{"id":1636,"date":"2003-08-20T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T05:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/compassion\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:29:08","slug":"compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks suspiciously like Bush&#8217;s definition of &#8216;compassion&#8217; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\/News\/photoalbum.aspx?gallery=29\" title=\"George W. Bush: Photo Album: Compassion\">hanging out with minorities<\/a>, as it&#8217;s something conspicuously absent in the rest of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\/News\/PhotoAlbum.aspx\" title=\"George W. Bush: Photo Album\">photo album<\/a>. As Lis pointed out first in Daily Kos&#8217; comment thread, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osmond-riba.org\/lis\/journal\/2003_08_17_j_archive.htm#106142241018275047\" title=\"In Bush's Dictionary, Compasion = Color\">on her journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Looking at further photo albums on the site makes it more clear how anomalous the Compassion section is.<\/p>\n<p>  But the only non-whites in 15 Homeland Security images and 16 National Security are Powell and Rice, and I think there&#8217;s one African American park ranger off to the side in one photo of the 16 on the Environment.<\/p>\n<p>  In contrast, of 20 photos illustrating Compassion, 17 prominently show non-Caucasians; the other three are solo photos of Bush, but two of those are before the National Urban League and in front a map of Africa.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/003882.html#003882\" title=\"What 'compassion' means to Bush\">Kos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esoterically.net\/log\/archives\/000871.html\" title=\"Esoterically.net: Hypocrite\">Len<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_08_17_atrios_archive.html#106141825951190619\" title=\"Creepy\">Atrios<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks suspiciously like Bush&#8217;s definition of &#8216;compassion&#8217; is hanging out with minorities, as it&#8217;s something conspicuously absent in the rest of his photo album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}