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From MICHAEL SHAW, BAGnewsNotes,  23 Nov 2009

Birther Attack Gets a Fort Hood Twist

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 ...

From MICHAEL SHAW, BAGnewsNotes,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John Moore (politician)

Michael Shaw: Reading The Pictures: Birther Attack Gets a Fort Hood Twist

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 ...

From MICHAEL SHAW, Huffington Post,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  John Moore (politician)

In The Religion Section

If you notice, the signs in the bookstore that denote the sections make a perfect commentary on her book. She is signing in the "Religion" section, and at the top, receding into the distance, are other categories of the book that seem to decrease ...

From MICHAEL SHAW, BAGnewsNotes,  22 Nov 2009
Related Topics: John McCain,  Sarah Palin,  Facebook Inc.

Sensei Obama: Back 'atcha? Back 'atcha?

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 ...

From MICHAEL SHAW, BAGnewsNotes,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Lee Myung-bak

Dot Biz

And ultimately, the newswire photo just compounds the problem, establishing its value -- this clever, colorful piece of drive-by eye candy -- as a cocktail of conscience with a twist of irony. TrackBack URL for this ...

From MICHAEL SHAW, BAGnewsNotes,  21 Nov 2009

University of California: Adding Injury to Injury

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. - ...

From MICHAEL SHAW, BAGnewsNotes,  20 Nov 2009
Related Topics: University of California,  University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: When is Piper Next Going to Have a Normal Halloween?

Publisher of the visual politics blog, BAGnewsNotes I promised Piper that this time, 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. If anyone ...

From MICHAEL SHAW, Huffington Post,  20 Nov 2009

When is Piper Next Going to Have a Normal Halloween?

I promised Piper that this time, 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. If anyone out there still somehow entertains the notion that ...

From MICHAEL SHAW, BAGnewsNotes,  20 Nov 2009

Afghanistan Leakers: (Or: Making Obama, Clinton Look Like Fools)

Arriving for Karzai's swearing in, this photo of Hillary makes the Secretary of State, and Obama by proxy, look like fools caught between Gen. "Surge" and Ambassador "Hold on Now." Absent the leaking/lobbying war playing out in public, however, the ...

From MICHAEL SHAW, BAGnewsNotes,  19 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

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