Yeah, I guess this is way different than portraying Michelle Obama as a gun-toting black separatist and Barack Obama as a worshiper of Osama bin Laden. Now that was funny!

Doesn’t matter what the question is.

“Inside the Mind of John McCain” . . .

Hmmm. Well, let’s see. The “FOR RENT” sign is bright and clear.

Cobwebs? Rusty torture implements?

What’s the problem? One day I too hope to appear on the front cover of The Atlantic, all pockmarked and glistening, like a forgotten mound of month-old sliced ham at the back of the fridge.

You shoulda seen the outtake where she lit his face from below like a cheesy horror movie and photoshopped the image to give McCain a mouth full of bloody shark teeth. I’m not kidding, I saw it yesterday but now I can’t find it again on google, dammit.

By the way, that cover shot is retouched, just not quite as much as most magazine cover shots, which are extremely retouched.

I want to know why McCain would have agreed to sit for the Atlantic (Andrew Sullivan aside, not exactly Republican-friendly territory) without doing a little research on the photographer. A quick google search would have revealed that Greenberg is famous for shooting really cheesy (but kind of funny) photos of crying children. Oh, I forgot, those POW injuries mean McCain can’t use teh google.

I love the photo, but I feel a little queasy about the story behind it. I understand the rationale, but…

I know Robert was just here yesterday, telling us more about it.

Jill Greenberg is a bitch. There, I said it.

We need more Jill Greenbergs.

OTOH, McCain’s been lying like a mutha, so why not give a little of it back to him?

Here you go, John T.

TBH that’s one of the better pictures of McCain I’ve seen. If nothing else, it doesn’t make him look like a washed-out crazy grampa, which is the impression you get when you see him on TV/Youtube. It seems more like ‘Old and weathered’ rather than ‘old and asking you to pass the prunes’.

Any image pales into insignificance however compared to the ‘is porn adultery?’ tag. I’m sure that’s ripe for a photoshopping.

Meanwhile, on the financial front, you can now buy a portfolio of 13-week T-bills for less than the price of a pack of smokes.

I want to know why McCain would have agreed to sit for the Atlantic (Andrew Sullivan aside, not exactly Republican-friendly territory) without doing a little research on the photographer.

Buh wuh? The Atlantic has been a movement-conservatism misinformation machine (since/because of) the Clinton years. Their big investigative pieces are still terrific, but the rest has been a flood of Michael Kelly/Sully/Rauch/Flanagan apologism, with enough token progressives and pseudo-progressives for plausible deniability. McCain probably thought it was safe as houses.

Shorter michael: “McArdle McArdle MCARDLE.”

Even in the “normal” picture they used McKrusty looks pretty diabolical and scary…kind of like he’s made out of pink wrinkled steel…

OT: I’ve been out of pocket lately so maybe this has already been mentioned, but I just read that David Foster Wallace hanged himself on Friday.

Of all the horrid news going on lately, somehow this is the one that nearly brought the tears. So young and gifted.

In other dreadful news, teh spouse gets his MRI results today — AND he works for AIG!

Happy days are — uh — not here again —

This is not the issue, of course; the issue is that she betrayed this magazine, and disgraced her profession.

[…snip…]

I don’t know Greenberg (I count this as a blessing) and I can add nothing to what James Bennet told the Post except to say that Greenberg is quite obviously an indecent person who should not be working in magazine journalism… What I find truly astonishing is the blithe way in which she has tried to hurt this magazine.

Um, she’s a photographer with a point of view. As far as I can tell, she was commissioned to take a photo, did so, went on to take some other photos she negotiated in her contract to take for herself to sell in other markets… At no time am I seeing anything about her being a journalist, nor am I seeing anything in her actions as having hurt the magazine.

Of course, since Goldberg isn’t much of a journalist either, it is easy to see how he could make such mistakes.

Fingers crossed, MzNicky.

To reiterate Sir Craig, she fulfilled her obligations with The Atlantic.

Chistmas in September of Barry Hussein X:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1wag6M8_aQ

Today. The fundamentals are “still” strong. Today he says this. Meanwhile, this morning I found my 401k trying to take a bath with the toaster.

