In Perfect Alignment
I would contend that this image -- carefully crafted for the news media to demonstrate how Bush cares about the hurricane devastation in Galveston -- is actually further indicative of how out-of-touch Bush was during the Katrina crisis.
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Early Signs Of Sarah Palin's Radical Agenda?
what the photo telegraphs is that, even at this early stage of her local career, Palin is revealing herself as an activist officeholder with not just ambitious, but much larger and radical notions.
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Your Turn: Pink, Red, Blue, Red, Mustard, More Red, Click
For example, there's this morning's rather schematic AP story about Hillary avoiding Palin, Hillary's And then, playing off the image a little more literally, there's a Wall Street Journal slide show titled: Buying Palin's Shoes, about how "her personal style has sparked a buying frenzy."... Class has definitely been...
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Free Michelle
With just 48 days to go, in a campaign defined as much as anything for its Us or People Magazine-style of symbolism, my question is: why isn't Michelle Obama being deployed more visibly by the Obama campaign?
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Experience Matters
In this clever image by Christopher Morris offers the inference that Sarah Palin is mostly an empty suit. The photo was posted on the TIME White House photo blog back on September 3rd, with the title and caption: "Closet Space: The dress worn by Sarah Palin at the announcement...
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SNL (With The Sound Off)
Visually, the most instructive element of last night's sketch was "Tina Palin's" literal embrace of "Amy Clinton."
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Low Down On "The First Dude"
In clever recognition of the "tabloidization" of the campaign, the NYT pairs this shot of the Palin's with an article ("Active Role for Palin’s Husband in Alaska Government") -- building off a companion article ("Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes") -- outlining the ethical and political boundary-crossing...
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Pumped Up
If ABC had only put as much thought into the backdrop of this Palin interview as it put into the questions. Looks like feeding in to the power play.
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Your Turn: Slightly Different Views
I offer you two representative images off the newswire, one from the McCain's appearance yesterday on The View, the second from Cindy's appearance back on April 21st.
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Palin Gibson
These are not stills the media is going to show you, but they are characteristic of a) the hard-edge of the Veep candidate, and b) how over her head the presumptuous Sarah Palin is on the national stage.
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The Honorable John McCain Broke 9/11 "No Campaign" Pledge. But Who Would Notice?
In spite of the candidate's pledge not to politicize 9/11, I don't see how John McCain can call his stealth appearance at the Shanksville memorial ceremony early yesterday anything but a campaign appearance.
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1 Puppet Master; 1 Cut Out; 1 Repeat-After-Me; 4 Teleprompters (And More Than A Dash Of Schwarzenegger)
I feel I'm just waking up from a 10-day-long hallucination ... and, I suddenly have no idea why I went to the trouble of scanning that Newsweek "Palentology" cover. (Right, no link.)
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Politicizing 9/11
I have my issues with Obama and McCain showing up at Ground Zero tomorrow morning and politicizing the event. What is also bothering me, however, is how Team McCain has already set the stage to exploit 9/11 from Alaska -- and further envelope Palin in the flag and the...
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The Wolves Den: McCain, Schmidt Fully Playing The Race Card Now
What is horribly troubling, more than the decrepit tone of the McCain attacks in their viral video destruction campaign, is how Steve Schmidt -- beginning yesterday -- is openly playing the race card. In this latest salvo, in a piece titled ..........., Obama, by way of these consecutive frames,...
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McCain Ad Ties Sex With Race
In today's trip to the swamp, the McCain campaign's latest attack video is designed to intimate that Obama desires to sexualize the lives of young children.
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Palin Blow-Back: Kissing Up To John Juan
With the media panicking for having scrutinized Sarah Palin, it is now in full retreat. Check out today's double front-page image of McCain and Palin hugging, then John and Cindy kissing. Definitely, kissing up is the theme.
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John McCain And The Chocolate Factory
One can only wonder what the McCain campaign had in mind when they decided to hold a rally this weekend in Cedarburg, Wisconsin against the backdrop of a confectioner’s shop called “The Chocolate Factory,” but surely the allusion to “Willy Wonka” could not have escaped them.
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(God’s) Country First
In a brilliant piece of photo editing, however, The Times provides vivid illustration of how Palin stands for the merger of church and state, especially the military state. As The Times relates, Palin tells the Assembly of God Church, regarding her sons deploying to Iraq, that: they should pray...
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