Health Care Sandwich
If you watch the video from the local news station, you can tell how tense the scene was with Perlmutter -- at one point -- having to cajole the mob elements to settle down. With hostility all around and picture captions identify most of the citizens present as critics...
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Limbaugh's Comparison: Getting it Reich
Limbaugh compares Obama health care logo to Nazi swastika.
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Sotomayor Confirmed: Hip-Hop Hooray!
I'm wondering how much cultural and racial loading there is in juxtaposing America's first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice with a tag spray-painted on the wall outside her apartment building while also capturing her wave so it looks like a hip-hop gesture?
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Wingers "Speaking Out"
A week after these incidents began, I'm glad to see the NYT finally documenting organized right wing efforts to subvert public health care forums.
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TGIF
Because it's been a long, tense week, and because I'm not much of a cat blogger, I thought I'd share this tongue-buried-in-cheek piece of commentary from Wonkette instead. Consider the source -- with apologies in advance to Pete Souza.
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Smelling Blood: Health Care Debates and The Picture of Terrorism
With benefit of the angle, we get a sweeping view of how the wingnuts -- exploiting the health care "debate"-- are taking to not just demonizing, but terrorizing Congresspeople.
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Noble Savage
The New Yorker article and the illustration paint Michael Savage more like a cranky uncle than the bilious media personality he is.
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Fairey’s "Obama So Far"
I'm wondering if Shepard Fairey's new Obama illustration on the Rolling Stone cover represents a more insightful picture of how Obama ticks.
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Gay Israel
Netanyahu the hawk, the man's man, visiting the Tel Aviv gay youth center, Beit Paz, where two people were murdered last week.
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Return of the Diplomats
What makes the image of Bubba and Kim Jong-Il so profound is the visual sense Clinton pulled off a "summit on the fly."
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Vicious Right Turn: Obama A Joker? Dead Heath Ledger? Vampire? …Or Just Wingnut’s Enigma?
The LA Weekly probably didn't know what hit them after its writer took a back-of-the-hand to this chilling poster of Obama as the Joker (and the dead Health Ledger).
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Target: We Own You
WAPO ombudsman catches Living section having photoshopped Target logo onto hipster's arm.
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Partying Like It’s, Well, 2000 – 2008
What makes the picture worthy is that it nails the essential character of Bush's unblinking administration (and also reconciles the early Bush with the much ballyhooed dry drunk version).
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Chuck Kwon Do
A pictorially-driven site like Zimbio brands itself as “an interactive magazine with over 18 million readers a month.” How to explain the popularity? Besides the mainline celebrity coverage, you might see this kind of tactic — involving the convergence of celebrity culture and politics/political celebrity mixed in a pot...
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Michelle Malkin with the Sound Off
In the tradition of Limbaugh or Colter, Michelle Malkin's anger is always looking to break through to the surface, and when it does, it's often palpable to the point of paranoia.
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Gates in Baghdad: Three Day Old Fish
In light of a recent military memo regarding the rapid deterioration of U.S. - Iraqi military cooperation, these photos of Secretary Gates hobnobbing with Iraqi military last Tuesday in Baghdad and Talil are just pure propaganda.
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