The Edwards Exhibit
From the first day he entered the presidential race, the NYT treated Edwards like a phony.
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The McCain Line
Today's NYThas a prime example of stephen crowley's irreplaceable political observation: Perhaps Mccain's appeal as a plain speaker is based on a real lack of pretension, or so this seemingly unrehearsed moment would suggest.... All three are crossing the threshold from a beige triangular space, into a larger lighter...
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Putting The Peddle To The Mettle
With Zogby warning the race was tightening, and the media convinced Bubba had gotten into Barack's head, this proved a quintessential photo in the South Carolina media narrative. (It appeared in Friday's NYT "On The Trail" slideshow.)
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Message Discipline
In this clever snap, picking up Jeffrey Feldman's point, Obama seems to have "lost hope."
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A Banner Year For Corporate Debate Sponsors?
So, I was watching the "behind the scenes" video by indy media group, GroundReport, from the spin room of Tuesday's Democratic debate. I didn't notice it at first, but then I was struck by something. Behind Carl Cameron, the Chief Political Correspondent for FOX was a huge banner for...
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Your Turn: The Week In Carolina (or: Always The Cheerleader)
This seems like an interesting play on the rather searing contradiction in South Carolina this week between Bill Clinton's two identities -- the affectionate one as "America's first black president" and the second as Hillary's (problematic) attack dog.
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King Day Final
Does it seem more like a candidate in front of a background, or does the M.L. King/Barack Obama juxtaposition take on a life of its own?
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Your Turn: Hallowed Be Thy Name
What's your take on Huck's campaign practice, applying his John Hancock to the good book?
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Campaign 08: Running The Race Card Straight Through The Bedroom
Now that the campaign has shaped up a bit, what is coming through is a distinct trend, on the part of the media, to accentuate and even agitate for gender and racial tension.
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Hill Force One (Or: The Spense Is Just Killing Me)
On first pass, it seems very compelling, refreshing, creative, even, that Hillary would present herself to the media in the role of a flight attendant.
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Coated Layer Of Grace
Even among voices that have been extremely even-handed over the past week or so, there has been a lot of disappointment around the 'sphere regarding the anti-Obama remarks issued yesterday by BET President and Clinton surrogate, Robert Johnson. What I haven't heard discussed, however, were the visual trappings surrounding...
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Opening The Black-Pink Divide
What the practitioners of wedge politics -- in collusion with a media hungry for conflict, fear and negativity -- are currently fixing in place, is a black-pink divide.
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Hillary's Study
I thought this NYT front page image today was particularly smart. Obviously, it is not lost on the Mandy Grunwald's of the political consulting world how much the gender backlash (or, as one reader here coined it, the "anti-anti-Hillary" backlash) also represents an enormous opportunity.
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Iron My Shirt
It wasn't until Josh Marshall called out this incident, paired with Hillary's emotional moment, as the week's two defining moments, that I looked a little harder at the news photo of the "Iron My Shirt" incident.
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Our Man In New Hampshire #5: Mill Worker Mission
Just got the first couple shots in from Alan on John Edwards. I'm tied up for a few hours this morning and also need to catch Chin on the road before pulling the set together. He says that Edwards actually has one more event scheduled this afternoon whereas the...
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Crying About Clinton
In part, I think the current regard for "bulletproof strength" and (supposedly) "invulnerable will" has been juiced to the standard it has by this Administration as a political defense to protect the absolutely profound character weakness and poverty of feeling of one George W.... If you watch this clip...
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Clinton: Ho Hum And Worse
With the Clinton's, it's hard to tell how much the darkening visual coverage is illustrative -- given the poll numbers and perceived momentum -- or plain mean.
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Our Man In New Hampshire #2: Rudy's Segway (Or: Screw The Working Class)
This is the second in a series of pictorial campaign dispatches from BNN Contributer Alan Chin. Check out the reaction of the Segway workers to Rudy's 36 minute campaign stop.
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