VIDEO: Palin Did NOT Know Africa a Continent (Fox!!) w/ juicy gossipy update!
I heard this live on the Fox Report, Shepard Smith's show. It was at the end of the show, a report done by Carl Cameron. But apparently the tensions and drama behind the scenes in the McCain Campaign...
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How Many Days Till Christmas, Mommy?
I always give a wrong answer. They happily correct me with this air of Christmas superiority.Alexander just KNOWS Santa is bringing him a Thomas Action Canyon play set (with waterfall!!!!), Miranda...
View ArticleRichardson withdraws nomination: Final UPD: Transition Team reaction
MSNBC is reporting that New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is withdrawing his own nomination as Commerce Secretary due to an investigation by the FBI.He has said he will "remain in the job I love,"...
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Photo Diary: From Air Kisses to Respect (w/bonus photos)
A shorter and slightly different version of this diary is posted at BagNewsNotes.An unspoken aspect of any presidency is the ability of the first couple to set the tone, to appear, with some measurable...
View ArticleCredit Crisis: A little Economic Porn w/poll and stuff
Andrew Sullivan has a fun video on his site from Jonathan Jarvis:The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
View ArticleSully becomes a hero again: "Pay Cut, Pension Gone" w/ photo update
Just a quick diary to alert you to an important Associated Press story on Huffington Post this morning.Pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot who saved his passengers and crew by...
View ArticleLandshark in Chinatown
Has the American public found itself on the wrong side of the door?Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim is reporting that Council of Economic Advisers head Christina Romerappeared to give support to...
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White Supremacy: Very Real, Very Local, On McClatchy
The spread of White Supremacy is real, it's local, and it's on McClatchy and Gannett news websites for anyone to read via Topix, an national online news site customized by chosen "user editors" who use...
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You do not need to know his name: Obama's Dover AFB
You do not need to know his name to understand the enormity of what he is a part of, yet it is important that you do. You do not need to know that he died in Afghanistan, yet that point is not...
View ArticleA rant in f*ck minor or...the point of winning was.....
gossamer, a chimera, slides through our hands as we try to scoop it up like super fine sand.Imagine yourself as a person in possession of a middle income job in, say, a technical field or some other...
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Pie Break: The Odd, The Apt, The Best of BAGNews (Photos)
For those who don't know me, I've been at Daily Kos for ages, lurking in the pre-Scoop days and finally registering (barefoot, in the snow) before the 2004 election. But my real home is BAGnewsNotes,...
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Best of BAGnews, Heavies & Heroes: Obama Like You've Never Seen Him Before...
1., 2., 3., 4.Public figures find themselves likened to favorable and unflattering figures all the time. Sometimes they do it to themselves. The end result often says more about the maker than the...
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Best of BAGnews: Contributors & Friends (graphic photos), Pt. 1
BAG is one of the few photography websites that provides a home for original work you wouldn't see elsewhere. Part I of the Best of BAGnews, Contributors & Friends and all recent recaps can be...
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Best of BAGnews: Contributors & Friends (graphic photos), Pt. 2
(The Best of the Bag Decade is our end of the year, end of the decade look at some of the best BAGnews posts and analysis.) This edition of Best of the BAG Decade completes BAG's examination of the...
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Get Ready: Halperin's "Juicy" Campaign Gossip Book Published UPD: NY Mag and...
Marc Ambinder says "Game Change" the "long-awaited and very gossipy chronicle of the 2008 campaign by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin," has hit the shelves. Based on Ambinder's review,...
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Torture/Schmorture: Bob and Abdullah's Excellent Adventure...
Here's a visual to whack you out of your sleepy Monday frame of mind:Photo by Jeff OversYep, that's right. Forget the histrionic reports of death and torture, rendition and feeding tubes. It was fun!...
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O'Reilly-izing the Face of Haiti: Racism & Photos from the Disaster
Frederic Dupoux/Getty ImagesWe are on the brink...so we are told and so we will see as the photographs roll in from Haiti, images of death, destruction, survival, conflict, and despair. We are ready,...
