Early Signs Of Sarah Palin's Radical Agenda?
what the photo telegraphs is that, even at this early stage of her local career, Palin is revealing herself as an activist officeholder with not just ambitious, but much larger and radical notions.
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Wall Street Fun-And-Games
The desperately eroding Wall Street situation, with its thorough absence of accountability, reminded me of these photos from this photo-op Presidency.
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Your Turn: Pink, Red, Blue, Red, Mustard, More Red, Click
For example, there's this morning's rather schematic AP story about Hillary avoiding Palin, Hillary's And then, playing off the image a little more literally, there's a Wall Street Journal slide show titled: Buying Palin's Shoes, about how "her personal style has sparked a buying frenzy."... Class has definitely been...
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Human Suffering
I was drawn to two images presented back-to-back in Monday's NYT Pictures of the Day slide show juxtaposing the suffering of Wall Street execs with survivors of Hurricane Ike.
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Free Michelle
With just 48 days to go, in a campaign defined as much as anything for its Us or People Magazine-style of symbolism, my question is: why isn't Michelle Obama being deployed more visibly by the Obama campaign?
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Experience Matters
In this clever image by Christopher Morris offers the inference that Sarah Palin is mostly an empty suit. The photo was posted on the TIME White House photo blog back on September 3rd, with the title and caption: "Closet Space: The dress worn by Sarah Palin at the announcement...
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Pedestrian Concerns
Of all the images I look at yesterday concerning the financial crisis, I found this one -- by AP's fine photographer Mary Altaffer -- to be the most arresting. These pedestrians are looking up at the headquarters of the now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers. The picture is only more fitting, however,...
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Wall Street Pictures So Stealth, They Haven't Even Scored A Lipstick Analogy
As I tweeted last night, this whole stealthy, slow-motion mortgage and now banking train wreck -- much of which, we've been told assuredly, in the margins, we'll be paying for -- is not going to go anywhere media-wise and probably won't bisect the presidential campaign (at least, not in...
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The Picture of Deception
I'm not going to defend the fact freelance photographer Jill Greenberg deceived John McCain, embarrassed her client, The Atlantic, and potentially damaged her burgeoning freelance career. Still, BAGnewsNotes is primarily about the picture, and I find her subversive, up-lit portrait of Steve Schmidt's client brimming with characterological truth.
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SNL (With The Sound Off)
Visually, the most instructive element of last night's sketch was "Tina Palin's" literal embrace of "Amy Clinton."
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Low Down On "The First Dude"
In clever recognition of the "tabloidization" of the campaign, the NYT pairs this shot of the Palin's with an article ("Active Role for Palin’s Husband in Alaska Government") -- building off a companion article ("Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes") -- outlining the ethical and political boundary-crossing...
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Pumped Up
If ABC had only put as much thought into the backdrop of this Palin interview as it put into the questions. Looks like feeding in to the power play.
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Your Turn: Slightly Different Views
I offer you two representative images off the newswire, one from the McCain's appearance yesterday on The View, the second from Cindy's appearance back on April 21st.
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September 11, 2008: What Is Still "Ground Zero"
This is the second year BAGnewsNotes has featured Alan Chin's images of the 9/11 anniversary from the World Trade Center site.
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Palin Gibson
These are not stills the media is going to show you, but they are characteristic of a) the hard-edge of the Veep candidate, and b) how over her head the presumptuous Sarah Palin is on the national stage.
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The Honorable John McCain Broke 9/11 "No Campaign" Pledge. But Who Would Notice?
In spite of the candidate's pledge not to politicize 9/11, I don't see how John McCain can call his stealth appearance at the Shanksville memorial ceremony early yesterday anything but a campaign appearance.
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The BAGnewsSALON: 9/11: Looking Back From Now
Continuing our special features here at BNN, we would like to invite you to another edition of the BAGnewsSALON. This on-line real-time discussion, titled 9/11: Looking Back From Now, will be held here Thursday evening 5-6:30 PST, 8 - 9:30 EST.
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As True Now As It Was Prescient Then…
Incredibly or not incredibly, Bush STILL milking 9/11.
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