The DeLay Morph: Goodbye Hammer, Hello Twinkletoes
If the image seems superfluous, validating how Tom Delay has found his level as a has-been anchoring a cheap reality show, ABC in fact has afforded him the perfect platform.
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NASCARe Plan
Given how NASCAR was a Bush/Rove favorite and how much the organization is synonymous with the Southern white conservative male, I can't see how an image like this -- highlighting Obama's pervasive tendency to curry favor with his philosophical and ideological antagonists -- could serve as anything else right...
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Kennedy Funeral: The Presidents
A few random thoughts on and associations to this photo of the Presidents from the Kennedy funeral.
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Memorial Politics: Yes We Can
It's impossible to expect (and foolish to protest) that Teddy -- in death, in memory and in pictures -- would somehow suddenly relinquish his identity as an advocate.
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Your Turn: Platon's Goodbye to Ted Kennedy
When Teddy Kennedy buried his nephew, he echoed Yeats' words that a man should "live to comb gray hair." BAGreaders respond to Platon's portrait of Kennedy on TIME's commemorative cover
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GOP Health Care Two Step: Cowards or Hypocrites?
Either ranking GOP Senate Health Committee and "Gang of Six" member Mike Enzi has been working to fashion a health care solution or he is determined to torpedo the process. Which is it?
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Your Turn: Glamour’s "Astonishing" "Average Size" Woman
I'm interested in your take on the photo, and buzz, surrounding the photo of "average size" model Lizzi Miller in the latest issue of Glamour.
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Rove’s Fun and Games in the Name of Wounded Warriors
If Karl Rove is so intent on exploiting the kind of suffering that would lead a veteran and/or his family to question the worth of existence, he should tell it to the people paying for his handiwork, not Sean Hannity.
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Kennedy’s Passing: Change In Health Care Calculus, Or Same-Old, Same-Old?
Going forward, the preeminent question is: can Kennedy's passing actually alter the trajectory of health care reform or is his final legacy mostly a media score?
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Losing Kennedy
Kennedy would have been fundamentally disappointed if we were to put politics aside, even for a minute, rather than use his death as a rallying cry.
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Links and Traps
if this photo op spawns swings at Obama, the President has no one to tee off on but himself.
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Not Delivering "High-Decibel Rants," I Guess All Those Dittoheads — Oops, I Mean, Citizens — Must Be "More Reasoned Voices"
I guess all those Dittoheads, -- oops, I mean, citizens -- attending health care meetings and not delivering "high-decibel rants" must instead represent "calmer, more reasoned voices."
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.38 More Ways to Counter the Teabaggers?
After several incidents last week in which right wing radicals showed up at health care meetings wearing guns, we now have this example of a pro-reform demonstrator appearing at a tea party protest this weekend packing heat.
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Obama, Old Faithful and the Real Animals
Two weeks ago, when I saw this photo-op of the Obamas in front of Old Faithful, I took it as mostly nostalgic.Today, however, with the radicals not just appropriating the health care issue but GOP politics, I see something more pressing.
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Cutting a Figure
After the unusual firing of McChrystal's predecessor and all the build up surrounding this Saddam-capturing, Zarqawi-snuffing former Special Ops wonderkind, the notorious Stanley stands in the middle of this crowd of Afghans as if he's invisible.
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BAG Archive Edition: Vogue + LaBron (Kong?) + Gisele = Kaching
Some say the photo of LeBron James -- in a gorilla-like pose -- perpetuates racial stereotypes.
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BAG Archive Edition: Terri's Army
Jeb just can't let Terri go. With his recent decision to investigate Michael Schiavo's role in his wife's medical demise, Jeb Bush and the Right to Life movement demonstrate that there is still mileage to be gained from this entanglement. In the BAG's recent effort to collaborate with photojournalists,...
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BAG Archive Edition: War Time America
In her continuing look at militarization and the security of the homeland, contributer Nina Berman offers us a set of images tied to Atlantic City's "Thunder Over The Boardwalk" air show this past August.
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