DNC: Michelle Obama with the Sound Off
It’s important to keep in mind that there isn’t a political speech that isn’t also a performance, that Michelle Obama’s presentation last night was, of course, a rhetorical exercise, and that her mission was nothing short of updating the American people on the Obama’s 2008 contract of hope with...
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The Corporate Invasion: DNC, RNC as Google Hang Out
Talking about the two major parties, and especially their conventions, being beholden to Wall Street and corporate interests, no organization has done a more brilliant job penetrating the inner sanctum — and doing it right out in the open — than Google. Exploiting the culture’s new media addiction, techno-love...
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Securing Our Conventions
I caught this photo a little late. It’s from the NYT feature, the 2012 Presidential Campaign, Week by Week, and what it shows are members of the National Guard waiting their turn for weapons at the Republican Convention. I should also say, I’m curious why the NYT also ran...
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Romney Crowds Start to Eerily Reflect Norman Rockwell
With the white shirt and skinny tie with the shiny clasp, the crew cuts, the rosy-faced kids, the citizens lined up in a row with their eyes gazing upward, even the Romney’s audiences, now, are starting to look straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting. For months, we’ve been...
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Labored Shots from the Campaign: Coal Country, Charles Dickens Stand With Mitt
Romney said Murray is a “great boss, he runs a great operation here.” (via Columbus Dispatch) Coal country stands with Mitt? Perhaps you saw this story the NYT ran a story last month juxtaposing two diametric images taken the same day, reflecting Obama and Romney’s different approaches to energy. The Obama...
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In a Snapshot: Hurricane Isaac Fallout as Seen From the Romney Motorcade
Talk about up shit's creek without a paddle.
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RNC Poaches "We are the 99%" and Alludes to Latinos in Desert as Road Kill in One Video
It only makes sense that the conservatives would be looking to co-opt those themes and visual memes both to water them down and to try and siphon off a little of that populist indignation for itself.
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How Deeply Touched She Was By Paul Ryan
Spectators listen during Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan's speech at the RNC in Tampa.
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RNC Demographics (if the Broadcast Version Left You Confused)
The photo might not look like America, but neither did the RNC convention program look like the GOP.
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