Busted
So, is Hizonnah running or isn't he? And, if so, what does the camera have to say about it?
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Early Scenes From The Listening Tour
If you look past Hillary's Oprah-style presentation, the interviews with supporters, and the applause scenes, however, you get a more complex picture. Studying the faces in the audience, what you have are Iowans looking and listening hard, with not a small degree of skepticism.
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And Then There Were Two
Given the MSM's quadrennial confiscation of America's electoral process, The BAG offers you the first axiomatic shot of Campaign '08.
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We're In
Although Hilary's PR people, I'm sure, are thrilled with this video, I think Hillary's presentation is fairly stilted. On the surface, the "living room" concept must seem like the great leap forward, but so did narrating one's every move the day people brought home the first video cameras. Creativity...
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Hold It Right There
It's hard to take this picture very seriously when The Times turns the article headline ("Jeb Bush Ponders Future, Not Knowing What It Holds") into a metaphorical joke. I guess the point is that Jeb is not going very far if what his future holds are associations to that...
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First Focus On '08
Yes, I was taken with the visual intelligence, freshness and drama of the Edwards announcement.
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Man On A Mission
Really, I don't know what impelled me to seek out this shot of P.O.W. McCain hanging in the Maison Centrale Prison (or "Hanoi Hilton") museum in Hanoi. (Via: bootsnall.com.) Except for the fact that, perhaps, McCain is working on his '08 persona and also laying out his bona fides.
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9/11: Tender Is The Right
Frankly, I don't see how 9/11 can be venerated in any legitimate collective way as long as George Bush is leading that process. Above all, BushCo's manipulation of the survivors and victims on the anniversary of this abhorrent tragedy shows the blasphemy of someone whose actions consistently demonstrate duplicity...
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McCain Watch: Fall Well, Fall Often
Documenting his brown-nosing trip down to Liberty U., the shot that got the most play this weekend was this one, with Johnny Mac turning deferentially to the aging, but still central Falwell.
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Not Either Or
The reason the press is having such a problem with McCain is because they are caught between two different narratives. Is he the fierce independent who refuses to fit into an ideological box? Or, is he the long-standing conservative who is merely emphasizing those credentials in order to broaden...
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Campaign Update: Tower Three
As the Moussaoui trial devolves into disaster porn, "America's Mayor" couldn't have gained a better campaign platform on Thursday. If discretion generally governs depiction of the stricken World Trade Towers, this courtroom drawing practically turns Rudy's head into a surviving Tower Three. Of course, placement and scale not only...
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I love the animal. …It's my kid holding the gun!
Bill Frist was profiled last week by both the NYT and the LAT based on an interview he gave to the AP. As expected, the apologist NYT soft peddled Frist's dismal interview and poor performance as Majority Leader (Frist Revamps Image as He Looks to 2008). On the other...
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Playing Kissimmee!
(click pic for full effect) With her campaign in free fall, maybe it makes sense not to look back. People have been sending me pics of Katherine Harris for weeks now, but they all just seemed one-dimensional -- mostly for their seductiveness. This one is a little different, however. Sure, it...
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Early Running Of The Elephants: Rudi Awakening
Halle - lujah! If "Hizzoner" was notably absent from this week's Republican beauty contest in Memphis, it was not because he's forsaken the South -- or the conservative fundies. This pic accompanies Howard Fineman's latest. The write up describes how Rudy Giuliani dropped in a few weeks ago at the...
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Allen Watch: Warming Up For '08
When it comes to political images, the presidential campaign is to The BAG what the Super Bowl is to the NFL -- or better, to Senator George Allen. Beginning with this week's GOP Southern and Midwestern Leadership Conference, the preseason for '08 is now underway. Over the next couple weeks,...
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Icon Watch: Bronze Star
Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) (R) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) sit next to a statue of Robert F.... REUTERS/Jim Young hands Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) (L) and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) listen to remarks during a cermony for the Robert F.
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Independence Day Special: Howard's Rein
In honor of Independence Day (and a more relaxed summer mode), the BAG focuses on an illustration capturing one of today’s most powerful political struggles for liberty. If you thought freedom of expression was a right you could take for granted in this country, well, you’re not the chairperson...
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Hill and Two Bills: Checking In on the Clinton Comeback
In spite of all the adulation heaped on Karl Rove, maybe he’s not exactly the PR legend he’s been promoted to be. (And who know how he would have fared the last four years if he hadn’t had 9/11 to exploit. And re-exploit.) In any case, the Clintons are...
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