Back in my day when I was a magazine editor, the photo editor was the one who chose the images from the pix the hired photographer sent in. So seems to me that if there’s some “flap” over the cover image, the Atlantic’s photo editor would be the one to catch it, not the photographer. Just sayin’, plus I’m old so Lard knows how whippersnappers do things these days.

For what it’s worth, I think the cover shot of McCain is pretty damn flattering considering what a antiedeluvian glob of putty™ he is. Retouching? What, he’s a supermodel now?

Damn, the 527s are bringing the noise:

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/new_ad_stars_fellow_mccain_pow.php

I think the cover shot of McCain is pretty damn flattering

It’s a great photo. She’s a great photographer.

antediluvian.

It’s always been my understanding that photographers own the rights to all the pictures they take, excepting images specifically called for in contract. To fulfill that contract, they are usually allowed to shoot for some amount of time, using their judgement as to lighting, backdrop, finishing etcetera during that process. Not to mention that photoshop is only one of MANY tools photographers can use to manipulate images.

Once the contractually required images are delivered and accepted, the rest remain the property of the photog to do with as she wishes. So she was perfectly within her rights and standard industry practices to do as she did.

But as usual, business practices and contractual law are only acceptable to wingnuts when it complies with their worldview.

Heh heh. It’s on, Johnny Boy!

Antidiluvian: He was against the Flood before he was for it.

Good thoughts, MzNicky. My business has been scuttled this year, and it’s not a good time to be on the market.

And it’s not a good time to be sick, either.

That’s a lot of stressful news MzNicky.

Hope you’ll be able to do whatever you need to take it on.

We’ll be right here.

What I find truly astonishing is the blithe way in which she has tried to hurt this magazine.

Come on, after all the crap you’ve published in the past few years you deserve much worse.

By what time tomorrow does Halperin have up a post on thepage about how John McCain’s believing the fundamentals of the economy are strong is good news for John McCain?

I’ve got 12:01am.

Um, not to put to fine a point on it, but the portrait on the cover of the Atlantic, the one on the right above – heavily retouched. Heavily. Really.

Damn, this kerfuffle is just like what we’d have read about a not-sufficiently-glorifying photo of Bush in 2003.

Appreciate all the good thoughts.

Looks like I picked the wrong lifetime to quit sniffing glue.

From Goldberg’s own link:

Given her strong feelings about John McCain, we asked whether she had any reservations about taking the assignment in the first place.

“I didn’t,” she says. “It’s definitely exciting to shoot someone who is in the limelight like that. I am a pretty hard core Democrat. Some of my artwork has been pretty anti-Bush, so maybe it was somewhat irresponsible for them [The Atlantic] to hire me.”

Sounds reasonable to me. Incidentally, I look forward to Jeffrey Goldberg’s righteous indignation the next time Bill Kirstol types the name Obama.

At least Jill Greenberg didn’t get McCain to look out the airplane window as it was flying over a drowning city.

I suspect that McCain or his campaign actually gave a thumbs up on the photo, I’d be quite surprised if they didn’t have any input. Remember, this is the same bunch of goofs who thought the green screen “Cringe You Can Believe In” was a good idea.

Thoughts with you, MzNicky. This is just a sucky time, period, and one doesn’t need extra suck.

This financial meltdown was sighted like a hurricane the size of the Gulf of Mexico. (Who could have foreseen…) I’ve been resigned to it; not if, but when.

A couple of years ago I shifted my tiny (at this point it would keep us afloat less than half a year) investment plan, through work, into some foreign things and such that seemed safer bets.

I rejected sticking into money markets because that just means inflation would eat it up, faster.

They won’t let me have the money. No way, no how, or I would have taken it out and bought gold, like French peasants used to.

At this point I’m ready to give it up and just take the cash, to help keep us from putting anything on the credit cards.

Any hope banks going under will take my credit card debt with them? That’s the only hope I have, and it’s about 2 inches high and has a high fever.

Whoah, sorry to hear about all the troubles MzNicky. Would it help if we tried to distract you by pointing out how old John McCain is? Because he’s really fucking old.

