"…And Next Week, I'm Planning A Live, Nationally-Televised Speech On Mormonism"
If JFK's people back in 1960 had been just half as smart as the Romney people today, how could candidate Kennedy's famous encounter at the Greater Houston Ministerial Association have been "improved?"
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Between The Mushroom Cloud And WWIII
It was interesting watching George Bush's NIE press conference all the way through. What the reporters were repeatedly trying to get at was something Bush continually preaches but utterly fails to live by, which is that: actions have consequence -- particularly in terms of one's credibility.
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Between Outlandish Parody And An Unfitting Level Of Respect
One conclusion here is that, between outlandish parody and an unfitting level of respect, Cheney continues to defy a direct, critical look.
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Framing Of The Shrew
Whatever you think of Hillary, it seems the media is taking its opportunity to pull "the Dean thing" again. I saw this image alone on the wire the other day and didn't think about it too much. But then, the NYT used it this morning to illustrate its "Angry...
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Looking For Iranian Nukes? Try Reading The Pictures
What amazes me up is not the fact that yesterday's NIE report found that Iran stopped its nuke development in 2003, or that the government was aware of this for the past year, but that the information was discovered simply by looking at news photos.
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Two Ways To Look At It
If big media has been afraid to call out Clinton for asserting he was against the war from the beginning, it seems the visual press couldn't let it go without at least a telegraph.
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All Over But The Looting
The accompanying NYT article -- highlighting a guy running a car wash with water bootlegged from the public supply -- is meant to showcase the widespread corruption plaguing a city cited as the 3rd most corrupt in the world. But then, who are we to judge?
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Soldier-Photographer
I first discovered the work of solider-photographer (or photographer-soldier) Jay Romano back in August when a member of Lightstalkers, the networking site for photojournalists, linked to his Flickr page.
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