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Campaign '08 Photo April 21, 2008

Duos To The Death

Since Sunday, I've been thinking about the significance of this image.  I've also been wondering skeptically about the accompanying NYT Week In Review piece, titled: "Gore-Lieberman: A Hyphen Apart? Try Poles."

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Media Focus Photo

Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand. (And Don't Forget The Ducks!)

So, I was just taking a closer look at the screen shots of the military talking heads the NYT completely busted for running interference for Rummy.

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Campaign '08 Photo April 20, 2008

McCain's Allowance

If you can show me a better example of how the media shills for McMarried-Filing-Separately, I'd love to see it.

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Campaign '08 Photo April 19, 2008

The Wimp Factor-y

With honorary lifetime seats in the swiftboat, the visual media continues to pick at Kerry's bones.  In this case, however, the sallow, ducking, baggy-eyed, over-lit Senator is not just beaten again, but offered up as the model for his potential wimp-successor.

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Eco Watch Photo April 18, 2008

Your Turn: Seeds Of Iwo Jima

New TIME Global Warming Cover: Still running interference for Bush-Cheney-Rove global war paradigm?

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Standard Operating Procedure

What is stunning about Errol Morris's generative idea for his latest film, "Standard Operating Procedure," is the observation that everyone looked at the Abu Ghraib photos (and reacted in the extreme), but nobody really "looked into" them -- not to the extent one would typically attempt to ask and...

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Media Focus Photo April 17, 2008

And, If You Happened To Have Missed Any Part Of Last Night's Clinton-Obama Pennsylvania Debate…

And, If You Happened To Have Missed Any Part Of Last Night's Clinton-Obama Pennsylvania Debate...

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Campaign '08 Photo April 15, 2008

Sights And Symbols Of Silly Season: Lapel Edition

"So, it's on, but does it stay on?  What do you say, Tim?...  Well, Keith (or Chris, or Brian), since it was a gift, he can get mileage from putting it on, but then, staying true to his position about false patriotism, he can also take it off again. ...

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Faith Focus Photo

Your Turn: Laying It Down For Christ, New Heroes

With the Pope doing the rounds, the NYT has a piece this AM about a new Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York recruiting effort encouraging men to join the priesthood.  This image comes from a slideshow featuring six posters for the campaign. 

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Media Focus Photo April 14, 2008

Don't Leave Me, Daddy. (9/11, 9/11)

Contrast this shot in today's WAPO Day in Photos with the endless White House wall paper displaying military spouses as loyal, brave and beaming....  As well, it speaks -- in the media sphere -- of the kind of unending emotional strain that military officials have been warning of more...

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Campaign '08 Photo April 13, 2008

Black Arts

Did you happen to notice yesterday's NYT profile on Charlie Black, McCain's campaign mastermind? There's a crafty, but near-imperceptible element buried in the NYT photo of the man who was Lee Atwater's mentor, as well as political consultant to Blackwater, foreign dictators, and the like.

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Campaign '08 Photo April 12, 2008

Bitter Has Its Own Poster

He's Shepard Fairey's original Obama poster, and he's the reformulated version on Michelle Malkin's blog, attacking Obama as an elitist and riffing on the Clinton attack.

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Media Focus Photo April 11, 2008

Naked Power

The story that's been bouncing around the echo chamber the last two days really has nothing to do with whether a naked woman was reflected in Cheney's shades.  The real story has to do with all the on-line hoo-ha over it, demonstrating how much Cheney's monumental and naked exercise...

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Campaign '08 Photo April 10, 2008

Keep The Change.

A couple weeks after lambasting borrowers as much as lenders for the mortgage meltdown, McCain has supposedly done a 180˚....  So how did McEconomics redress his charge that those good folks who got played by the finance companies should have known better?...  Sorry, temporarily took this post down to...

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Serpentine Days

I found yesterday's "last visual word" on the Petraeus testimony a really telling image.  It was paired with a headline dealing with the bleakness of the General's testimony.  In the dead-tree version, you can see all the shoes on the the floor, prompting John Lucaites, a BAG contributer to...

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Media Focus Photo April 9, 2008

President Matthews

Some thoughts on the image leading the early-release 8000 word NYT Magazine piece on Chris Matthews (the photo supplied by, yep, Chris Matthews).

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo April 8, 2008

Iraq Civil War – #5 (Day 13): The Reality Barrier

Although the uprising that took place two weeks ago in Basra has been soft-peddled by the media, the Administration and even Clinton and Obama -- or simply attributed to trouble making by Iran by way of the evil Mr. al-Sadr (even though it was Iran that pulled the parties...

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Campaign '08 Photo

Your Turn: Bruising Hillary

I was interested in your take on the provocative cover of the Village Voice depicting Hillary as bruised and battered.

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