CBS Hypes Gas Price Gouging, NBC Focuses on Fears of Greens --4/26/2006

1. CBS Hypes Gas Price Gouging, NBC Focuses on Fears of Greens
The broadcast network evening shows delivered a variety of spins Tuesday night on the price of gas, with CBS raising a "windfall tax on big oil" and featuring an in-studio segment with left-wing busybody Eliot Spitzer, the Attorney General of New York, about price gouging and NBC's Brian Williams worried about the concerns of those want a "greener America." ABC's Betsy Stark rejected the price-gouging charge and while CBS insisted that eliminating environmental regulations would have little effect, Stark reported such a suspension would have an immediate impact. CBS Evening News anchor Russ Mitchell asked White House reporter Jim Axelrod about the idea of "slapping a windfall tax on big oil companies for these record profits that they're making?" Mitchell then turned to Spitzer: "As a consumer, it seems like it's the wild West. How easy is it for a gas station, for an oil company to just jack up the price of gas?" NBC's Williams set up a story on President Bush's proposals by citing how "advocates for a greener America" are "seeing red over what they see as a quickly degrading environment." Williams soon asked David Gergen "what are the chances" that the high prices will lead the U.S. to now move from a "carbon based society to one that's more green?"

2. Olbermann Blasts Bush's "McCarthyism" Against CIA "Scapegoat"
On Tuesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann raised the term "new McCarthyism," as he accused the Bush administration of engaging in a "witch hunt" against leakers "it does not find politically expedient." Olbermann referred to the "Red Scare witch hunt of the 1950s" during which Senator Joseph McCarthy went after communist sympathizers, as the Countdown host formed a pun on the famous Senator's name and the name of recently fired CIA analyst Mary McCarthy, whom on Friday he had sympathetically referred to as a "whistleblower," on grounds she leaked classified information about secret prisons in Europe being used in the War on Terrorism. Olbermann then brought aboard a former employee of Mary McCarthy, former CIA officer Larry Johnson, to defend Ms. McCarthy and attack the Bush administration.

3. Gregory's Hardball's Drumbeat: Fire Cheney and Rumsfeld
On Monday's Hardball on MSNBC, fill-in host David Gregory, NBC's White House correspondent, seemed to be pushing Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld out the door. Not once but twice Gregory suggested to two separate guests the best way for the administration to get back on track is to can the Vice President and Secretary of Defense: "Susan Molinari, can the President get any traction if he does not dismiss his Vice President or the Secretary of Defense? If he doesn't do something that large?" Then later to Newsweek's Jon Meacham: "But didn't reducing Karl's role speak to the bigger issue for Josh Bolten, which is can he really make any kind of splash? Can he get anybody to notice if big figures, the biggest of the figures, be it the Vice President or the Secretary of Defense are not dismissed?"

4. CBS's Dave Price Again Reports Enthusiastic Troop Morale in Iraq
Dave Price, the weather reader on CBS's The Early Show, went to Iraq along with country music artist Charlie Daniels to entertain American troops. On Tuesday morning, Price gave the first part of a two part series detailing his travels and interaction with the troops. Matching what he reported last week from Iraq, Price reassured viewers that troop morale is high, and showed some comments from men and women in uniform. Price revealed: "I went to cheer up the soldiers, but in most cases, they didn't need it."

5. Williams Gratuitously Tags New York Post as "Right-Leaning"
Though the art review criticized the painter and not Bill Clinton, NBC's Brian Williams couldn't resist using an ideological description to label the New York Post as he highlighted the newspaper's critique of a new painting of Bill Clinton unveiled before it goes on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC: "One art lover from the right-leaning New York Post said President Clinton's painting looks like a mediocre portrait of Ted Koppel." It's doubtful that since Williams took over as anchor of the NBC Nightly News 16 months ago he's cited any New York Times critiques of artworks, but if he ever does in the future, what are the chances he'll tag the paper as "left-leaning"?

CBS Hypes Gas Price Gouging, NBC Focuses
on Fears of Greens

The broadcast network evening shows delivered a variety of spins Tuesday night on the price of gas, with CBS raising a "windfall tax on big oil" and featuring an in-studio segment with left-wing busybody Eliot Spitzer, the Attorney General of New York, about price gouging and NBC's Brian Williams worried about the concerns of those want a "greener America." ABC's Betsy Stark rejected the price-gouging charge and while CBS insisted that eliminating environmental regulations would have little effect, Stark reported such a suspension would have an immediate impact.

