Totally genius front page of the L.A. Times today.  Click over and look.  It’s fantastic.

Above the fold, half of the page is devoted to a color photo of the Gropenator as he strides through Times Square like a commander in a posed photo op.

Below the fold, a teeny picture of his opponent, face partly obscured, his head down on his hand with a look of amused resignation on his face.

The story, believe it or not: an allegedly objective look at — wait for it, this is fabulous — how the media is getting used by Schwarzenegger, and how his opponent just can’t get a fair break.

Accompanied by a photo of Arnold that is more than eleven times larger by area.  And Angelides isn’t mentioned by name — in fact, there’s no mention that Arnold even has any political opposition whatsoever — until the fourth paragraph.

The story continues on page A17.  With only one picture — of Arnold, of course — and the new headline:

Well bloody hell yes he is.

I am starting to think that irony got killed by a drunken mob in a bar fight sometime around 2002.  Would explain a lot.

UPDATE: And Arnold is crossing diagonally, a form of jaywalking which is a $50 fine for us ordinary civilians. Of course, Der Ubermensch is above such mundane considerations.