Teabaggers Subliminal Death Message
The most chilling and sickest thing about the Teabaggers strategy is the way their exploitation of death symbolism, merged with their hatred of the President, cross-fertilizing a "death of/to Obama" suggestion.
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Newsweek Cover: Colluding With the Wingnuts
I don't care how reasoned these articles are, this Newsweek cover is totally irresponsible.
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Did You Notice the Obama Cut-Outs* and all the Psycho Joker Obama Posters** at 9/12 Teabag Rally?
The danger of "taking the hard edges" off this radical and racist thrust is to "normalize" the Teabaggers and frame them as far more innocent than they really are.
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9.11.09
No ground zero, no mourners, no politicians, no flowers. It's an unorthodox offering from Getty photographer Spencer Platt marking the 9/11 anniversary. And yet, I find it quite telling.
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Ready – Aim, Debate
There is more troubling anti-Obama, anti-health care reform imagery in the visual media this week.
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Your Turn: 9/11/09 and Rebirth of the WTC
On this eighth anniversary of 9/11, I'm interested in the photo-documentation of the World Trade Center reconstruction.
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More Health Care Joint Session: Obama’s Psych 101
I think what inflames Republican senators more than anything is Obama's capacity to draw true feelings of empathy and concern out of them (thus throwing them into heightened, if momentary conflict with their hard-baked selves).
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Obama’s Health Care Address to Congress: Townhall Redux
More troubling visuals as Obama simultaneously reaches across the aisle and also challenges conservatives to act like grown-ups.
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Obama’s Speech, The Health Care Wars and The Fluorescent Light of the Here-and-Now
As the health care debate alternately evolves and devolves, I savor every image infusing right-wing myth-making with a jolt of reality.
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Poster Boy
The prompt here is to consider what the man in the street is thinking given how that we're propping up Karzai after he tampered with and likely stole the election.
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Sotomayor Signs On
This is the most telling shot I saw yesterday from Sandra Sotomayor's investiture and first day as a Supreme.
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School Skirmish: "Oh Brother" Vs. "Big Brother"
I'm rather proud of this image, given how the Administration deflected the latest wingnut flak.
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Afghanistan: Seeds Of Our Own Destruction
This latest NATO/U.S. airstrike to go bad was called in by German forces responsible for the mostly quiet Kunduz area in the Afghan north. Might this drive the German's out?
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Photo of a Dying Marine: The Larger View
BAGnewsNotes offers a few takes on the controversy surrounding the release of a photo showing fatal injuries to a U.S. Marine in Afghanistan.
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Beck's Visual Analysis
Just as Hitler applied a degenerate label to most contemporary art, Beck is attacking art and sculpture as a left-wing subliminal vehicle -- a Trojan Horse -- to brainwash and control the masses.
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BAGnewsOriginals: Fire Watching
I wanted to share this photo with you from BNN contributer Nina Berman of the raging fires in British Columbia.
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