CBS Evening News anchor Russ Mitchell asked White House reporter Jim Axelrod about the idea of "slapping a windfall tax on big oil companies for these record profits that they're making?" Mitchell then turned to Spitzer: "As a consumer, it seems like it's the wild West. How easy is it for a gas station, for an oil company to just jack up the price of gas?" NBC's Williams set up a story on President Bush's proposals by citing how "advocates for a greener America" are "seeing red over what they see as a quickly degrading environment." Williams soon asked David Gergen "what are the chances" that the high prices will lead the U.S. to now move from a "carbon based society to one that's more green?" Gergen replied: "Well, one hopes that's the case..."

World News Tonight ran a "Reality Check" in which Betsy Stark noted that while "the President's pledge to crack down on price gouging may help quiet critics who believe the market is being manipulated," the "reality is the industry is often accused and almost never found guilty."

CBS's Jim Axelrod dismissed the impact of environmental rules that regulate the formulation of gasoline: "The President also wants certain environmental regulations to be suspended so that more gas can be used by more states interchangeably. Again, the idea is to pump up the supply. A few more drops headed to the barrel maybe, but really nothing's going to bring prices down anytime soon." In contrast, Stark asserted: "What could impact prices almost immediately is a suspension of environmental regulations. The reality here is that waiving the elaborate rules on summertime blends will likely push supplies up and prices down."

[This item was posted Tuesday night on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org. To share your comments, go to: newsbusters.org [1] ]

Some highlights from Tuesday, April 25 gas price stories run on the broadcast network evening newscasts, gathered with the help of the MRC's Brad Wilmouth:

# CBS Evening News. Jim Axelrod concluded from the White House:
"The President also wants certain environmental regulations to be suspended so that more gas can be used by more states interchangeably. Again, the idea is to pump up the supply. A few more drops headed to the barrel maybe, but really nothing's going to bring prices down anytime soon, Russ."

Russ Mitchell then tossed leading and softball questions to his featured guest at the anchor desk, left-wing activist Eliot Spitzer, New York's Attorney General:
"And joining me is a man who's keeping a close watch on the rise in gas prices, the Attorney General of the state of New York, Eliot Spitzer, who's also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor. Attorney General, thanks for joining us today."
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (D-NY): "My pleasure."
Mitchell: "As a consumer, it seems like it's the wild West. How easy is it for a gas station, for an oil company to just jack up the price of gas?"
Spitzer: "Very easy. And what we found after Katrina was that prices were going through the roof. Nobody was respectful of their legal obligation to abide by basic decency and New York state law that prohibits them from excessive price increases at a moment of dislocation such as a hurricane such as Katrina. And so it was very, very disturbing what we saw."
Mitchell: "You are suing several gas stations in the state of New York right now. And in your mind, how did they break the law?"
Spitzer: "They broke the law by increasing the price inordinately and outrageously compared to what they had to pay for it. In other words, people will say, 'Well, don't they pay more?' Yes, they paid more, but they doubled or tripled their profit margin at a time when there was a dislocation in the market from a hurricane. That was illegal and wrong."
Mitchell: "As consumers, of course, most of us have to buy gasoline. What would you advise us to do. What can we do to make this better?"
Spitzer: "Any consumer should comparison shop. The reality is you can go to four or five different gas stations, one of them will have a lower price. And if you go to that station with a lower price over time, that will help drive the price down. But realistically, as individual consumers, we cannot affect the global market or even the local market. We are the pawns in this battle."
Mitchell: "We're stuck."
Spitzer: "We are stuck."
Mitchell: "New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, thanks for joining us."
Spitzer: "Thank you very much."

