From: MICHAEL SPITZER 
Subject: IUFO: [This is WILD!] WP: Bush's mystery photos?
Date: 28 Dec 2000 21:52:14 -0500
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[This is WILD...straight out of The Twilight Zone!  You *MUST* go
to the this URL to see these pictures.  You won't be sorry you
did!  THEY WERE TAKEN ON DIFFERENT DAYS!!  --MS]


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52767-2000Dec26.html


'Machine' Politician Exposed By Photos

President-elect Bush named top advisers Condoleezza Rice and
Alberto R. Gonzalez at the governor's mansion in Austin on Dec.
17. (J. Scott Applewhite - AP)
 
By Gene Weingarten
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 27, 2000; Page C01 


First, don't panic. There is probably a good explanation for the
mystery of the photographs, something that does not threaten the
enslavement and/or extermination of mankind.

There has to be a benign explanation. I just haven't found it
yet.

The first photograph appeared in The Washington Post on Dec. 18.
In it, the president-elect stands behind and to the side of
Condoleezza Rice, his nominee for national security adviser.
George W. Bush is slightly out of focus. His head is cocked to
the left and tilted slightly backward, his mouth downturned in a
perfect cartoonish crescent, the way a first-grader might draw a
frown. His eyes are squinty.

The next photograph appeared in this paper two days later. In it,
the president-elect stands behind and to the side of Alberto R.
Gonzalez, his choice for White House counsel. George W. Bush is
slightly out of focus. His head is cocked to the left and tilted
slightly backward, his mouth downturned in a perfect, cartoonish
crescent, the way a first-grader might draw a frown. His eyes are
squinty.

It is not a similar pose; it is an identical pose. It is not a
similar expression; it is the identical expression.

Both photos were sent to me via e-mail by Post reader Adam
Shannon, and at first I suspected chicanery: that as a joke,
Shannon had altered one or both of them in a Photoshop process.
But no, Post archives confirmed that both had been published.

Then the third photo appeared in The Post two days later:

The president-elect stands behind and to the side of Ann Veneman,
his nominee for agriculture secretary. George W. Bush is slightly
out of focus. His head is cocked to the left and tilted slightly
backward, his mouth downturned in a perfect cartoonish crescent,
the way a first-grader might draw a frown. His eyes are squinty.

Identical. Different tie, identical pose.

Now I suspected chicanery of a different sort. Could The Post
have violated its own hallowed standards for accuracy by ginning
up these photos from old stock, to cover for lazy or drunken
photographers who missed their assignments? Or something?

Then the fourth photo appeared. This was in the Philadelphia
Inquirer. Bush, with his new EPA chief, Christine Todd Whitman.
Cocked head. Backward tilt. Crescent frown. Squint.

Then, The Baltimore Sun. The New York Times. The Washington
Times. Bush, with his nominee for treasury secretary, Paul
O'Neill. Squints! Frowns! First-graders! Tilt!

Then, El Nuevo Herald in Miami. ¡Ceños! ¡Cortaduras!
¡Estrabismos! ¡Cabezas inclinadas!

I felt I was losing my mind.

Adopting a background pose of requisite gravity is evidently a
tricky thing for a new president: In 1993, when Bill Clinton had
to appear beside his new nominees, this very newspaper commented
how similar the president-elect looked in the photographs: It was
the birth of his famed lip-bite pose. But those photos were
fraternal twins of each other. These new ones are clones. What
could explain this?

It occurred to me that it might not be Bush in these photos at
all. The president-elect is a busy man these days, forced by
circumstance to collapse his interregnum into a few weeks.
Perhaps he hasn't the time to attend all these ceremonial events.
Perhaps what we are seeing is a stand-in, one of those cardboard
cutouts you can pose with on the street around the White House.

I telephoned J. Scott Applewhite, the Associated Press
photographer who took that first excellent picture of Bush and
Condoleezza Rice. Is it possible, I asked him respectfully, that
he was fooled by a cardboard cutout?

"A cardboard cutout?"

Yes, I said hopefully.

"It was Bush," he said.

You sure?

"I am absolutely certain. Otherwise, I wouldn't have said it was
Bush in my caption."

Hm.

I asked: How is your eyesight?


Silence.


"It does the job," he said, a little stiffly.


I admit I was pressing, but I was desperate. The only alternative
scenario I had was the one I did not wish to visit.

Adam Shannon, the Washington communications consultant who first
brought this matter to my attention, had a theory of his own: The
Bush we know, the Bush we see, the Bush at the debates, the Bush
on the campaign trail, the Bush we elected, the Bush whom J.
Scott Applewhite and others have been photographing, is "an
animatronic robot."

A machine?

"It's a fusion of a servo-motorized biofidelic shell and a
sophisticated artificial intelligence module," Shannon theorizes.

What we are seeing in these photos, he postulates, is "a machine
that has defaulted into standby mode." At a press conference in
which attention is directed elsewhere, he said, the robot would
"go into a temporary shutdown state in which it assumes a
preprogrammed pose while waiting its turn to reactivate and begin
speaking."

Let's follow this through to its logical conclusion. The most
powerful human on Earth is not a human at all but a machine under
the control of an unknown master with technological skills far
beyond ours, programmed to carry out God-knows-what for the
benefit of God-knows-who at the expense of
you-know-very-well-who?

Oh, man.

Desperate for an alternative explanation, I went to our photo
files, and found a picture of George W. Bush at around age 7,
holding his baby brother Jeb. If you look at this picture just
right, you can see the hint of the same downturned mouth, the
same squint.

What could this mean?

I brought this new evidence to Shannon.

"Can you authenticate the age of this supposedly old photo?" he
demanded.

Well, no.

"See, if you were going to create an animatronic robot to run for
president, you would have to go back and establish a documentary
childhood. So you would have to build and photograph Mini-Me's.
This is probably a Mini-Me. Same default posture."

Oh, man.

© 2000 The Washington Post Company


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