If they didn’t like it, they didn’t have to print it.

Actually – they probably gave it very little reflection. Seems like only after hearing Greenberg’s interview did they even go back and look at it.

Which reveals that one’s opinion about art is shaped more by one’s preconception about the artist than about the actual work itself.

“Meanwhile, on the financial front, you can now buy a portfolio of 13-week T-bills for less than the price of a pack of smokes.”

“this morning I found my 401k trying to take a bath with the toaster.”

“John McCain’s believing the fundamentals of the economy are strong is good news”

“This financial meltdown was sighted like a hurricane”

Stop changing the subject, lefties! Someone on the internet made fun of an old man!

Add me to the list of those thinking good thoughts MzNicky.

Ahhh, I think I’m beginning to understand. The problem isn’t with the photo they used as the cover – it’s the p-shopped other images that came from the same shoot. In that case, I have to say FUCK YOU JEFFREY GOLDBERG.

Seriously – she was comissioned to do a photo-shoot and produce a cover. “Mission Accomplished”. And now you are saying that since Jill Greenberg took a job with the Atlantic, she’s no longer allowed to publicly express her opinions on anything related to the photo-shoot. Nice fucking standard. I hope he’s kept a list of all the subjects he’s blogged about for the Atlantic – because he CAN NEVER FUCKING WRITE ABOUT THEM AGAIN.

FUCK. What a moran.

And this is skipping the fact that the Atlantic now feels played by someone who’s named her studio “Manipulator”.

It seems like everything out of republican pieholes take one of two forms:

1) screaming “drill drill drill!” or “I love the beauty queen, who is supremely qualified to be president!” like the trained puppets they are

2) whining like selfish children

The challenge is to combine these into one mother-of-all-stupidities.

I’ll sponsor a new “Lipstick On A RePIG” award for this. First prize is the collected works of all republican intellectuals. It fits on an 8KB zip drive.

Also, Goldberg’s post now marks the third time in five posts that he’s blog-whored his story on his own blog. Three Out of Five.

Next up:

You’ve heard about Merrill Lynch and Lehman, and AIG. Well the real basis for all of this is quite brilliantly detailed in my cover story about John McCain’s position on preventative war.

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You’ve heard a lot about the Bridge to Nowhere, and all the fact-checking about whether Govenor Palin was for it or against it. That’s all well and good, but a much more important bridge is the one between John McCain’s theories of preventative war and my cover story on it.

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I made poopy! And it’s the cover story of this month’s Atlantic!

Add me to the chorus who think this is a pretty damn good photo wasted on the subject. Johnny has never looked better.

I have to laugh at Goldberg and the rest of the whiners; they’d hire Christo as an interior decorator, then be shocked that the room was draped in fabric and declare the job so unprofessional he’d never be hired to decorate again.

Geez, they’re so dumb they think the fuss is over the actual cover. And yeah, he looks scary, but that’s just him.

Right before the campaign, in fact, he had a wildly asymmetrical face, with the left side having a dent at the temple and a jowl twice the size of the right one. I believe the most recent melanoma surgery took out muscle mass and he’s had plastic surgery to correct all this.

And there’s nothing wrong with that.

However, I think his serious health issues should disqualify him from running at all. There’s a tipping point in aging, where someone who is doing great takes a sudden drop. Like Dick Clark finally did. McCain looks twenty years older than he did in 2000. ‘Course, that might be a side effect of the soul fire sale, who knows?

Here’s where you can sign to have his full health records released:
http://therealmccain.com/doctors/

Actually, I think Huggy Bear‘s face looks extra muscular here, like Ahnuld in his Mr. Olympia days, you know, all rippled and taut — well, between the wrinkles, anyway — and greased up, like a pig. Look at the muscle tone on that wattle!

Oops, did I say “pig?” Sorry, Huggy!

Anyway, the picture just makes him look that much more manly, which as Lou Aguilar points out is the very bestest reason to support Huggy!

I can’t even see what they’re crying about…that’s the best looking photo of McCain I’ve seen in years. His face doesn’t look like a decorative squash, he looks like he actually has a skin color, hell, it looks like she applied the Ronnie Reagan filter to the camera.
Perhaps they need to be reminded that in person, motherfucker looks like Mumm-ra.

