October 2012 - Page 2 of 3 - Reading The Pictures

Campaign '12 Photo October 24, 2012

Obama: The Pamphleteer

After a very solid debate performance, I don't know how you could offer up a weaker morning-after visual.

Campaign '12 Photo October 22, 2012

Debate Three: Romney – Obama in Screen Shots. Bombs Away! (Updated)

Granted, Obama was mocking and derisive at times (most notably delivering Mitt the weaponry lecture). What the screen shot seems to depict, however, is Obama not only looking at ease, but actually enjoying himself

Campaign '12 Photo

Romney's Beach Football: Shades of Hyannis Port, Anyone?

Not like anybody at Team Romney, looking for any opportunity to moderate Mitt and create a more presidential aura would be creating Kennedy analogies, right?

Campaign '12 Photo

On My Honor: Looking at Romney, Ryan and the Boy Scouts

With Romney toggling back-and-forth between more conservative and moderate views, weighing in on the crisis besetting the Boy Scout movement would represent a true act of moral leadership.

The Rich and the Poor Photo October 21, 2012

The "Two Americas" Shuttle: Endeavour's Voyage Through South L.A.

In spite of the hoopla over decommissioned Space Shuttles, I had a different reaction to the LA Times slideshow of Endeavor being hauled through some of the city's poorer neighborhoods.

Campaign '12 Photo October 19, 2012

The Perfection of NYT Mag's Ryan Cover, Mr. Right

It's perfect -- especially the title.

Campaign '12 Photo October 18, 2012

No, Everyone DOESN'T Do It: Why WAPO's Defense of Ryan's Soup Kitchen Photo Op is Dead Wrong

I can understand the media wanting to absolve itself of responsibility in enabling the Ryan photo op and distributing the pictures, but in this case, these comparisons don't wash.

Campaign '12 Photo October 17, 2012

God Bless Damon Winter

With photographers constantly worried about finding unique angles on this interminable marathon, Winter avails himself of that tool in the toolbox that he makes look simply but is otherwise not easy to use.

Campaign '12 Photo

Wearing the Binders: Romney Can't Talk to Women

Tweeted by his body man, Garrett Jackson, just before Romney walked onstage, this photo impressed me as presaging tension between Crowley and Romney. I assumed that was because Romney defies rules and boundaries. As much, though, it’s because Romney can’t talk to women. click for full size This screenshot...

Campaign '12 Photo October 16, 2012

Pic of the Night? (…Yeah, Revised With that Fuzzy Crazy Other One)

I assume a lot of people are going to see Obama bringing the passion as the whole story. But there’s more going on here. Was Obama the central figure/more grounded? Is Romney’s back up? …Did the tie colors play true to form? I know this one’s getting more action: but...

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WAPO Home Page: How is Editorial Slideshow Anything But US Marine Product Placement?

With 26 photos taken by "I lost count how many" military photographers, the photos plucked from the Marine's Flickr site, this is nothing but free advertising -- and, not to mention, free content and click bait -- for WAPO.

Politics Photo October 15, 2012

White House Flickr and Keeping the Benghazi Story Straight

When a photograph is used to illustrate a point rather than to record an event or person, that visual explanation encompasses every element of the photo. Even elements the White House may not want to emphasize.

Photo October 14, 2012

Obama: The Agony

What was once a profile of the steady pilot in a tornado now looks a lot more like the stock photo for a Paxil ad.

Campaign '12 Photo

Did Ryan Campaign Fake Photo Op at Ohio Soup Kitchen, and Did Media Enable It?

This story stands to offer one more blow to the integrity of this campaign, as well as the credibility of the media to keep politicians honest, not just serve as a PR adjunct.

Campaign '12 Photo October 13, 2012

Last Look at the Post-Debate Split-Screen Tit-for-Tat

I like this screen shot as a last word from the DR print edition. Pox on both their houses.

Campaign '12 Photo October 11, 2012

Biden – Ryan in 4 Pics

Perhaps the stealth pic of the night. Ryan (what's that look: choir boy?) survives.

Campaign '12 Photo

Ryan P90X Photos: Campaign '12 in the Tank

Essentially, the Ryan photos are a goof. And the fact they would be elevated like this the day before the debate, so much so they would win the internet, is a cynical act -- one suggesting to an already disillusioned public that this campaign deserves no better.

Campaign '12 Photo October 10, 2012

Picture of Awkward: Romney the White Guy

Mitt, didn't we say never to flash the benjamins around?