This really is a pretty bad picture, isn’t it?
I didn’t really take a look at it before, but Ann Althouse, Little Miss Attila, and Protein Wisdom Pub are all correct: that’s just a lousy photo. It looks better in smaller versions, for reasons which I’m sure are immediately obvious to professional photographers – but in the full-size version it looks like somebody dipped it in nicotine oil.
The weirdest part? This must have been the best picture, too.
Odd.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
(Via Drudge) I can actually understand this:
The $328,835 snapshots of an Air Force One backup plane buzzing lower Manhattan last week will not be shown to the public, the White House said yesterday.
“We have no plans to release them,” an aide to President Obama told The Post, refusing to comment further.
People running in terror from our own airplanes don’t really photograph well.
Crossposted to RedState.
That’s the thought that Little Miss Attila’s postulating, at least. I’m not what you’d call convinced, but I am hearing rumors (which, to be fair, are being denied [H/T: Instapundit]) that there were campaign contributors on-board. Which is, unfortunately, the sort of boneheaded move that I’ve already come to expect from this administration*, although in this case I’d really like to be proven wrong.
So I don’t think that there’s any harm in re-releasing the President’s schedule for Monday, as well as the flight records for that particular trip. Just to clear things up.
Moe Lane
PS: And, oh yes: the photos. The damned things cost us $329,000 to take, so let’s see them.
*Note, I do not say ‘this President.’ This time.
Crossposted to RedState.
