Do the Wall Street Journal’s Portraits of Democratic Presidential Candidates Reflect Paper’s Bias?

The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal has an article entitled “Democratic Candidates’ Fortunes May Rely on Long-Term Iraq Plans,” which includes three portraits of the leading Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama.

Unlike the portraits of John Edwards and Barack Obama, Hillary’s shows her face at profile. Not a big deal. That’s only the first indication that something’s amiss. Looking at the portrait of Hillary, I thought to myself, why does she look so weird? What did they do to her? Then I realized it. Hillary has been endowed with wrinkles galor, or, at the very least, they selected an instance when she is at her most wrinklesome.

It’s not her eye-wrinkles that’re the problem, but the ones decsending from her cheeks in a verticle fish gill-like manner. Even stranger is that she appears to be wearing a coat made out of this:

Finally, something is definitely up with her eyes, which are oddly spaced out and asymmetrical.

Could the Wall Street Journal be engaged in a campaign to weaken Hillary’s image?

Doubtfully. But it was fun to imagine while eating my breakfast.