Letters to the Editor
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a report on VT?
Then why do they all look so happy??
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Hooray!
Was there cake and ice cream too??
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I saw that movie...
"The Incredible Shrinking Attorney General"
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WTF?
No kidding... what are they so happy about?
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Red
And they're all wearing red ties, and Spellings has a red (or dark fuschia) blouse on. I guess some things shouldn't have an Oval Office photo op.
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uh..what are they smiling about?
They're presenting a report on the Virginia Tech shootings and they're all smiling like anxious chimpanzees?
Sheesh. These guys really are clueless sometimes.
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What's really funny
Is that they employ the same kind of silly rhetoric and PR stunts as the Dear Leader of Salon's Shiny Happy Free Democratic Marxist People's Public of Hugochavezstan. When your leaders don't really worry about what you think then they revert to set stage agitprop nonsense. Viva La Revolucion!!
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Hey Hey It's The Monkey
I hate to say it but Gonzales looks like a pet monkey in that picture.
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Cheap shot
OK, the photo is weird because they are all smiling about a mass shooting, but Gonzales is no more removed from the grouping in the picture than Spellings is. He's just short. If Salon is reduced to making short jokes about Gonzales, they are more pathetic than he is.
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Marginalized?
I disagree. He is in the photo, after all.
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little fella?
i kinda sorta hope the "little fella" comment was referring to gonzalez' figurative stature... the stereotype of people of Mexican and Central American heritage being short coupled with that comment makes me uncomfortable. also, the larger issue of making a short joke's kinda uncool. you folks are better than that.
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For...
...fuck sakes people. Boo mother fucking hoo. Someone may have or may have not indicated that someone of a certain ethnicity may or may not be tall. These people are smiling while presenting a report concerning a massive loss of life. Somethings just don't need a photo op.
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why smile?
The fake smile is what you do when you get photographed. I was never good at it, so people think I'm "unhappy."
Politicians have to be seen smiling all the time, or all the children will think something is wrong. You're not smiley! I can't vote for you!
But how stupid are you to think you should smile when you are giving/receiving a report about Virginia Tech? The smiles are much more disturbing than the AG's place in the picture. He ain't going nowhere until January, 2009.
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It is wierd, the smiling and all, but....
...I'm far too distracted by that complete "fashion don't" to even think about anything else in that picture.
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I realize it's summer...
But boy has it gotten really stuffy here in the War Room letters section today. Jeez, some of you need to get over yourselves. Heaven forbid anyone should ever have any fun at Bush or Gonzalez' expense...
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The Three Stooges meet Margaret
Margaret, Margaret, Margaret . . .
not a particularly good fashion choice for a muffin-top. Might want to re-think that big bow around your waist.
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Oh please!
Anybody who is so hypersensitive to short jokes and the FACT that Gonzo was born without a neck and looks like a toad frog needs to get off their politically correct high horse.
Alberto IS short. That's a FACT. Alberto has no neck. THAT is a FACT. Alberto is a little stooge who would eat the undigested peanuts out of Bush's feces.
Oh, and he's Hispanic.
So?
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A really happy occasion
They were not the targets!(Unfortunately)
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Cheap shot, 2
It's not that I'm not overly sensitive about short jokes. It's just that it is lame filler for War Room. He is actually not marginalized in the photo, so Tim apparently went with the short joke.
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BTW I saw Margaret Spellings on John Stewart's show
She has class. She's smart and dignified. I can't believe she's a Republican.
I don't care how she dresses. Here's the deal, folks:
Men in power wear pretty much the same variation on one thing: The dark business suit with a mundane necktie. Women in business and politics do not have a similar daily bland outfit for their daily wear. (Except Condo Rice, who would love to wear a grey Chairman Mao suit every day if they would let her.)
Also note, Spellings is taller than the Chimp, the Chimp's chump, and that other tool in the photo.
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Maybe "Anonymous"
needs to educate us--and apparently Tim Grieve in particular--what War Room should REALLY be about. Obviously "fun" and "humor" should never be on the menu. I used to think that we were here making fun of a proto-fascist regime, not apologizing for it. If I wanted to give Bush a shoulder to cry on, I'd be over at Little Green Footballs.
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Suggested caption:
Day Late and a Dollar Short
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stand by what i say...
short jokes are cheap shots... not worthy of this site... and when used to describe someone of mexican descent, inappropriate.
i'll never be accused of not having a sense of humor... i worked at comedy central for 8 years for heaven's sake. i appreciate good humor as much as the next person.
but despite my name (which btw is out there for all to see... i hate it when people hide behind goofy screen names) i am hispanic... and i DO take offense at the connection between short and mexican.
and to top it off, i do not even believe the "little fella" comment even has a conscious connection between "gonzalez" and "mexican" i doubt grieve meant it that way at all... but it's there. i take exception to the breakdown in editing. imho, it should have been caught.
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I agree that it's a cheap shot
I think the letter writers have done a better job than Mr. Grieve of hitting the real issue here. It's weird that they're smiling and doing a photo op about this report. The facts that Gonzo is short and he isn't standing RIGHT NEXT TO the president is meaningless.
It's dumb when the right wing gets all goofy about John Edwards' haircut. This is even dumber.
Who cares if Gonzo is short? Would he be a better AG if he was a foot taller, but did all the same stuff?
Focus on his actions, not physical characteristics.
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Maybe Mr. Comedy
can give us an example of a joke that offends no one. I have a pet chicken who gets really pissed off when people keep bringing up his lame reasons for crossing the road.
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Actually
I think what they're all smiling about is the fact that this is one of those rare red-letter days at the White House where it actually looks like anyone has been doing their job. As opposed to outing covert CIA agents and obstructing justice, or throwing American citizens in jail indefinitely without charges, or taking us to war under false pretenses, or spying on American citizens without a warrant, or standing on an aircraft carrier declaring victory decades too soon, or....