The Irony Lurking in Bush's Official Portrait (What a Moran) [View all]

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There’s only one problem with that story: As Slate’s Jacob Weisberg wrote in his 2008 book The Bush Tragedy, “that is not the title, message, or meaning of the painting.” Weisberg explains:

The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled "The Slipper Tongue," published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. The illustration depicts the thief fleeing his captors. In the magazine, the illustration bears the caption: "Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught."


http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/05/31/george_w_bush_s_official_portrait_puts_the_president_with_a_charge_to_keep_the_irony_behind_bush_s_misreading_of_the_painting_.html


See post below, this story is not accurate.