Czech Them Out! European Politicos Strike a Pose
Although these photos would be standard fare in Maxim magazine, their appearance in the typically staid Wall Street Journal is rather surprising—apparently the WSJ is just doing its due diligence covering the latest political trend. The photos represent the efforts of the Czech Republic’s Public Affairs Party...
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Palin's Grizzly Mammas (Or: But Enough About You, What About Me?)
If Sarah Palin's new web video is about a stampede of new conservative female candidates, try to find one in the piece. If the video is about female empowerment, there's little doubt as to who's on the power trip (or the Momma Bear).
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The Supremely Gay Card
After CBS provides a forum for a right-wing cultural attack on Obama's Supreme Court new nominee, WAPO puts its own spin on an otherwise affirming, even celebratory photo.
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Keeping Faith with Bart / Aborting the Press
White House releases its own photo of Obama signing executive order barring health care legislation from funding abortions.
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Your Turn: Rielle Hunter Speaks Out (in Words and… Whoa!)
BagNewsNotes readers respond to G.Q.'s Reille Hunter interview and slide show, and particularly, the disconnect between the two.
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As HCR Comes Down to Arm-Twisting Finish, Check Out that Sexist Framing of Pelosi
As the Speaker of the House asserts herself in the health care showdown in perhaps her most important week of her career, the sexist visual media is framing her as a hysteric.
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Palin by Comparison
A (female) reader directed me to a clever, if simple site suggesting how much Sarah Palin's appeal could be cosmetic.
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Four Soldiers
I am curious to know if the New York Times had ever offered a war zone image on the front page only featuring women soldiers.
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Your Turn: Carlyfornia
I think teasing this ad apart is a worthy exercise to better understand how "Carly," a former-Fortune 500 exec, and a woman taking on Barbara Boxer (and orienting herself as the dog versus the cat), approaches the challenge from a branding/Mad Ave/web/demographic perspective.
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Your Turn: Glamour’s "Astonishing" "Average Size" Woman
I'm interested in your take on the photo, and buzz, surrounding the photo of "average size" model Lizzi Miller in the latest issue of Glamour.
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Hillary: Basher or Bashed?
Is the hubbub over Hillary's response to a question by a Congolese student an attempt to undermine her just because she's female? Or, a Clinton? Or both?
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Reuters Confuses Obama With Berlusconi
Reuters distributes this shot which, from the way everyone is caught in the moment, seems to capture Obama ogling, or at least gamely distracted by this junior G-8 delegate
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The Zahra Factor
Maybe what caused Khamenei and the clerics to derail the Iranian election, as much as anything, was their disaffection with Mousavi's intense and outspoken confidant and wife.
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Women Protest (Men Answer) In Kabul
Not that they aren't strong enough on their own, but the images from yesterday's rare women's protest in Kabul are that much more powerful when compared to the "weak" tea protests that played out around the U.S. yesterday, as well.
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Sexing Up The G-20
Looking at these "Girls of the G20 Summit protest" shots brings a few things to mind.
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Saving The Women Of Afghanistan
What is troubling is the way in which we seem to have convinced ourselves that the reason we having been fighting the Afghan war, at least in part, has been to save its women.
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