# NBC Nightly News. Brian Williams led:
"Good evening. While a nation of drivers and consumers does a slow burn over yet another sudden spike in the price of gas and with advocates for a greener America seeing red over what they see as a quickly degrading environment, today President Bush took on the topic of energy to mixed reviews. Specifically, his plans to divert oil from the nation's strategic oil reserve. The President wants to suspend some environmental rules on what kind of gas can be burned in cars during the summer. He has the government looking for price gouging and the President wants Congress to take away tax breaks from oil companies, some of which he just signed into law as part of the energy bill. It is a lot of ground to cover and it's a big and urgent issue in this country and we have it covered tonight."

After David Gregory, Williams brought aboard David Gergen, of U.S. News and Harvard University, from Boston. Gregory's second of two questions:
"David, in the bigger picture sense, what are the chances, do you think, that we will look back on this period right now and say that in retrospect it was a period of transition for the United States from what's been called a carbon based society to one that's more green?"
David Gergen: "Well, one hopes that's the case, Brian, but we've had these kind of transition periods before and we've unfortunately we've taken an exit, an off ramp and never kept going. I was back in the White House in the early 1970s writing speeches about energy independence. We've been talking about this for over twenty years without succeeding. It's like school reform without true comprehensive reform. In this case, the coming together of a terrorism threat, the high prices of oil, and the looming sense that climate change really could be irreversible and extraordinarily dangerous, maybe this is the time when we'll break through and have a real political break through. But it's too early to say."

# ABC's World News Tonight. Following Martha Raddatz on Bush's proposals, anchor Elizabeth Vargas set up the newscast's second story of the night on gas prices:
"How much relief the President's proposals may eventually give to motorists filling up at the pump remains to be seen. But the oil markets reacted immediately to his speech. Crude oil prices fell to $72.88 a barrel, down 45 cents from yesterday. ABC's Betsy Stark has a 'Reality Check.'"
Betsy Stark: "The President's pledge to crack down on price gouging may help quiet critics who believe the market is being manipulated. But the reality is the industry is often accused and almost never found guilty."
Robin West, PFC Energy: "I don't think anyone's going to find anything. I think it just makes everyone feel better."
Stark: "Mr. Bush talked about getting prices down by promoting fuel efficiency, driving slower and driving less. But the reality is that will only lower prices if Americans change their behavior en masse."
West: "They like big, comfortable, heavy, inefficient cars to drive around in. That's fine. That's their choice. But they should realize there are consequences of that choice, and the consequence is higher prices."
Stark: "What could impact prices almost immediately is a suspension of environmental regulations. The reality here is that waiving the elaborate rules on summertime blends will likely push supplies up and prices down."
Fadel Gheit, Oppenheimer and Company energy analyst: "I would say it will bring gasoline prices down substantially within, say, two to three weeks. I would say by 20 cents at least, or even more."
Stark: "Over the long term, the President's proposal to develop alternative fuels, including hydrogen power and ethanol, could provide relief at the pump. And so could his plan to increase domestic supplies. But the reality is any relief from either of those proposals is probably years away."
Gheit: "It is not going to have any impact on gasoline prices next year, or for the next five or even ten years."
Stark: "As for Mr. Bush's plan to stop filling the strategic petroleum reserve for the summer, the reality is it may sound like a big deal, but it's really just a drop in the bucket."
West, PFC Energy: "It's a sensible step to take. There's nothing wrong with doing this. But this isn't a silver bullet."
Stark: "We heard that again and again today. No silver bullets, no quick fixes. Analysts say it's taken 25 years to get into this mess. And it's going to take years to get out of it. Probably not what Americans want to hear."
Vargas: "I was just going to say that's not what they're looking to hear right now. All right. Thanks, Betsy."

Olbermann Blasts Bush's "McCarthyism"
Against CIA "Scapegoat"

On Tuesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann raised the term "new McCarthyism," as he accused the Bush administration of engaging in a "witch hunt" against leakers "it does not find politically expedient." Olbermann referred to the "Red Scare witch hunt of the 1950s" during which Senator Joseph McCarthy went after communist sympathizers, as the Countdown host formed a pun on the famous Senator's name and the name of recently fired CIA analyst Mary McCarthy, whom on Friday he had sympathetically referred to as a "whistleblower," on grounds she leaked classified information about secret prisons in Europe being used in the War on Terrorism. Olbermann then brought aboard a former employee of Mary McCarthy, former CIA officer Larry Johnson, to defend Ms. McCarthy and attack the Bush administration.

