I read it here. Several times. Don't know where the threads are. Maybe someone can help...
I read the piece but lost the link. Photographers were twisting themselves into pretzels to make absolutely sure that in every photograph of Ashcroft they made sure they got the breasts of the statue in the background, like teen boys on the school newspaper pulling one over on the principal or something, yukking it up after school with the homeboys----"HAHAA-----we got the naked titties in the picture with Ashcroft!!! HAHAHA!!!!" I mean, it was something right out of "Animal House" or one of those brain-dead, lowest-common-denominator teen movies. Obviously there was no need to photograph JANET RENO with some other woman's naked breasts in the same picture with her---nothing new or novel there. What would the big deal be?
The only responsible thing the new adults in Washington now could do was put a curtain back-drop up for the photography sessions because they couldn't exactly tell the cameramen what angles to take pictures from, nor could they expect or suggest that these "journalists" act like mature professionals and cut the crap. Ashcroft was too tempting of a target---to tweak this man of the religious right by picturing him with the naked breasts of a woman in the same frame....what a hoot!!! (to a 13 year old or equivalent, I mean.)