Between Outlandish Parody And An Unfitting Level Of Respect
One conclusion here is that, between outlandish parody and an unfitting level of respect, Cheney continues to defy a direct, critical look.
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Nouri Hits Condi With A Ban
Better kick the Anbar take-over into overdrive, because we're losing Baghdad. With the Ahmadinejad show heading for town, U.N. festivities got started with a discernible chill between Condi and Maliki.
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In The Modern Age Of The War On Terror
In the modern age of The War on Terror, the masks are on the wrong people, and no one seems to notice.
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Iraq Status Follies
What these newswire pics express is what a farcical exercise the supposed Iraq war re-authorization showdown has become.
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Alive Day. Cut!
(If you're not familiar with the term, "alive day" is the day -- sort of like your birthday -- you were almost blown to bits in Iraq, but through the miracle of medical technology, your life was saved ... if minus some of your body parts.
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Political Revisionism Getting Out Of Hand
Be warned, this is not last week's Economist cover. It is The BAG's recommendation, however, for how it as exaggeratedly might have looked. Simple as it is to claim America is being led (off the path) toward the left (see my analysis of the actual cover at Huffington), isn't...
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Rove Looking Going Away
I reprise my favorite shot of Bush's architect. It's not just for the photo, however, but the whole assemblage. This almost two-year-old goody appeared in the NYT at the front-end of the Libby imbroglio. It's hard not to view it without conjuring all those shots of Rove looking at...
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YKos '07: Picture Of Youth
I had a mishap this morning with my current machine which left it badly limping. Thankfully, in my years worth of possession, I had my old PowerBook which, although -- after a dash to the AppleStore for a power cord -- is now keeping me on the air.... (Although...
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Picturing The Kos
Since I'm headed to Chicago this morning, I have a particularly keen interest in how the media, and especially, the Times, will be visualizing YK '07.
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Cots Of War
It's almost 9 AM in New York and I just flipped on C-SPAN 2's coverage of the Iraq debate. I keep wondering if Lindsey Graham -- who is struggling to keep his eyes open -- will actually keel over from exhaustion in the middle of his speech. So much...
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Then The Planes Hit The Buildings, Mr. Shadow President
Along with the 'spheric attention lately to Dick Cheney as the so-called "fourth branch of government," there seems to have also arisen a renewed interest in the Cheney-Bush relationship.
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Digby 1, Beale 0. (Or, She's Mad As Hell And She's Still Not Taking It Anymore!)
Most of us, despite our high-minded desires and ideals, still have different basic attitudes toward and expectations of men and women, and this was a little lesson for me in that fact. Also, I agree that having a strong voice - a voice many assumed was a man's because...
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Eating It's Young. Falling On Sword. Whatever, Pace Is Gone.
The reason Joint Chief of Staff Peter Pace is out -- in just two pictures.
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On The Latest Episode Of "As The White House Turns" : The Would-Be Diplomat Vs. The Wannabe-Dictator
The answer is, six of one, and half-a-dozen of the other (with whatever extra b.s. Cheney is still managing to get away with).... It's not that these two don't still have plenty of time to screw things up worse, and continue playing fools across multiple estates.... First, it cites...
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"This Is The President, Reid! Step Away From The Chamber, And Keep Your Hands Where I Can See 'Em"
If you're an anti-war liberal, on the other hand(s), what you're probably more likely to read into Reid is plain surrender.
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The Prestige
I thoroughly enjoyed this imaginative shot of Karl Rove doing a rap skit (if you can believe that!) at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ dinner Wednesday night. Married to a NYT article yesterday detailing Rove's role in hiring and firing United States attorneys, we get a wonderfully imaginative composition...
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Oh God
Clearly, Cheney's not under anything that isn't pasted over his head -- in the most trivial way -- by a histrionic media.... As a straight ahead portrait, however, the TIME cover more logically proffers Cheney as magic genie, or supposed Olympian god who can command the force of lightening.... ...
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