A picture tells 1,000 words, so let's play fair

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A humble alternative

In the Portland Press Herald today there is another not-so-subtle example of how the Democratic-falling, er, leaning, newspaper attempts to sway voters.

Editors used a mugshot of Gov. LePage in which he looks, well, peeved, accompanying a story about how the ACLU threw some cold water on one of his proposals.

You know, the same ACLU that said panhandling is a protected form of free speech and forced Portland and Rochester to either amend or rescind their ordinances, which by the way, were working.

Now we know for a fact the Portland Press Herald has hundreds of images of a smiling LePage, a concerned LePage, an angry LePage, but they keep using this same picture of a “peeved” LePage, just to make the governor look petty.

I wouldn’t doubt it if every time editors use the “peeved” LePage pik, they get entered in a drawing for a Rockport weekend at the Samoset.

The picture in question was probably generated by a reporter who asked the gov some goofy question that was so stupid, so inane, he reacted the same way you or I would.

Then the photog went back and proudly showed it to his editors who said, “That’s gold, Jerry.” (Remember the Seinfeld episode?)

For their efforts the reporter and photog probably also got entered in the Samoset drawing.

For the benefit of any fair-minded journalism I’ve provided this mugshot of the gov the paper can intersperse with the “favorites” of the newspaper brain trust. Editors may use it anytime free of charge.