Time to get a new propaganda minister...

[mbarrick]

I saw this picture on the cover of the Globe and Mail today:



and immediately thought of this one:



...noting that Bush is in the position of Stalin. Probably not the association he was going for.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Probably not the association he was going for.

you are just incredily stupid
first, you say it reminded you of the latter picture
then, you claim it is bush who is going for it
when it is clearly YOU who thought about it in the first place
as usual, typical liberal deluded thinking
you'll win but right now, a big FUCK YOU to you and your comrades

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

This comment is a fine example why most people don't know their history. It requires reading with comprehension.

[agentdanak.livejournal.com]

anonymous posting annoys me. this person argues what was an honest comparison (and yes, it seems to me the new photo was put together to conjure up such thoughts), and then is not even brave enough to post who he/she is.

started out as a ballsy move, maybe, then went flat. *shrug*

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I don't like to turn them completely off (I screen them by default, though). There are some people that read my journal that don't have LJ accounts that I don't want to exclude from commenting, but on the flip side having it on opens the door to spam-bots and frothing illiterates.

I'm no fan of Bush, that's to be certain, but the twit can't even see that in the post I'm criticising the creators of the backdrop in the post, not the smug nitwit in front of it. Bush obviously wanted to create a friendly impression but putting himself in that position is going to conjure up the picture of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in Terhan to those that know it, and to put himself in the place of Mackenzie King is hardly respectful of Canada's soveriegnty and history.

The man didn't even know who the prime minister of Canada was (http://www.dewit.ca/archs/poutine/) when he was running for president in 2000. Now he's relying on staff that are ignorantly sending the wrong message, and he is sitting there looking smug thinking his staff are making him look knowledgable. It's really pathetic.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Heh. On a second look I need to retact some of that. King is still in the picture, it's just the angle of the photograph that has Bush blocking him. From any other angle this wouldn't have happened. It doesn't change that the Tehran picture was the first thing that popped into my head. It ran on the cover of a national newspaper and subverts the image Bush was going for, and that amused me.

[agentdanak.livejournal.com]

see, i didn't know all of the background myself (but i readily admit my lack of knowledge on this type of thing to begin with).

i also try not to make really dippy comments though, hence most people don't realize what i don't know.

bush has a pretty good track record of not looking good, especially to other countries, and i cannot say that i think he's doing to well in the eyes of most of his own country either. so this type of thing (the photo) seems normal enough to me.

so, yeah.

*so tired, i need about three days' sleep*

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

what kind of a coward posts insults anonymously??? a very little man indeed...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Going by the way my post was misread, the fourth-grade English in the reply, and the traceroute on the IP the answer is: a semi-literate dumbass with from Queens.

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

hmmm...makes you wonder how he came across it...

[contrasoma.livejournal.com]

Supposedly he's actually covering up Mackenzie King in the photo. Which is tackier? I've no clue.

Gotta love the whole "Canada wasn't attacked at home before World War II so why won't you join the war on terrah in Iraq?" line, considering Canada signed up for "the last good war" yonks before the US. As a co-worker pointed out today, "ask Chimpy when World War II started and I'll bet you'd get and interesting answer."

Yes.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

This is the photograph being used. It's a less famous one since it is less published in history books, but yes, which is worse: evoking one of the worst totalitarian leaders in history, or evoking Manifest Destiny? Either way it's not making him any new friends.

Re: Yes.

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Just looking at it again, it seems that King is in the backdrop and it is just the angle the Globe and Mail photographer took the picture from that has him blocked out by Bush.

laughs*

[glittereclipse.livejournal.com]

nice one......i love the random revelence you find in everything lol

Re: laughs*

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

In this case it really is just an accidental association. Nonetheless, it was the first thing that popped into my head walking past the newspaper boxes on the way to work. It says more about the vast clutter in my head than anything else.