tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post4559084135984354725..comments2023-11-03T06:36:27.305-04:00Comments on Phronesisaical: The Cost of 935 Lieshelmuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09069600766378586919noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-78694997316256777492008-01-27T14:26:00.000-05:002008-01-27T14:26:00.000-05:00Actually, Jacob Weisberg's account, covered by Sco...Actually, Jacob Weisberg's account, covered by Scott Horton at Harpers, is the fourth story written about Bush and his "A Charge To Keep" painting that I am aware of.<BR/><BR/>Sidney Blumenthal did a version in April 2007, for Salon.com, entitled <A HREF="http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/04/26/torture_policy/" REL="nofollow">From Norman Rockwell to Abu Ghraib</A><BR/><BR/>An earlier extended, 3450 word story about Bush and the painting was <A HREF="http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/12/7393/57216" REL="nofollow">Horseshit! Bush and the Christian Cowboy</A>, by Jonathan Hutson, published May 12, 2006, at Talk To Action.<BR/><BR/>But credit for unearthing the actual details of the painting's origin appears to belong to Michael Horner, writing "The Roundup" for Milwaukee World, in a February 23, 2004, piece entitled <A HREF="http://www.milwaukeeworld.com/html/horne/h-040223.php" REL="nofollow">GEORGE W. BUSH, ART CRITIC</A>. Horner concluded the piece with:<BR/><BR/><I>"Leave it to Bush to endow a cowboy painting with religious significance that it may have lacked in its original context.<BR/>The painting was by W.H.D. Koerner (1878-1938), a Texas born painter who began his career at 15 doing illustrations for the Chicago Tribune.<BR/><BR/>The painting’s origin was about as secular and commercial as you can imagine. It was commissioned by the Saturday Evening Post in 1916 to illustrate a fiction piece entitled “The Slipper Tongue.” The same magazine reused it the next year for a story called “Ways that are Dark.” <BR/><BR/>It appeared one final time as a magazine illustration in 1918, appearing under the title “A Charge to Keep.” That time it accompanied a story by the same name by Ben Ames Williams, but not in the Saturday Evening Post. Nope, pardner. The story that time appeared in Country Gentleman."</I>Bruce Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13811407844460630916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-7473995576855812222008-01-25T21:47:00.000-05:002008-01-25T21:47:00.000-05:00Please don't let's pretend that the world hasn't h...Please don't let's pretend that the world hasn't hated the US for decades. I'm certain that I could bring up documented proof that the United States has been the subject of ridicule for almost, if not all of, my entire life (and I'm 39 1/2).jenhargishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03296703012449148875noreply@blogger.com