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Bag’s Take-Away:
The final pic in a Newsweek photo gallery showing posters of Assad. If the pictures are pretty random, this one requires a pause. Just a random wire hanging in the foreground, it’s suggestive of a noose. Call it photographic wishful thinking?
via: Newsweek slideshow: Big Brother is Watching You.
(photo: Nicolas Righetti / Rezo)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
If that’s the best shot Syria’s propaganda apparatus can produce (dark look meets cardboard cut-out meets cammo all anxietal), Assad’s in serious trouble. And the kid’s on his side.
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Just like printing more currency reduces its value, this photo has the air of “desperate.” (Of course, the snarkier mind might see toilet paper.)
(photo: Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters caption: A man held a roll of pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a rally Tuesday in al-Umawiin square in Damascus. Syrians took to the streets in large demonstrations in several cities Tuesday to back Mr. Assad, who has been under fire from protesters since mid-April)
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