Teletubby Kerry Photos "Dirty Tricks"?

The Drudge Report is quoting the Kerry campaign as being quite peeved about some photos of the candidate which appeared on the internet yesterday. In them, the candidate is shown wearing a bio-hazzard suit at a NASA facility and, frankly, looking like a Teletubby! They claim that that pictures were taken without the candidates knowledge, and that the campaign was not informed about them either. "Dirty tricks!" They claim. "This is just an attempt to smear the candidate a few days before the big speech."



Now, I am actually one who enjoys taking candid photos of people. The one thing you learn quickly is that people do not tend to be smiling, comfortable looking, and looking right into the camera in candid photographs. You might get one of the three, but not usually all three. In the photo above, it can be argued but if you click on the link to Drudge's original story, these are obviously posed, photo-op pictures. Therefore, the candidate obviously knew about these, and thus his campaign should have, too.



And of course, I should note that is the campaign manager had not made a big deal about these photos, I would not be posting them here, and neither would millions of other BLoggers. Good job, man. If you had ignored these, they might have neem forgotten in a week. But now they have a chance to be Mr. Kerry's Dukakis-in-a-tank picture that will haunt the candidate thru the whole campaign.