The Season’s Most Cynical Political Costume Photo
Of course, it's not outside the realm of possibility the family of this kid understood how xenophobic Trump is.
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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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John and Elizabeth Edwards: Psycho Mutants, or Just Political Run-of-the-Mill?
The critical take-away here is to avoid vilifying or pathologizing John and Elizabeth Edwards, then walking away. The point and the opportunity, instead, (although lost on NY Mag) is to appreciate how much personality framing propagated by the handlers and perpetuated by the media makes it near impossible to...
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The Best of the BAG Decade: Heavies and Heroes, Pt. I
(The Best of the Bag Decade is our end of the year, end of the decade look at some of the best BAGnews posts and analysis.) Politicians and newsworthy figures often find themselves analogized with favorable and unflattering figures. Sometimes they do it to themselves. The BAG archive shows...
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Franco, Apparently, Still Dead
There is just too much irony in this photo -- especially after yesterday's likely meaningless news a judicial panel awarded Franken the Minnesota Senate race ... again.
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Palin's Place (Revisited)
Bristol and Levi Johnston have broken up? You're kidding! This award-winning photo by photographer Melina Mara takes us back to Campaign '08's biggest snow job.
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Getting The BAG's Inauguration Coverage Started A Little Early
In kicking off our Inauguration coverage, we take a look back at these images from the Inauguration and Counter-Inauguration forty years ago.
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Minnesota Recount: Barkley vs. Franken vs. Coleman vs. Lizard People
Why should the so-called experts have all the fun in the Minnesota Senate recount? You make the call.
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Your Turn: November 5, 2008. 12:15 A.M.
It's the image I thought best captured this historic and deeply emotional week.
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Blue Period
These "Welcome Back" decorations remind me of a child's birthday party, and I don't think the Palin association is an accident.
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U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
I find this particularly moving, profoundly absorbing and quite sad.
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BNN Blogging The Visual Side Of The Election Returns
5:11 PST: CNN showing crowd in Grant Park watching/cheering for themselves on CNN monitors.... 5:31 PST: Still can't figure out that weird electronic chart that Bill Schneider and Soledad O'Brian are playing with.
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Mario Tama: The Vote From Birmingham
Eighty-one year old Emmitt Coleman sitting on his porch after casting his ballot. (image: ©Mario Tama/Getty.
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’08 Parting Shots: Seriously, McCain?
It's easy to look at this photo, taken in '07 in Exeter, New Hampshire, and dispense with it as frivolous. On the other hand, its grown increasingly clear -- and will likely be much more so beginning tomorrow -- that McCain's campaign never deserved to be taken that seriously.
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The Visual Codes Of Racism
Racism is the American tragedy, and as the current political campaign reminds us, it comes in many shades and colors.
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Your Turn: CKOBAMA.C
This was the image accompanying Monday's NYT Obama campaign story , the next-to-last before the election.... caption: Senator Barack Obama on his plane late Saturday when he arrived in Springfield, Mo., during a final weekend pass through contested states before the election.)
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’08 Parting Shots: A Regular Jo(k)e
I was interested to see Josh Marshall call Joe the Plummer a skinhead.
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