There's Projection And There's Projection
You've probably already seen the picture of McCain's entrance for his RNC acceptance speech. What it illustrates extremely well is how the Republican's, in their blunt yet effective playbook, make use of projection.
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RNC Packaging
With the traditional media largely swallowing the visual propaganda of the Republican Convention, this shot by Shannon Stapleton does an elegant job of calling it out.
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RNC Final Night Top 10
The following is my list of the top ten pics from the final night of the 08 Republican Convention. Okay, I mean, my top eleven.
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More Family Values
Call it another example of how the visual media gets sucked into the cultural politics. This shot show the hand of Levi Johnston. Johnston has a tattoo of Bristol Palin's name tattooed on his left ring finger
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The Right To Be Here
This is just a pic, and an accompanying write-up posted anonymously at Twin Cities Indymedia, I wanted to pass along.
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A Call For The BAG
I seriously never thought I'd do another BAG again, it being years now, but this situation is just so frickin weird, it just came out of me.
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RNC Wednesday Wrap-Up: Mothers And Forefathers
Helping bridge Sarah Palin's self-avowed pit bull role, the RNC flashed large scenes behind her evoking the American landscape. There was a towering shot of the arch in St. Louis, another of farm fields, still another of a ferris wheel at dusk.
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RNC Wednesday Wrap-Up: Family Values
Watching the night three RNC 08 coverage, baby Trig has become a central prop in this campaign.
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RNC Wednesday Wrap-Up: 9/11, 9/11
My twitter at 7:27 pm PST: Mega-screen behind Rudy has mega-view of lower Manhattan. I didn't look for the Trade Towers, did you?
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The Likes We Haven't Seen Since Terri Schiavo
Wow, you can't make this stuff up. McCain goes to the airport to greet husband- and father-to-be, Levi Johnson.
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The Republican Clone-vention
You remember the transmitter controversy, regarding the alleged bump under Bush's jacket and the rumor that Bush was receiving his debate answers directly from Rove? Watching the RNC on TV, you quickly get the feeling -- especially when it comes to Sarah Palin -- that everybody in that convention...
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A Noun, A Verb, And A POW (The Size Of Minnesota)
The audacious scale here is an incredible commentary on how McCain's captivity has been inflated to obscene proportions.
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Day 2
This is the Day 2 shot released by the McCain campaign of the newly announced Veep.
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Anbar, Minnesota
Photo from AP Photo by Matt Rourke Members of the media watch as police question a group of people detained at a home in at the Republican National Convention in St.... Republican National Convention protesters targeted in a series of police raids Friday night and Saturday said they wouldn't...
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The Connection Between John McCain And Bristol Palin
What resonates in this photo -- in John McCain's over-the-top chuckle and his focus on Bristol Palin -- is how much McCain's impulsive, yet potentially world changing decision to ask Bristol's mom onto the ticket without vetting her echoes Bristol's impulsive act of getting pregnant
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Palin's Place
I've been trying to get a handle on the Sarah-Bristol-Trig story since the Kos piece came out alleging that Trig wasn't Sarah's baby. Where I landed on this, even before this AM's news that Bristol is pregnant, is that Sarah Palin has serious character and judgement problems. One person...
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Palin's Finger On The Trigger
You know what scares the bejesus out of me? The site of Sarah Palin -- potentially a heartbeat away from looking Putin in the eye -- holding an arming device.
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Sarah Palin: America's Veep Hottie
Touché to Rove, convincing the youth and charisma-challenged McCain campaign to go with Sarah Palin on a (literal) Hail Mary pass
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