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President Bush said yesterday that...

There was an interesting moment in Thursday's interview with Cindy McCain on the TODAY Show, especially in light of the intense buzz surrounding whether the McCains actually voted for Bush in 2000. (This, in addition to Arianna Huffington's...

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Back in the cold of January, when photojournalist Alan Chin was up in New Hampshire shooting for my "day job blog," BAGnewsNotes, he and I had absolutely no clue whether,...

Adam Nagourney a TV star? I don't think so.

I just noticed, though, that the NYT has teamed up with MSNBC on a political broadcast called Primary Edition. What primarily stood out in today's edition, however, is that,...

Now that the U.S. -- desperate 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 , and what the Israelis did in Qana during the '06...

Dana Milbank's Washington Sketch this past Thursday is a painful, if must read.

Clearly and simply, the article describes how a war out-of-sight can quickly become a...

Of 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.

With the country sliding by virtually every...

Since it's been a little while, I thought I'd check in again with TIME political analyst and visual connoisseur, Mark Halperin. And surprise, featured on Mark's home page today is a double-dose of guilt-by-association.

In the first instance, we...

With honorary lifetime seats in the swiftboat, the visual media continues to pick at Kerry's bones. In this case, however, the sallow, ducking, baggy-eyed, over-lit Senator is not just beaten up again, but offered up as the model for his potential wimp-successor.

It's...

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I can't help contrasting this shot from yesterday's WAPO Day in Photos with the White House photo gallery's endless wall paper of military spouses as loyal, brave and beaming.

Sure, it's just one shot. But the symbolism here conveys a fundamental erosion of...

I was wondering how long it was going to take before Frank Rich returned from "vanquishing Hillary land." His piece Saturday was spot-on, outlining the invisible disaster formerly known as the Iraq War. In light of his narrative, I find yesterday's NYT Week...

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I'm glad WaPo ran this shot yesterday, for a number of reasons.

On the most basic level, it exposes the trappings of a typical campaign event, in this case, McCain's return to his...

If the U.S. general public was tuning in at all to the current goings-on in Iraq, this image alone could blow a major hole in the administration's rationale for being there.

After $22 billion spent training the Iraqi army, how does...

This goes way beyond Mickey Mouse.

The U.S. has been pulled into a civil war between Shiite factions;
fighting is raging in multiple cities;
Baghdad is under curfew;
the Green Zone has been hit...

Obviously, visuals can be highly damaging to a candidate, such as the mild images of Hillary at the Tuzla airport after she spoke of being greeted by gunfire. However, we don't often break down why. In...

Compared to almost any image and accompanying description I've seen these past five years, this says everything one needs to know about Cheney/Bush's Iraq war.

It was included in FirstPerson, a feature of the MSNBC website where readers can post their own...

Quicker than you can say "Judith Miller," the NYT seems to have suffered a neocon-inspired fugue state in its commemoration of the fifth anniversary of the Iraqi invasion.

With the passage of time, you would think there might have been a few...

I kid you not, this is the image from page 4 of the Bear Stearns 2000 Annual Report. That was the year the company erected its skyscraper in Manhattan which the boys who run the place have been gushing over in...