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EvilPoet
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I'm a loner lost in thought.
Interests: photography, walking, music, reading
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Actually, you lost me at schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a disease - the media mainly prints what will sell and makes the most money - two very different things imo. Was the word schizophrenia http://www.medicaldictionaryweb.com/Schizophrenia-definition/ the only word that you could find that described the situation?
Commented Jan 18, 2010 on That "Looting" -- Revisited at BAGnewsNotes
That "Looting" -- Revisited
(Click for larger size) We've been closely observing the schizophrenia in the Haiti media coverage over the past twelve hours, with some outlets describing a situation of widespread violence and looting (check out this photo gallery at TimesOnline), with others showing scenes of grateful...
Looting? Looks to me like that are trying their hardest to make the best of a horrible situation.
Commented Jan 16, 2010 on That "Looting" at BAGnewsNotes
That "Looting"
(Click for larger size) I think media has got to be very careful in using the term "looting" in the midst of an overwhelming humanitarian crisis, especially given how much that term calls to mind generations of violent protests and riots over civil rights. (One of The BAG's most widely c...
Rick Warren musta forgot about this verse: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” -Matthew 6:24
Commented Jan 3, 2010 on O.C. pastor asks for $900,000, receives $2.4 million at L.A. NOW
O.C. pastor asks for $900,000, receives $2.4 million
A year-end plea for $900,000 yielded $2.4 million for the Lake Forest mega-church led by Rick Warren, the evangelical pastor who gave the invocation at President Obama’s inauguration. Warren had sent out the appeal via an online communication to Saddleback Church members Dec. 30. The money was n...
meh. Both images leave me cold. Very uninspired. It's like conservatives are trying to capture a spark whose embers have long since flickered and burned out. Truth be told - all this Palinpaloosa is giving me a headache. When the lights dim and all the fuss settles all I see is an empress with no clothes who is a legend in her own mind.
Commented Nov 26, 2009 on Palin's Bragging Rites at BAGnewsNotes
Palin's Bragging Rites
I'm really curious about your take on these two shots (from Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg), especially the second one which really freaks me out. (And why is this woman allowed anywhere close to America's military installations with this PR charade?) What the first shot prompts -- and wh...
That picture has a Neo feel to it.
Commented Nov 22, 2009 on Sensei Obama: Back 'atcha? at BAGnewsNotes
Sensei Obama: Back 'atcha?
(Click for larger size) Having been bottled up for a week by the Japanese and Chinese, the Prez -- in this otherwise tongue-in-cheek Korean Taekwon-Do photo-op -- offers himself as powerful action figure (see Myung-bak's hand) about to re-ingage in the homeland political martial arts. (ph...
Call me picky: US Flag Code
Commented Nov 17, 2009 on Newsweek Gives Cover Girl Palin A Dressing Down at BAGnewsNotes
Newsweek Gives Cover Girl Palin A Dressing Down
Newsweek delegates itself as official push-back committee as SP's book tour kicks off another media wave of cheese ball Palinmania. Recyling an original photo from the August Runners World interview and slideshow, Newsweek issues Palin a slap -- pretending it's our mother talking -- w...
Awesome. I look forward to the changes.
Commented Nov 17, 2009 on A Whole New BAG at BAGnewsNotes
A Whole New BAG
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 new f...
That picture is from another magazine layout - Runner's World I think. As far as Old Glory goes, would a military banner have an American flag draped so carelessly over something like it is in the picture? Disrespectful comes to mind.
Commented Nov 15, 2009 on Newsweek Gives Cover Girl Palin A Dressing Down at BAGnewsNotes
Newsweek Gives Cover Girl Palin A Dressing Down
Newsweek delegates itself as official push-back committee as SP's book tour kicks off another media wave of cheese ball Palinmania. Recyling an original photo from the August Runners World interview and slideshow, Newsweek issues Palin a slap -- pretending it's our mother talking -- w...
The Patriarchy is alive and well. ugh. The stench is unmistakable.
Commented Nov 9, 2009 on Health Care Victory, Stage 1: And What Would Losing Look Like? at BAGnewsNotes
Health Care Victory, Stage 1: And What Would Losing Look Like?
