When
life presents lemons that can be converted, not to lemonade but to Olympian
nectar, it would be sinful to waste the opportunity. A recent issue of Washingtonian
Mom ran a cover story on D.C. power couple, Jay Carney, his wife Claire
Shipman and their two, sweet children. Very staged, very sweet. So
saccharine is the portrait, in fact, that the piece (accompanied by comically
falsified photographs) could induce Diabetes in a corpse.
But
[what about the] Soviet propaganda poster in the background, a Communist riff
on “Uncle Sam Wants You!”…... How many foreign correspondents in Berlin in the
1930s…brought home Nazi propaganda posters and raised their children among
them?”……Suffice it to say that the wizards at Washingtonian Mom thought
sparse book shelves behind Carney and Shipman weren’t sufficiently loaded to
represent how smart they thought readers should find them. So they photo
shopped existing books, no fewer than a dozen times…..‘That’s about right,’
quipped a woman from Concord who said her name was Judith. ‘Phony books, phony
answers, phony White House. Anyone surprised?’ Her husband…pointed to a
book…‘Does that say Soviet Architecture?’ he asked. ‘It does,’ doesn’t
it?’” It did…..To Read More….
No comments:
Post a Comment