Sunday, May 11, 2008

Happy Mother's Day

A brief glimpse of lean in the early seconds of this conversation on Meet The Press:



Did Dodd's comment signal a departure so drastic that Russert was unable to avoid becoming momentarily bent, askew, jarred, to the point of silence, eyes adjusting to the parallax? Was the effect intentional? subliminal? Where, indeed, can we locate the meaning of motherhood within this exchange? What is at stake when Russert simply chooses to turn his eyes downward, towards the material comfort of his papers?

The other 6 minutes 45 seconds with Dodd (on Obama) are also interesting, while the rest of the show (scroll down at video.msnbc.com) features a severely
leaned
Terry Mcauliffe struggling to compensate for the Clinton campaign's most recent (and ongoing) disasters, during which Russert seems to shed stunned moments of silence for hardball political journalism.

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