The Blackwater Network
My question is, with the media mostly in bed with the U.S. military, how would the Blackwater shooting on September 12th have been perceived if the Iraqi's hadn't blown the whistle on the incident?
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Clarence Thomas: Cover For Paranoia
The photo and layout of the Harper Collins Clarence Thomas memoir gets it about right. It's a portrait of paranoia.
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More On The Obama Front
I know my post yesterday dealt with TIME turning the lights out on Obama, but that was from the previous week's edition. This week's catch is even better, illustrating how the right-wing noise machine is starting to kick in to high gear. The screen grab above comes from TIME's...
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Obama Reaching
Left-to-right and top-to-bottom, the media message is fairly clear: Obama's campaign has become... a reach, a stretch, a dream beyond his grasp -- and, in a more bodily sense... a fading, a falling back, a disappearing act. I have my own theory about Obama's reach, however....
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No Banner Left Behind
With all the skirmishing going on around the Bush's veto of the SCHIP legislation, the Decider's photo op in the Bronx two weeks ago seems to loom ever larger. Yes, it's hypocricy, but it is such a an accomplished piece of hypocricy.
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AdDressing Willy
I'm suspicious, and I can think of at least one good reason why Bill Clinton has been so neutered.
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More WTF: "Reported Progress" Edition
With the passage of time, we become more brutally capable of differentiating "progress" from "reported progress." As well, these two shots expose what Iraq became after 43 got his hands on it -- which was, and remains, a set.
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Steps Without A Casket
The casket that is not there reminds me of the way this war's symbols and rituals of death have been relegated, in large part, to the imagination.
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The McCain Payload
If the most interesting element in John McCain's new batch of ads is the footage of his Vietnam captivity, what is less apparent is the revised framing of what was formerly "The Iraq War."
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