The title to the post on Rosie O'Donnell's blog that bears only this picture is "A Picture Says A Thousand Posts."
Which, I don't even know what that means. How is a post said? Is it supposed to be worth a thousand posts? Or words? And if words, which words would those be? Shameless bid for attention in guise of making a point? No, that would be ten words, I suppose.
Look, we all get that war and guns are bad. We really, really do. Most of us even understand that war and the exploitation of children in war is more deserving of our attention than is Paris Hilton. But is that really the message that you send - those precious thousand-plus words or posts or whatever - when you wrap your privileged kid up in fake rags and real bullets and post her picture on your blog? I'm all for the photograph as shorthand, as punctum, as a means of reaching out to others and grabbing their hearts and pricking their minds. But having your kid - again, your cute, white, privileged kid - play war-child dress-up while you take snapshots to make a political point (an unclear political point, at that) is pushing it a little for me.
The message - the post? - that I'm getting is this: Rosie will do anything to make a point; Rosie will use her kid, wrap her kid in bullets, to make a point, and she won't even worry if her point is clear. (You want evidence that her point isn't clear? Check out the comments to that post, or, if you have less patience than is required for that exercise, check out Dlisted's commentary on the comments to the post.)
Is that one of the 'thousand posts' that you intended, Rosie?