Image of Kerry Disrupts Carefully Choreographed Photo-Op (bunnysuitgate)

LA Times ^ | 7/27/04

[ambrose]

Image of Kerry Disrupts Carefully Choreographed Photo-Op

By Matea Gold

Times Staff Writer

6:41 PM PDT, July 27, 2004

PHILADELPHIA - When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) visited the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, his campaign hoped that the backdrop of the famed shuttle launch site would evoke images of exploration and science.

Instead, the photo that was splashed across the nation's largest tabloid newspapers was less than statesmanlike: Kerry, dressed in a hooded "bunny suit," peering out of the hatch that leads to the space shuttle.

The reaction was merciless. Under a banner headline that read "Spaceman Kerry's goofy photo flub," the New York Post suggested that Kerry looked like the sperm character Woody Allen played in his 1972 comedy, "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex."

[ECM]

If it is a word, I'd imagine you'd need to slap an 'e' in there: pukey.

That's better ;D

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think the Kerry photo is much less flattering than the Dukakis photo...

Maybe John will make a comment about it in his acceptance speech..... ROFL!!!

[jws3sticks]

Great find from one of the greatest movies. Thanks!

[Al Simmons]

[jonrick46]

The Demoncrat Party ultra make over session:

Kerry: "Turn it on Baby! This is better than Botox! Crank up that B.S. gas! I want to be topped off for my speech!"

[Michael.SF.]

There are a number of people out there that believe the above photo of Dukakis looking like a complete dweeb singlehandedly cost him the election.

Since Dukakis lost in a land slide, the referenced photo cannot be singularly attributed to his loss. But let's hope this one does cost Brear Kerry the election:

[LADY J]

"The Kerry Enema photo is the Dukakis Tank picture of 2004. I hope it's plastered everywhere you look from now until Election Day."

Perfect pic for the FReeps!! A big sign that everyone can see at every FReep event!!! That'll do it!

[1FreeAmerican]

ROTFLAFMOAPMGO!!!!!!!

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

The nice thing about pictures is that just one is worth a 1000 words. The Dem operatives are out there spreading the "NASA/Bush dirty tricks.." angle, but no matter how the pictures got out, no matter what the circumstances, the average American would know instinctively that no one made Kerry put on the Space-type suit, that everything in Kerry's day is an orchestrated photo op, and that seeing Kerry on a NASA junket, in a space suit, reveals more about Kerry than a short film clip of his "days of action" in Vietnam (though, of course, that also speaks volumes about the man's "foresight" and motivation as a young Navy Officer).

The Dems have been saying that the American people just haven't gotten to know the "real" (i.e. scripted) Kerry. Now, with this one photo, they are white-with-fright that EVERY American now knows way too much about Kerry.

Sucks to be a Democrat...lol. I just want to see the contrasting photo's, of Kerry in his fake space suit, side-by-side with Bush in a (real, operational) flight suit, on the deck of an operational Aircraft Carrier returning from war, speaking to the throngs of cheering young warriors demonstrating their unabashed admiration for their CIC.

SFS

[Republic Rocker]

BwaHahAhaHAHAhAHAHHAhAHahAa! i have to go tinkle! My bladder is about to burst!

[L.N. Smithee]

There are a number of people out there that believe the above photo of Dukakis looking like a complete dweeb singlehandedly cost him the election. I wouldn't go quite that far myself, but it is without question the photo hurt him a lot. People took one look at that picture and thought, "This guy wants to command our armed forces? I don't think so."

I don't think that it was the photo. It was the news footage of Dukakis riding in the tank and waving to supporters as if he was a seven-year-old in the Dumbo ride at Disneyland. That footage was used in a Bush/Quayle campaign ad with superimposed text of a statement that he had made about reducing military spending.

[L.N. Smithee]

ROTFLAFMOAPMGO!!!!!!!

Uh...what does that stand for?

[broadsword]

I was wondering the same thing. What a dizzying Acronym.

[L.N. Smithee]

Oh....that could be the Kiss of Death!!!!

I don't think so. But the Dems' fit over the publishing of the pic does show why it was such a big honking deal about Bush showing up on a carrier in full flyboy regalia.

[broadsword]

It's really the Dim's hissyfit over it that makes it so funny... other than the fact that he looks like such a dweeby fag. LOL!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!

I like that picture too....


Caption.....Bunny mans a Gun!!!

[oceanperch]

OMG It just occurred to me that Kerry is showing up everywhere but in a different costume Bicycle Flame Boy,
Ski Bunny Man, Neighborhood Front porch party boy......ect.

Who else do we all know is everywhere at the same time damg can't think of his name but he first showed up on the roof of the twin towers and the joke just snowballed from there the guy with the ski hat and backpack can't remember what we called him.

It seems Kerry has officially took his place.

[Oztrich Boy]

It's really the Dim's hissyfit over it that makes it so funny... other than the fact that he looks like such a dweeby fag. LOL!

Pretty much. It has come to ma attention that over at DU the suggestion is retaliation by posting a pic of GWB in a kimono.

For the record, it wasn't a kimono but a handmade silk shirt, which all leaders attending the APEC summit of Racific Rim countries are asked to wear. eg Bush, Australia's Howard, Malaysia's Mahathir at the Thailand summit

Why? I don't know but tradition of putting world leaders in funny shirts at these summints is established. Maybe it;s to see which ones can carry it of without looking like a dork.

Article- Punch line is a killer

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I know what you are referring to....was it traveler?

[kayak]

Tourist Guy