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Subject: [Leica] How To Photograph a Politician's Mistress
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:07:47 -0700
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She's completely out of her depth. Not too surprising, most manipulators 
hardly ever see when they are out manipulated themselves. I suspect she 
though that this was a PR thing for her, whereas GQ was merely doing its 
editorial thing, for their own reasons, not hers.
S.d.

On Mar 16, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> George sed:
> 
>> agreeing to a photo shoot for GQ
>> (and signing a Release before the shoot;...
>> sort of negate any potential post-shoot beefs?
> 
> I do agree. The photo I've seen from the GQ shoot looked an awful lot like 
> the video tape. It can't be that she didn't know what they were going to 
> look like - she's on the set, _wearing no pants_ and it's for _GQ_ -- it's 
> not like Jill Greeberg's malicious post-processing of John McCain. I 
> haven't read her complaints, so I'm only speculating, but from what I saw 
> of that video and the final shot, it looks like she knew what was going 
> on. And like someone else pointed out, she's not a political or media 
> novice. And I don't think the photos are unflattering at all. They're not 
> racy, though they are provocative, which is the sad thing -- the 
> connotation of doing a photo shoot like that is specifically to drag the 
> John Edwards affair back into the limelight -- which I expect GQ to do, 
> it's their job -- but I think "No I won't pose with no pants on, thanks 
> for asking" is the appropriate response out of respect for a former lover. 
> 
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