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| The “We” Apparently Doesn’t Include Bush: NY Times Crops George And Laura Bush Out Of Selma Pic | |
| 2015-03-09 | |
| I suspect the cropping was done as much to keep The One, Cummings, and Chewbacca recognizably in the center. 50th anniversary and all that. Looking at photos of the 60's shows far more whites then than now marching in the parade. Doubt this is anything but an "invitation" thing, but it conveniently maintains the narrative.
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| Posted by:Hupineger Glomomp52169 |
| #15 ah yes but Yezov was to the right of Stalin... |
| Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2015-03-09 21:56 |
| #14 From an artistic point of view, there is justification for the tighter crop; it does make for a better photo and you can more easily see the individual Selma marchers around the president. Had the NYT gone with that, they'd have been believable. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-03-09 17:11 |
| #13 Shades of 'The Commissar Vanishes". |
| Posted by: borgboy 2015-03-09 16:41 |
| #12 The following quote from a NYT photog comes from a "Politico" article: "“Just so you know, President Bush was not cropped out, he was not in that frame because he was so far to our right,” photographer Doug Mills wrote in an email to POLITICO." http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/george-w-bush-not-cropped-selma-nytimes-115896.html But to be fair Trotsky (ahem, and I should know)was to the right of the Times....... |
| Posted by: Otto Trotsky4445 2015-03-09 15:12 |
| #11 The left is following the procedures that their heroes, Stalin, Mao, perfected. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-03-09 13:35 |
| #10 Updates: NY Times: NY Times: “We Didn’t Crop” Bush Out Of Selma Picture… And the gift that keeps on giving: DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz Scrubs Bush From “Powerful And Moving Image” Of Obama At Selma Event… |
| Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-09 13:09 |
| #9 Headline fixed. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-03-09 12:02 |
| #8 SteveS: Bush's hiring policies seemed to reflect King's dream. The hirees' skin color was immaterial, but their character (and competence as well) were vital. |
| Posted by: Korora 2015-03-09 10:16 |
| #7 Doesn't fit the radical left's narrative of history. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-03-09 07:49 |
| #6 The NYT still has Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize on display; he was Stalin's apologist. Evidently they still have Duranty's photo editor around, too. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-03-09 07:28 |
| #5 Winston County, Alabama politics today, same as then. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-03-09 04:58 |
| #4 A third conveniently forgotten fact: A Federal District Judge name Frank Johnson, a republican appointed by republican President Dwight Eisenhower, had issued a temporary restraining order forbidding the march until a hearing on the State suit could be convened. Marchers defied the restraining order. Had the marchers complied with Johnson's restraining order, there was little doubt they could have soon marched in peace. Judge Johnson was from Winston County, Alabama. Winston county was a republican, anti-slave enclave during the civil war. Johnson was wounded twice in combat in WWII. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-03-09 04:52 |
| #3 Two conveniently forgotten facts: One: ALL of the leadership in Alabama at the time of Selma was Democratic. Two: The vast majority of Americans at that time were outraged at what they saw and supported the civil rights movement. I doubt if MLK would even shake hands with either Cummings, Holder, or youknowwho. |
| Posted by: Mystic 2015-03-09 01:03 |
| #2 I wonder if Martin Luther King would have anything to do with these people? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2015-03-09 00:58 |
| #1 True Soviet style memory hole at work. Anyone mention Bull Connor was a Donk as well? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-03-09 00:16 |