Now You Sea It, Now You Don’t
(According to the drug company, it’s mission is “clear.” Ultimately, it is to “obliterate” disease completely. However, if you separate the image from the words, the meaning becomes more ambiguous. How much, for example, does this image really lend itself to altruism? Couldn’t it, as easily, be inviting you...
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11/2/04 minus 7
Not if or whether, but how and when? (Nothing is more consistent than personality.) Here’s Joshua Green’s piece in The Atlantic.
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Cheap Shot of the Day
Yahoo/AP offers this shot of Bill Clinton “greeting audience members” at a rally for John Kerry at Love Park, Philadelphia–of all places. The rally, by the way, drew over 100,000 people. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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More F*** New York
Right after the Republican Convention, I profiled a video clip from a group called F*** New York. Although their first offering was more sophisticated, this is a commendable job for good, straight ahead sarcasm. View here. (source: hiphopmusic.com)
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A Show of Hands
You’ve got to be pretty dim to have your hands all over a colleague in direct view of the fixed angle C-SPAN camera in the U.S. House of Representatives. According to dKos, two freshman Republican members proved to be that unconscious. Not surprisingly, the woman on the right is...
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Rove’s Homosexual Panic (Or: All Liz All The Time)
In his column this week (“The O’Reilly Factor for Lesbians”), Frank Rich discusses the Republican overreaction to John Kerry’s “Cheney’s gay daughter” remark. The main trajectory of the story involves the phony outrage by the conservatives for “outing” somebody who was already openly gay. Actually, the aspect of the...
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A Real Cell Job
In the latest Newsweek, the cover story is devoted to the stem cell debate. The thesis of the article is that this topic actually has the power to tip the election. Any marketing person knows that there are generally two great motivators: fear and sex. Of course, in the...
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Bush Unplugged
The main question underlying my ongoing critique of the NYTimes’ political photo coverage is, Why does Kerry keep coming off worse than Bush? One angle to consider (pardon the pun) is that practical factors play a significant part. For example, one of my visitors last week suggested that the...
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The Kerry Album: NYTimes Returns To (De)Form
On Monday, the NYTimes offered respectful photo coverage of John Kerry. (They actually ran a JFK version of the “candidate in the adulating crowd” shot –which is almost a daily staple for Bush.) The improvement, however, only lasted a day. This (Tuesday) morning, the two candidates appeared on page...
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Just Drop The Big One
One of my younger, but quite politically astute visitors — who shares my feeling that JibJab is overrated — sent me this. He was insistent I run it. It’s cheesy, but Randy Newman seems particularly appropriate right now. I especially liked the bit in front of the United Nations....
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Map Quest
I’ve been put out about Congressman Tom (“Reprimand Me Again”) Delay’s redistricting power play for over a year now. That’s six Texas congressional seats he secured for the Republicans, in spite of the courageous battle state Democrats waged before going down. This week, however, the Supreme Court ordered a...
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Where The Buck Never Stops: More Media Bias
This lead for Newsweek’s on-line campaign coverage is a good example of how the media gives Bush a free pass. In presenting two articles comparing the candidates qualifications, it contrasts Bush the CEO with Kerry the Senator. Whether or not anyone has thought it through, juxtaposing Kerry’s twenty year...
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More on BulgeGate: George of the Pod People
(source: happygolarry.com) (from: jillian. She contributes rants here.)
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Which Times Gives Kerry A Better Time? (Or: You Wouldn’t Be Getting Statistical On Me Now, Would You?)
O.K., let’s give credit where credit is due. The NYTimes (finally) did better, photo-wise, by Kerry on Sunday. They not only had this shot on the website… (Kerry and crowd in the same picture) …they also had a more unbiased shot of him in the dead trees edition. Before...
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Draft THIS!
You might have seen this already. If not, check out Ohio Representative Tim Ryan’s comments on the House floor before a vote to restore the military draft. The consensus view is that this is the kind of guy / passion / language the Dems need more of. Link here....
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There They Go Again: Saturday’s Installment of the NYTimes’ Kerry Campaign Photo Coverage
Here’s my mark-up of the latest NYTimes Kerry shot (Saturday’s paper –page A11). I give them credit for finally including a group of people in a photo of Kerry. However, the fact these people are isolated in the background; the secret service guys bear no personal connection to the...
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The End Game
Just a couple more weeks, then the only thing we’ll have left to worry about is “who won?” (c)2004 Rand Careaga/salamander.eps. More images here.
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