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Notes Photo August 16, 2008

Obama The Antichrist (Channelled By CNN)

I was watching this outrageous CNN piece at the gym, with the sound off, and I almost feel of the stairmaster.

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Notes Photo August 14, 2008

Political Geography

As much as McCain accuses Russia of having grand designs, McCain is milking the Georgia crisis for all it's worth.

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Notes Photo August 13, 2008

Swiftboating A Facial Expression

What makes a meme effective, be it -- verbal, visual or the combination -- is constant repetition.  Does the cover of Corsi's Obama poison-pill look familiar?

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Notes Photo August 12, 2008

We Are ALL Georgians?

U.S. military transport planes disgorging combat soldiers in Georgia?  If McCain were president, it's not such a stretch to imagine those soldiers as Americans, as opposed to locals having gotten an airlift out of Iraq.

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Notes Photo August 9, 2008

Nightline With The Sound Off

I wouldn't bother with this post at all, except I spent a lot of time this past year defending Edwards from media slander.

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Notes Photo August 8, 2008

"Painful" Take Aways

McCain still plumbing the depths of the "Obama feminized, hot black man has it for hot white woman, famous-for-being-famous bimbo/celeb territory," now glombed onto tax-and-spend hysteria.

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Notes Photo August 6, 2008

He's Not For Anything, He's For Everything

Forget "flip flopping" or "I was for it before I was against it."  The McCain campaign is reaching for a whole new, supposedly hypocrisy-transcendent state known as: "all of the above" (...in which any policy, or picture, can simultaneously mean one thing and its opposite).

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Notes Photo August 5, 2008

ObamaPhobia: BagNewsNotes Netroots Nation Presentation ’08

For those of you who have yet to see it, I'm proud to bring you the "fuel injected" audio slideshow version of "ObamaPhobia," my presentation delivered July 19th, 2008 at the NetrootsNation conference in Austin.

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Notes Photo August 4, 2008

The McCain Buffalo Chip (Un-)Cover-Up

Only the wildly hypocritical McCain could could have made the scene at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally at the Buffalo Chip campground in Sturgis, S.D. and escaped any blowback from the wild debauchery and female exploitation that characterizes the event.

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Outfitting The Swift Boat

Rove has now set in place the framing designed for Obama's popularity, charisma, freshness, youth and religiosity to turn on itself.

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Likely Event Of An Emergency

the tone of the campaign has, indeed, experienced a very sudden drop in cabin pressure, ushering in the likely event of an emergency landing.

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Notes Photo August 3, 2008

How Schizo Is This, Putting Obama In Double-Bind?

My question is, does the NYT put Obama in a classic double bind by simultaneously illuminating his racial constraints with both blacks and whites?

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Notes Photo August 2, 2008

Obama's "Entitlement" vs. Plain Looking The Part

McCain has been ripping Obama for having a "God complex," but perhaps the main issue has to do with how much Obama -- held up to the presidential role, and as compared to McCain -- fits the part.

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Notes Photo August 1, 2008

Some Breaking News: "Dollar Bill" McCain

But what's really classic is that McCain put Obama's face on a dollar bill over a month ago!

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Notes Photo July 31, 2008

The Telltale Heart

At the psychological core of McCain's demeaning and racist video attack on Obama Wednesday, we have McCain actively staining Obama, then fingering Obama for the blotch.  What the photographer and the photographs point to, and what McCain seems to unavoidably telegraph, is his outright blemish.

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Celeb #2: Exploding Obama At The Subliminal Level

I think we are being played if -- in deconstructing "Celeb," the McCain Obama-attack video -- we go so far as unearth and analyze the allusions to racist sexual stereotypes but overlook the possible allusions to violence itself.

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Notes Photo July 30, 2008

Celeb #1: Obama As Sexual Predator

A look at how the McCain campaign's anti-Obama "Celeb" video conveys racist  allusions to sexual promiscuity and rape.

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Obama As Machiavelli

BAGnewsNotes tracks the media theme of Obama as Machiavelli.

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