On Screen In Real Life
Why is it that Reagan could have gotten away with acting the Presidency, or Americans would bestow credibility on a completely unqualified, yet elaborately framed and consistently stage-managed George Bush? The answer is that humans, in lending themselves to pictures, are simultaneously wired for a more concrete, factual inspection...
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Saving Planets Earth
How Classic: Bush At His Alternative Global Warming Summit Caught Between Two Worlds!
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WTF
Not that Ashley's work, and his feelings for the war, didn't mature and harden as time went on. At the outset, however, it is an unusual thing that this venomous campaign -- built on a despotic neocon fantasy -- would be captured by a man child who, enabled by...
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Bush To WAPO: I'm Truman, You're … Eating Out Of My Hand
While corporate media was being spun this week on the evils of Iran, it was also getting played on the campaign front. This example involves a cute little post at WAPO's campaign blog, The Trail.
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More War Drum Concert Coverage: UN Edition
If the press wasn't so completely magnetized by star power and hysterical paranoia, I would be happy to feature the images of smaller, more dignified moments involving compelling world leaders who converged on the General Assembly from across the globe.
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Did You Hear That Hitler Was In Town?
Is our democracy so compromised right now that we wouldn't think, left to simply answer questions, Ahmadinejad wouldn't make a fool of himself, without us beating him to it through bullying and harrassment?
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Exposing A President Well Heeled*
Honestly, I never imagined anyone would ever pull the curtain back on The Great Intimidator.
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Nouri Hits Condi With A Ban
Better kick the Anbar take-over into overdrive, because we're losing Baghdad. With the Ahmadinejad show heading for town, U.N. festivities got started with a discernible chill between Condi and Maliki.
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For The Soldier Of Fortune Calendar. Plus: Helo A Situation
Given that the movement of U.S. diplomatic personnel in Iraq is completely dependent on Blackwater, it is no surprise the company is operating again. Give it another week, and most questions about the 25,000 to 100,000 "security contractors" (nobody seems to have a reliable count) will probably disappear also. ...
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Window On Jena
At this point, the sight of the raised fist -- the Sixties symbol of black power -- seems mostly ironic.
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Rudy PM
The Caucus piece conveys the surprise, on the part of London press, that Gordon Brown would afford Rudy the venue. What's behind that? (And then, the visual coordination seems, uhm, "tailored" also.)
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Overcoming My Blue DNA
(click for full size) Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Sen. Chuck Hagel, right, and Jim Webb discuss their measure to require that troops get as much time at home as they spend overseas before being redeployed.
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Your Turn: Scotch The Notion
If Petraeus somehow did puncture the opposition's bubble and potentially forestalled a more systematic pullback, did somebody forget to tell the kid?
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Bush Hype And The Loss Of Sheikh
My question is, did George Bush effectively "off" an ally -- and even undermine his Anbar strategy -- for the sake of the "surge sale" and a single photo-op?
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The general Petraeus post-game state of mind
Out of all the images of this weekend's anti-war protest, I was trying to figure out why this two shot sequence stood out most for me. From the WAPO and NYT accounts, it sounded like the demonstration was not just bigger than expected, but much more contentious than previous.
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Jim, Bring Back The Boots
The latest legislative strategy on the part of the Dems might look like "half a loaf" to the roots, but it represents a terrific challenge to the Administration's dominance over the war narrative. But beyond that, it offers all kinds of visual and symbolic opportunities if the Democrats were...
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No, It's Not The '05 Inauguration — But Oh, The Memories!
In those moments between pumping up the fear, the White House is fully engaged in heaping on the intimidatio
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General "Betray Us": FOX Gets On It …Gratis
You can tell Campaign '08 is well under way now, given the vicious attacks on MoveOn for daring to question the political independence of General Petraeus.
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