[This item, by the MRC's Brad Wilmouth, was posted early Wednesday morning on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org [2] ]

Olbermann teased the segment at the top of his show: "Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The new McCarthyism. Fired 10 days before she was to retire for leaking secrets to a reporter, secrets she says she never even knew. Mary O. McCarthy will not say it, but others will: She is the CIA's scapegoat."

Olbermann opened the show referring to the "Red Scare witch hunt of the 1950s" to compare the Bush administration's treatment of leakers which "it does not view as politically expedient," a reference to another leak which Olbermann assumes the administration does find politically expedient, the leaking of Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA analyst.

As he introduced the segment with Johnson, Olbermann soon mocked White House spokesman Scott McClellan by referring to what he called McClellan's "playbook": "I'm guessing here that the outgoing press secretary still has a couple of references to the war on terror left in his playbook."

After playing a clip of McClellan attacking recent leaks as undermining the War on Terrorism, Olbermann further drew a comparison with Senator McCarthy as he quipped: "And we'll show those communists, uh, terrorists."

Below is a complete transcript of Olbermann's introduction to his April 25 Countdown show, including the entire interview with Johnson:

Keith Olbermann, in opening teaser: "Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The new McCarthyism. Fired 10 days before she was to retire for leaking secrets to a reporter, secrets she says she never even knew. Mary O. McCarthy will not say it, but others will: She is the CIA's scapegoat."

Olbermann opened the show: "Good evening. In the Red Scare witch hunt of the 1950s, McCarthy, Senator Joseph McCarthy was the hunter. In what her friends and some of her ex-colleagues are calling the Bush administration's witch hunt against any leaks or leakers it does not view as politically expedient, McCarthy, fired CIA analyst Mary McCarthy is the hunted. Our fifth story in the Countdown, 'red' used to mean the farthest left, now it means the farthest right. But a witch hunt is still a witch hunt, and McCarthyism, whether named for proponent or victim, still sends shivers. In a moment, the analysis of one of Mary McCarthy's former employees at the agency, Larry Johnson, on the possibility that we have ourselves a scapegoat. The modern-day McCarthy's categorical denial on Monday that she leaked any classified information only fueling arguments that something is very wrong with this CIA picture, the White House finally weighing in on the flap today, sort of. Short-timer Scott McClellan confronted with the question of how it is that the CIA was able to get to the bottom of the black sites leak case so quickly when almost three years after Valerie Plame's name was leaked, it still has not uncovered who revealed that. I'm guessing here that the outgoing press secretary still has a couple of references to the war on terror left in his playbook."
Scott McClellan: "The leaking of classified information is a very serious matter, and the unauthorized disclosure of classified information can severely harm our national security. We have talked previously about the terror surveillance program and how that unauthorized disclosure of that program has shown the enemy our playbook. We are engaged in a difficult and long war against a bunch of ideological extremists who want to do everything they can to stop the advance of freedom in this world, and want to harm innocent Americans and innocent people in the civilized world, and that's why it's important that we not show them our playbook, so the leaking of information is a matter that the President takes very seriously."

