Mr. Rainy Face

Slate notices that as President Bush's travails in offce have mounted, his stippled Wall Street Journal portrait has grown more sullen.

Comments

Brian Sorgatz | October 15, 2007, 11:18am | #

President Dorian Gray.

The Extispicator | October 15, 2007, 12:06pm | #

I don't care who you are. That's funny.

ed | October 15, 2007, 12:11pm | #

That's not sullen. That's pensive.

Dan T. | October 15, 2007, 12:34pm | #

It would be an interesting experiement to give a random group of readers the same newspaper article about Bush but with different versions of the portrait.

I wonder if people who read the story with the "smiling George" would say it was more favorable to Bush than those who read it with the frowning version?

Jay D | October 15, 2007, 1:00pm | #

:-(

Warren | October 15, 2007, 1:09pm | #

A very hopeful trend. With luck, in a few months his portrait will include a string of numbers underneath.

TrickyVic | October 15, 2007, 1:52pm | #

1. I'm fooling the American public.
2. I think the American public is catching on.
3. I can't fool many of them anymore.

BakedPenguin | October 15, 2007, 3:49pm | #

Dan, at this point, I think he could be smiling like Martha Raye and it wouldn't do any good.

squarooticus | October 15, 2007, 5:51pm | #

TrickyVic:

I believe it's actually:

3. Can't be fooled again.