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Palin au Naturel. Kinda, Sorta.
We analyze photos at BAGnews. Serious photos. With semiotic analysis. Big words. Context. Sometimes intelligent. We pride ourselves on being one of the view media websites that cuts through the visual...
View ArticleWTF Are You Trying to Say, GOP? Religious Bigotry in Attack Ad?
This will be a short diary and may end up a post on the BAG as well as here.BUT, WTF is up with the GOP attack ad on Obama?Number One: You like Rahm so much? Get a room. He's in no less than six...
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LMFAO: Romney Plane Altercation with Rapper
Hah! The man involved in the plane altercation with Mitt Romney on Tuesday is a well-known person in his own right and, if the accounts read correctly, has a different version of the facts.photo: TMZ...
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WAPO: POTUS to SCOTUS. Srsly?
The summer vacations are longer, and nothing beats life tenure. That and temperament, intellectual capacity, and anti-corporate populism (yet to be fully expressed) makes the Washington Post's Jeffrey...
View ArticleBizarre NRA Trigger the Vote Video: You Talkin' to Me?
I've watched this video a few times and still can't quite wrap my head around it....is Chuck Norris talking to liberals? To the NRA base?At BagNews Notes
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BagNews: H * I * C * K * S & Spitz
BagNews, whether on our site or the Huffington Post, reads the pictures to bring you the latest analysis of political and social images.Before I start on what I hope will be a weekly tradition, here's...
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Paladino: You Say Pastrami, I say Salami
Blame this diary on terrypinder. Really.So, everyone knows about Carl Paladino's travails in political pandering and how that worked out for him. We did a piece at BagNews called Hostage Crisis...
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This ISN'T About Barney Frank Being Gay, Right?
Or...the Extraordinary Acceptance of Everyday Homophobia....BagNews deconstructs the ad and the new genre of "behind the scenes of the making of a viral campaign attack ad".....Here's a shot from the...
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Vanity Fair's GOP Beefcake Calendar: Losing cookies & then some
orVanity Fair Nails it...the Year of the Reptilian BrainThis will be a short diary, mostly a reprint of BagNews' post of the all new, gut wrenching GOP Beefcake "Red Meat" calendar. What better way to...
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A Dog Whistler's Dog Whistle: Obama Isn't Working
That's quite an interesting use of a slogan here.I can’t remember ever seeing a "Nixon's Shifty,""Carter is Soft" or "George H. W. Bush is Out of Touch" sign behind a candidate. And the “ISN'T WORKING"...
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Trayvon Martin: Do the Photos Predict the Future?
There is no doubt that when big news events occur, the media will step in to fill a vacuum created by government inactivity. This is even more true when the event has racial and political overtones and...
View ArticleHey Look Over There! Romney V.P. Choice is Made.
Don't look at that moldering Bain in the window, we've got a shiny new V.P. choice that is far more interesting!According to a N.Y. Times article, Mitt has made his choice (and if emphasis is any...
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The Gay Romney Ryan New Yorker Cover?!
Michael over at Bagnews says this is the The New Yorker Romney – Ryan Homosexual Cover. The tar and feathering of the puppy had more of an effect on me.What do you think?
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BagNews F*cks w/the Pictures: The Ryan Acceptance Speech
Those of you who know BagNews know its tagline "Reading the Pictures." If you know the site well, you know that, every once in a while, Michael Shaw occasionally whips out the red pen and thoughtfully...
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Did You Miss It? The Empty "Chair" Last Night in Charlotte. UPdate.
Brilliant, subtle, nuanced, on point.Given the value of the seat real estate next to Michelle Obama, viewers couldn't help but wonder where the president was as Bill Clinton delivered his phenomenal...
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The Obamas, the Photos, and the Politics of Intimacy
There were many disappointed supporters after weather forced the Obama campaign to change venues from the outdoor stadium to the smaller convention hall, but it's a hallmark of a convention run so well...
