UnWeavering Love For McCain
An obvious question to ask, in light of the backlash to this week's NYT story, is how much the press will now be (however unwittingly) running interference for the campaign.
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Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? Is Anybody Looking At Condi?
prepares to sit down, she is confronted -- in a stark act of protest theatre -- by a member of the group Code Pink. I thought Iraq, too, at least up till December 27th, when Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.
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Wingnuts Looking The Part — For A Change
This Administration has consistently avoided judgement by defying expected norms of reaction and standard emotional cause-and-effect.
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Gonzales: What Goes Around Comes Around
Typically, the crashing-and-burning of any part of the Bush Administration is foreshadowed from the beginning. In honor of today's resignation of the AG, let's flip back the picture album thirty months to The BAG's visual confirmation hearing coverage of February 2, 2005. The post was originally titled: "The Two...
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The Gonzales Black Out
In fact, the only reason I can show you Alberto in the desert dust is because, after scouring, this little media pic showed up ... from Iran.
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By Tint Of Unraveling
I imagine there have been plenty of opportunities to capture Rove in a similar hue. If so, why is this aglow now?
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Who Do You Think You're Looking At?
Once again, the unraveling of the Cheney/Bush Administration has proven too messy for the visual press to it dirty its hands, paper and electrons on. I'm referring specifically to Monday's coverage of the EPA Director Christine Whitman's appearance before a House Judiciary Subcommittee to try and finesse the agency's...
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Your Turn: What About Anya?
So, what's going on? What would possibly cause a crack down backlash examination into the drugging of America?
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In Reality, Condi Gives Herself The Finger
The image of Rice facing the video, and her own words, marks a turning point in the death of this Administration. The pathetic, if unique opportunity, is that, after years of lying to our faces, we get to observe them witnessing it as well.
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Peripheral Players
What makes the Rove shot interesting, just like this one of Cheney roaming the bushes during a Presidential press conference a few weeks back, is that these guys in the Administration operate as moral, as well as organizational free agents. If, in reality, Rove is simply cluing in to...
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The Usual Motion
It's a visual survey of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' news conference yesterday. Gonzales admitted "mistakes were made" regarding the politically-motivated firing of seven different United States attorneys this January.
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Hail To The Chiefs
In light of Lewis Libby's conviction for perjury, just how close was Scooter to Dick Cheney, how did Cheney weigh the political value of that relationship, and did it fit in relation to Cheney's own perception of himself in the Administration?
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How The Post Captured Libby
With the Libby verdict, we get a revealing shot of Cheney's primary foot soldier.
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Saying Ney
Why is it that news publishers continue to enjoy a virtual free ride when it comes to image selection? Given the incredible oversight and critique the 'sphere dedicates to political writing and reporting, isn't it time the media was held to similar account for its day-to-day visual production? Take this...
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It's Down To Cannibalism
These days, it's hard not to feel like you're peering into the Republican big top, witnessing a three-ring political meltdown. For gallows humor, I found the above image particularly crisp. The caption informs us this is Hastert sitting inside his home in Plano, Illinois. Shifting metaphors from the big...
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Under Revision. (Condi Edition)
Robert Woodward's new book is kicking up all kinds of new details and allegations. Perhaps the most significant impact of the manuscript, however, is its role in the perceptual revision of key Administration figures and relationships.
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Haditha: Return Of The "Bad Apples?"
As the Haditha killings work their way into the public consciousness and impact the political calculus of the war, The BAG is curious how the corresponding visual narrative is going to play. These three shots -- taken on a night raid in Haditha and dated simply "2005" -- showed up...
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The Company You Keep
Here is U.S. General Michael Hagee, the Marine Corps Commandant (right of Bush) yukking it up with the Commandeer-in-Chief in Washington on May 5th. About two weeks later, in a meeting with Jack Murtha, Hagee told the Congressman that he and his staff knew about the Haditha incident --...
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