As Marx taught, history repeats itself as farce.  Except when it was farce the first time: Bush in military garb, tight at the crotch, striding the decks of the Lincoln under the banner “Mission Accomplished.”  Then it can only repeat itself as a smug, tight-lipped instruction to the Media (and sadly even NPR chimed in)  that they better play what is no more than a Photo Op  as if it were the Second Coming. But not, perhaps, of Jesus.  Something else descended from the clouds on Baghdad.  A picture we are told is worth a thousand words. Or a challenge to words, perhaps, to honor the right side of the brain (the side that thinks poetically in images) by finding a way to offer the left what is known only when stripping away ideological mystifications has become the very way in which one receives “the news of the day.”

Cartoon by Bob Boldt

Text by Walter A. Davis

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