Reaching Out
Today, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist made an empassioned plea for unity and bipartisanship in the new Senate. “It is time to heal the partisan divide and begin the process of reconciliation. Beginning last night, I spoke with many of my colleagues – Republican and Democrat – to begin...
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Funny Things Start To Happen To You
Funny things start to happen to you when you start questioning the validity of a Presidential election. For example, you might look at an impending large scale assault on a couple major Iraqi cities, and wonder how the White House could invest such conviction in this forward an operation...
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About Face: 2004 Election Final
I have only two words to say: Civil Disobedience. send this cartoon to a friend in pain
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Bush … For a Day
If Bush wins, he’ll be his old self again tomorrow. For today, however, facing the prospect of defeat, Bush is displaying a real humanity. It’s a tragedy (for him, but more so, for the country and the world) that he has been unable to access anything close the past...
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The Known Soldier
Larry Holdaway is an artist and photographer who created this haunting, nearly recognizable face by combining the available portraits of every American soldier killed in Iraq from March 2003 to September 2004. As Larry writes: “This is the face of America’s sacrifice, the face of more than a thousand...
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Setting Out the Pumpkins
Of course, the Kerry hunting trip was something of a farce. But it was political farce. And, as silly as it was, at the political ground level, it probably helped balance out an image of Kerry that had been overly distorted in the other direction. Who would understand this...
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Party’s Over?
I’ve been hard on the NYTimes for their election photo coverage, which has tended to give Bush a free ride. Why, at this point, however, would the trend suddenly shift. Reverse bias? More likely, with strong vibrations in the air about the mood of the electorate, this shot is...
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Rage Against the Machine
“Votergate” is a video that tells the story of Bev Harris, and how she exposed Diebold’s highly fallible voting technology. It also recounts other abuses, including the story of Republican Susan Bernecker, a local council candidate in Lousiana whose 1996 election was thrown by electronic voting system fraud. (Above,...
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More Explosives
Here’s the ABC television segment showing members of the 101 Airborne inspeciting explosives at Al Qaqaa before they went missing. View Quicktime clip here. (source: onegoodmove.org)
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Doggin’ The Vote
Snoop Dogg comes late to the ‘”get out the vote” party — but not too late. Here’s his video-game based PSA. (Check out that last scene….) View here. Other versions here. (source: slashdot.org) (video: archive.org)
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Bush’s Doctored Ad: A Case of Racial Pandering?
Apparently, President Bush’s latest ads have been photoshopped (it used to be called “doctored”) with multiple copies of the same troops. Of course, if a newspaper did the same thing, somebody would be publicly reprimanded for violating professional, ethical and moral standards. The question is, should political ads be...
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Bush To Explode?
What you might well be looking at are the explosives that took down the Bush presidency. Wouldn’t that be poetic justice? The WMD actually found Bush. Apparently, a camera crew from the ABC station in Minneapolis, embedded with an Army unit, actually documented U.S. soldiers going through the munitions...
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Watch Your Back
Given my weeks of hammering about the New York Times political photo coverage, my occasional guest blogger, Karen, alerted me to this shot from today’s NYTimes on-line. It’s the first shot I’ve seen in the Times (at least since the debates) that captures the thin-skinned Bush we saw on...
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Baghdad, Ohio (11/2/04 minus 5)
If bad news in Iraq spells bad news for Bush, then Wednesday wasn’t a very good day. Looking at the crucial battleground of Ohio, here is a sample of the state’s larger newspapers, along with the type and number of war-related articles on the front page. (Dayton Daily News)...
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Eminem Vs. GDub
Here’s Eminem’s take on the election. View here. (source: guerillanewsnetwork)
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Unequal TIME (Or: Dairy State Low Light)
Here’s my latest example of photojournalistic character assassination. This composition was the lead feature in Time Magazine’s Wednesday on-line campaign photo gallery. Notice how Bush is always on top in these juxtapositions? (If you’re familiar with my system, I score it: Bush 5, Kerry -7.)
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Planning Like Mad
The only thing worse than not finding the WMD we thought we knew about …is losing the only WMD that we actually did know about. send this cartoon to a friend!
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Reading the Subliminals
In an election season in which the White House has tried to feminize John Kerry, what is a danger of the press playing — at least, unconsciously –into the stereotype? In looking at all the shots of Kerry and Clinton at Monday’s huge rally in Philadelphia, I didn’t see...
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