Does the L.A. Times think the country is going to hell now that John Roberts has been confirmed? You be the judge. Here is today’s front page (I am not making this up):
P.S. Okay, the photo is of brush fires in the Los Angeles area, and yes, there is a story about the fires under the picture. I don’t care; it’s still a funny juxtaposition.
(Thanks to Bill from INDC and Xrlq for technical help.)
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It is just a news photo of the Hollywood liberal lefties blowing smoke up each others a– when their heads exploded. I like it!
Comment by Ray (75a3b5) — 9/30/2005 @ 8:30 pm
Oh jeez Patterico, this is too rich. John Roberts is Mad Max!
I thought I saw a resemblance.
Comment by ras (f9de13) — 9/30/2005 @ 8:38 pm
Is Roberts the road to perdition?
Or will it be W’s next nominee?
Comment by Flap (cc77c4) — 9/30/2005 @ 8:47 pm
By their front-page composition
… ye shall know them.
Trackback by BeldarBlog (af7df9) — 9/30/2005 @ 11:27 pm
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Pingback by :: Political Musings :: » A Front Page Picture is Worth…? (1cefe9) — 10/1/2005 @ 6:22 am
Every Picture Tells a Story, Don’t It
Patterico looks at the L.A. Times.
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Trackback by The Politburo Diktat (4aa448) — 10/1/2005 @ 7:05 am
Just the front page editor being cute. File under “hack having a laugh.”
Comment by Dimitri Rotov (0b20d3) — 10/1/2005 @ 7:38 am
Classic. Thanks for posting it. I really appreciate you reading the Dog Trainer so I don’t have to.
Comment by Regret (27245e) — 10/1/2005 @ 8:03 am
Yep. This pictures California liberalheads spontaneously combusting when confronted with the exceptional reason of Chief Justice Roberts. “Data does not compute… Judges must have kitchen scrap compost piles!… Ah the pain!…” Boom.
Comment by Shredstar (532850) — 10/1/2005 @ 8:31 am
I could swear I’ve seen this scene before. Are you sure the LAT didn’t just clip and paste one of the battle scenes in Lord of the Rings?
Comment by lawhawk (645d89) — 10/1/2005 @ 8:55 am
Funny juxtapositions aside, the Times was actually uncharacteristically sensible on this issue.
Comment by Xrlq (428dfd) — 10/1/2005 @ 10:04 am
This reminds me of a Rush Limbaugh parody commercial, in which a fake lefty organization accuses John Roberts and Karl Rove of dynamiting the levees in New Orleans. The brush fire was started by John Roberts!
Comment by mcg (82ae3c) — 10/1/2005 @ 10:32 am
The editorial page was. But they ran plenty of articles on the news pages that slanted his record.
I agree with Dmitri, though. It’s just the editors being cute.
Comment by Patterico (4e4b70) — 10/1/2005 @ 10:34 am
Does the L.A. Times have a non-editorial page?
Comment by Xrlq (428dfd) — 10/1/2005 @ 12:13 pm
Good point.
Comment by Patterico (4e4b70) — 10/1/2005 @ 12:44 pm
Is it possible that y’all are giving the editors of the Los Angeles Times too much credit for cleverness? After all, they haven’t struck me as particularly brilliant in anything else.
Comment by Dana R. Pico (a071ac) — 10/1/2005 @ 3:12 pm
This reminds me of the classic juxtaposition of a headline about Richard Nixon with a photo of a baby chimpanzee. I’ll have to add this one to my collection of how not to lay out your front page.
Comment by bryan (bf1f32) — 10/1/2005 @ 6:50 pm
I DO hope no one really thinks this is “accidental.” The layout of the front page, above the fold of the LA Times gets every bit as much scrutiny as who’s gonna be on the cover of the SI Swimsuit edition.
There are no “accidents.”
Comment by DigSauce (263854) — 10/2/2005 @ 4:05 pm
It actually is quite poetic since there has been a cloud over the Republicans lately.
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