When You Stand On The Ground Here In Anbar
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300463.html "The president heard about this idea and instantly took to it and that's why we're doing it," Hadley said.
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Wallpaper Roll Out: The Magic Kingdom
I don't know why more isn't made of the Administration's tactic of spiriting away -- in effect, kidnapping -- the traveling press on these thoroughly-scripted Iraq dog-and-camel shows.
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More Karl Post Mortem: Beyond My Pet Goat
Although I had seen this photo before, the fact it is appears in the NYT "Goodbye Karl" slideshow caused me to take a closer "visual forensic" look. The photo, as you can tell from the clock and the TV screen, was taken at 9:25 am on the morning of...
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Summer Backgrounder
One of the summer's better theatrical productions has been staged by those dramatalurgical folks at the White House. Wanting to avoid any extraneous wartime slings and arrows, especially after the U.S. and Iraqi governments went on vacation, they recast the visit of various foreign heads of state as a...
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Hint, Hint: "W" Still Relevant
Hint, Hint: "W" Still Relevant. (Bush and Gordon Brown meet for first time at Yellowstone Park. Oops, I mean, Camp David.
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"W" On His Own Two Feet
The President seems to be looking for just about anything these days to prop himself up.
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Control Tower To Bush: Time To Save Our "A"
Check out the military hardware in the White House photo-op at the Charleston Air Force Base on Tuesday as compared with the TIME cover that hit the newsstand at almost the same time.
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Bush: Like Watching Traffic
In the clip I captured, thankfully without sound, you first see a technician memorializing himself in this Bush hail mary. Even better, however, is the view of the start-stop-and start-again Washington traffic out of the window.
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There To Be Seen
This picture was taken at Ft. Benning, Georgia on January 11th, the day after President Bush announced his plan for the “surge” and while meeting with military personnel and their families. The striking visual argument stands in stark contrast to the president’s mantra that “I didn’t want to be...
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Bush, Cleveland And Norman Rockwell
With the roof caving in on George Bush's Iraq policy and Senate Republicans defecting in droves, the man goes to Cleveland and delivers, for the umpteenth-and-a-half time, the same paranoid, vague and self-deluded rationale for the war and its perpetuation ("we just got there") we've been hearing for years. ...
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Those Little People In Washington
MSNBC ran an article yesterday on the Iraq "progress report" due to Congress next week. With failure the theme, the article features a largish-isolation shot of a squinting George Bush.
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Poppy, Pooty and Pooch
Okay, so let's turn to the visual bunk from Kennebunkport, or 41 + 43 = KGB, or what The Economist labeled "The Lobster Summit."
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The Libby Decision: Dispensing With The Lip Service
This is the lead shot of Tony Snow on this morning's YahooNewswire. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow speaks, Wednesday, June 27, 2007, in the temporary press briefing room at the White House, as he briefs reporters during his daily press briefing. This is the last briefing in the...
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Mixed Messages
One almost hopes the ambiguity between "victory" and "peace" was intentional after GWB's visit to Rhode Island and his bizarre speech at the Naval War College. Otherwise, the larger signal out the White House is mostly confusion.
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Final Bush-Blair Feat
Still, I find it an interesting document, as the one image in the White House photo gallery highlighting George Bush alone with Tony Blair during the recent G-8 meeting in Germany. (In most of the White House portraits of the leaders socializing in Heiligendamm, by the way, Blair with...
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No Other Besides Him
Then, and only then, would these fantasies (the one above, and the "what might have been" cover with Bush and Rice) have had any legitimacy in the latest Vanity Fair/Bono/Leibovitz "20 cover" cover Africa chain.... As the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development—an independent monitor of global spending—reports, the...
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If Climate Change Politics Keeps Up This Face, We're All Going To Burn
Props to ThinkProgress for observing how the U.S. media was completely steamrollered last week by the Administration's "non-shift" on climate change. Now, regarding this morning's G-8 preview, could someone please a search party to LA Times H.Q. to look for some backbone?
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George's Flat Tire
It's the flat tire on Bush's bike, though, that calls for the most attention.
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