NRA "Trigger the Vote" Video — Think: Tim McVeigh Meets Bambi
I can see the development meeting now: "Hey, let's turn a room full of far-right fringe radicals dressed like inmates from the penitentiary into hippy throwbacks from the encounter movement!
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If Allred Around the Edges, the Photo's Still Lethal
Meg's team can complain all they want about celebrity site TMZ vacuuming up the imagery from yesterday's press conference into the great annals of scandal iconography, it's not going to help.
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Sprinkling Salt in the Whine
First, let's get something straight. The Chicago Trib is using that headline and this photo out of context.
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Obama, the Rolling Stone Cover, and Playing from Behind
With the Tea Party's standard bearers looking more and more radical and wild-eyed, this photo of the President, calm and grounded outside the Oval Office, is all the more impactful for the lack of drama or pizzaz.
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Candidate's "Ground Zero" Scare Tactic Only 3 Examples Short of a History Lesson
Wow, you've just gotta love this political ad from Renee Ellmers, a candidate for Congress in North Carolina’s 2nd District. If her goal -- with this Ground Zero ad -- is to scare viewers about a potential Muslim takeover of New York, her examples hardly demonstrate Islam's world domination.
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Apparently, Can't Tell the Difference Between Tee Time/Tea Time
It's hard to believe Boehner would be so clueless as to actually brandish this tea pot after the Repubs "Contract with America Show."
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A Matter of Life and Death
Sure, it's only one picture, but in embracing this woman with cancer, Obama actually and finally interjects some heart into an issue that is, after all, a matter of life-and-death.
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Hands in the Witchcraft
Think a Tea Party Senate candidate would have trouble recollecting a Satanic experience? Well, watch the hands.
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Christine's Armey (Whether He Likes it or Not)
On the subject of Christine O'Donnell's character baggage...
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Alan Chin: Black Tea
What do we think when we see a Black Tea Party Member? We've got some questions:
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McCain's Winning Pitch(fork)
The visual communication is simple. It's describing for us how John, who's really is not the biggest man, became an Arizona devil just to keep his Senate seat.
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A 2nd Reason Glenn Luther King Hit it Out of the Park in DC – They Left the Signs at Home
In removing signs from his rally at the Washington Memorial, Beck did more than just conjure up the appearance of sanctity and kumbaya. He also transferred the picture of anger and hysteria onto the
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Mid-Term Update: GOP Identity Crisis
If Rubio is the brightest young star in the GOP constellation, the way he's been framed over the past two years shows how much the Republicans lack an identity.
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McCain Ends Campaign With a Hug? Are You Serious?
What the Times pic calls out is the phoniness and impersonality of the photo op -- reflecting the cynical and hateful campaign McCain ran.
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Election Update: The Inspiring $22 Million Dollar Outsider. (Burp.)
A huge personal bankroll and anti-intellectual appeal drives the GOP bandwagon in Connecticut.
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Mark Kirk: Man of Steal
The fact this is the most recent photo on the dissembling Mark Kirk's Facebook page is just hilarious.
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Carly Fiorina’s #1 Priority
A look at Barbara Boxer on the campaign trail at UC Riverside, given her Senate opponent's concern about her head.
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