANYONE searched his skin folds for classified documents?)
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To: petercooper
I saw a suggested caption for this on blogsforbush.com

"Hear no evil...Speak no evil...See no evil...I have secret documents in my pants."

3 posted on 07/21/2004 1:27:43 PM PDT by My2Cents ("Fair, balanced...and unafraid.")
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To: petercooper

This picture together with Clinton's saying they were laughing about Berger's taking the documents could make a powerful campaign ad.


4 posted on 07/21/2004 1:27:48 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: dirtboy

WUHAHAHAHA VERY TRUE


5 posted on 07/21/2004 1:27:48 PM PDT by Spackidagoosh
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To: petercooper
"This is to show you that not everything is serious at the White House."

And most nothing was serious at the Clinton White House. Particularly National Security!

6 posted on 07/21/2004 1:27:58 PM PDT by A Citizen Reporter ("It's the Hypocrisy, Stupid,")
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To: dirtboy

What do you think Bubba's holding onto with his left hand?


7 posted on 07/21/2004 1:28:20 PM PDT by My2Cents ("Fair, balanced...and unafraid.")
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To: petercooper

Even here it looks like Sandy has slipped something into his pocket.


8 posted on 07/21/2004 1:28:34 PM PDT by theDentist ("John Kerry changes positions more often than a Nevada prostitute.")
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To: dirtboy
I must admit, Maddie's pose is a distinct improvement.

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.

9 posted on 07/21/2004 1:29:56 PM PDT by woofer
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To: petercooper

Rush talked about this today and obviously did not know this explanation.


10 posted on 07/21/2004 1:31:43 PM PDT by bigjoesaddle (Shrug)
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To: theDentist
Even here it looks like Sandy has slipped something into his pocket.

Maybe all these years what we thought was his spare tire was just a bunch of documents he had misplaced down his shirt.

11 posted on 07/21/2004 1:33:51 PM PDT by dirtboy (Forget Berger's socks - has ANYONE searched his skin folds for classified documents?)
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To: woofer
Klintoon looks like he just saw a lawyer at a deposition.

Either that, or he looks like Maddie just told him that she wanted to have his love child.

12 posted on 07/21/2004 1:35:43 PM PDT by dirtboy (Forget Berger's socks - has ANYONE searched his skin folds for classified documents?)
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To: theDentist

Wedgie-Gate


14 posted on 07/21/2004 1:42:25 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: bigjoesaddle
Rush talked about this today and obviously did not know this explanation.

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.

15 posted on 07/21/2004 1:44:29 PM PDT by AHerald
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To: petercooper

BUMP


16 posted on 07/21/2004 1:44:30 PM PDT by Camachee (`)
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To: dirtboy
...he looks like Maddie just told him that she wanted to have his love child.

Or, Klintoon is explaining to them that "if Monica had just done this, I could have avoided all that trouble."

17 posted on 07/21/2004 1:45:18 PM PDT by woofer
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To: petercooper

typical attitude of the Clinton administration towards terrorism and all tough choices.


18 posted on 07/21/2004 1:45:19 PM PDT by hardcoreinlove
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To: petercooper

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.


19 posted on 07/21/2004 1:47:04 PM PDT by hardcoreinlove
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To: petercooper

These people were actually in charge of our country. How did we ever survive...


20 posted on 07/21/2004 1:48:48 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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