Digby: Little Lord Pontchartrain

This story about Bush using firefighters as props should be circulated far and wide. I think it is the perfect symbol of the photo-op presidency.



I would like to see it juxtaposed with another one:




Karl Rove believes that politics is TV with the sound turned off. And that's mostly true. What he fails to understand is that people turn the sound way up during big stories like this.