LOL! You picked up on that photo. Here's more to dry-heave on.
Oh no, that photographer certainly didn’t frame THAT picture to look like some sort of 21st-century liberal Eastern Orthodox icongraphy. Nope. Not intentional at all. Barf.
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LOL! You picked up on that photo. Here's more to dry-heave on.
I loved Steve Widom's comments on this over at Vic Niederhoffer's blog:
At lunch today, the semiologists in our office were puzzling over this photo, the centerpiece of a multi-page Obama hagiography in the current issue of New York Magazine (a glossy lifestyle-porn publication for affluent suburbanites).
The obvious religious tonality — "Obama Transfigured Before His Disciples" — must be intentional. The triptych format; the halo of light above him; his elevated position; his posture; his disciples gazing upward, hands clasped prayerfully.
But why? Is it just standard-issue media ridicule of Christianity, timed for publication around Easter, or is there a subliminal message?
NB the disciple seated on the right (yes, the Palindrome) — Judas, are we to think? Or Doubting Thomas? Poised to de-fund unless he sees "proof" in the early primaries?
http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?p=1373