Look, look, look; a lefty blogger gets it totally wrong.
The wingnut says: "There were more than 35,000 pictures of FDR taken. Two show him in a wheelchair. Why? Because the press almost unanimously agreed that — despite the huge news value — depicting FDR as a cripple would be bad for the war effort."
The comrade points out that the "war effort" began about nine years after the 1932 election, which would have been the time. But the wingnut is right that there was a decision by Old Fashioned Big Media to give FDR a pass; OTBM had cast their vote.
And of course, by 1941, I don't think it would have mattered as the populace was so pro-war, a wheelchair-confined president wouldn't have been too significant.
But the wingnut's essential point was not refuted which was: once upon a time, Big Media gave liberals a pass so it's OK now.
But you know, while we're going all historical, maybe it wasn't just a pass for political reasons but a non-visual oriented media just thought it would have been gratuitously rude... people once had manners in this country....
Okay; so the lefty isn't completely wrong... I did what I could....
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