{"id":13145,"date":"2019-01-17T14:14:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=13145"},"modified":"2019-01-17T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:14:39","slug":"2008-photos-from-morgan-ashcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/17\/2008-photos-from-morgan-ashcom\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Photos from Morgan Ashcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to bring order out of the chaos of my hard drive, I came across these photos from a 2008 speech I gave for The <a href=\"http:\/\/fff.org\"><strong>Future of Freedom Foundation<\/strong><\/a> at George Mason University. (I had to get in one more thrashing of George W. Bush before he left office a few months later.) These pictures were taken by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.morganashcom.com\/\">Morgan Ashcom<\/a>, <\/strong>who has since become a famous photographer &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Living-Carry-Morgan-Ashcom\/dp\/1910164933\">author of two books<\/a> as well as teaching at Cornell, U.Va., and other colleges. His work has been featured in the <em>New Yorker<\/em> and <em>Le Monde<\/em>. Morgan kindly emailed me the photos after the 2008 event and said it would be OK to use them as long as he was credited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JPB-CROPPED-LARGER-good-portrait-fff-november-2008-_mg_4704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13146\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JPB-CROPPED-LARGER-good-portrait-fff-november-2008-_mg_4704.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JPB-CROPPED-LARGER-good-portrait-fff-november-2008-_mg_4704.jpg 640w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JPB-CROPPED-LARGER-good-portrait-fff-november-2008-_mg_4704-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-2008-morgan-ashcom-_MG_47151.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13147\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-2008-morgan-ashcom-_MG_47151.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-2008-morgan-ashcom-_MG_47151.jpg 576w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-2008-morgan-ashcom-_MG_47151-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-2008-morgan-ashcom-FFF-gig-_MG_4722.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13148\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-2008-morgan-ashcom-FFF-gig-_MG_4722.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-2008-morgan-ashcom-FFF-gig-_MG_4722.jpg 576w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/jpb-2008-morgan-ashcom-FFF-gig-_MG_4722-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JPB-good-portrait-fff-november-2008-_mg_4704-e1547677362718.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13149\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JPB-good-portrait-fff-november-2008-_mg_4704-e1547677362718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JPB-good-portrait-fff-november-2008-_mg_4704-e1547677362718.jpg 563w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/JPB-good-portrait-fff-november-2008-_mg_4704-e1547677362718-150x104.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the full video of that 2008 speech &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zTO6ihgWFh\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/freedom-in-motion\/video\/bailout-bosh-and-other-economic-frauds-of-our-times\/\">Bailout Bosh and Other Economic Frauds of Our Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Bailout Bosh and Other Economic Frauds of Our Times&#8221; &#8212; The Future of Freedom Foundation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fff.org\/freedom-in-motion\/video\/bailout-bosh-and-other-economic-frauds-of-our-times\/embed\/#?secret=9XFLsDa1GT#?secret=zTO6ihgWFh\" data-secret=\"zTO6ihgWFh\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a kinda blurry version of the start of that speech<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Bovard speech on Bailout Bosh, November 2008\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sJJiD0B2RM4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to bring order out of the chaos of my hard drive, I came across these photos from a 2008 speech I gave for The Future of Freedom Foundation at George Mason University. 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