The Golf Summit
As the first African-American president, one with the foreign name who rode into Washington with the supposedly liberal pedigree, Obama's fascination with golf, and particularly, golf photo ops (yeah, what happened to those bball games?) can be seen to reassure conservatives and and the establishment.
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"Take 'Em Out" at the Ball Game (Or: "The Jersey Pop")
In this image we see the almost perfect conflation of sport and nationalism. Here, the citizen as “fan” celebrates his “team,” the United States. The death of an American enemy, then, is roughly the equivalent of a walk-off home run.
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Snickering Super Bowl Ads: Whiny Liberals Mowed Down in Logging Accident
There was a lot of violence yesterday during Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast, although most of it happened during the commercial breaks. How could red-blooded, faux patriotic right-wing America not have cheered!
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Super Bowl: Enter the Matrix
So maybe this isn’t "The Matrix," but "2001," the screen a monolith jammed into human consciousness by aliens. Except these aliens aren’t trying to usher in a new human race, but rather, one attuned completely to the corporate enterprise of buying-and-selling.
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Super Bowl: Two Faces of Ben
CNN/SI calls Ben Roethlisberger chastened and humbled and runs this photograph to support the idea: a Ben that stares into the heavens, his mouth slightly open in awe, his eyes almost dewy. But what remains is Ben’s wild playoff beard and the contradiction of American sports: redemption has...
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