I think his serious health issues should disqualify him from running at all.

Agreed. His physical health, plus the demons rattling around in his skull and the serious poor impulse control/anger management issues associated with his enhanced interrogation.

He should be lounging in a chair under the pines, with a blanket on his lap, at some secluded VA hospital.

At least he wasn’t tortured, thank goodness.

Looks like I picked the wrong lifetime to quit sniffing glue.

Oh, you poor silly lass: paint-chips are everywhere!

I don’t understand. Did Greenburg hold a gun to the Atlantic editors’ heads and force them to print that photo? Did she show them a lovingly airbrushed shot of McAncient looking all of 35 and backlit by a halo and then surreptitiously swap it for this one at the printers?

Isn’t Jeffrey Goldberg’s argument with the magazine that employs him, not the photographer whose picture they approved?

Is anyone else here in psychotherapy? I feel I have to give it up, because living in America in 2008 I can’t see how I’m the one with the problem.

I don’t understand. Did Greenburg hold a gun to the Atlantic editors’ heads and force them to print that photo?

I’m betting she was holding a peeing monkey.

Unretouched?

Perhaps, but to me …

McCain looks like he’s piling on the make-up like a fucked-out trollop, the cunt!

Here is the link to van der Leun’s page about this

Behind The Atlantic’s McCain Cover

Looks like there will be a lawsuit too:
Atlantic Monthly Editor to Offer Apology to McCain for Photog’s Doctored Pics

Editor James Bennet said Greenberg behaved improperly and will not be paid for the session. He said the magazine is also considering a lawsuit…. “She has violated the terms of our agreement with her, of our contract with her so we’re taking steps. So we’re looking into what steps we can see to do something about that,” Bennet told FOX News, adding that he is “already drafting a letter of apology” to McCain.

“I mean this photographer went in there under our auspices to take a cover shot for us … but while she was there she behaved in an incredibly underhanded and unprofessional way,” he said.

I’ve been so upset about DFW. I kicked every lamppost on the way to my psychiatrist’s office this morning. Then I found out he wasn’t there due to a family emergency. Is that irony? I don’t know any more.

I’ve got pretty mixed feeling about Greenberg. I suppose maneuvering yourself into making a living literally taking candy from babies is a pretty unique accomplishment.

Is this the “I am aware of all internet traditions” Vanderleun?

I’m figuring it can’t be, because that guy should still be hiding under a rock somewhere.

Ummm… Isn’t the fuss about other photos which weren’t on the cover? The one on the cover looks fine to me.

Ummm… Isn’t the fuss about other photos which weren’t on the cover?

The fuss is POW POW POW.

Editor James Bennet said Greenberg behaved improperly and will not be paid for the session.

The Atlantic: opposed to opinions.

Wow, also apparently opposed to paying for work they actually use ON THE FUCKING COVER.

It is awfully underhanded to be mean to Mr. Bomb Bomb Iran.

At least he wasn’t tortured, thank goodness.

Awesome.

The above comment was Rightwingsnarkle’s, which was great, and I was expressing that. But there’s some key combination I’m hitting that sends the message instead of dropping down a line. Since I’m afraid of it happening again, I will just send this

Would I besmirch anyone’s happy childhood memories if I described the Republican ticket as ‘Moomintroll & Little My’?

I think of it more as Whaever Happen to Baby McCain?.

That photo looks very retouched, unless McCain is made out of wax.

In the New York Post article linked by Goldberg, Greenberg says this:

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

hey guys

fyi

my wife owns the photos. the atlantic has a limited use (in this case the cover shot plus a time period where she can’t resell them). other than that they are hers to do with as wants to.

the level of whining by both goldberg, he of the pony-for-his-daughter, and the atlantic’s pony-buying publisher is just pathetic. she did what they asked. the rest is none of their fucking business.

there is a new one up on the site today that i quite like. it’s all jill–i feed her sadly no info and she turns it into comedy gold.

and as for the retouching thing–it’s always retouched. every photo you see. jill is famous for her style. mccain got it on that cover shot. photos are lies.

now back to dealing with the death threats and pearl clutching. does anyone on the right a) know how to spell or b) know an insult to a woman that doesn’t include “cunt” and “bitch”?

