And no one took The Picture

[Rose Siding]

At the end of a piece about how anxious the White House is to put Katrina behind them, Newsweek's Richard Wolffe reports -

...At his final stop in the city, Bush visited the Musicians Village in the Ninth Ward—a row of new houses built by Habitat for Humanity for artists and musicians to return to New Orleans. Painted in bright colors, the development is a hopeful spot in what remains a largely devastated neighborhood, full of abandoned houses and large piles of debris.

There was a photo taken of that:



and this-

A little while later, reporters were taken into one of the new homes under construction in Musicians Village. There, the president and First Lady Laura Bush were taking in an impromptu concert by local blues musician J.D. Hill, owner of the new home. At one point, Bush grabbed a TV camera and filmed an NBC cameraman dancing to the music with a tambourine, prompting laughter from both reporters and White House aides on the scene.

And, of course this one-

Later, Bush helped Hill unfurl a new American flag to hang outside his house—the kind of progress that Bush often talks about when he speaks of the rebuilding of New Orleans.

There were photographers and reporters and even TV cameras, so please, explain to me why it is that no one bothered to capture this evocative tableau?-

Yet across the street was a different form of reality: a family sitting on the porch of their gutted house taking in the scene. On their fence was a protest banner, noting their lack of water and electricity. Another seemed to be a message specifically for Bush: “Make Levees Not War.”

Right across the street. I can't find that shot anywhere. Did Bush see them? Did he wave? Or speak? Maybe he can only see people whose circumstances make him look good.

[Straight Shooter]

1. Gawd, it just kills me to see blacks sucking up to that criminal.

:(

[katinmn]

9. Bush isn't above bringing in props

remember the girls from Jamaica?

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Yep, a peachy keeno world He lives in.

[pepperbear]

3. H4H isn't federally funded is it?

if it isn't, then dubya didn't have anything to do with those homes being built. wait, maybe this is one of the homes he helped nail together for a photo op right after Katrina.

[glitch]

4. Was there much jocular farting?

Despicable propaganda.

[Anakin Skywalker]

5. "This My New Girlfriend...

Take that, Laura!"

[whistle]

6. Why is Bush photo-oping at these sites, he did not do one thing

...for Habitat for Humanity and I don't believe that FEMA did either

[Rose Siding]

8. I don't know. I should mention that photogs have done some

amazing and emotionally expensive work in NO. I don't mean to denegrate that.

These shots were just what I could pull from Yahoo, but if Bush had been caught in a pic near those folks I believe it would have made the nationals before now.

[babylonsister]

11. Wasn't he at a HfH home when he got that photo-op w/a hammer

and then left?

[Rex]

7. Oh man...what a load of horseshit.

Playing Emperor DinkyTinky off the field... :eyes:

So in that last picture...is that Pickles laughing at the house across the street? No electricity or running water and just laughing it the fuck up. Fucking losers. First Family of Losers.

[speedoo]

10. J. D. Hill goes on my shit list.

How can that fucking whore wave a flag and pose with this criminal while his brothers and sisters suffer across the street?

I thought all blues musicians had soul. Obviously I was wrong.

[Straight Shooter]

13. Hill says, "Let them eat flag." ...................n/t

[Jazz2006]

12. Is that who Hill is waving to?

Pathetic.