At The Grand Canyon (Between Bush And Reality)
soldiers informed of tour extensions vs. Bush recent visit to Fort.? sits with mom.
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War Is Tell
The Ministry of Defense said in a statement today that the sale of stories would strengthen its control over what the released sailors and marines had to say. Freed Britons May Sell Their Stories, Drawing Criticism not link gen'd: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/world/europe/08cnd-britain.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin (image: Lefteris Pitarakis/Associated Press.... April 8.... nyt.com) From left,...
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Bush In Theater
Bush talks with U.S. Army Captain Pat Armstrong during his visit to the U.S. Army National Training Center Wednesday, April 4, 2007, at Fort Irwin, Calif.... I appreciate those of you who are about to deploy in an important theater in this war against radicals and extremists, this war...
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Not Enough Wheat
U.S. and Iraqis Are Wrangling Over War Plans http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/world/middleeast/15baghdad.html?ex=1326517200&en=96772c3fd092411f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss Here's the problem when you have an imaginary political solution, in the name of Mr. Bush's "New Way Forward," imposed from the top down. In Iraq, where NYT report John Burns tries to separate the wheat from the chaff, there...
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Back To The Post Office
More telling to me, however, is the staging for "The Tear" -- whether Bush's emotion was genuine, or not. In this case, the real question is why Rove didn't wait until the State of the Union Speech to uncork Bush's emotional portrait (that yes, the MSM sucked up like...
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Breaking Through The Lines
Bush's new man at the Defense Department serves as the object of boundary-free circumspection by a restive public and a less seduced and submissive media.
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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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Minor Distinctions
I was curious about this piece on the fallen Representative Mark Foley in Sunday's NYT Week In Review. The media seems to be having an easy time publishing the sexually-oriented IM transcripts between Congressman Foley and a 16-year old male intern. At the same time, however, I wonder just how...
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Reading Vs. Reading In
If this photo reminds you of the "Pregnant Pause" photo and discussion on The BAG back on August 23rd, your not off base. This shot, taken by Thomas Hoepker, is another from David Friend's book, Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11. This shot...
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POW! (Not.)
While American men and women are spilling real blood in Iraq and Afghanistan, the GWOT has devolved into a clown show. For combined idiocy and duplicity, this week was a classic. The setting was Pervez Musharraf's visit to Washington.
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All The Equivalence That Fits To Print
They desperately need to make that pip-squeek leader equal to Bush so that Bush can be seen "standing up to him" and smiting him.
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Working It Up
Although well into the process of diligently dismembering the White House analogy between fascism, communism and "Islamicism," the liberal blogosphere may be missing the point.... When you find the MSM and the White House highlighting the same behavioral features, you must be suspicious. If you noticed, the point made,...
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Katrina Anniversary: From Tragedy To Farce
The White House images from Bush's second day in the Gulf reveal a shallowness, a self-centeredness and a lack of connection that has characterized "W" all along, but is now painfully visible the surface. The Bush's day in New Orleans is represented by fifteen photos on the White House photo...
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Katrina Anniversary: The New Paparazzi
Obviously, Bush is in an incredibly weak position on Katrina, but I have yet to see Rove -- characteristically defiant when the chips are down -- pull back or get this defensive with the visuals.... Last week, the It's understandable Bush would seek out the credibility by tying himself...
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Katrina Anniversary: Dirty Pool
This shot from New Orleans on Monday's newswire does a superior job previewing the thematic pixel war between Bush and the Democrats over the next few days. Here's the caption, which works wonderfully as metaphor...
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Karl's Handiwork Of The Week
BAGnewsNotes Revised caption (with suggested links): White House photographer highlights press coverage of a snickering President George W. Bush and former parish council GOP candidate (but supposed God-fearing nobody), Rockey Vaccarella, after delivering a joint statement to the press on the South Lawn Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006.
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A Day To Celebrate
As the perfect corollary to yesterday's disgusting, yet completely unsurprising news that Bush has been milking the London airline terror plot for days, here's the shot the White House featured on it's photo gallery as the news (finally) broke.
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Where There's Smoke, There's … Smoke?
The shot above is Reuters photographer Adnan Hajj's original photo of an Israeli air strike, taken two days ago. The one below is the photoshopped version that got him canned yesterday. By almost all accounts, Mr. Hajj was caught trying -- in the most amateur sort of way --...
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