Your Turn: Parting Shots

By Michael Shaw

Lieberman-Tecchie

(Actual size!)

If there’s an image to remember the Ct. primary by, this is it. The metaphorical implications are endless.

(hat tip: Susan)

(image: John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times. August 8, 2006. empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Metaphor 1: Everything is black and white.
Apart from bringing up the unpleasant memory of the Jane Hamsher controversy, black & white suggests a categorical worldview, not unlike that of GWB.
http://www.jaxxattaxx.com/ black dog barking

Our little LieberKind has a sinister Village of the Darned thing going with his eyes. Look for beams of light to shoot out. And the two dangling wires connect child and computer to the Tubes of the Internet, awkwardly.
For my money The Kiss Float captures the sense and feel of Lamont v Lieberman 2006, Round 1.
http://www.futurebird.com futurebird

This is a larger version of the image I pulled down from the front page of the times website last night while watching the votes roll in…
http://www.futurebird.com futurebird

This is a larger version of the image I pulled down from the front page of the times website last night while watching the votes roll in…
limapup

Is child labor permitted in campaings? One can assume that this child is wearing a yalmukah – is he also Israeli? Is there a connection between the Iraqu thingy and the Lebanon thingy? mmmmmm….I just don’t know. In any case, this child campaigner(?) seems to be completely alone in his little space where the word “Lieberman” is clumped together and hanging over his head.
http://profile.typekey.com/bgrothus/ bg

Down to the wire, hanging by a thread. That election musta been torture!!
ummabdulla

I can’t see the sign well enough to see if it says anything other than “Lieberman” and his website name. Does it mention anything about the Democratic party, or did they design everything so they could re-use it in his campaign as an Independent?
http://www.futurebird.com futurebird

They can totally re-use that sign in his independent run. In the larger version I linked above, it looks like this kid has an army hat beside the computer. Don’t know what that means except maybe it brings the war to mind… the issue that seemed to motivate so many people to vote for Ned.
I’ve been the computer person on election night before. It can be hell! So I feel for this guy. But, still, the image just makes me laugh and laugh.
I guess it’s the beaten-down hangdog look of being ousted by “carpetbloggers” and “the internets.” The room is so stark and the wires are in the photo to show us the source of this kid-techie’s ire.
muley graves

Where to start?
Well, the dualistic world view has already been commented upon, as has the campaign hanging by a thread, and the strange look in the young man’s eyes.
But also, look at the isolation the photo which suggests lost touch with reality; moreover, the only connection is by wire – there is nothing human or warm to associate with membership in the greater brotherhood of mankind, only a lonely person connected, however temporarily, by a lone wire awkwardly leading to an internet drop somewhere above. No human connection.
mr. memento

I want to know what’s written on the whiteboard. The stuff in the lower-right corner looks like the same thing repeated over and over. Hmm, let me do a zoom and sharpen…
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY
Yup, just what I thought.
http://www.fromthearchives.blogspot.com Megan

Do the wires look like IV drips to anyone else? Feeding life into the campaign (but not enough, apparently). The whole place is as sterile as a hospital.
http://justbetweenstrangers.blogspot.com/ acm

he looks like a lonely guy alone in a (war-) room, trying to fuel the campaign by force of will alone… isolated, artificial, angry… amazing shot.
http://cheetahmaster.livejournal.com/ PMMJ

From the article:
“Mr. Geary disputed charges made by Lamont supporters that the Lieberman Web site was running on a cheap Internet service that did not have enough bandwidth. He said that shortly after the campaign began, a video of a bear cub had overloaded the Web site, and as a result he put the campaign on a custom plan designed to handle increased traffic.”
Overloaded by the video of a bear cub? Oh, man. *There’s* a mental image.
http://monoceros.furmont.net/ Ernest Tomlinson

Also note, in the larger version of the photo that futurebird provided, the small map of Connecticut at the left edge of the photo, which looks like it’s just a printout on a piece of typing paper and which is peeling loose from the wall; also visible only in the larger photo is an orange extension cord with a piece of duct tape on it (suggesting an earlier, failed attempt to tape the cord down) dangling from the ceiling. Was the Lieberman campaign organisation really that slapped together?
http://areyoudressed.blogspot.com momly

Get a Mac!!!
http://www.futurebird.com futurebird

Was the Lieberman campaign organisation really that slapped together?
I think they never knew how serious this was. They justs didn’t try.
He looked so put-upon in the debates, like “Why do I even have to try… I shouldn’t have to run for office, I’m the incumbant…OMG…”
(I was so in to this election and I’m not even from CT! But you bet I emailed all my university buddies who are!)
http://www.olywa.net/cook Geoduck

Overloaded by the video of a bear cub? Oh, man. *There’s* a mental image.
For anyone who doesn’t know, it was a cartoon ad the Lieberman people did, trying to compare Lamont to former Lieberman opponent Lowell Wicker.
KevinNYC

I don’t see a yarmulke on the kid’s head. Even if there was why in the world would that make him Israeli?
Plenty of Americans who have never been to Israel wear yarmulkes.
ummabdulla

I’m not the one who mentioned a yarmulke, but doesn’t every Jew in the world – no matter what their religious inclination – have an automatic claim to Israeli citizenship? And a “right to return” that’s not granted to the people whose land was taken, many of whom are still sitting in refugee camps waiting to return to it?
Chimproller

Yup, this kid is definitely looking Kosher.
I am sure he is just doing his part for Mother Israel, trying to keep a Neocon in power, so the USA can keep fighting Israels wars.