Olympic Notes: Slam Dunk On The Earthquake
It was just a brilliant piece of propaganda tonight in the Olympic opening ceremonies, pairing Chinese NBA basketball star Yao Ming and nine-year-old Lin Hao, a little boy who rescued classmates from his school during the catastrophic earthquake in Sichuan province, as flag bearers for the Chinese team.
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Olympic Notes: Beijing On Its Face
Beyond just a face-lift, Beijing has undergone radical surgery, especially poor neighborhoods which have been effectively or even literally walled off.
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"Painful" Take Aways
McCain still plumbing the depths of the "Obama feminized, hot black man has it for hot white woman, famous-for-being-famous bimbo/celeb territory," now glombed onto tax-and-spend hysteria.
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Latest Cover For Iraq's Core Meltdown
Remarkable, isn't it, how this cover -- illustrating Sunday's NYT Mag lead story on Iraq -- manages to reduce what is otherwise a crumbling Rubrik's cube to a one-liner?
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Reader Poll (Vault) And The Chinese Drinking Contest
Okay team, do we do a 10%, 50% or 90% turn toward China, and the visual politics of the Olympics?
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Your Turn: Tyra B + Jackie O + Michelle O
So I'm wondering, is the Tyra Banks photo spread supposing herself as a combo-Jackie/Michelle O. in the White House a plus for The Obama's or a negative?
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He's Not For Anything, He's For Everything
Forget "flip flopping" or "I was for it before I was against it." The McCain campaign is reaching for a whole new, supposedly hypocrisy-transcendent state known as: "all of the above" (...in which any policy, or picture, can simultaneously mean one thing and its opposite).
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ObamaPhobia: BagNewsNotes Netroots Nation Presentation ’08
For those of you who have yet to see it, I'm proud to bring you the "fuel injected" audio slideshow version of "ObamaPhobia," my presentation delivered July 19th, 2008 at the NetrootsNation conference in Austin.
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ObamcCain
Starting with this gesture I called out recently by the LA Times, there seems to be some media instinct out there to blur the difference between the fundamentally different Obama and McCain.
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The McCain Buffalo Chip (Un-)Cover-Up
Only the wildly hypocritical McCain could could have made the scene at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally at the Buffalo Chip campground in Sturgis, S.D. and escaped any blowback from the wild debauchery and female exploitation that characterizes the event.
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Outfitting The Swift Boat
Rove has now set in place the framing designed for Obama's popularity, charisma, freshness, youth and religiosity to turn on itself.
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Likely Event Of An Emergency
the tone of the campaign has, indeed, experienced a very sudden drop in cabin pressure, ushering in the likely event of an emergency landing.
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How Schizo Is This, Putting Obama In Double-Bind?
My question is, does the NYT put Obama in a classic double bind by simultaneously illuminating his racial constraints with both blacks and whites?
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Obama's "Entitlement" vs. Plain Looking The Part
McCain has been ripping Obama for having a "God complex," but perhaps the main issue has to do with how much Obama -- held up to the presidential role, and as compared to McCain -- fits the part.
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Some Breaking News: "Dollar Bill" McCain
But what's really classic is that McCain put Obama's face on a dollar bill over a month ago!
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