Olbermann: "And we'll show those communists, uh, terrorists. Time now to call in Larry Johnson, former CIA officer, former deputy director of the State Department's office of counterterrorism. Larry, welcome back."
Larry Johnson, Former CIA Officer: "Hi, Keith."
Olbermann: "Did the case against Mary McCarthy smell at all fishy to you even before her denial that she was the source of the leak to the Washington Post?"
Johnson: "Absolutely. I was one of the first ones out of the box saying that, for several reasons. If you look at Dana Priest's article, there were multiple sources, many who had ties to the counterterrorism center, that were not identified by name or even very many particulars, but it was clear that wasn't Mary's background. I used to work for Mary back in 1988-89, and she moved on up into the senior ranks of management when she was handling issues at the National Security Council, National Warning Office, other things, so she wouldn't have had any of the operational details that were reflected in Dana Priest's article."
Olbermann: "You knew her. Are you sticking up for her because she's a friend, a former colleague with whom you enjoyed working? What?"
Johnson: "No, actually, I left the agency because I didn't like her management style, but that had to do with some other issues unrelated to her integrity as an analyst. I've always found that she had a lot of integrity as an analyst, particular at the testimony of people like Randy Beers and John Helgerson, who I know. When they vouch for Mary as someone who was a worker who could be trusted, that says a lot because these men are not partisans even though the tendency in Washington now is anybody that speaks up to defend anyone who says something critical about Bush is suddenly akin to a terrorist sympathizer."
Olbermann: "So if she was an ideal candidate to be trusted, what do you think's going on? I mean, do you believe that someone might be framing her? Is she a scapegoat? If she had these connections nefariously to Dana Priest, might we better call her a sacrificial lamb?"
Johnson: "No. What's going on here, Keith, is this is the White House effort to intimidate the press. Porter Goss has politicized the CIA now, there's now doubt. Several years ago, you had most of the people in the public affairs office, they were intelligence professionals. What you have here today, with the exception of one individual, most of the people up there now are political hacks, folks who cut their teeth up on Capitol Hill playing partisan politics. And the last thing we need to have is our intelligence agency politicized. And yet what's going on here is anyone that speaks out critical of the Bush White House, when you have Paul Pilar, for example, who came out and said the White House was wrong in trying to link Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden, what did the White House do? They put the word out to their operatives. They tried to smear Paul Pilar. Mary McCarthy, I think, is the latest victim of this. And they tried to make an example of her. And one thing I can tell you about Mary, we may have had our disagreements, but she's tough and she has integrity."
Olbermann: "The subject of authorized versus unauthorized. This has become the black and white of the 21st century. Whoever the source of the Washington Post report was. Is the worst transgression, in your eyes, leaking the existence of repurposed Soviet-era gulags into CIA prisons in Eastern Europe or blowing the cover of a covert op like Valerie Plame Wilson?"
Johnson: "No intelligence capabilities were destroyed by the leak of the secret prisons. In fact, that came from multiple sources within the intelligence community who were alarmed that the United States was starting to engage in the very practices we used to condemn the Soviets for. Whereas in the case of Valerie Wilson, not only was her cover destroyed but an undercover company was destroyed. Intelligence assets that were involved with trying to determine, detect and protect America against weapons of mass destruction, they were destroyed in that leak. That was a case where the Bush White House participated in smearing and attacking innocent Americans. And that's a far different thing, and I think far more heinous than someone who tries to blow the whistle or a group of somebodies who blow the whistle on administration practices which take us down the road towards something that looks a lot like what we had when the Soviets were running gulags."
Olbermann: "Former CIA officer Larry Johnson, former colleague with Mary McCarthy, not necessarily former friend. Many thanks for your time and your insights."

Gregory's Hardball's Drumbeat: Fire Cheney
and Rumsfeld

On Monday's Hardball on MSNBC, fill-in host David Gregory, NBC's White House correspondent, seemed to be pushing Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld out the door. Not once but twice Gregory suggested to two separate guests the best way for the administration to get back on track is to can the Vice President and Secretary of Defense: "Susan Molinari, can the President get any traction if he does not dismiss his Vice President or the Secretary of Defense? If he doesn't do something that large?" Then later to Newsweek's Jon Meacham: "But didn't reducing Karl's role speak to the bigger issue for Josh Bolten, which is can he really make any kind of splash? Can he get anybody to notice if big figures, the biggest of the figures, be it the Vice President or the Secretary of Defense are not dismissed?"

[This item, by the MRC's Geoff Dickens, was posted Tuesday afternoon on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org [3] ]

And before the show ended even Margaret Carlson got into the act: "He'd have to change the big jobs. Secretary Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney even, although I know that's hard to do."
Gregory: "Right."
Carlson: "He could still, he could still do it and Dick Cheney could plead health and get somebody in who wouldn't get a leg up on the nomination, somebody who, you know, a Howard Baker type person, an elder statesman who would come in and provide a real fresh start for the issues that really matter.

CBS's Dave Price Again Reports Enthusiastic
Troop Morale in Iraq

Dave Price, the weather reader on CBS's The Early Show, went to Iraq along with country music artist Charlie Daniels to entertain American troops. On Tuesday morning, Price gave the first part of a two part series detailing his travels and interaction with the troops. Matching what he reported last week from Iraq, Price reassured viewers that troop morale is high, and showed some comments from men and women in uniform. Price revealed: "I went to cheer up the soldiers, but in most cases, they didn't need it."

