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If anti-abortion picketers can routinely intimidate women outside health clinics, can it be that hard for protestors to scare off all but the most racist customers from doing business with this attention-seeking, hate-mongering Colorado used car salesman? (See backstory in caption below.)
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White House
Barack Obama
Longtime BAGnewNotes reader "RubberNecker" writes:
I came across an interestingly composed photo of a Palin book signing event published on her Facebook feed. If you notice, the signs in the bookstore that denote the sections make a perfect commentary on her book. She is signing in ...
White House
Sarah Palin
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On the last leg of a long Asian trip in which O was essentially bottled up, the shot, in this otherwise tongue-in-cheek Korean Taekwon-Do -themed photo-op, offers up the Prez as a powerful action figure as he re-injects himself back into the homeland's ...
White House
Barack Obama
South Korea
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Consumer culture -- the endless manufacture of desire -- is killing us. It knows no morality .
And ultimately, the newswire photo just compounds the problem, establishing its value -- this clever, colorful piece of drive-by eye candy -- ...
World
Peru
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Consumer culture -- the endless manufacture of desire -- is killing us. It knows no morality .
And ultimately, the newswire photo just compounds the problem, establishing its value -- this clever, colorful piece of drive-by eye candy -- ...
World
Peru
The dirty shame, yet standard operating procedure of America Inc. -- especially after screwing it up -- has simply been to turn around and dump as much of it as possible -- in the abstracted form of paperwork, leg work, extra fees and surcharges, etc. -- onto Mr. Consumer, the the ...
World
Recession
2008
2009
I promised Piper that this time [trick-or-treating], I would keep my distance so I wouldn't disrupt the fun she has planned for herself and her friends. She's so good and accommodating. She puts up with a lot.
-- Sarah Palin. Family video. The Oprah Show. ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Rather than taking up the right wing's " dithering " or "what's taking SO long" meme when it comes to Obama's Afghan strategy (in a situation that some see as having no practical urgency) perhaps the better question to ask is, what's with the leaks? -- and, what are they ...
White House
Barack Obama
Afghanistan
International Monetary Fund
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Rather than taking up the right wing's "dithering" or "what's taking SO long" meme when it comes to Afghan strategy (in a situation that some see as having no practical urgency) perhaps the better question to ask is, what's with the leaks? -- and, what are they costing the ...
White House
Barack Obama
Afghanistan
International Monetary Fund
Hillary Rodham Clinton
BAGnews is pleased to introduce Pete Brook , our newest contributor.
This piece is cross-posted from Pete's superb blog, Prison Photography .
Still from video shown to the Baha Mousa public Inquiry showing Corporal Donald Payne, formerly of the ...
World
Iraq
U.S. Army
International Monetary Fund
Here's the single promo shot Oprah's production company released to the media. What it shows is four women who are thoroughly experienced posing for a camera. If there is a curious element, it's the unusually tight grip Oprah has on Sarah and Willow -- reflective, perhaps, of Oprah ...
White House
Oprah Winfrey
Sarah Palin
Somehow, this was read as a fireworks show.
And then, even after witnessing this , much of America was spun into buying this .
BAGnews is singularly dedicated to challenging the use of pictures for the purpose of sensationalism, oversimplification, infotainment or collusion by ...
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How did this read to me on first pass, through this week's media filter?
...A nation of umpteen billion people and Obama, a man recognized for wowing the crowds and stirring hope in the masses, especially overseas, is featured today on the newswires wrapping up his China trip alone ...
World
Barack Obama
China
International Monetary Fund
A nation of umpteen billion people and Obama, a man recognized for wowing the crowds and stirring hope in the masses, especially overseas, is featured today on the newswires wrapping up his China trip alone at the Great Wall.
If the week had gone differently, the visual vocabulary ...
White House
Barack Obama
China
International Monetary Fund
With the staggering investment that goes into advertising and advocacy images in this country, is it any wonder nobody's teaching, let alone preaching visual literacy?
Let's face it, pixels are playing a fundamental role both in the political and culture wars, as well as the ...
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If "The Great Recession" label failed to catch on before the recession was called, and the "two Americas" meme somehow died with the fidelity of John Edwards, symbols of gross entitlement -- as represented by the incestuous merger of corporate and political power married to ...
Congress
Michael Bloomberg
Recession
The AP couldn't express it in any bigger terms.
As long as Stanley and the U.S.A. are fronting for the crooked and discredited Karzai, we've got nothing to say.
(photo: Anja Niedringhaus. caption: Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander for Afghanistan, talks in front ...
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Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai
Italy
United States
International Monetary Fund
Dear BAGnews Readers,
Sometime in the first months of 2010, BAGnewsNotes is going to change. We will still be the best site for decoding the spin of politics and images, but we’ll be redesigned to do it that much better. It won’t be a shallow makeover. We’ll be building on the old with ...
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Recyling an original photo from the August Runners
World interview and slideshow , Newsweek issues Palin a
slap -- pretending it's our mother talking -- while simultaneously taking it to the bank. And, along the way, we get an ever cheaper take on the ...
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Newsweek Gives Cover Girl Palin A Dressing Down
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