He's smiling.

Update, borrowed from Smoking Gun:

It will be a campaign poster for his opponent!

he is gonna beat Earle, or did you miss the memo? :sarcasm:

Edited to remove pic, since OP edited to post it. No need to see it twice on this thread. x(

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1020051delay1.html

office staff or the RNC?

look good.

He's pulling every trick in the book. Avoid the press and show up at a different location. Then show a nicely photographed portrait - not a real mugshot.

This guy is mocking the law. This is an insult. There are no numbers, there is no profile, and they tell you specifically NOT to smile in mugshots.

This isn't real, folks. This is the mugshot for the press to downplay the real mugshot.

so no number board.

It was the same thing when Traficant was arrested:



You'll only see the number board and the removal of the rug if he's convicted.

'shit-eating' grin.

is in your throat

that jackass probably spent the night tossing and turning in bed wondering "should i smile? should i not smile?"...

jackass.

would think it's funny to get indicted.

I hope he laughs all the way to jail, when the time comes.

"come in whenever it's convenient and have a nice passport-style picture taken".

his eyes look blank

He looks like a psycho boy scout.

They think he looks great. :eyes:

Maybe humiliation and prison agree with him?

but, if you notice, his face is way too tense, this is the fakeist smile i have ever seen.

Here is the http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/pippenmug1.html ">mug shot that Scotty Pippen got in Harris County in 1999:

Notice anything different??

This is obscene. I demand to know why Tom Delay got special privileges. Let's not drop this one.

A poster on one of the other threads stated that the Houston police department uses the numbers, but the county doesn't.

and boy has he sold the US a bill of goods........

he gets to court and the prosecutor starts presenting evidence.

of every American in this country - why is this MAN MOCKING the LAW?

I've been mug shot before (don't ask) and it sure as HELL ain't like this - number one thing the cops tell you, is , "YOU THINK SOMETHING FUNNY IS GOING ON HERE BOY?"

Anyone one else would get a backhand or be stuck in a cell with violent assslamming psychotics for this kind of INSULT to the STATE, to the PEOPLE, to the LAW OF THE LAND.

That is how his opponent needs to frame this. Either that or he's CRAZY as a shithouse Rat and needs to be psychologically tested.

This is NOT a Family Photo shoot, and the decorum of the process of Law is being MOCKED. He has NO RESPECT for the LAW and that needs to be spread everywhere.

WHY is this man Smiling? Should put it side by side with Bush Grinning madly as planes crashed into the World Trade Center WHEN HE KNEW about it.

F*CK you DELAY, you've proven that you are a cowardly sleazebag.

They probably had focus groups to figure out the best possible way to get through the photo processs. It's not like Delay and his people didn't know this was coming.

Sid

:rofl:

Tom Delay: The Happy Criminal.
Tom Delay: The Smiley-Face Bandit.

:rofl:

More symbolic nonsenses from the right wing. The freepers may believe that they've won some victory here because Delay doesn't "look like" a "criminal" - but the victory only remains at that level: they relish the symbolic precisely because they can't handle reality. The reality is that Tom Delay will stand trial for money laundering and conspiracy, and no Italian tailor or smiling visage can wipe away the stain his corruption has left on the United States Congress or the State of Texas. Just as in their phnoey symbolic victory in Iraq, with the tearing down of Saddam's statue only being the prelude to the real devastation, here the symbolic victory is once again a fleeting one, and only precedes the presentation of real evidence in a real court and the real, concrete materiality of a prison sentence. Yuk it up, freepers. But welcome to the desert of the real...

Yes.


This is one of the best days of my life.

"Surrendered and was released on bond..."

I just heard it on CNN Headline News.

I yelped.

You goin' down, lad!

...Just don't drop the soap! :evilgrin:

I am so happy, I need to go have a cigarette. (If you know what I mean.)

It would be funny if it were some kind of GOP pin and then he got in big trouble...might taint the brand a little bit.

photoshop the little board onto him...

This just ticks me off! He's so arrogant!!