1 Puppet Master; 1 Cut Out; 1 Repeat-After-Me; 4 Teleprompters (And More Than A Dash Of Schwarzenegger)
I feel I'm just waking up from a 10-day-long hallucination ... and, I suddenly have no idea why I went to the trouble of scanning that Newsweek "Palentology" cover. (Right, no link.)
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Politicizing 9/11
I have my issues with Obama and McCain showing up at Ground Zero tomorrow morning and politicizing the event. What is also bothering me, however, is how Team McCain has already set the stage to exploit 9/11 from Alaska -- and further envelope Palin in the flag and the...
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The Wolves Den: McCain, Schmidt Fully Playing The Race Card Now
What is horribly troubling, more than the decrepit tone of the McCain attacks in their viral video destruction campaign, is how Steve Schmidt -- beginning yesterday -- is openly playing the race card. In this latest salvo, in a piece titled ..........., Obama, by way of these consecutive frames,...
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McCain Ad Ties Sex With Race
In today's trip to the swamp, the McCain campaign's latest attack video is designed to intimate that Obama desires to sexualize the lives of young children.
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Palin Blow-Back: Kissing Up To John Juan
With the media panicking for having scrutinized Sarah Palin, it is now in full retreat. Check out today's double front-page image of McCain and Palin hugging, then John and Cindy kissing. Definitely, kissing up is the theme.
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John McCain And The Chocolate Factory
One can only wonder what the McCain campaign had in mind when they decided to hold a rally this weekend in Cedarburg, Wisconsin against the backdrop of a confectioner’s shop called “The Chocolate Factory,” but surely the allusion to “Willy Wonka” could not have escaped them.
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(God’s) Country First
In a brilliant piece of photo editing, however, The Times provides vivid illustration of how Palin stands for the merger of church and state, especially the military state. As The Times relates, Palin tells the Assembly of God Church, regarding her sons deploying to Iraq, that: they should pray...
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The Palin Nerve
Beyond the TIME cover of a not-so-passive Sara Palin, the public needs to see a more unobstructed view, such as the Sarah Palin buddy-buddy with Senator Stevens, or the Sarah Palin addressing the successionist Alaska Independent Party or even the glorified hunter with the bloody animals.
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Your Turn: McNoPoly
After the Palin tsunami and Cindy's Minneapolis snow job, however, it seems all that's left off the "elitism counter-offensive" and the Cindy (and John) Show is this delicious piece of back-on-track New Yorker satire.
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There's Projection And There's Projection
You've probably already seen the picture of McCain's entrance for his RNC acceptance speech. What it illustrates extremely well is how the Republican's, in their blunt yet effective playbook, make use of projection.
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Poster Mom
In presupposing what kind of advocate a Vice President Palin would be for the mentally disabled, Newsweek helps visually fortify the GOP's strategic exploitation of family and motherhood.
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RNC Packaging
With the traditional media largely swallowing the visual propaganda of the Republican Convention, this shot by Shannon Stapleton does an elegant job of calling it out.
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The Role-Reversing, "Uppity" Atlantic Cover
Following the "TV with the sound off" test, check out this photoshopped cover of the new Atlantic while covering up the words. In this case, what the picture communicates is Obama (in reality, the "cool" one) as the warrior, while McCain (the actual "hot" one, who otherwise can't keep...
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RNC Final Night Top 10
The following is my list of the top ten pics from the final night of the 08 Republican Convention. Okay, I mean, my top eleven.
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More Family Values
Call it another example of how the visual media gets sucked into the cultural politics. This shot show the hand of Levi Johnston. Johnston has a tattoo of Bristol Palin's name tattooed on his left ring finger
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The Right To Be Here
This is just a pic, and an accompanying write-up posted anonymously at Twin Cities Indymedia, I wanted to pass along.
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A Call For The BAG
I seriously never thought I'd do another BAG again, it being years now, but this situation is just so frickin weird, it just came out of me.
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RNC Wednesday Wrap-Up: Mothers And Forefathers
Helping bridge Sarah Palin's self-avowed pit bull role, the RNC flashed large scenes behind her evoking the American landscape. There was a towering shot of the arch in St. Louis, another of farm fields, still another of a ferris wheel at dusk.
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