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 How Jill Greenberg Really Feels About John McCain
How Jill Greenberg Really Feels About John McCain
When The Atlantic called Jill Greenberg, a committed Democrat, to shoot a portrait of John McCain for its October cover, she rubbed her hands with glee. She delivered the image the magazine asked for—a shot that makes the Republican presidential nominee look heroic. Greenberg is well known for ...
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Lib Photographer Admits Making McCain Look Sinister for Mag Cover
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... On Friday, the photography website PDNPulse published a virtual exposé about a professional photographer that admitted taking an intentionally diabolical looking picture of McCain that she hoped would be on the cover of October's Atlantic magazine (emphasis added throughout, photo courtesy The Atlantic, h/t NB reader Drew Hallowell): ...

How Imagery Is Used To Manipulate Public Impression
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... On Friday, the photography website PDNPulse published a virtual exposé about a professional photographer that admitted taking an intentionally diabolical looking picture of McCain that she hoped would be on the cover of October’s Atlantic magazine (emphasis added throughout, photo courtesy The Atlantic, h/t NB reader Drew Hallowell): ...

Out-Takes: The Atlantic Monthly Finances Vile Anti-McCain Propaganda
AMERICAN DIGEST — ... What was firing was a strobe positioned below him, which cast the horror movie shadows across his face and on the wall right behind him. “He had no idea he was being lit from below,” Greenberg says. And his handlers didn’t seem to notice it either. “I guess they’re not very sophisticated,” she adds - PDNPulse: How Jill Greenberg Really Feels About John McCain ...

The Atlantic's McCain Cover
Little Green Footballs — ... At Photo District News, there’s an article with more details, and Greenberg’s own words about this disgraceful episode: PDNPulse: How Jill Greenberg Really Feels About John McCain. ...

Don't say I didn't warn them!
Classical Values — ... " and gotten ahead in the process. But was it really a betrayal of The Atlantic? In view of the fact that they let someone with Greenberg's known background negotiate a two-week embargo in order to re-license the images (in a supposedly arms-length transaction), I'm having trouble seeing The Atlantic as her victim: The Atlantic didn't select the diabolical looking McCain for its cover. Greenberg is hoping to license that image to some other magazine (she negotiated a two-week embargo with The Atlantic so she could re-license images from the shoot before the election). Warned ...

Atantic's Editor 'Appalled' By Lib Photographer's Altered McCain Pics
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Like others at the Atlantic, I was appalled to read about the actions of Jill Greenberg, the freelance photographer who took the cover portrait that illustrates my ...

Atlantic's Editor 'Appalled' By Lib Photographer's Altered McCain Pics
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... Like others at the Atlantic, I was appalled to read about the actions of Jill Greenberg, the freelance photographer who took the cover portrait that illustrates my ...

Apparently, this is supposed to make me like him less
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — Apparently, this is supposed to make me like him less and.jpg The whole story is here and here . I really hope these nitwits keep doing this stuff right up until Nov. 4. And for my fellow nerds who saw this picture and immediately thought, "Hey, that looks like an Alex Ross painting," check this out. Remember: It's all about the issues . P.S. You might remember Jill Greenberg, the photographer in question, from her thought-provoking End Times exhibition back in 2006. That's the one where she made children cry by offering them candy ...

Understatement Of The Month
small dead animals — September 15, 2008 Understatement Of The Month "... maybe it was somewhat irresponsible for them [The Atlantic] to hire me. ” h/t Posted by Kate at September 15, 2008 12:06 AM Comments Post a comment Before submitting, review the post to ensure your comment is on topic and does not contain words that might get caught in the spam filter (eg: insurance, viagra, online, poker). This is not a forum or a repository for off-topic link dumps. Profanity is discouraged. Take your extended debates and/or flamewars to private email. Thankyou. Name: Email Address: URL: ...

The Picture of Deception
BAGnewsNotes — ... damaged her burgeoning freelance career.  Still, BAGnewsNotes is primarily about the picture, and I find her subversive, up-lit portrait of Steve Schmidt's client brimming with characterological truth.  (click for full size) (For a more detailed background on how Greenberg, after taking the cover shot, tricked McCain as to which way the light was coming from, and went on to do even more bad things, check out Rachel Hulin or PDN.) In fact, I find a certain poetic justice to the episode. The hiring of ...

Unrepentant Photographer Turns McCain Into a Monster
Pajamas Media — ... . She delivered the image the magazine asked for-a shot that makes the Republican presidential nominee look heroic….[b]ut she didn’t bother to do much retouching on her McCain images. “I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad,” she says. Greenberg then asked McCain to take another photo. This time she purposely set up the shoot so that the photo would be ...

Matt Lewis: The Atlantic's McCain Photo
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... | [image] Blog [image] | Your Blogs | Issues | Get Magazine [image] [image] Hugh Hewitt | Mike Gallagher | Michael Medved | Mary Katharine Ham | Kevin McCullough | Matt Lewis | Radio Blogger | Your Blogs Directory [image] Monday, September 15, 2008 The Atlantic's McCain Photo Posted by: Matt Lewis at 7:30 AM It seems they tried to make him look sinister. So they hired a liberal photographer ... [image] Email It | Print It | ...

The Left first and foremost just plain hates anyone that does not agree with them…
Commonsense & Wonder — Like others at the Atlantic, I was appalled to read about the actions of Jill Greenberg, the freelance photographer who took the cover portrait that illustrates my ...

Atlantic's McCain Photographer Is Utterly Unhinged Moonbat
Moonbattery — ... Above you see the handiwork of moonbat photographer Jill Greenberg, whom The Atlantic Monthly hired to take a cover photograph of John McCain. Moonbattery readers may remember Greenberg as the enlightened progressive who would torment toddlers until they cried; the pictures she then took of them were used for juvenile anti-Republican propaganda. More examples of Greenberg's artistic vision can be found here. She has been publicly gloating about the devious tricks she used to make McCain look demonic. Atlantic claims to have been ...

Atlantic’s McCain Photographer Is Utterly Unhinged Moonbat
Stop The ACLU — Above you see the handiwork of moonbat photographer Jill Greenberg, whom The Atlantic Monthly hired to take a cover photograph of John McCain. Readers may remember Greenberg as the enlightened progressive who would torment toddlers until they cried; the pictures she then took of them were used for juvenile anti-Republican propaganda. More examples of Greenberg’s artistic vision can be found here . She has been publicly gloating about the devious tricks she used to make McCain look demonic. Atlantic claims to have been blindsided , as if self-described ...

Hubby Speak: Jill Greenberg's First Dude Pumps Out the Facts
AMERICAN DIGEST — ... Noted. In fact she said as much at PDN while opening the sea-cocks and shooting holes in the boat of her career before setting fire to the engine room. ...

The Atlantic’s photog goes ape
Michelle Malkin — ... down his mouth - with the Greenberg-added words, “I am a bloodthirsty warmongerer (sic).” Another piece of her “art” showed an ape (a favorite Greenberg subject) defecating on McCain’s head. Because, you know, manipulating images of animals relieving themselves on political candidates you hate is the sophisticated way of expressing disapproval. Next time: Google the photog first. That advice goes not just to the media outlets, but to the McCain camp, too. *** Background: PDNPulse Photo Business Forum Newsbusters American Digest The Atlantic ...

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