The Ed Watch — #1: Cool Equipment
In this first installment of the Ed Show, we see Ed listening to a question from a reporter after a press conference at Detroit Edison with some cool-looking equipment behind him.
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Politico’s Wedge Shot
So, Politico places golf shots of Obama and Bush side-by-side and complains of a double-standard?
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Budweiser Notwithstanding, Might Joe "Six Pack" Photo Op Reinforce "Obama Latte"?
To the extent that the Gates affair exposes a race/class divide, doesn't this photo op simply reinforce the split, with Obama further identified with Gates and the "Harvard elite"?
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F-22 Slapped Around A Little, But Oh Still So Hot
So the media is trumpeting a major victory for the White House because the Senate voted, under threat of a veto, to "only" build 187 more F-22 Raptors instead of 194.
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Your Turn: The Artful President
Doesn't this photo, taken of the Obama family at the Pompidou Museum (have a good deal to say about the Administration's perception/projection of itself?
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The Woman Who Saved Baseball
She's the woman who saved baseball, and what's more all-American than that?
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Sonia: An Eye for Others
It's a beautiful photo released by the White House of young Sonia Sotomayor with her sister and cousins, that much more interesting for the angle.
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The Exemplary Celina Sotomayor
Team Obama signaled that the campaign to move Sonia Sotomayor through the nomination process will be heavily built on the strength of a very powerful life story -- with special emphasis on her exemplary single mother.
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Pink skivvies: Whitewashing The Afghan Campaign
So this May 11 image of Spc. Zachary Boyd of Fort Worth, Texas, fighting the Taliban in his pink "I love NY" boxer shorts has "gone iconic." ...How Norman Rockwell.
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Chillin’ (Post-Pirates, Pre-"Prom") At The White House
Here's pirate-defying hero Capt. Phillips and his wife at the White House this morning (large size; mind-blowing size), with my distillation of the comments from the WH photo stream.
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About Time
Clever move by Team Obama to set up a photo op with Franken in the White House.
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The Executive Picnic Table
This image -- stopping short of describing life as a picnic -- is classic for the way it trumpets the Obama message: we're loose and working in an atmosphere of calm.
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USA! USA!
With all the deep and less tractable problems the U.S. is weighed down with -- such as the the brutal recession, the near-collapse of the banking system, and the FUBAR situation in Afghanistan -- was the media, the public and the White House all too compelled to "go nationalistic"...
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Richard Holbrooke? I Was Thinking John Wayne.
The NYT offers this image promoting Richard Holbrooke as uber-diplomatic and Obama-era rock star.
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What If Hamas Was In EVERYONE'S Neighborhood?
We already know Hamas has a highly effective visual narrative for waging war. So now, friends of Israel have come up with one too.
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George, Laura & World AIDS Day: But They Look Good In Ribbons
George And Laura Do Up The White House On World AIDS Day.
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General Touch Up
Beyond the fact that the Army doctored a photo of Ann Dunwoody, America's first female four-star general, I'm curious about how the National Press Photographers Association chose to describe the doctoring itself.
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So, Who Does Your Weekly YouTube Address?
Regarding Obama's latest Weekly Radio Address, the staging is an improvement, but it still seems that there ought to be a more 21st century look for this 21st century method of communication.
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