John McCain and "Freddie" Davis
In contrast to the warm-and-fuzzy image of Rick Davis and John McCain the NYT used in their background piece this morning, this shot reveals the take-no-prisoners "steel" (steal?) of the Freddie Mac lobbyist.
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We Are All Georgians Now. (At Least, We Were Last Month)
I'll be tied up with my clinical life a good bit of the day. In the margins, though, I'll also be tracking S.P.'s diplomatic exploits, picking and choosing from the newswire.
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Top People In D.C. Would Never Admit They Don't Really Know What To Do
Latest on the Wall Street/banking crisis. Top People In D.C. Will Never Admit They Don't Really Know What To Do
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A Little Fire On Capitol Hill
I have to tell you, today has been one of the most chock-full visual news days I've seen in a long time. Palin at the U.N. Bush at the U.N. (showing his face in public, whereas he's mostly been hiding out from the Wall Street crisis and his record...
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The Foreign Policy Education Of Sarah Palin (In One Okay, More Than One Photo-Op)
You see, Kissenger is that good that just one photo op sit-down can make anyone competent in a foreign policy. Anyone.
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The Coil
I'm convinced McCain believes he's a moderate guy. I don't think he's in touch at all with the way he fires up.
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Dodd Going By The Book
On Monday, Chris Dodd -- Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Chairman -- seemed to emerge as a point man in the financial crisis. This shot was taken in Dodd's office over the weekend. The most symbolic element in the shot is Bob Woodward's new...
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Sarah's U.N. Preview
Why did the NYT chose to run this scary, but rather obscure image -- from the Ocala (Florida) Star Banner -- to illustrate a preview on Palin's upcoming meeting with foreign leaders?
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King Henry IX
To put a Shakespearean twist on Paulson's role is to anticipate that he set the terms, and we folded like subjects.
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Wall Street Nightmare
Looking at these photos through the lens of the current financial convulsions, they read much differently, I'm sure, than when they were shot in 2003. BagNewsNotes contributer Nina Berman's photos anthropomorphize, and give nightmarish expression to my most terrifying fears of a Wall Street disaster.
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Paulson's Ghost
Credit to Getty photographer Chip Somodevilla and NYT photo editors for slapping this pic on today's lead Wall St. giveaway rescue story, "A Bailout Plan, but Will It All Work?"
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Beyond The Bailout: Sidewalk To Nowhere
Part of the agenda of "the man," I must point out, is to anesthetize us with photos we've seen a thousand times already, of one more generic-looking house with a for-sale or repo sign out front, or still another dumb gas pump. Over the coming days, weeks and, unfortunately...
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Taking Counsel
This shot from yesterday, of Obama with a Wall Street brain trust (Volker/former Fed and Rubin/former Treasury on either side) communicates and reinforces the impression of one candidate getting after the crisis and demonstrating the capability of actual deliberation in the face of all hell breaking loose.
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Luster, Really?
The NYT runs an update on Ted Stevens about how his trial is taking place concurrently with his senate campaign and the national election. The image above leads the story, titled "Alaska Star May Add Luster To Tarnished Senator." So, what are we investing our good time and...
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Your Turn: Red, White And Blue + White + Lot More Red. Oh Yeah, There's McCain, Too.
I'm interested in your thoughts on this, especially as a follow-up to the red shoes post.... From NYT slide show: Barbs on the Economy. (image: Todd Heisler/The New York Times. caption: At a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, said that the chairman...
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More Racist "Advice" From The McCain Campaign
Many of you have written about my take on "Advise," the latest McCain attack video.... In other words, consider the parallel between the smarmy way Obama was portrayed in Schmidt/McCain's Kindergarten/Sex Ed piece ten days ago and the portrayal of Frank Raines in this latest job. In their desperation...
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Stature Drop
I just wonder, what would Gerald Ford have thought if he could somehow see McCain coming to lay flowers at his grave with First Dude?
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In Perfect Alignment
I would contend that this image -- carefully crafted for the news media to demonstrate how Bush cares about the hurricane devastation in Galveston -- is actually further indicative of how out-of-touch Bush was during the Katrina crisis.
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