With the near week-long pre-Pennsylvania media orgy over the "bitter" comments still fresh in mind, you can see, above, how yesterday's Day Four pre-Indiana/N. Carolina installment of the Wright paroxysm played out in the NYT dead tree edition.
Continue ReadingIf you haven't yet focused on it, there is a new feature of the site that I'm particularly proud of. It's the BNN Visual Newsfeed and it's sitting right over there in the left column.
Continue ReadingNow that the U.S. -- desperately attempting to protect the Green Zone, and avoid a Saigon-style evacuation -- is actively bombing Sadr City, what is the difference between what the Americans are doing now, and the Israeli's did in Qana during the Lebanon war two years ago?
Continue ReadingIsn't it curious why WAPO fails to describe, let alone even mention, those projectiles below the helicopter?
Continue ReadingU.S. takes on Afghanistan. U.S. takes eye off ball. President Karzai reduced to mayor of Kabul. Afghan soldiers scatter during national military parade during weekend assassination attempt on "the mayor."
Continue ReadingWith Reverend Wright's mug blanketing the media over the last 48 hours, one picture I don't expect to see making the rounds is this one.
Continue ReadingIf The BAG has been concentrating on Newsweek lately, it's because that publication has taken the lead in visually contorting Obama. Last week, the mission involved tying Obama to Kerry and branding him a wimp. This week, the characterization is more odious.
Continue ReadingBAGreaders take on Newsweek's latest Obama hit job, the cover photo-illustration "arugula and beer."
Continue ReadingAfter getting punked at the WH Correspondents Dinner in '06 (and again at last year's post-mid-year election Radio and Television Correspondents Association chum-fest), Dubya literally made sure, this year, he had the upper hand.
Continue ReadingDana Milbank's Thursday Washington Sketch is a must read. It details how the Pentagon is visually Journalists were held 50 yards from the service, separated from the mourning party by six or seven rows of graves, and staring into the sun and penned in by a yellow rope.... "There...
Continue ReadingOf course, you heard Laura Bush "made history" this week, right? Yes, fast on the heels of Dubya's cameo on a game show, she became the first First Lady to host the TODAY show.
Continue ReadingCo-opting a tone and itinerary more associated with the Edwards campaign, John McCain's 'It's Time for Action' tour generated these images Tuesday from a factory in Youngstown. More ironic, however, was McBenevolent's tour of New Orleans. Expressing all the compassion in the world -- in direct contradiction to his...
Continue ReadingBAGreaders take on the new TIME cover splitting Hillary and Obama
Continue ReadingPart of the very real concern over "the kitchen sink" has to do with the depth, degree and, particularly, the durability of particular forms of characterization. In this case, the image of Obama maps only too well with accusations of disconnection, ineffability and elitism (especially in the NYT photo...
Continue ReadingWas it just me, or did those six weeks in Pennsylvania seem to last forever?
Continue ReadingPresident 18% has sunk so pitifully low that he's taken to honoring Iraq veterans through the vehicle of the television game show.
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