Exposure is one of those words that has a lot of different meanings. Exposure, in photography, is a term that refers to the reaction of certain chemicals to light from the sun or from a flash bulb. Exposure, for explorers might be a way to die when inadequately dressed for winter weather. Exposure can be a good thing, though, for a new product or brand being marketed by big corporations on TV shows.
Then there’s the sense of exposure as the people at the right wing extremist publication Human Events seem to mean it in the title of their report, Barack Obama Exposed!. An over-marketed, out-of-date, superficial, dishonest examination of a skewed selection of Barack Obama’s record and associations, Barack Obama Exposed! manages to embarrass the people who cite it as a resource, and then unexpectedly are unable to sustain their rationale for hating Obama when exposed themselves to the information available in the world outside of the bizarre Human Events cult-like insularity.
Barack Obama Exposed!, it is promised, will be “the only way you’ll get all the ammunition you need to end Obama’s White House dreams once and for all.” Of course, the report has been out since early 2007, and has fallen into the hands of many gullible readers, but Barack Obama’s White House dreams have actually not been ended at all. What a mystery that is.
Let me suggest another kind of exposure for Barack Obama – exposure to fresh air and the interested gaze of all who pass you by on the road of life. Put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on your car, and you’ll give Barack Obama lots of exposure. You can even imitate the silly people at Human Events, saying to your friends, as you approach your car together, “Look! Barack Obama exposed!”
