BAGnewsNotes Visualizes The Democratic Convention
As a credentialed convention blog, BAGnewsNotes will be offering extensive coverage from Denver for four days starting this coming Monday. Besides up to 5 posts per day of visual analysis, we will be tracking visual coverage around the web as well as offering extensive original material from photojournalist Alan...
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Your Turn: What's In A Background
Photo from AP Photo by John Raoux President Bush addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. From AP Photo by John Raoux. 19 hours ago: President Bush addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Orlando, Fla., Wednesday, Aug. 20,...
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Setting The Table For Denver, LA Times Plays "The Celebrity Card"
Would anyone care to suggest that the "celebrity" virus launched by the McCain campaign hasn't well infected the traditional media?
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Looking Into A Man's Sole
Coming from the candidate who called for a high-minded campaign, then almost immediately kicked off a shallow and continuous string of character attacks, however, McCain has specifically determined that privilege and elitism would become central themes in this election fight.
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Russia Resurgent: One Side Of The Same Coin
I'm not making excuses for the Russians, but I am interested in double-standards.
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How to Win Friends and Be Influenced By People
What I can't understand is how much the media narrative not only overlooks Bush's fantasy friendship as a key to Putin's empowerment, but how much the two share the same ideology when it comes to power.
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Obama The Antichrist (Channelled By CNN)
I was watching this outrageous CNN piece at the gym, with the sound off, and I almost feel of the stairmaster.
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Is Bush Hitting The Sauce … And Does The Distinction Really Matter At This Point?
Is Bush Hitting The Sauce?
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PR-Happy Saakashvili Wasn't Asking For It, Was He, In Flaunting U.S. Weaponry?
PR-Happy Saakashvili Wasn't Asking For It, Was He, In Flaunting U.S. Weaponry?
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Political Geography
As much as McCain accuses Russia of having grand designs, McCain is milking the Georgia crisis for all it's worth.
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Swiftboating A Facial Expression
What makes a meme effective, be it -- verbal, visual or the combination -- is constant repetition. Does the cover of Corsi's Obama poison-pill look familiar?
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We Are ALL Georgians?
U.S. military transport planes disgorging combat soldiers in Georgia? If McCain were president, it's not such a stretch to imagine those soldiers as Americans, as opposed to locals having gotten an airlift out of Iraq.
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Hold The Rice
It's not that Bush has been two-timing Condi (the second shot, from the NATO-Russian Council meeting last April). It's just that the French, led by Foreign Minister Kouchner, happened to be on the job -- and on the scene (above, in Gori yesterday) -- on the third day of...
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Bush Has Georgia's Back
What Bush's Georgian cheerleading and advocacy can be credited with is emboldening Saakashvili to provoke Russia in the first place, accounting for this contrast, between giggles in Bucharest, and Saakashvili hitting the dirt in Gori during a Russian airstrike.
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The Games Of The 43rd Presidency – #2: Going Along Swimmingly
Check out this sequence of frames from the Michael Phelps world record in the 400-meter individual medley Saturday evening. As Phelps acknowledges the win, the camera finds Bush rooting him on, the signature flag included. Feels like 2002 all over again, NBC doing its best to fold Bush in...
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The Games Of The (Tail End Of The) 43rd Presidency – #1: Hugger-'N-Slapper-In-Chief
Bush playing for Nike? Misty May stunt plus Kerry's assets and double-swoosh. Just do it!
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Olympic Notes: The More Things Change …
There has been something of a small controversy brewing here, as some such as U.S. basketball coach Anne Donovan, have accused her of being unpatriotic, but Hammon’s more numerous defenders have been quick to point out that there is nothing new about naturalized citizens playing in the Olympics, and...
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Nightline With The Sound Off
I wouldn't bother with this post at all, except I spent a lot of time this past year defending Edwards from media slander.
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