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.
Continue ReadingIs 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.
Continue ReadingNewsweek blogger Andrew Romero describes Obama as "Self-Flagellator-in-Chief" for supposedly working out too much.
Continue ReadingIf 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.
Continue ReadingWhy the 2003 interrogation tapes of Gitmo prisoner Omar Khadr look so bad...
Continue ReadingThere 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.
Continue ReadingPlanted 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.
Continue ReadingThe BNN reaction to Barry Blitt's New Yorker "Politics of Fear" cover
Continue ReadingCatch 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?
Continue ReadingI'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...
Continue ReadingWhat 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.
Continue ReadingIf 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.
Continue ReadingThe 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.
Continue ReadingOne 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...
Continue ReadingLast week, I thought there was something fishy about the photos from Amara, and now a new TIME article bears it out.
Continue ReadingIf 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.
Continue ReadingThe 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.
Continue ReadingThe 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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