Taking Mitt's Temperature
For all the Levis and plain-language answers that supposedly constitute Mitt 2.0, what we continue to see in Romney is someone who is excitable, always right and constantly taking offense.
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Gloria Meets the Press: Our Take on the FOX Promo Photos of Herman and Gloria Cain
Nothing is more demonstrative of Cain's power relationship with women than Herman to the left, ladies to the right.
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"Blame the Victim": Stalking Horse for Cain Visualizes Accuser As "Ugly Bitch"
With unbridled speed, the Herman Cain sexual harassment controversy has already shifted from the “he said/she said” (and she said, and she said, and she said) stage to the unfortunately predictable “blame the victim” phase.
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Yes, We Cane? Some Take-Aways On Newsweek's Herman Cain Cover
I can't tell if Newsweek would like to walk this back now, or there's no downside because memories are so short and we've gotten lost in the hype-machine.
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The Herman (and Gloria) We Don't Know
If there is any truth to the allegations that Cain did sexually harass female employees as head of the National Restaurant Association, this photo -- and Gloria Cain's reluctance to stand up -- is going to get a lot more scrutiny.
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Our Take on the Herman Cain Smokin' Video
If 20.3 million folks smoke and some of them are Tea Partiers, they and some Libertarians might vote for the pizza guy.
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Romney: "The Money Shot"
Sure, it's a straight-ahead glorification of greenbacks, corporate raiding and the ostentatious accumulation of wealth. What I like about it, though, is how the suit next to Romney is actually handing him the buck.
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The Venomous GOP Debate Audience
First they cheered for execution. Then they cheered for leaving the uninsured to die. And in last night's iteration...
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Romney Drinking From the Cup
Romney, of course, did pay lip service last night to the pain and frustration people are feeling right now. But what the photo speaks to how much always is mugging for Wall Street culture.
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Preview of Coming Attractions: Obama Jobs Roadshow Meets "Occupy Wall Street"
Can you imagine the pill Obama's communications people must be trying to swallow right now as the jobs roadshow, slickly packaged in a populist narrative, comes in contact with the raw, real thing?
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Herman Cain Demographics
With Herman Cain rising in GOP polls, and Mr. Cain mostly keeping quiet (beyond that one boomerang) in the face of Perry's racist rock, I was interested in this photo outside an Irish pub in Milton, Georgia on Sunday.
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Target Michelle (and Carls Jr. Mitt)
Based on the info available, I've got to agree with the wingers that Michelle's supposedly stealth trip to Target was a photo-op.
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The Christie Interlude (… and Nancy's As Well)
The campaign dance ... and Nancy Reagan, almost literally a ghost.
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Campaign Snapshot: Corporate Tea
Tea Party at the tip of the spear? Or, is Romney is riding out the preliminaries before elevating his own brand.
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O O
I hope this photo is an outlier, and not how the campaign season is shaping up.
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Where's the Beef?
Nice job by NYT photo-editors on Saturday for two Section A shots calling B-S. Is it too much to hope this suggests a trend?
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TIME's Rick Perry "Near-Nomination" Cover
Assigning someone the likes of Platon to shoot a Perry cover is going to automatically lend a gravity you would otherwise give to someone "just that far away" from the GOP nomination.
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Michelangelo, Eat Your Heart Out!
Given the CNN Tea Party "Strange-Bedfellow" Debate, with "Corporations are People" Romney and Rick "States Rights, But Pro-Dream Act" Perry center stage, AND the cleverness of the Getty photo, I couldn't resist.
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