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Atlantic Magazine Cover Photographer To Unflattering Pictures Of McCain On Purpose

Another moment of fairness and objectivity brought to you by the media.

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Controversial celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg, a self-professed “hard-core Dem,” deliberately took a series of unflattering shots of Republican nominee John McCain for the current cover of The Atlantic - and then bragged about it on a blog.

Greenberg, known for her heavily retouched pics of apes and babies, boasted to Photo District News that she submitted photos of the Arizona senator to the mag while barely airbrushing them.

“I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad,” she boasted.

Greenberg also crowed that she had tricked McCain into standing over a strobe light placed on the floor - turning the septuagenarian’s face into a horror show of shadows.

Asking McCain to “please come over here” for a final shot, Greenberg pretended to be using a standard modeling light.

The resulting photos depict McCain as devilish, with bulging brows and washed-out skin.

I’m all for a free and independent media, and I’m hardly one to advocate for shutting reporters out, but when members of the media behave this way why should Republicans even bother to give them access?  Why do an interview with someone you know will be unfair?  Why pose for pictures with a photographer you know will try to make you look bad?

Far too many media types seem to think that they’re the gatekeepers to the information we get, and that they’re the king makers deciding who will ascend to power and fame and who won’t.  They need to be disabused of that notion, and there’s no time like the present to begin.

America’s system of government was created to keep the government itself from becoming too powerful.  While the results have been mixed (our government grows in size and power by the year), it seems as though a more troubling development in recent years is a partisan media establishment more interested in pursuing political agendas than informing the public.

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Didn’t know that rbb had a day job!


Excuse me, you were saying?

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Proof on September 14, 2008 at 10:50 am

The photo on the cover of The Atlantic looks ok!
If you want to blame someone, blame the Greenbergs and the Goldbergs. Maybe with enough blame and criticism they will become cons and or neocons.
With all the verbal caricatures of Obama and other liberals y’all paint here on a daily basis methinks you are being a tricky, dishonest, unscrupulous, and unprincipled hypocrite.

ellinas on September 14, 2008 at 11:02 am

SOP...more Dem dirty deeds done dirt cheap.

Joel on September 14, 2008 at 11:03 am
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Hey, ellinas…

What the hell is that with it’s balls hanging down in your message? A squirrel??..

You should get together with that other Developmentally challanged Liberal, hammerized..
He has a squirrel drinking beer.
A match made in Heaven.

Besides; have you seen the size of that “mole” next to Obama’s nose? Wow… He should do something about that.

Jerry on September 14, 2008 at 01:20 pm

As far as being telegenic, McCain isn’t. And I don’t suppose he gives a shit, either. As I can attest, as you get older, you get uglier, and most everyone that is lucky enough to get older realizes that. So let them take all the pictures they want from all the angles they want. It’s all just bullshit, and the thinking voter will see through it. The unthinking voter will continue to vote Democrat like he always does.


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Good Ol Boy on September 14, 2008 at 01:49 pm

As far as being telegenic, McCain isn’t. And I don’t suppose he gives a shit, either.

I’m nowhere near as old as McCain, but I am old enough to dismiss the adolescent nonsense that what you say isn’t nearly as important as how you look saying it.  That may work for Democrats and perhaps Hannah Montana, but sensible, rational individuals understand the superficiality of a campaign based on bullshit, buzzwords, and being telegenic.

It has been breathlessly reported this past week that “the world” wants Obama to win.  That should be reason enough to look askance at his candidacy.  “The world” doesn’t have much of a record of supporting American ideals, American values, or American interests - political, social, or economic.  And Barack Obama’’s record, thin as it is, isn’t really any better.


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Bat One on September 14, 2008 at 02:14 pm

Why pose for pictures with a photographer you know will try to make you look bad?

Heh. She didn’t photoshop the cover image. Sorry you guys are so irked about McCain’s image NOT being altered for your viewing pleasure, but that’s hardly anything to whine about.


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Sparkie Arbuckle on September 14, 2008 at 04:01 pm

Hey, ellinas…

What the hell is that with it’s balls hanging down in your message? A squirrel??..  .............Besides; have you seen the size of that “mole” next to Obama’s nose? Wow… He should do something about that.

Jerry on September 14, 2008 at 01:20 pm

Jerry. Now why would I care about Barak Husein Obamas mole
or how he looks? You got me mixed up with someone that gives a shit. As far as my squirell balls go, they are there for idiots like you, that like to watch and comment about trivial shit such as squirell balls and/or how Barak H. Obama and Juan McCain look.

ellinas on September 14, 2008 at 04:14 pm

Good picture. That’s how he really looks on the inside. An ugly, spineless low-life.

