Bill Ayers, The Flag, Steve Clemons, And Going Off The Deep End – Updated
Apparently, the hysterical, formerly extreme right-wing "flag attack" on Obama has now wormed itself right into the liberal blogosphere, as evidence by this image of Bill Ayers -- and the knee-jerk reaction to it -- on The Washington Note.
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Obama's Last Day
I always wonder how much these primary eve slide shows are supposed to be predictive in some way. Short of that, however, I wonder if the black guy got out safely. Oh yeah, another thing I like to look at is the caption (like, is there any desperateness in...
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All The Obama-Wright That Can Be Fit Into Print (Or Digital, And Now, Broadcast)
eight days after the NYT starting milking the Jeremiah Wright story to death (and, on the eve of the Indiana/N.Carolina primaries), they are actively still politically and visually binding these two together.
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McCain, Middle East Oil, And, Uh, What's Up With That Pipe?
My friends, I thought the latest cover of "ARMY" was interesting even before McCain suggested we went to war over oil.
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Who Do You Think You're Fueling?
What was sleazy about this Clinton "fill 'er up" photo op, featuring recruited sheet metal worker Jason Wilfing, was not his function as a prop. It's that the truck wasn't even Wilfings.
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Stuffing Wright Vs. The Right Stuff
With Reverend Wright's mug blanketing the media over the last 48 hours, one picture I don't expect to see making the rounds is this one.
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Obama The Alien
If The BAG has been concentrating on Newsweek lately, it's because that publication has taken the lead in visually contorting Obama. Last week, the mission involved tying Obama to Kerry and branding him a wimp. This week, the characterization is more odious.
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Your Turn: Obama's Bubba Gap
BAGreaders take on Newsweek's latest Obama hit job, the cover photo-illustration "arugula and beer."
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Caked With Compassion
Co-opting a tone and itinerary more associated with the Edwards campaign, John McCain's 'It's Time for Action' tour generated these images Tuesday from a factory in Youngstown. More ironic, however, was McBenevolent's tour of New Orleans. Expressing all the compassion in the world -- in direct contradiction to his...
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Your Turn: TIME Mixing It Up
BAGreaders take on the new TIME cover splitting Hillary and Obama
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Out Of Touch?
Part of the very real concern over "the kitchen sink" has to do with the depth, degree and, particularly, the durability of particular forms of characterization. In this case, the image of Obama maps only too well with accusations of disconnection, ineffability and elitism (especially in the NYT photo...
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Pennsylvania '08
Was it just me, or did those six weeks in Pennsylvania seem to last forever?
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Duos To The Death
Since Sunday, I've been thinking about the significance of this image. I've also been wondering skeptically about the accompanying NYT Week In Review piece, titled: "Gore-Lieberman: A Hyphen Apart? Try Poles."
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McCain's Allowance
If you can show me a better example of how the media shills for McMarried-Filing-Separately, I'd love to see it.
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The Wimp Factor-y
With honorary lifetime seats in the swiftboat, the visual media continues to pick at Kerry's bones. In this case, however, the sallow, ducking, baggy-eyed, over-lit Senator is not just beaten again, but offered up as the model for his potential wimp-successor.
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Sights And Symbols Of Silly Season: Lapel Edition
"So, it's on, but does it stay on? What do you say, Tim?... Well, Keith (or Chris, or Brian), since it was a gift, he can get mileage from putting it on, but then, staying true to his position about false patriotism, he can also take it off again. ...
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Black Arts
Did you happen to notice yesterday's NYT profile on Charlie Black, McCain's campaign mastermind? There's a crafty, but near-imperceptible element buried in the NYT photo of the man who was Lee Atwater's mentor, as well as political consultant to Blackwater, foreign dictators, and the like.
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Bitter Has Its Own Poster
He's Shepard Fairey's original Obama poster, and he's the reformulated version on Michelle Malkin's blog, attacking Obama as an elitist and riffing on the Clinton attack.
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