See, the worm is turning. 

Less than two years ago, we kept seeing pictures like this and this and this.  Here‘s a little collection of them.

Eww. I like him much better in a skirt.

I’d never seen the one with the cross and...is that a crown at the top? Those pictures are just creepy. And to think our esteemed corporate media thought they were appropriate. 

It was astonishing to me at the time, and it’s still shocking.  On the page from which I grabbed the three .jpg files, the caption for the first of them reads:

Charles Dharapak, photographer for the AP, insists on “deifying” Bush in his photos. The photograph on the left captures the President speaking under a halo at the dedication of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship’s Youth Education Center in Dallas, Texas, 10/29/03.

So it was a conscious choice by the photographer, not some random accident.  Of course, it’s bigger than that.  Not only did the photographer shoot him that way, the webmaster and editor (and who knows how many more layers of administrative approval) had to sign off on displaying that particular photo on their website and/or in their reports.

As, of course, did the photographer, webmaster, and editors who now think Dubya looks good in a skirt.  As I said earlier, the worm may be turning.

At least one of the halo photos ran in the New York Times, too.

I hope the worm is turning. But the media are nothing if not opportunists. They stick their fingers in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. There must be some fascinating talk going on within the journalism ranks, what with the Plame thing heating up again and two of their own about to be tossed in the slammer. They might be smelling some blood in the water.

Of course, that doesn’t solve the problem of the media. They are still opportunists.

... and a dosey doe (sp?) we go ... 

LOL! Something tells me that wasn’t the look he was going for. 

Believe it or not, I once square-danced weekly during my freshman year at U of A (hey, she was pretty!).  I think the spelling is do-si-do, Lynn.

I stand corrected Linkmeister, ... and thanks, I really didn’t know how to spell it, but i guess you got the jist anyway.