With all the pressure on Romney on Wednesday, I'm interested to see how much he can keep his tone and his mood in check.
Continue ReadingWhile the comments in the TIME thread do battle over Romney's missionary work during the Vietnam War, I'm more interested in the meaning and effect of this photo emerging now.
Continue ReadingHow many ways was Netanyahu's performance yesterday the n-th degree of crazy? Well, here are a few.
Continue ReadingSatire has been called ‘the lie that tells the truth' ...
Continue ReadingThe future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons. from: Obama’s speech to the General Assembly, September 25, 2012 If...
Continue ReadingGoing with replacement refs, what has been happened in the NFL is nothing short of apocalyptic, at least according American sports media.
Continue ReadingWhen people look back and ask how Obama defeated Romney, one of the more unsung reasons will be pop culture. Because Obama has done the TV circuit so many time, his appearance on ABC’s The View this week actually had to touted as “the President and the First Lady’s...
Continue ReadingThis "long read" is an online version of a talk presented June 23, 2012 at the Photoville photo festival in Brooklyn, NY about the growing prominence and editorial capabilities of the news photo.
Continue ReadingLooks like the the C.I.C. might be covering his flank a bit with this one, the fresh Flickr photo likely a response to the uptick in vulnerability lately on Libya, Egypt and foreign policy. Taken on August 1st and posted Friday, that’s an impressive landing party with all the...
Continue ReadingThe fact there are people who wouldn't figure out this was photoshopped is the least of the problem here.
Continue Reading“Property up there is, I’m sure, very, very expensive. And we got to her driveway — it was at least a mile long, up and up, it’s like, Oh my goodness, how in the world?” Romney said. “And then we came to the home, and it was like San...
Continue ReadingI posted this on the Bag’s Facebook page yesterday not knowing how much the discussion and disturbance surrounding it would grow. As not just an analyst of visual politics but having done my doctoral dissertation on the psychological properties of effective metaphors, I wanted to explain in a simple...
Continue ReadingWhat's fascinating about Ann, especially, is how much she's become more enigmatic than less.
Continue ReadingPretty audacious given his wife's mandate.
Continue ReadingBecause the conditions that motivated Occupy's existence remain largely unchanged from a year ago, it's truly painful to see the protests in the streets of Manhattan this week ignored as "same ol' same ol'," and primarily dismissed as a birthday party.
Continue ReadingSo, yesterday Bag offered its latest lamentation regarding fundraising secrecy — with a few choice example of Instagramers knocking at the door. Then, what do you know. Not twelve hours later, MoJo releases the secret Romney fundraiser tapes without the faces blacked out, and Romney does a couple fundraisers...
Continue ReadingSo many people have emailed me this photo, I wanted to hear your thoughts about it. Here’s the caption: Egyptian protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks pose for a photo graffiti on a wall of the U.S. embassy during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. Egyptian protesters, largely...
Continue ReadingIf you’ve been a long-standing reader, you know I’m continually on the lookout for images, purloined or otherwise, from these regular campaign shakedowns. (The photo below, from a post I did during the 2010 mid-terms, was taken by a Roll Call photog capturing Speaker Boehner in donor collection mode...
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