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Media Focus Photo May 11, 2006

Got Your Back

Karl, that was quite a morning you had yesterday. Certainly, desperate times deserve ... a mad media dash to the Diplomatic Reception Room.  And they ate up your pic.  Just look what those guilty types at USA Today did with it.  So it wasn't subtle.  But time was short, and...

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The Zarqawi Bloopers: Leaving It To The Professionals

I've been wondering about the military strategy behind the Zarqawi outtakes -- especially since the collected footage became popularly known as the "Zarqawi Blooper Video." It seems the obvious audience for this material is the Iraqi people -- and, especially, potential terrorist recruits.  Given its presentation at a Defense Department...

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Media Focus Photo May 10, 2006

A Picture Is Worth 0000 Words

So Vanity Fair is pimping for Cheney?  Guess that's the cost of being big MSM.  Because, although they got stiffed on the interview, they still gave "The Hostile Veep Reclamation Project" the photo plug of the year.

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Campaign '06 Photo May 9, 2006

Undertaking A New Strategy?

"Jest" a little free association from The BAG: 1.  If White House shake-up was supposed to ease conformity, think again. 2.  Administration looking a little down these days? 3.  Maybe that's what happens after years of getting your back up. 4.  Hubbard's folder lends interesting twist....  The economic picture: black and white and...

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Congratulations

The BAG congratulates The Huffington Post as winner of The '06 Webby Award and Webby People's Voice Award for Best Political Blog.  In less than a year, HuffPo has burst out of the gate, done almost everything right, and had made a substantial impact in the political and new...

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo May 8, 2006

VIETNAM

Surely, informed analysts could go on endlessly over how the Iraq campaign differs from the Vietnam experience.  Still, as the present engagement continues to deteriorate, there must be a threshold upon which the comparison commands greater relevance. Maybe we're near that point.

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Culture Focus Photo May 7, 2006

Condomnation?

It's a striking photo-illustration on the cover of the latest NYT Mag. But is the magazine giving up too much ground to the radical fundies?  The thesis of the article Is that the conservative tide has become so swollen (the authors metaphor, not mine) that sexuality itself has become...

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo May 6, 2006

TV With The Sound Off

I was thinking about my good friend Digby's comment that "politics is TV with the sound turned off." With that in mind, I was wondering if CNN and Paula Zahn thought they drew blood in Zahn's attempted harassment of CIA analyst Ray McGovern.  If you missed it, McGovern is the...

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo May 5, 2006

Me Thinks They Doth Protest … Not At All

Me Thinks They Doth Underreport Too Much Although not widely noted in the American press, Last Sunday, an incident took place at Camp Habbaniya in Iraq -- the base where the U.S. is training new Iraqi military officers -- suggesting that ethnic and religious tensions may now threaten the...

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Campaign '06 Photo May 3, 2006

Michelle Malkin's Super Secret Scrapbook

Academy awarding-winning actor George Clooney (R) reacts as he squeezes through a doorway with Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) upon their arrival at a Washington news conference about Clooney's recent visit to the Darfur region of Sudan April 27, 2006.  Clooney and his father, journalist Nick Clooney, have just returned...

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Alan Chin Photo

The Katrina Landscape: New Images From Photojournalist Alan Chin

By now, everyone who follows this site is well familiar with photojournalist Alan Chin's remarkable black-and-white photos of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.  Alan's first set of images formed the basis for The BAG's And Then I Saw These, recently recognized by the Koufax Award as 2005's  Best Post in the...

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Campaign '06 Photo May 1, 2006

Psychology Watch: The Obvious Boy For Next Secretary Of Defense

Do you know adults that emotionally never graduated from short pants?  Are you familiar with the expression "boys will be boys?"  Do you wonder why only Senator Dodd looks embarrassed? Without a better way of understanding such things, most people attribute the Lieberman - Bush attraction to a combination of...

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Media Focus Photo

Protection Racket: A "Freeze Frame" White House Correspondents Dinner Repor(t)

Media Matters, among a raft of others, has been on fire today over the MSM's (lack of) coverage of Saturday's White House Correspondents' Dinner. For the newswire equivalent of the white wash, you've got to appreciate this shot and caption which was supposed to somehow capture the Bush/Colbert exchange.  The...

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Taking A Simple Notice

I like the outstretched, unembodied hand (suggestive of an anonymous tragedy), and the illusion that it actually makes contact with two others, one the gathering, impassioned hand of another brown-sleeved, brown man. If you survey the visual coverage from yesterday's Darfur rally in Washington, the most repeated element (besides George...

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