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Continue ReadingI was interested in your take on this photo. It accompanied a recent NYT story titled: "In Iowa, the Living Room Has Fallen Out of Favor." The gist of the piece is that candidates, for the first time, have abandoned the more intimate form of early primary campaigning.
Continue ReadingHow perfect. Just three days before the awards show, and TIME plays the hype to imagine Hillary as Bette Davis, the "great but aging actress" in All About Eve, and Obama as the (female) ingenue looking to take her down.
Continue ReadingThis shot foreshadows George Bush's frequent attempts to associate himself with George Washington. Given a similar White House photo taken just two months ago, it also reflects Bush's interest in associating himself with key Iraq Shiite leader, Abdul-Aziz Al-Hakim.
Continue ReadingWould we be seeing this image, however, if Maureen Dowd hadn't set off a Geffen - Clinton flame war, while accusingly referring to Hillary's campaign as "Clinton Inc.?"
Continue ReadingPR-wise, McCain started things rolling a week ago at the Capitol Hill G8+5 Climate Change Dialogue. In that instance, the Senator made the newswires alongside climate mega-benefactor, Richard Branson.
Continue ReadingSo Helen Thomas is getting the push. But it's not just her peers who are pushing. It's this alternately patronizing, then dismissive piece at politico.com.
Continue ReadingThere's an interesting photo on the White House website today. It's a single shot of Dick Cheney disembarking Air Force Two in Japan.... Instead, he comes off looking like, well, a typical Vice President. Is it just arbitrary that Cheney seems so small, or so isolated?
Continue ReadingWhat was really fantastica was yesterday's miracle announcement that, suddenly, based on new data, the Sunni's are as rich in oil as the Kurd's and the Shiite's! (Really, what an amazing coindence -- just as the U.S. is jumping through hula hoops trying to get the Iraqi's to pass...
Continue ReadingAfter a four month investigation without permission, WAPO offers an inside look at outpatient conditions at Walter Reed hospital. What we see in the article and slide show is alarming, if not surprising.
Continue ReadingWith all the violence marking the Fatah-Hamas power struggle, there's no telling if the alliance will work. Still, this group shot is striking, reflective of far greater Mid-East solidarity -- if only, just pretend -- than Bush, Rove and Condi could even begin to work up.
Continue ReadingConsidering this visual treatment at the hands of desperate-to-rise and suddenly morally unregulated MSM blogs, however, it seems having a father from Kenya (born on almost the same continent as bin Laden, right?) and a middle name remininscent of one of America's formerly favorite dictators, is just too irresistible...
Continue ReadingPersonally, it grows increasing harder to survey the Iraq pictures without overwhelmingly suffering the political context. On one hand, you how you've got the hopes of the participants, the bond between the soldiers and journalists, and the authority of the U.S. military pulling for a prettier view. On the...
Continue ReadingThe "collage" is a round-up of recent political visuals The BAG couldn't let go by.
Continue Readinghe might as well be white" http://mediamatters.org/items/200702130003 You can't bring up anything other than that suddenly he's African-American. If you start to, you know, delve around the edges, say, "Wait a minute, isn't he mixed race?... Can I even say that without somebody else starting a campaign saying, 'What...
Continue ReadingFAIR article: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3037 Won't Get Fooled Again? NYT, networks offer scant skepticism on Iran claims Latest cover of Economist.... Because of the way metaphors work, most people look at this picture and think "stealth."... Reinforces the idea of going along, not making too much noise.
Continue ReadingU.S. makes case that Iran arms flow into Iraq - Los Angeles Times Iraq: Failing To Disarm -- Description of Video-only File of UN Inspectors Discovering Warheads Secretary of State Addresses the U.N. Security Council warhead image - Iraq U.N. inspectors 2003 bbc http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38717000/jpg/_38717009_shell-bbc-150.jpg&imgrefurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2677315.stm&h=180&w=150&sz=4&hl=en&sig2=Rv9Zwmnz05cDNhpETtQZIQ&start=3&tbnid=baXU-P4AAwhHVM:&tbnh=101&tbnw=84&ei=gVPQRdBqu8jBAea1hbEP&prev=/images%3Fq%3Du.n.%2Binspectors%2Biraq%2Bwarheads%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26c2coff%3D1%26sa%3DG LAT Slide Show: Iranian "evidence":...
Continue ReadingNina Berman's photo of Iraq veteran Ty Ziegel and his wife, Renee Kline, won a first prize in the portraits category in the 2007 World Press photo awards announced Friday.
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