A chilling portrait, unsuitably framed [MartyrBarf Alert!]

Washington Post ^ | 6/9/06 | Philip Kennicott

[mbynack]

Who can I call to get a dozen wallet sized and an 8x10?

[dighton]

Charlotte Allen rakes this twit over the coals

(2004)

[Alouette]

They should have posed him like this:

[Dog Gone]

I'd never heard of him before, but Charlotte ripped him a new one two years ago. Good find!

[maica]

If people believe in coincidences, check this one out. The author of this article is a "culture" reporter for the WP, and he had an article on 6/6/06 about the power of photography in the modern war. Of course, he uses his column inches to reprise Haditha, Abu Grab, and the other alleged atrocities committed by American troops in Iraq.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/05/AR2006060501437.html

Unblinking Observer
Photographs Show a War Beyond Investigations
By Philip Kennicott
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 6, 2006; Page C01
From the article:
Investigations are meant to create closure. But photographs, which can circulate forever, keep death and destruction open. Investigations are also meant to assure us that the war waged in our name is being fought with some measure of precision and dignity, but as photographs (and incidents) accumulate, and as investigations linger and overlap one another, they begin to lose their moral force. Investigation, a word meant to reassure us that the government is always "looking into" itself, is itself now subject to the blur that makes the nightly news coverage of Iraq seem like a tape loop.

And the only image that fades, as the war grinds on, is the one with which we prepared for battle: the fantasy, so beloved of Americans, of a clean, surgical, decent war.

[dighton]

Forgot to ping you (I think) to this bizarre performance.

[MNJohnnie]

Yesterday you yourself were saying how this could prove to be a bad thing for us

I think you need a lesson in Freeper behavior. You know I never said any such thing. You are merely upset because I made them look foolish in some of the Haditha threads. I am sorry your feeling are hurt because I made you look foolish over your assumption of Marine guilt on Haditha. That does NOT excuse you making up things. Don't ever pull this crap again. Next time you talk to the Moderators.

[wtc911]

Now jonny, you know you said these things yesterday, why change your tune today?

[Brett66]

More cautious voices broached the idea -- though at the peril of having their patriotism questioned

How laughable, patriotism is a four-letter word to most libs, why would they be concerned about something they spit on?

[Republicus2001]

Little Tommy Daschle is deeply saddened...

[hellinahandcart]

Actually it looks like a fairly plain standard frame. They probably yanked something off a wall that was about the right size and slapped in his photo.

Agree with your second point and disagree with your first. It's a custom frame job. Granted, I did not get a good closeup look at it, but the dimensions are not a standard size (unless standard sizes and proportions are completely different over there, which is always a possibility), and the mat is not only much wider than standard, but appears to be a linen wrap. That's usually done by hand, and takes a lot more time than dry-mounting a photo onto foam core.

It's also not a custon of the American armed forces to present these things framed. It's just not an American aesthetic for press releases and such. We tend toward clean lines and lack of competing backgrounds for those purposes.

Which brings me around to my main point, which is that we can be SURE that there are Shiites who would consider a photo of Zarqawi's corpse to be a work of art, one which was worth taking the frame off another pre-existing piece. It could have been hanging in a government office, or in a former Saddam palace.

I think it was either done by an Iraqi, or done for an Iraqi sensibility.

[hellinahandcart]

This guy sure spends a lot of time pondering implications and looking for portents.

Sometimes a frame is just a frame. I should know, I've put together enough of 'em.

[MozarkDawg]

Virtually no one outside the Iraqi insurgency and other jihadists thought his death was a bad thing

Gee, can't understand why that would be ... [/sarc]

[Sisku Hanne]

After I posted, the same thought crossed my mind. After all, it is their country and they were the first on the scene. Framed photos of deceased are no longer common for us, but still quite ordinary in other countries.
They were probably fighting over the "framing honor"!

[MNJohnnie]

Now jonny, you know you said these things yesterday, why change your tune today?

This poster is knowing making up things and claiming I said them. They are doing this because I embarrassed them by pointing out the problem with their rush to convict the Marines on Haditha. They know I did not say any such thing and are making things up to "Get even" with me. I asked them to stop this behavior and they are continuing it. I think they need a couple day vacation to teach them proper Freeper behavior.

[wtc911]

Funny, coming from you. You posted multiple lies about what I post. I called you on it and challenged you to prove even one of your lies. I offered to quit FR forever if you could. You didn't and you can't. Now, with the shoe on the other foot you cry and whine to mommy....

Sucks when freepers lie about you, doesn't it.

[RichInOC]

Gulbuth the Rampant: "Warm up the Zarkman."

[Admin Moderator]

Call a truce and knock if off!

[Billthedrill]

Thanks for the ping. If you take a look at that briefing, all of the easel presentations were framed - the photographs, the areal views, the maps, all of them. You get that sort of thing when your presenter is a Major General.

It is a little astounding how far certain members of the press will stretch to find wrongdoing on the part of people who are actually working on their behalf. But there's nothing wrong with biting the hand that feeds you if that hand can't ever hit back.

[One4Indictment]

It makes me wonder if they are flying flags at half-staff at ABC, NBC, ABC and CNN headquarters.