Too easy...

[da]

Both photos are unretouched other than cropping.

The Stephen Harper pic was from yesterday's Globe & Mail, A2.

Comments

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

Yah...but it's not exactly a neutral gesture now, whatever it may have been. You'd think he'd be more careful about that, it does (as DA says) make it way too easy.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

That statement amuses me greatly given your handle. But hell, I'd vote for a politician in favour of masturbation.

Given that your political aspirations, you might not want to answer.. but I'm curious how you found this post?

[kraig.livejournal.com]

The cropping kind of makes it hard to tell, but it looks kind of like ol Harper's up against a wall or a door jamb of some kind, which would make it hard to extend the arm out farther so it looks less like a Nazi salute.

Not that I'll vote Conservative anyway, but fair's fair. :)

I had a grad student (PhD candidate) as a "lecturer" for a couple of my seminars once, Fascism and The Holocaust. She bemoaned the fact that the Nazis made it difficult to wear black and silver: "Society suffers because those bastards had good fashion sense?! It's not fair!"

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

It's not entirely clear from the original either, whether he's in the doorway or outside it. But according to the paper he's coming out of a bus, at a Tim Hortons. :)

[kraig.livejournal.com]

I thought the opening looked vaguely bus door-shaped.