Photographer Alan Chin, who captured the WTC attack six years ago, returned again yesterday to observe the mood around the Ground Zero site.
Continue ReadingI had a little piece at C&L about two weeks ago speculating the Democratic Leadership would certainly be smart enough not to let the Administration have Petraeus testify on 9/11 and thereby pull off a fabulous opportunity to link the two together.... It's about how we went into Iraq...
Continue ReadingSo much of politics is about how you use pictures. Now, if we could only figure out how to put them together half as well as they do.... LBJ and General William Westmoreland in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, December 23, 1967. Bush and Petraeus, et. al. in Anbar Province,...
Continue ReadingWhat the Times also accomplishes is to add more cement to the structural association between Rudy and 9/11.
Continue ReadingWhat makes the image all the more disturbing is that, according to his website, Senator Isakson served in the Georgia Air National Guard from 1966 to 1972. There is no evidence that this unit ever deployed, nor is there mention of his having served in Vietnam or in combat...
Continue ReadingIn the modern age of The War on Terror, the masks are on the wrong people, and no one seems to notice.
Continue ReadingAs profoundly upset as I am by all the tent-folding in advance of the much-touted Iraq War September showdown, I thought I'd briefly survey the visual consequences.
Continue ReadingI understand Media Matters' point that Katie was helpful. That's because, before she got there, traditional media had mostly taken the summer off from Iraq. Still, I've been going through Couric's last few reports on-line at CBS.com Video, and her reinforcement of Administration framing -- down to the indiscriminant...
Continue Readinghttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300463.html "The president heard about this idea and instantly took to it and that's why we're doing it," Hadley said.
Continue ReadingI think they picked a shot for the cover that shows Fred Thompson in healthier shape than he is now.... What with the intimation throughout the piece that Thompson lacks drive (Newsweek effectively calls him lazy on the cover and describes how he hardly ever went after a political...
Continue ReadingI don't know why more isn't made of the Administration's tactic of spiriting away -- in effect, kidnapping -- the traveling press on these thoroughly-scripted Iraq dog-and-camel shows.
Continue ReadingThe article, which mostly lays out the case for Rice's distinction as America's worst-ever Secretary of State, emphasizes repeatedly that Condi -- as is consistent with Dubya and the rest of the cabal -- does not reflect.
Continue ReadingGiven the controversy surrounding Rudy Giuliani's commemoration of 9/11, and shifting thoughts about what profile the day merits six years out, TIME's "Person Of The Year" cover for 2001 seems to grow that much more audacious.
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