The Palin Nerve
Beyond the TIME cover of a not-so-passive Sara Palin, the public needs to see a more unobstructed view, such as the Sarah Palin buddy-buddy with Senator Stevens, or the Sarah Palin addressing the successionist Alaska Independent Party or even the glorified hunter with the bloody animals.
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Your Turn: McNoPoly
After the Palin tsunami and Cindy's Minneapolis snow job, however, it seems all that's left off the "elitism counter-offensive" and the Cindy (and John) Show is this delicious piece of back-on-track New Yorker satire.
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There's Projection And There's Projection
You've probably already seen the picture of McCain's entrance for his RNC acceptance speech. What it illustrates extremely well is how the Republican's, in their blunt yet effective playbook, make use of projection.
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Poster Mom
In presupposing what kind of advocate a Vice President Palin would be for the mentally disabled, Newsweek helps visually fortify the GOP's strategic exploitation of family and motherhood.
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RNC Packaging
With the traditional media largely swallowing the visual propaganda of the Republican Convention, this shot by Shannon Stapleton does an elegant job of calling it out.
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The Role-Reversing, "Uppity" Atlantic Cover
Following the "TV with the sound off" test, check out this photoshopped cover of the new Atlantic while covering up the words. In this case, what the picture communicates is Obama (in reality, the "cool" one) as the warrior, while McCain (the actual "hot" one, who otherwise can't keep...
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RNC Final Night Top 10
The following is my list of the top ten pics from the final night of the 08 Republican Convention. Okay, I mean, my top eleven.
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More Family Values
Call it another example of how the visual media gets sucked into the cultural politics. This shot show the hand of Levi Johnston. Johnston has a tattoo of Bristol Palin's name tattooed on his left ring finger
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The Right To Be Here
This is just a pic, and an accompanying write-up posted anonymously at Twin Cities Indymedia, I wanted to pass along.
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A Call For The BAG
I seriously never thought I'd do another BAG again, it being years now, but this situation is just so frickin weird, it just came out of me.
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RNC Wednesday Wrap-Up: Mothers And Forefathers
Helping bridge Sarah Palin's self-avowed pit bull role, the RNC flashed large scenes behind her evoking the American landscape. There was a towering shot of the arch in St. Louis, another of farm fields, still another of a ferris wheel at dusk.
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RNC Wednesday Wrap-Up: Family Values
Watching the night three RNC 08 coverage, baby Trig has become a central prop in this campaign.
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RNC Wednesday Wrap-Up: 9/11, 9/11
My twitter at 7:27 pm PST: Mega-screen behind Rudy has mega-view of lower Manhattan. I didn't look for the Trade Towers, did you?
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The Likes We Haven't Seen Since Terri Schiavo
Wow, you can't make this stuff up. McCain goes to the airport to greet husband- and father-to-be, Levi Johnson.
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The Republican Clone-vention
You remember the transmitter controversy, regarding the alleged bump under Bush's jacket and the rumor that Bush was receiving his debate answers directly from Rove? Watching the RNC on TV, you quickly get the feeling -- especially when it comes to Sarah Palin -- that everybody in that convention...
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A Noun, A Verb, And A POW (The Size Of Minnesota)
The audacious scale here is an incredible commentary on how McCain's captivity has been inflated to obscene proportions.
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Day 2
This is the Day 2 shot released by the McCain campaign of the newly announced Veep.
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Anbar, Minnesota
Photo from AP Photo by Matt Rourke Members of the media watch as police question a group of people detained at a home in at the Republican National Convention in St.... Republican National Convention protesters targeted in a series of police raids Friday night and Saturday said they wouldn't...
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