View ArticleIf you haven't seen it, OMG, watch it.
I've never seen anything like it. You'd think Huntsman spent his interview with Andrea Mitchell endorsing Hitler or Pol Pot. There's not a single truly negative thing said about Obama in the whole...
View ArticleIncredible Video: How Mitt would "lead" on Middle East issues
Sam Seder sat in for Chris Hayes yesterday and decided to give a rock 'em sock 'em preface to Benjamin Netanyahu's Meet the Press rant attempting to manipulate the U.S. Presidential Election.And all...
View ArticleVideo: Romney and the L Word
We always knew Romney was rich. He was branded as a flip-flopper coming into the race. It wasn't hard to figure out he was entitled.This country has elected rich, even entitled men as president before....
View ArticleThe President Has No Clothes
This is the kind of diary you can read as a plea for correction because I don't want to believe Obama really, truly f*cked up and handed the GOP exactly 98% of what they wanted.It seems to me that...
View ArticleBen Carson Draws, Al Franken Cries
More than a year away from his first inauguration and Ben Carson has already lost New England. According to TPM, Carson, in support of the governors who are afraid of Syrian women and orphans,...
View ArticleEarth to Bernie or Earth to Us?
Has Bernie Sanders “effectively conceded” or are we hearing only what we want to hear?Today Bernie Sanders told MSNBC’s Chris Jansing that he will be trying to convince super delegates to switch their...
View ArticleMSNBC: Elizabeth Warren Not Ruling Out Clinton VP Slot
Tamron Hall has just reported that MSNBC is about to run an interview in which Elizabeth Warren says she would not rule out accepting an invitation from Hillary Clinton to run for vice president in the...
View ArticleDKos Health and Wellness Group: Feeding the Finicky
Good morning! It’s the day after the Preakness here in Baltimore and, thanks to the unending rain this Spring, I didn’t need to scrape any drunks off my lawn like last year or chase anyone from using...
View ArticleHate Caucuses? Minnesota Now a Primary State!
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton (Dem) has signed a bill that replaces the state’s caucus with primaries. May this be the first of all the caucus states to do the same! The March 1 caucus was a big win...
View ArticleBernie Sanders holds a grudge a long, long time.
As you may have read in ExpatGirl’s diary, the Sanders campaign has sent a letter to the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee challenging the credentials of Rules Committee Co-Chair Barney Frank and...
View ArticleTrump Tweets Breitbart Article Claiming Obama in Cahoots with al-Qaeda
It just keeps getting better. I can’t wait to hear McConnell’s succinct denunciation to reporters (thrown over his shoulder as he runs away from them).xAn: Media fell all over themselves criticizing...
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Early Voting Maryland: Message to You, Donald...and Rudy...and Chris...and ...
Yeah, that’s my middle finger giving a Message to Donald, Rudy, Chris, Kellyanne, Steve, Boris, Mike...all of them and I’m pretty sure my fellow early voters agree with me. And I didn’t vote against...
View ArticleC U Next Tuesday from Nikki Reed (NSFW)
Hah! I love this one! It’s fun (and gratifying) and NSFW (but worth the damage to my sensibilities, at least).Actress Nikki Reed has a very clever message for Donald Trump. C U Next Tuesday! It’s on...
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The Economist has an Opinion: Vlad, Donald, Nigel Make the Cover
The recent cover of The Economist featuring Vlad, Donald, and Nigel. Below is my bad Photoshop version.Give me liberty or give me a post election accident.Revolutionary
View ArticleWe the Peeps Petition for Obama to Declassify Info on Russian Interference...
On November 29, 2016, seven democratic and one independent member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee (Sen. Feinstein did not sign the letter) requested that President Obama declassify and...
View ArticleObama Sale. Hurry, before we are gone.
In my spare time, I shoot photos around Baltimore or wherever I am. Thought I’d share this one.Kind of funny, kind of sad.
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