To Mark Warner's Handlers

Memo to former Governor Mark Warner's presidential election team: If you intend to have your man seriously considered by the electorate to be ... well, a serious contender, you gotta (a) teach him how not to look like a cross between Elmer Fudd and Hannibal Lecter when he gets his picture taken for a major (sycophantic) news publication and (b) maintain the right to first refusal when it comes to an unflattering photo that is going to be used with a puff piece like that which appears in this morning's New York Times Magazine.

"Sywvester......the handwing of money is a gweat wesponsibiwity. And if spent pwoperwy, it goes wew with wiver and fava beans, washed down with a nice Chianti."

Photo courtesy of the New York Times