That's quite a dodgy photo leading today's NYT marking the passage in the House of health care reform. The biggest slam is that Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, is thoroughly obscured, far left, off a preoccupied and nervous-looking Rep. Clyburn's right shoulder. (Both Clyburn's expres...
Religion and politics is a lot like drinking and driving - they don't mix very well.
Commented Sep 22, 2009 on (Holy) Spirit of the Value Voters at BAGnewsNotes
(Holy) Spirit of the Value Voters
If you have a chance, check out photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo's slide show of last weekend's Value Voters Summit in D.C. Taken together with Rachel Maddow's VV report highlighting Roy Blunt's racist intimation and that homophobic blather from Sen. Coburn's chief-of-staff caught with the hidde...
Not to be a partypooper or anything but I find all the Obami pic's off-putting and super annoying. Maybe it's cause I'm not a Star Wars fan.
Commented Sep 17, 2009 on A Jedi-Infused "Yes We Can" at BAGnewsNotes
A Jedi-Infused "Yes We Can"
With the Administration growing more savvy in challenging the Becks, Birthers and Teabaggers, is it possible (following Obama's Congress speech and energetic stops in Minnesota and Pennsylvania) that we're witnessing a momentum shift? I sense yesterday's photo op was actually a lot less friv...
ugh. What a whiny annoying voice he has. I don't know how anyone can stand to listen to him for two seconds let alone tune in show after show.
Commented Sep 3, 2009 on Beck's Visual Analysis at BAGnewsNotes
Beck's Visual Analysis
1. To post this video and then dismiss Beck's narrative as simply bizarre is to completely miss the point. Non-sense and anti-intellectualism form the crux of what Beck is about. What you can bank on is a delusional form of argumentation and case-making where simple and highly repetitive h...
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both. -Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
Commented Aug 8, 2009 on Wingers "Speaking Out" at BAGnewsNotes
Wingers "Speaking Out"
A week after these incidents began, I'm glad to see the NYT finally documenting organized right wing efforts to subvert public health care forums. Beware, however, the instinct to soft peddle these efforts as evidenced by the caption above. Mr. Thompson, with his face screwed up and his fin...
The Death Show - paid for by the taxpayers? WTF?
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/michael_jackson_news.php
Commented Jul 7, 2009 on The Michael Jackson Death Show at BAGnewsNotes
The Michael Jackson Death Show
As an industry town preparing for a memorial service the likes L.A. has never seen (hello Larry! Anderson! Charles! Katie!), it's hard to consider this giddy and buzzing city as anything but a parody of itself. These wry and simple wire photos intentionally play-off the escalating intensity o...
Meanwhile, back at the White House it's SSDD in the pandering dept.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_05/018417.php
Will Obama be praying with them?
http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/sexandgender/1498/fall_to_your_knees_for_bigotry
Commented Jun 1, 2009 on Tiller and the Silencers at BAGnewsNotes
Tiller and the Silencers
"We are extremely disappointed" with the verdict, said the Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition and former national spokesman for Operation Rescue. "But we're thrilled that it even came to trial. This will not stop us at all." Indeed, on the same day Tiller was acq...
Incompetence on steroids. What a horrible experience for that man and his family! My best to all of them.
Commented May 29, 2009 on Another Drug Sweep, Another Innocent Victim at Drug Law Blog
Another Drug Sweep, Another Innocent Victim
The LA Times has a striking story today about a man (whose name I'm not going to repeat here, to spare him the Google hit) who was swept up last week in "Operation Knock Out," a major raid of purported gang and drug figures. the 64-year-old retired chef struggled to comprehend the questions bein...
UGH. I don't relate to this image at all. It has a high tech feel that comes across as condescending.
Commented Jan 5, 2009 on Jarrett, Obama, And A More World White House at BAGnewsNotes
Jarrett, Obama, And A More World White House
As the Obama's arrive in Washington in anticipation of the inauguration, a new chapter begins at The BAG, involving an eye on the visual odyssey of the extended administration. I was particularly interested in this photo shoot featuring Valerie Jarrett, perhaps Barack and Michelle's closest ad...
