Stephen Quint and the ZOMBIE MIKADO

A picture equals a thousand words, not all of them real

I laughed out loud and spewed Cheerios this morning when I saw this doctored photo of John McCain in MY WIFE'S NEWSPAPER OF CHOICE, the London-tabloid-quality NY Post. Atlantic Monthly photographer Jill Greenberg was assigned by her magazine to get a McCain photo that would "make him look heroic." Greenberg had her own non-professional agenda, lit him from below, (McCain's people assumed she knew what she was doing - unfortunately they were right), and while this vampire photo only made it on to her website (note that photographers are frequently visual types who don't spell), this, apparently, is the "heroic" shot Atlantic used:

Yipes! Can this campaign please be over?

PALIN: PIG IN POKE

Stop it, Barack, you're killing me! Today this master of mirth was talking about the usual - how McCain SAYS he's about change whereas Obama is REALLY about change. He used the vaguely amusing old adage "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig." Of course if you've heard one idiotic Sarah Palin sound byte the last couple of weeks it's her crack about lipstick on hockey moms and pit bulls. Obama actually went on to say “You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it’s still going to stink after 8 years." Palin is a pig and McCain is a smelly old fish, no doubt, but gee whiz, sometimes you shouldn't call a spade a spade, or should you?