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Bush Focus Photo July 20, 2008

The Trip : Making The Scene At Bagram

Seeing Obama in front of American troops at Bagram is not only a great relief (and, hopefully, a preview), it offers a profound contrast with what we've been suffering from.

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Media Focus Photo July 18, 2008

Notes From Netroots: Media Make Up

Is it odd that two publications, four days apart, would feature such similar shots with different MSNBC personalities (even featuring the same make-up artist)? ... For context, I'm pulling from yesterday's Netroots Nation media panel.

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Campaign '08 Photo July 17, 2008

Obama's Not Human

Newsweek blogger Andrew Romero describes Obama as "Self-Flagellator-in-Chief" for supposedly working out too much.

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Campaign '08 Photo

Love And Kisses

If I'm a little late to the story, I've been thinking about these shots of Phil Gramm and the McCain's at the Citadel following the South Carolina primary victory in January.

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Lens On Gitmo

Why the 2003 interrogation tapes of Gitmo prisoner Omar Khadr look so bad...

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo July 15, 2008

Sleepwalking Out of Iraq

There has been something strange about the recent coverage of the war in Iraq... Guest blogger, Robert Hariman discusses the sense of disengagement emerging from both fronts in the terror war.

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Lieberman Co-Chairs The Disappropriation Committee

Planted between these two chairs, the suggestion is that Lieberman is somehow located in between the two parties -- with the jury out in terms of where he might park.

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Campaign '08 Photo July 13, 2008

The "What" Of What's Wrong With The Barack Osama New Yorker Cover

The BNN reaction to Barry Blitt's New Yorker "Politics of Fear" cover

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Latest LA Times Poll: Six-Of-One, Half-A-Dozen-Of-The-Other

Catch this dangerous new meme driven home by this cleverly simple diptych hatched today by the LA Times.  The visual take-away is:  Obama and McCain, what's the difference?

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Come Say Hello

I'll be speaking Saturday on the "Don't Think of Violence" panel, organized by Jeffrey Feldman of Frameshop, and featuring George Lakoff, David Niewart of Orcinus and Firedoglake, and Andrea Batista Schlesinger.  Given Jeffrey and George's formal expertise in linguistics and political framing, I'm honored to expand the focus in...

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International Focus Photo July 12, 2008

GWOOT (Global War On … Olympic Terrorism)

What I'm seeing in these terrorism preparation drills -- held on the actual field of Olympic competition, employing finely-hone physical skill and and precise group co-ordination, the point being public display -- is an almost complete blurring of the lines between athletic and military competition.

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Campaign '08 Photo

Well, Obviously

If you study him, one fundamental you'll discover is that McCain -- like a looping tape -- feels a compulsive need to reflect on how he's screwed up this or screwed up that.

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Media Focus Photo July 10, 2008

Missileading Sources

The prevailing wisdom regarding the widespread publication of the doctored Iranian missile test is that the photo department at any number of media organizations should have smelled out the fake in a second.  I have a little bit different take.

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Bush Focus Photo July 9, 2008

The Zen Of Midgets

One way to read the group shot involves the miniscule leadership displayed by world leaders at the point the environment and climate change has moved to the foreground of the world agenda. Bush makes a statement to the press upon his departure at the Windsor Hotel Toya Resort and Spa...

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The Case Of The Invisible American War Machine

Last week, I thought there was something fishy about the photos from Amara, and now a new TIME article bears it out.

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Campaign '08 Photo July 7, 2008

McTownhall Versus McTeleprompter

If the visual media has mostly bypassed scenes of McCain in tortured teather to his gaffe-prevention, large-type babysitter, examples are not hard to find.

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Your Turn: Keepers Of The Palace

The military must have been pretty desperate not just for the 5,500 years of additional commitment, but for the recruiting poster otherwise advertising the the scale of America's occupying force and the fact that the U.S. is the real keeper of the palace over there.

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Bush Focus Photo

It's July 4th. Do You Know Where Your New Iraqi Citizens Are?

The 46th annual Independence Day naturalization ceremony at Monticello offered the visual media the perfect opportunity to call out to the Administration for its pitiful response to Iraqi visa and immigration requests.

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