See link below for how he defends his lies about Obama’s use of the Lipstick-on-a-Pig phrase. Everyone is familiar with that commonplace phrase, which has been used by many politicians including himself.  Torie Clarke, a former McCain adviser, even wrote a book called, ”Lipstick on a Pig: Winning In the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game.”
Among other past users are VP Cheney, Wa. Sen. Maria Cantwell, Ok. Sen. James Inhofe, Ky. Sen. Mitch McConnell, Fl. Rep. John Mica and Co. Rep. Tom Tancredo.

The video shows he is obviously lying in characteristic neocon fashion. The world knows how America’s conservatives lied us into war and lied themselves into the presidency.
They got away with it despite what was revealed by the book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, and by countless unbiased testimonials, because of the limited intelligence of their audience. That audience still believes such preposterous untruths as Saddam attacked us on 9/11, or Kerry was killing American soldiers, or Obama is a Muslim and was complicit in bombings against America, or refuses to wear the flag pin, or salute the U.S. flag or swear on the Bible. But that’s the only way the Right can win.

It’s not sufficient for Obama to say Enough is Enough; it’s time for him to strike back and demand an apology from McCain for his lipstick smear.  Obama has tried to remain decent, but McCain is stooping to typical rightwing sewer politics. If McCain refuses and continues his despicable campaign tactics, then Obama should wage all-out war on his shameless adversary. Why not a big ad about how McCain admits that he gave in under pressure: “I failed by fellow prisoners, I failed my family, and I failed my country, with testimonials from Vietnam Veterans against McCain?
Can you imagine how much the rotten Right would have played up such a statement if it had been Obama’s and not McCain’s? Obama is being too decent. He shouldn’t hesistate to launch such an ad or at least have his surrogates do what is necessary.

See what our fibbing skunk McCain says Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTfFEyAHonA&eurl=http://thebruceblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/video-mccain-says-its-okay-for-him-to-use-lipstick-on-a-pig-phrase-but-not-obama /

Oswaldo on September 14, 2008 at 05:40 pm
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An ugly, spineless low-life.

Oswaldo projects and signs his work at the beginning. Typical liberal gets it ass-backwards!


Excuse me, you were saying?

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Proof on September 14, 2008 at 05:44 pm

America is tired of listening to irrelevant rightwing rubbish. Listen to a real statesman capable of addressing the real problems facing our country:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zAbeu3v3Wc&NR=1

Oswaldo on September 14, 2008 at 06:51 pm
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I don’t understand ... did the pictures actually get INTO the magazine?

No

James Alvaracky on September 14, 2008 at 08:28 pm

What a bunch of whiney pussies.


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Hannitized on September 14, 2008 at 10:52 pm

Oswaldo - Listen to a real statesman capable of addressing the real problems facing our country

Socialism has already been tried. Obama’s irrelevant rubbish about government actually working fails.

Grow a brain.

likwidshoe on September 15, 2008 at 12:37 am

Oswaldo - See link below for how he defends his lies about Obama’s use of the Lipstick-on-a-Pig phrase. Everyone is familiar with that commonplace phrase, which has been used by many politicians including himself.

McCain has used the idiom before when discussing HillaryCare. The “pig” McCain was referring to was HillaryCare. Barack Obama, in contrast to McCain, was talking about the candidates. So, nice try - but no cigar. The situations are not comparable.

The video shows he is obviously lying in characteristic neocon fashion.

No, it didn’t show that at all. What it did show as a typically bamboozled Barbara Walters claiming that Obama was referring to “change” rather than the candidates he actually was talking about. Bamboozled, because, if Barbara Walters was right and Barack Obama was referring to “change” when he made the lipstick on a pig comment, then that “pig” was change!

Is that what you’re trying to tell us, Oswaldo? The “pig”, per the idiom, was Barack’s “change”? Or are you going to be honest and admit that Barack was talking about the candidates?

Who am I kidding, eh? You’re a liar who is not above lying about someone else’s character. You do this because you think it will actually help Barack Obama win.

Must be that “unity” Barack Obama refers to: accuse people of lying even when they’re not.

The world knows how America’s conservatives lied us into war and lied themselves into the presidency.

Mighty big britches you’ve got on there. You don’t speak for the world.

In any regard - take a look at the world. It’s a backwards, corrupt and ugly place with most places barely eeking out a survival. What do they “know” again? Keep talking.

They got away with it despite what was revealed by the book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right,

Haha! Nice book selection there. Shows us the depth of your intellect. You picked a terribly written book, devoid of anything involving real humor, and full of lies. That tells us a lot about your sense of fairness as well as your intellect.

That audience still believes such preposterous untruths as Saddam attacked us on 9/11, or Kerry was killing American soldiers, or Obama is a Muslim and was complicit in bombings against America, or refuses to wear the flag pin, or salute the U.S. flag or swear on the Bible. But that’s the only way the Right can win.

