Humble Pie
Anxious to get a handle on the war in Iran, Iraq and Southern Turkey, President Powell and Vice President Albright sit down with members of the previous Administration to figure out what the hell they were thinking. Unfortunately, one was too rueful to participate; one didn't remember anything; and...
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Bush's Rainbow
A number of you wrote about this lead photo in yesterday's NYT. The image shows George Bush in a marine lunch line in Twenty-Nine Palms, California. Because Bush is chumming it up with the white soldier, while the (lone) black soldier next to Bush seems miles away (and less interested...
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In Which We Can Safely Conclude That "Smug" Is Finally Dead
This was the speech where Bush dedicated most of his time time belaboring some irrelevant personal interest stories from Tal Afar while completely ignoring the fact the rest of the country was coming unglued. Picking the one image I thought best characterized the event, my write-up for Huffington Post...
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From A Place Called Denial
My question is, why did the Administration choose to feature this particular image on the White House website on Monday? Could it have something to do with Bush's repeated stumbles responding to student questions at this Johns Hopkins forum? (And, could it reflect a growing need to create an alternative...
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Oh, Mexico
This is most likely the most significant picture of Bush that I've seen in years.... Having spent a good part of the years flailing the skin off of George Bush, I think it's important to point out that he's a different person (or a real person) in this photo.... ...
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Pitching The Staff
Marking its supposed staff shake-up, the White House released a not-so-intentionally humorous set of images Tuesday. Forgetting for a moment that the Card for Bolten swap is little more than a token difference, consider the "meta-communication" in and between these shots. Given the way Bush has been floundering, the top...
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The Department Of Redundancy Department (Or: All Over But The Shouting)
True To Scale Wow, Three Plans? I Didn't Know They Had One. No Longer Anchored To The Ground Actually A GWB "Reminder-To-Myself" Post-It Note. The Future Looks Bright -- As A Televangelist! (click through for image and captions)
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Bush: On Drugs
(If you're reading this via RSS, the post consists primarily of a graphic of Bush going through a pharmacy with an ordinary citizen. You'll have to click through to see it. If you don't think it's funny, I give you you're money back....) George Bush (R - Mylanta). Rove said, just...
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New Post Office
This photo, taken Tuesday, did not come in a frame. That was my doing. However, I suppose it will end up in one shortly, if not in the Dunham household, then on Representative Kuhl's wall. The image, which appeared on the White House website Tuesday, shows Bush signing a bill...
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Your Turn: Bush Gothic
If you've written to me in the past week and a half and you haven't heard back, I ask your indulgence. I was in D.C. Monday through Wednesday doing some recon at the Politics Online conference, and I now find myself turning and heading back to New York for...
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Your Turn: India Finale
Your Turn 1 Your Turn 2 (image1: Jason Reed/Reuters. nyt.com. March 3, 2006 image 2: Jim Young/Reuters. March 2, 2006 New Delhi.
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Laura's India Scrapbook – 2/2/06
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060313/roy petals U.S. President George W. Bush (L) scatters rose petals as first Lady Laura Bush watches at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial at Rajghat in New Delhi March 2, 2006. Bush was given a grand reception in India on Thursday as officials from both countries edged closer to a...
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The Perp-fect Storm (Or: Amerka's Not So Funniest Presidential Home Videos)
By now, I'm sure you've seen the damning video clip of Bush's Katrina teleconference with Michael Brown that was released yesterday afternoon. (Crooks and Liars has the video.) If you follow this site, you know that -- for all the profound, destined-to-be-historical pictures that land here -- I don't throw...
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The Belarusian Widows (Or, The BAG Takes Some Visual Liberty During A Pause In The News Cycle)
As far as I can tell, there aren't many images of Bush actually talking (as opposed to posing) with wounded Iraqi soldiers, or others who have experienced severe trauma of a political nature.... Bush greets Irina Krasovskaya, left, and Svyatlana Zavadskaya, widows of a pro-democracy businessman and an independent...
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Blowing Smoke
So I take it Cheney is the "top" and Bush is the "bottom?" Are the crop of political "Best Picture" nominees so undistinguished, or has politics overtaken film as a higher form of drama? Are the hats saying Cheney is the good guy and Bush is the bad one? (Is there...
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Port This
Until last night, I thought the news images we had seen from New Orleans during the worst days of Katrina were fundamentally unvarnished. And then I saw these. Among his peers, Alan Chin is regarded as one of the finest photojournalists in the field -- and I say that...
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State Of The Union In Pictures
Original, it wasn't. (Which seems to speak for Bush's speech, in general.) Because he reprised the same stunt from last year's SOTU (State of the Union Show - link), however, I was intent on studying Bush a little closer this time. First, the President introduces the family of a...
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Maximum Occupancy
I assumed this strategy was necessarily dependent on a daily build of political events beginning with Rove's speech last Saturday (or actually, Cheney's NSA briefing to Senator's last Friday) culminating with Bush's dog-and-pony show at NSA headquarters today.... As evidence, check this astute post by Dan Kennedy at Media...
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