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Bag’s Take-Away:
Maybe #Eastwooding stands for message mis-management? Clint needled the president last night for running around in a gas guzzling plane. Here’s Romney’s new ride, unveiled today.
(credit: Ginger Gibson/Politicocaption: Oh yeah, Romney finally got his campaign plane today.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
The fact is, you can’t deal with the subject of Christie without also addressing his girth. He plays it up all the time (the best defense is a good offense?) and, in terms of optics, it certainly reinforces the GOP philosophy surrounding the goodness of wealth accumulation. Still, the photo of the Governor visiting the convention stage is a visual joke at his expense, a blimp-size analogy between the enormous, round, white hat — on top of an enormous head, obviously — with the enormously round politician looking in that direction. I don’t have a photo credit, by the way, but the pic originally appeared in this post at NBC’s photo blog. Perhaps, for the reasons outlined, they took it down?
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Because there are other things happening in the world besides election politics — like fooling with Mother Nature.
via MSNBC PhotoBlog
(credit: Joji Otaki / EPA caption: This handout photo, released Tuesday, shows a healthy adult pale grass blue butterfly (top) and a mutated variety (bottom). Severe mutations were found in butterflies collected near Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Cultured banner on Congressman Todd “legit rape” Akin’s website a blatant contradiction of the man’s tasteless bigotry. But then, you don’t find a woman in any of these Tom Sawyer-ish frontier fantasies, now do you?
(photo: Todd Akin Congressional Website.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
This is what it looks like before it winds up in your chowder.
(Though Reuters poll shows 2/3rds feel country on the wrong track, Obama has sizable lead working theme Romney out of touch.)
via DayLife
(credit: AP Photo caption: Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks with Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey , center, and farm owner Lemar Koethe in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Not sure what Gov.Walker’s options were for head coverings — looks like on-the-spot improvising — but give him respect for doing the right thing.
(credit: John Gress/Reuters caption: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker attends a prayer service at the Sikh Temple in Brookfield, Wisconsin August 6, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
After yesterday’s meltdown on the parallel bars, media industrial complex eats its young.
via NBC News
(photo: Hannah Johnston/Getty Images. caption: Gabrielle Douglas of the United States falls off the beam during the artistic women’s beam final at North Greenwich Arena.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
In light of Disney fascination …and surprise marriage announcement, is Kim Jong Un turning N. Korea into a stage show?
(credit: Kcna/Xinhua/Zuma Press caption: HAPPY TO BE THERE: Kim Jong Eun, center, the leader of North Korea, posed for photos with entertainers after a performance marking the 59th anniversary of the end of the Korean War. This picture was released by Korean Central News Agency on Friday.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
We were wondering when we’d see pictures of those Olympic rooftop anti-missile sites. They have corporate sponsorship also??
via NBC News
(credit: Jim Seida/NBC News caption: Protesters pass a surface-to-air missile site atop a water tower on a residential block in Bow Quarter, London, Saturday. This is one of six missile sites installed around London in case of a 9/11-style attack during the Olympic Games.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Shows how much the White House rides on popular culture.
via WhiteHouse.gov
(credit: Sonya N. Hebert/Official White House Photo caption: First Lady Michelle Obama is picked up by U.S. Olympic wrestler Elena Pirozhkova during a greet with Team USA Olympic athletes competing in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, at the U.S. Olympic Training Facility at the University of East London in London, England, July 27, 2012.)
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