Say hallelujah? I'm an atheist, I don't say things like hallelujah. That picture and others like it are very off-putting. UGH. Like I've said many times before: I feel like Morgan Spurlock on the cover of the movie Super Size Me. The fries being representative of religion.
Commented Oct 31, 2008 on God, Obama at BAGnewsNotes
God, Obama
My God that's some shot, right? Given the likelihood of an Obama administration, it's not too early to target how BHO will be framed through spoken, written and visual language. In particular, each of us should be calling out media images that do little more than perpetuate stereotypes and re...
Maverick coward is a oxymoron. John McCain = POW = Prisoner Of Women?
Commented Oct 9, 2008 on Not Till You've Walked In My Shoes at BAGnewsNotes
Not Till You've Walked In My Shoes
“The day that Senator Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you,’’ Mrs. McCain said, in an introduction before Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin delivered speeches at Lehigh. “I would suggest that Senator Obama change shoes ...
Odd and disturbing. There is a faint blurry face around the wolf's mouth. It's like when you look at clouds and see things in the clouds - that's what the face reminds me of.
Commented Sep 10, 2008 on The Wolves Den: McCain, Schmidt Fully Playing The Race Card Now at BAGnewsNotes
The Wolves Den: McCain, Schmidt Fully Playing The Race Card Now
What is horribly disturbing, more than the decrepit tone of the McCain campaign's attacks in their viral video scorched earth campaign, is how Steve Schmidt -- beginning yesterday -- is now fully playing the race card. In this latest salvo, in a piece titled Fact Check, Obama is likened ...
That face isn't unfamiliar to me. That face represents a face that has stared back at me in judgment all my life. Mocking mean spirited judgment wrapped up in a blanket of hypocritical piousness.
Commented Sep 8, 2008 on The Palin Nerve at BAGnewsNotes
The Palin Nerve
This idea that she's some sort of fragile, know-nothing amateur who is going to quiver and collapse when subjected to the rough and tumble world of American journalism is painfully ludicrous.... ... Moreover, Sarah Palin isn't Dan Quayle. She is extremely smart -- much smarter than the averag...
There's a Hole In The Roadmap*
There's a hole in the roadmap,
Dear Condi, dear Condi
There's a hole in the roadmap,
Dear Condi, there's a hole.
Then fix it, dear Dubya,
Dear Dubya, dear Dubya
Then fix it, dear Dubya,
Dear Dubya, fix it.
With what shall I fix it,
Dear Condi, dear Condi?
With what shall I fix it,
Dear Condi, with what?
With a straw, dear Dubya,
Dear Dubya, dear Dubya
With a straw, dear Dubya,
Dear Dubya, with a straw
YeeeeHA! Excellent idea! Thanks Condi!
/snark
*Sung to the tune of There's a Hole in the Bucket
Commented Oct 20, 2007 on Hole In The Roadmap at BAGnewsNotes
Hole In The Roadmap
Taking a break from cajoling intransigent and increasingly resentful Israeli and Palestinian leaders toward a fantasy peace conference, Condi made a symbolic visit the Church of the Nativity (said to be the birthplace of Jesus) in Bethlehem. Looking to the West Bank town to provide a "model...
Gads! Those clothes prices are obscene.
Commented Sep 24, 2007 on Exposing A President Well Heeled* at BAGnewsNotes
Exposing A President Well Heeled*
Honestly, I never imagined anyone would ever pull the curtain back on The Great Intimidator. ... And it didn't even come from a back-stabbed former foot soldier or a half-bought off biographer. Instead, the illumination comes via a cute Sunday travel/fashion piece on the new, hip, swimmin...
The three faces of a human: The face they see.
The face others see. The face as it truly is. . .
What's Hillary Hiding?
Commented Jun 6, 2007 on The Hillary Code - An Update at BAGnewsNotes
The Hillary Code - An Update
I was planning to revisit this angle after six months, but the publishing calendar, its seems, has interceded. Exactly three months ago, I did a post called "The Hillary Code." My take was that, as the campaign grew more adversarial, a negative visual stereotype would begin to emerge inv...
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