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Bag’s Take-Away:
It’s not the piñata or the hitting of the piñata, it’s how much this AFL/CIO official is enjoying hitting the piñata of S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley.
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I just want you to know that a trunk without an elephant is not a pretty thing. This elephant is a bit pissed, too, as she and her mom are being moved because they can’t get along with other elephants at their zoo. I’d say it symbolizes the dilemma the GOP finds itself in as right wing Tea Party candidates keep picking off elections. But the photo was taken in the Netherlands.
via USA Today
(credit:Marcoi De Swart/AFP/Getty Images caption: An elephant named Tonya sticks her trunk out of her shipping container as she leaves the Blijdorp Zoo in the Netherlands. The elephant, along with her mother, is being shipped to a zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, because she couldn’t get along with the other elephants.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
A young man and his boyfriend absorb the blow as North Carolina votes overwhelmingly to define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman.
With a mother involved, too, there is a level of feeling and sensitivity here we don’t often see in news photos about marriage equality. If the photo is about loss, however, the t-shirt and the button speak to participation as well. Perhaps also here is a potential future: involvement and activism borne of loss. That’s a lot of weigh for a photo to carry, but those affected by the ban will not give up on this fight. And while the prejudice and religiosity that gave birth to the amendment is local and out of step with the most of the country, youth is universal and youth supports marriage equality.
It occurs to me that the wedding cake cut to celebrate passage of the amendment displays an over-simplified and Disney-fied image of marriage in high American Schmaltz style. But think about which photo is truly Rockwellian.
Top photo via The Charlotte Observer
Bottom photo via The Daily Start, Lebanon
(Top photo credit: Travis Long/The News & Observer/AP Photo caption: Seth Keel, center, is consoled by his boyfriend, Ian Chambers, left, and his mother Jill Hinton, during a concession speech at an Amendment One opposition party Tuesday, May 8, 2012, at The Stockroom at 230 in downtown Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina voters approved the constitutional amendment Tuesday defining marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman, becoming the latest state to effectively slam the door shut on same-sex marriages. Bottom photo credit: Robert Willett/The News & Observer/AP Photo caption: Frances Newby prepares to slice a wedding cake to celebrate the passage of Amendment One during an election night party in Raleigh, N.C. on Tuesday May 8, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
It will go on without him. NYT photographer Brendan Hoffman deftly captures Newt Gingrich separated from the sideshow of the U.S. presidential campaign.
(credit: Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times caption: A week after announcing his plans to suspend his campaign, Newt Gingrich formally stepped out of the race Wednesday at a news conference in Arlington, Va.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Apparently, Obama’s Dreams of My Father contains a passage about Obama being fed dog meat as a small child. McCain, in honor of Mitt Romney’s visit to Arizona, joked that his son’s dog, Apollo, is not on the menu. Not sure if the AP photographer was clued in on the Obama tie-in or just took the delectable opportunity to juxtapose Mac with Apollo and tongue, but the hostility is vintage McCain (and, a taste of the chow from that off-the-rails and over-caffeinated “Straight Talk Express”).
(credit: Matt York/AP caption: Apollo is not the other white meat, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) jabs President Obama. The dog belongs to McCain’s son, Jimmy.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Mitt goes body surfing in La Jolla. He had fun. Parking not a problem.
via Mediaite
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Bag’s Take-Away:
If the pattern holds true to form, O’ Boehner’s demonstration of “cry me a river” likely signals a quick drying of the eyes followed by renewed intransigence from the House GOP.
via Politico
(photo credit: Pool photo/Tom Williams/Roll Call caption: House Speaker John Boehner welled up while listening to Irish music at a St. Patrick’s Day luncheon at the Capitol on Tuesday.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
The New York Times captures Rock Star Mitt in a very small box.
(photo credit: Damon Winter/The New York Times caption: Mr. Romney spoke to voters at Machine Shed Restaurant in Rockford.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
A good time was had by all, yes. But the underlying symbolism has to do with an electorate still trying to sketch a picture for itself of who this guy is.
via:
(photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images caption: Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds up a sketch drawn by Jessica Fluegel (foreground) during a campaign stop at the Machine Shed Restaurant March 18, 2012 in Rockford, IL. Romney is campaigning in Illinois three days before that state’s primary elections , when 54 GOP delegates are up for grabs. With Romney in the lead on delegates, fellow candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum continues to compete for the 1,444 necessary to secure the nomination before the last primary, in Utah on June 26)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Another shot of Mitt climbing behind the wheel, in this case, in what looks like a holdover from the romanticized Detroit of his childhood. (The flag makes the helping of nostalgia feel like “a double scoop.”) this case, though — reflecting the tough slog — Mitt’s looking like the older vehicle.
via The New York Times Campaign Photo Slide Show
(photo credit: Damon Winter/The New York Times caption: Vehicles figured into the Romney campaign, too. The candidate got in a truck on display at Thompson Tractor.)
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