You’re lying and projecting.

It’s not sufficient for Obama to say Enough is Enough; it’s time for him to strike back and demand an apology from McCain for his lipstick smear.

What “lipstick smear”?

Oh! You mean telling the truth.

Obama has tried to remain decent...

Obama isn’t even “decent” to fellow Democrats. Remember this one?

but McCain is stooping to typical rightwing sewer politics. If McCain refuses and continues his despicable campaign tactics, then Obama should wage all-out war on his shameless adversary.

Blah blah blah blah.

You’re an asshole, Oswaldo.

Let me know if you ever become honest. I won’t be holding my breath for that one.

likwidshoe on September 15, 2008 at 01:09 am

Talk about unflattering pictures…

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pparets on September 15, 2008 at 02:47 am
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Unflattering pictures?

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Excuse me, you were saying?

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Proof on September 15, 2008 at 04:21 am

Reply to likwidshoe’s lopsided arguments

McCain has used the idiom before when discussing HillaryCare. The “pig” McCain was referring to was HillaryCare. Barack Obama, in contrast to McCain, was talking about the candidates.

Why? How do you deduce that Obama was talking about the candidates, and (absurdity of all absurdities) of Palin in particular? One could hold, strictly speaking, that it’s the other way around. McCain’s use in fact specifically mentions the name “Hillary, whereas there is no mention anywhere of Palin in Obama’s use of the expression.

But that’s neither here nor there.
It would be ridiculous to claim that McCain was referring specifically to Hillary. But if that had been Obama referring to HillaryCare as McCain did, you can bet your dirty boots the rotten Right would have claimed it was a personal attack aimed at Hillary, as it is now asserting absurdly that Obama’s remark was aimed at Palin.

The Right is fortunate that Obama has the decency to refuse to indulge in gutter politics.

The video below with Obama’s statement shows that he was talking about McCain’s so-called “change” despite your nonsensical claim that change was not the subject when you say:

No, it didn’t show that at all. What it did show [w]as a typically bamboozled Barbara Walters claiming that Obama was referring to “change” rather than the candidates he actually was talking about

Here is the transcript of what Obama said:

“John McCain says he’s about “change,” too. Except – and so I guess his whole angle is, ‘Watch out, George Bush, except for economic policy, health-care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, and Karl Rove-style politics. We’re really gonna shake things up in Washington.’ That’s not change. That’s just calling some – the same thing, something different. You can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig. ... You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink. After eight years, we’ve had enough of the same old thing.”

In other words, that means you can put lipstick on the same old thing (policies espoused by McCain); it would still be the same old thing.

Where do you see that he was talking about the candidates and not about change? It’s not Barbara Walters who’s bamboozled; it’s you. 
Check the video of what he actually said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg

Oswaldo on September 15, 2008 at 11:15 am

Let me know if you ever become honest. I won’t be holding my breath for that one.

likwidshoe on September 15, 2008 at 01:09 am

Likwidshoe. Go ahead and breathe now. It’s ok. I gorgive you for the distortion/stretching of the truth.

ellinas on September 15, 2008 at 11:50 am
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The Democrats are “Borking” up the wrong tree… the more strident they become, the more hateful they become, the less attractive becomes the emperors new clothes. Change? Yea, right! Hate, fear, and dirty politics.... straight off the Chicago Richard Daly grease-rack..... nothing new about any of it.

Daryl Baker on September 15, 2008 at 09:31 pm
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The Democrats are “Borking” up the wrong tree… the more strident they become, the more hateful they become, the less attractive becomes the emperors new clothes. Change? Yeah, right! Hate, fear, and dirty politics.... straight off the Chicago Richard Daly grease-rack..... nothing new about any of it.

Daryl Baker on September 15, 2008 at 09:33 pm
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The Democrats are “Borking” up the wrong tree… the more strident they become, the more hateful they become, the less attractive becomes the emperors new clothes. Change? Yeah, right! Hate, fear, and dirty politics.... straight off the Chicago Richard Daly grease-rack..... nothing new about any of it.

Daryl Baker on September 15, 2008 at 09:35 pm
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The Democrats are “Borking” up the wrong tree… the more strident they become, the more hateful they become, the less attractive becomes the emperors new clothes. Change? Yeah, right! Hate, fear, and dirty politics.... straight off the Chicago Richard Daly grease-rack..... nothing new about any of it.

Daryl Baker on September 15, 2008 at 09:36 pm
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The Democrats are “Borking” up the wrong tree… the more strident they become, the more hateful they become, the less attractive becomes the emperors new clothes. Change? Yeah, right! Hate, fear, and dirty politics.... straight off the Chicago Richard Daly grease-rack..... nothing new about any of it.

Daryl Baker on September 15, 2008 at 09:39 pm
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