October 23, 2008

• a mccain/fey ticket? say it ain’t so?!

  who knew LIFE magazine could (somewhat) predict the future?!
  (this was taken in september 2004)

  

  here’s what the former managing editor has to say about this four-year-old cover:

  Bill Shapiro writes to Romenesko:
  I’m the former managing editor LIFE (the newspaper supplement version).
  After The Speech last night, I couldn’t help recall our third cover
  featuring McCain and…. Take a peek. I think you’ll find it very fun
  and rather prescient.
  
  When we shot this photo for the third cover of LIFE (the newspaper supplement version) back in September of 2004, we never dreamed we’d actually see it play out….or even anything this close.
  
  As the election neared and it was becoming clear that every vote would matter,
  we decided to ask a wide range of famous Americans why there were
  stepping up to the ballot box. We photographed Madeleine Albright,
  Manny Ramirez, Andre 3000, and Tucker Carlson (who told us, “People
  vote when they feel threatened. So it’s a good sign, in my view, that
  half the country doesn’t vote in the presidential election”) among
  others. Of course, we photographed John McCain and Tina Fey together.
  He was thrilled to meet her and they got along very well: They had
  lunch and he gave her an impromptu tour of the Senate building. Makes
  us wonder if when McCain met Palin for the first time, he said, ‘You
  know, you remind me of someone…”

  you can find the original post of this story here.

  *giggle*
  </end sarcasm>

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