Sniffle
Realize how the presumptuous Sarah was just taking a break from the teleprompter for an instant, and that, otherwise, her appearance in Golden, Colorado was mostly a Mad Ave.-style agglomeration of sex appeal, maternal idealization, ideological harangue and firing range adreline surge.
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Cheney's Head (Or: Looking At It From The Goldman Sachs Side)
Despite the anxieties — and outright anger — expressed during the Republicans’ nearly two-hour exchange with Cheney and the other White House officials, lawmakers remained respectful enough to give the vice president two standing ovations.
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Finally Taking His Turn, Mac Suffers Palin Too
It's one thing to watch interviewers respond to Sarah Palin's odd mixture of bravado and gibberish. It's another to observe McCain along for the ride. As such, I offer you a breakdown of McCain's "micro reactions" in the first first forty-four seconds of last night's interview with Katie Couric.
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McCain's Casino
I'm still admiring the shot accompanying the NYT McCain gambling expose. The piece outlines McCain's potential conflict of interest involving his oversight of the gambling industry (not to mention, his personal penchant for the tables).
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Cry Me A River
No matter what kind of fallout lies ahead, I believe these pictures will be met not with joy, but with a satisfaction by "folks on Main Street," simply for the fact the ruling class didn't get what it wanted.
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Credit Mess Over The Credit Mess
With the astronomical bipartisan bailout package on the verge of passage, I haven't seen a shot of Dems and Repubs standing together since, well, McCain blew through town.
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Bell Tightening On Wall Street
With the Wall Street bailout set for Congressional passage today, I offer you an ironic counterpoint.
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Your Turn: Trickster McCain
In the progressively evolving search for the perfect visual McCain analogy (as Mac continues to reveal himself), this "McCain as The Joker" is chillingly incisive. I'll leave it up to you to elaborate why.
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Art For Obama: Authenticity And Purity Of Race And Patriotism
Titled Art For Obama, fifty of the country's most prominent artists and photographers have donated their work for this auction. BNN offers you a look at two of the works up for bid.
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McCain Sticks It To Palin?
Paired with Sarah Palin's absence from last night's Presidential debate, this photo-op of the McCain's boarding their campaign plane yesterday for Mississippi with the Giuliani's is phenomenally awkward.
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McCain Would Have Won … If He Wasn't So Weird
What is stunning to me is how much the media and the nets are expressing reservations about McCain's performance when -- especially listening to clips of the debate on the radio -- I thought McCain was rhetorically more effective than Obama. What accounts for that, I believe, whether articulated...
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Keeping A Low Profile With The Gang
Because yesterday's media was filled with shots of McCain trooping around the Capitol, as well as meeting with the President and bipartisan leadership, visual consumers received a thoroughly biased view of who McCain has actually been in bed with.
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Financial Crisis: Obama Gets Played In Background Check
Johnny comes beyond late to the party, throws a hand grenade into the budget process, then wakes up Friday morning to find, right there on the front page of the NYT, the hero on the march.
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Thoughts On The Debate: Real Estate, Faces, Teeth
Still, I was contacted by a reporter from NPR a couple days ago, asking what I thought were the key "visual cues" to be looking for during the debate.... I want to see how much he tries to lean, or even move away from his podium to toward Obama...
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Old McCain CW: Heroic Bomber Pilot. New McCain CW: Kamikaze.
Sitting there pretending he's being constructive after colluding with House Republicans that morning to blow up intense, three-day-old bipartisan negotiations, that's the look of the cat that ate the canary.
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McCain's Face Value
The reason Lettermen lashed out at McCain last night in playing a make-up outtake from Mac's interview before Couric's program? It's not just because McCain ditched Letterman at the last minute to do the interview.
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Don't Bite The Hand That Shoots You
Here's CNN's push back on its "photo-sploitation" at the hands of Team McCain during Sarah Palin's "speed dating" of world leaders in NYC this week.
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Have A Little FU With Your National Crisis
It's a fascinating portrait of the co-conspirators who, this morning, pulled the plug on the McCain campaign.
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