The screen grab of Sunday's edition of the New York Times, with what appears to be a heavily Photoshop'd (TM) 'deification' of the current president:
"Now consider the Times' choice of imagery to accompany the article.
"Let's review the central attributes of the photograph:
*Obama, in what has become a tradition for the media, is deified with lighting that resembles a halo (ever recall the use of similar lighting for George W. Bush?)
*Deification is further emphasized through the use of a cross watermark, courtesy of a mosaic filter
*The focus, however, is on Obama's single upraised finger, the digit pointing towards the heavens, as if to say "I am the one that can save us, as it was foretold by the ancients." Or something.
*The White House, a tiny, nearly transparent reflection, is located below the President; it seemingly says that the man is bigger than the office. He is more real. He is more important. He is the One.
Of course, in real life, Barack Obama appears to be little more than a cigarette-puffing Chicago pol, trained in the Alinsky school, whose doctor recently requested cut down on his drinking."
