Obama – McCain 2: The BAG's Pics Of The Night
Visual highlights of Obama - McCain, Round Two
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The Ring
How often has it crossed you mind that the townhall format McCain uses looks like an old-style boxing ring?
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What The Palin Doodle Document Suggests About How She Got Through The V.P. Debate
BAGnewsNotes analyses of the Palin doodle document.
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Harsher Focus
A BAGreaders wrote me over the weekend about a shot of Palin in the Guardian. His thought on the accompanying picture -- run on Saturday, but taken two weeks ago at the Clinton Global Forum, the morning after McCain supposedly suspended his campaign -- makes Palin look "older, more...
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All Hands On Deck
Although this old LIFE Magazine cover with Tina Fey and John McCain has been making the rounds for about a month now, I've yet to heard anyone relate it to the sexual dynamics of the McCain-Palin ticket.
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NYT Plays The Ayers Card
With Obama on a roll, the NYT dug up this 2001 image of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn to slap on the front of the on-line edition.
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Why Obama
To me, at this point in time,, this photo articulates why Obama is pulling away from McCain and will be the next President of the United States.
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Biden – Palin debate: The BAG's Top Pics Of The Night
The BAG's top pics of the night from the Biden - Palin debate
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Biden – Palin Debate Preview #1: No Jack Kennedy
Bensten/Quayle vs. Biden/Palin: As a visual analogy, fair or unfair? Predictive, misleading or a warning?
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Ifill Attacks: A Real Laugh
Props to the clever photographer for this shot on the newswire making light of the right-wing attacks on V.P debate moderator Gwen Ifill.
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Sniffle
Realize how the presumptuous Sarah was just taking a break from the teleprompter for an instant, and that, otherwise, her appearance in Golden, Colorado was mostly a Mad Ave.-style agglomeration of sex appeal, maternal idealization, ideological harangue and firing range adreline surge.
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Finally Taking His Turn, Mac Suffers Palin Too
It's one thing to watch interviewers respond to Sarah Palin's odd mixture of bravado and gibberish. It's another to observe McCain along for the ride. As such, I offer you a breakdown of McCain's "micro reactions" in the first first forty-four seconds of last night's interview with Katie Couric.
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McCain's Casino
I'm still admiring the shot accompanying the NYT McCain gambling expose. The piece outlines McCain's potential conflict of interest involving his oversight of the gambling industry (not to mention, his personal penchant for the tables).
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Credit Mess Over The Credit Mess
With the astronomical bipartisan bailout package on the verge of passage, I haven't seen a shot of Dems and Repubs standing together since, well, McCain blew through town.
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Your Turn: Trickster McCain
In the progressively evolving search for the perfect visual McCain analogy (as Mac continues to reveal himself), this "McCain as The Joker" is chillingly incisive. I'll leave it up to you to elaborate why.
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McCain Sticks It To Palin?
Paired with Sarah Palin's absence from last night's Presidential debate, this photo-op of the McCain's boarding their campaign plane yesterday for Mississippi with the Giuliani's is phenomenally awkward.
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