August 2011 - Page 3 of 4 - Reading The Pictures

Campaign '12 Photo August 12, 2011

GOP Debate: Titanium Is A Girl's Best Friend

By supporting Bachmann, conservatives get to be “family (values) friendly” feminists. They can “make history” without disrupting tradition.

Brendan Hoffman Photo

The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Ron Paul — As Normal as Deep Fried Butter

To the extent this gives Paul a bit of a pious cast, it's makes him as normal, right now, as deep fried butter.

Disaster Focus Photo

Jake Price in Japan: Five Months On

Jake Price returns to the earthquake and tsunami devastated zone in Japan, where cultural celebration renews life alongside mountains of debris and for some -- bleak prospects for the future.

Campaign '12 Photo August 11, 2011

Romney: My God, You're Just Human Beings?

If Romney's statement that "corporations are people" was stunning, just as telling was his reaction when people started laughing out loud.

Brendan Hoffman Photo

The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Is Bachmann Sexy?

Is Bachmann bringing something sexual to the photo or the campaign, or is she more the Madonna to Palin's other kind of energy.

Culture Focus Photo August 10, 2011

About The Iconic London Riots Photo

Who can't relate right now to the the world on fire, or the sense of free fall?

Brendan Hoffman Photo

The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Perry, a Prayer and a Cookie

Given how his candidate has been working the God-card, Jeff seems like the perfect endorsement for his man.

Business Focus Photo August 9, 2011

The Almighty Market

Witnessing the power of Wall Street these past few weeks, the photo is spot-on.

Brendan Hoffman Photo

The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Comic Relief –Team Newt Laying Eagle Eggs

With all the bad stuff in the air right down, we thought you could use a more featherweight look at the Iowa scramble as we count down to Saturday's Ames Straw Poll.

Media Focus Photo August 8, 2011

Return of the Bug-Eyed Bachmann

Most people believe that we’ve moved beyond this level of sexism in our political culture, and many liberals are sanguine about the sexist implications of the recent Bachmann depictions, adopting a sort of “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .” mentality. The...

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Economic Fall Out: More Issues With George

Before Krugman completely loses it over the S & P, and Drew Westin totally loses it over Obama’s failure to frame, well, anything … and before one more publication tries to use George Washington and the dollar bill to illustrate this supposed tail-spin the economy is in, CoverJunkie reaches...

Campaign '12 Photo

The Picture from Iowa, 2012: Prayerful Bachmann Flaunts Separation of Church and State

In reading the news accounts, and then examining Brendan's photos, it seems that policy, advocacy, testimony and prayer is now all simmering in the same soup.

Campaign '12 Photo August 6, 2011

Crossing the Line: Perry/Jesus 2012

Governor Perry crosses the line in evoking Jesus Christ and Christian prayer as a vehicle for "healing" unemployment at Texas "prayer rally."

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Wall Street's Flag-flation

I'm always impressed by the deployment and ever-proliferating yardage of patriotic imagery deployed by the New York Stock Exchange.

Media Focus Photo August 5, 2011

TIME Cover: Debt Crisis Pummels America. (Tea Party Still at Large.)

Ha! This cracks me up the way the illustration incorporates not just the anchor text for the lead story (THE GREAT AMERICAN DOWNGRADE) but also the text for a, yes, “supposedly” separate story (HOW THE TEA PARTY HIJACKED AMERICA). Because both headlines are contained in the oval of the...