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Campaign '12 Photo September 30, 2012

Setting the Table for Wednesday: The Romney – Kennedy Debate

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.

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Campaign '12 Photo September 29, 2012

I Love Ann

While 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.

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International Focus Photo September 27, 2012

There Are Some Pics You Just Can't Defuse: Bibi and the Bomb

How many ways was Netanyahu's performance yesterday the n-th degree of crazy? Well, here are a few.

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Tell Stench I’m Having Finger Sandwiches with Peggy Noonan…

Satire has been called ‘the lie that tells the truth' ...

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Campaign '12 Photo September 26, 2012

Through the Campaign ’12 Window: Obama, Women and the General Assembly

The 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...

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Football’s End of Days?

Going with replacement refs, what has been happened in the NFL is nothing short of apocalyptic, at least according American sports media.

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Campaign '12 Photo September 25, 2012

Obama on The View, Romney's Whoopi Anxiety and the State-of-the-Art White House Pop Culture Machine

When 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...

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The State of the News Photo: Part 3 of 3

This "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.

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Campaign '12 Photo September 24, 2012

Trappings of the Office: "Third Man" in the Campaign, and in Last Night's Dueling CBS Interviews

Looks 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...

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More "Shoot First, Aim Later": National Review's Obama Abortion Cover

The fact there are people who wouldn't figure out this was photoshopped is the least of the problem here.

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Campaign '12 Photo September 23, 2012

William Randolph Romney: More Dharapak Snaps from Fundraising Land

“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...

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Campaign '12 Photo September 21, 2012

F-ing With Your Mind: What Makes the Austin "Chair Lynching" so Brilliantly Hateful

I 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...

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Stephen Crowley’s Ann Romney Diptych

What's fascinating about Ann, especially, is how much she's become more enigmatic than less.

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Media Focus Photo September 20, 2012

Some Thoughts on the TIME Clinton Globe Cover — (Yes, Husband Bill)

Pretty audacious given his wife's mandate.

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John Moore Photo September 19, 2012

Dear Occupy: Sorry We Missed Your Birthday

Because 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.

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Fundraiser Access: Ask and You Shall Receive

So, 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...

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Faith Focus Photo September 18, 2012

What’s in a Picture? — #IslamicRage Meets #OccupyWallStreet

So 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...

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MoJo's Secret Mitt Videos: Pushing Fundraising Transparency in the Age of "Macaca Meets Micro Cam"

If 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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