[This item is adapted from a posting Tuesday afternoon, by the MRC's Michael Rule, on the MRC's NewsBusters blog: newsbusters.org [4] ]

The April 19 CyberAlert recounted: If you want a comprehensive picture of the situation in Iraq, you probably won't get it from traditional news anchors. In fact, on Tuesday's Early Show on CBS it took a report from Dave Price, the weatherman, for viewers to get a fuller picture of the conditions. Price has spent the last week in Iraq touring with entertainers, such as musician Charlie Daniels, who are performing for the troops. Toward the end of the 7am half hour on Tuesday, he checked in with a report from Baghdad where he hinted that things in Iraq really aren't as bad as the media are making out: "And throughout this whole journey, despite what the headlines that we read and see in the United States are, the morale of the troops may surprise you." See: www.mediaresearch.org [5]

Back in New York for the April 25 show, Price relayed: "Of course morale was sky high during the shows, but what surprised me was what I heard after the music and the laughter faded."

That comment was followed by a clip from an unnamed soldier reaffirming troop morale: "I'm the senior enlisted here. And, not one time since I've been here have I had one individual come to me and say, I don't want to be here. Not one time. What can you do to get me out of here? I haven't heard that one time. And that's pretty nice."

As for those who believe the war is unwinnable, Price offered the words of a soldier identified as Staff Sergeant Ellis to put things into perspective: "Of course, we see bad stuff, you know. We're hit with IEDs. You know, we're shot at, things of that nature. But for the most part, the country is not bad. I'm sure, that if you were to equate it to how we were when we were trying to stand up as a country, you know there's still a little bit of chaos, little bit of confusion, a lot of uncertainty. I think that's the, the way it is here in Iraq."

Finally, Price paid his respect and admiration for the strength and determination of the troops by relaying how good they made him feel: "It was an amazing experience. I went to Iraq looking to lift spirits, but in the end, it was the soldiers who had done that for me."

Williams Gratuitously Tags New York Post
as "Right-Leaning"

Though the art review criticized the painter and not Bill Clinton, NBC's Brian Williams couldn't resist using an ideological description to label the New York Post as he highlighted the newspaper's critique of a new painting of Bill Clinton unveiled before it goes on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC: "One art lover from the right-leaning New York Post said President Clinton's painting looks like a mediocre portrait of Ted Koppel." It's doubtful that since Williams took over as anchor of the NBC Nightly News 16 months ago he's cited any New York Times critiques of artworks, but if he ever does in the future, what are the chances he'll tag the paper as "left-leaning"?

Over video of the unveiling of the two portraits, Williams announced on the April 25 NBC Nightly News:
"Also in Washington tonight, two new paintings are hanging in the National Portrait Gallery. The formal depictions of former President Bill Clinton and former First Lady, and perhaps future presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The reaction from critics was mixed. Most seemed to like Hillary's renaissance style likeness. But one art lover from the right-leaning New York Post said President Clinton's painting looks like a mediocre portrait of Ted Koppel. Both portraits go on public display in July."

An excerpt from "'KOPPEL' CANVAS IS OFF THE WALL," by James Gardner in the April 25 New York Post:

As an ode to our 42nd president, a mediocre portrait of Ted Koppel will hang in the National Portrait Gallery.

The portrait of Bill Clinton unveiled last night doesn't call forth the great paintings of our presidents.

It certainly doesn't belong in the same hallway as Gilbert Stuart's commanding representation of George Washington -- the standard by which these homages are judged.

Clinton's portrait was painted by Nelson Shanks, who has given us at least one fine painting -- that of Pope John Paul II -- but bungles the work here.

The composition is poorly managed, and in this one, Clinton looks downright uncomfortable...

END of Excerpt

Actually, that's all but one sentence of the barely 100-word critique. To read that last sentence, which requires seeing the portrait to understand: www.nypost.com [6]

Check the posted version of this CyberAlert for a couple of screen shots of what NBC showed of the portraits.

Or, go to the April 25 Washington Post review for a peek at both portraits: www.washingtonpost.com [7]

-- Brent Baker