I have several years of experience working at magazines and Goldberg is throwing a hissy fit towards the wrong party. The photographer, whether in-house or freelance, has virtually nothing to say about which photo appears on the cover of any magazine.

The cover shot is the most important shot of the entire issue—indeed, it SELLS the issue (obviously). The decision would never be left to the snapper, or even a junior editor.

Generally, a special meeting is convened specifically to determine the cover shot. The publisher, the editor-in-chief, the art editor are usually the shot-callers there. (Perhaps Goldberg’s boss can {gently} enlighten him on this issue.) then the production designers are called in to integrate the shot with the copy and make color choices, exposure settings, etc.

Typically, the photographer will shoot an entire roll (or two) of the cover subject, but the ultimate decision as to which shot gets the nod—as everything else—is not the photographer’s! Man, whoever thought it was?

How can anyone work for any magazine and not be aware of all this?

now back to dealing with the death threats and pearl clutching. does anyone on the right a) know how to spell or b) know an insult to a woman that doesn’t include “cunt” and “bitch”?

Whoever is running that comment thread should be collecting the IP addresses of all those who have threatened Jill.

Pinko, with the amount of surgery the man’s had, I don’t think you can rule OUT that he’s made of wax.

I’d guess the photography lights were melting him.

does anyone on the right a) know how to spell or b) know an insult to a woman that doesn’t include “cunt” and “bitch”?

a) No.

b) Sure. There’s always “skank,” “whore,” and “slut.”

Actually, I think he looks better like this, more realistic, more mavericky, and I don’t mean “mavericky” in a James Garner/Mel Gibson kinda way.

That would be a killer ad.

Find out how much surgery he’s had since 2000, and run him as the xx million dollar man. (I have not had a chance to research it, and we want it to be accurate.)

Impress upon everyone that they could not expect this kind of treatment.

But hey, it’s fine to run McCain at this age.

He is, after all, a cybernetic organism.

(re_ McCain, sale, soul of)

PS — spouse’s MRI showed nothing. Thanks for all the kind wishes —

and also Dr. Mrs. Marita, a little late (on top of everything else I’ve had to spend the last 3 days with my mother) but deepest sympathy on the loss of your beautiful doggy. Had to put my own down a couple of months ago. Hugs and kisses to you.

Also, to robert green: Whatta load of bullshit. Sorry the wingnut slime-a-thon chose to intrude on your lives like this. They are soulless screeching nutbags and they smell bad too.

With all due respect to Jill Greenberg, nobody could nail McP.O.W. in a portrait like Elsa Dorfman and her large format Polaroid.

My family and I sat for a session with Elsa 20 (!!) years ago. We got two mounted photos for $1,100 ($800 for the session, $150 each for the mountings). It’s my favorite family portrait of all time.

The lens is so pure, and the film so killer, I can count the hairs in my nose.

Polaroid’s not making this film any more. Elsa says she’s stocked up, but once it’s gone, it’s gone.

I like what Jill did – both the cover work and her artistic post-treatment of the other photos.

Good for her.

Hey, Robert Green, I assume Radar’s information from earlier today about a lawsuit is still correct—that you all have heard nothing from the Atlantic—but I wanted to double check.

Ánimo to you and your wife.

A relief for MzNicky and spouse. Thanks for the update.

PS – be sure to come on by for my weekly Dirty Fucking Hippie YouTube Monday, featuring Joe Cocker.

It’s the JOWELS that scare me! My poor Dad has skin cancer, has had big chunks of his face, scalp and neck removed. Only has half a nose, poor guy. (He’s embarrassed to be seen in public). But it’s the JOWELS on McCain that really really bother me.

thanks Mz…nice one on your good news. or lack of bad news.

there is literally (as jill’s site passes the 80,000 users# for today!) so much horseshit being pedalled about this whole thing that entire equinaries are exploding from the constipation.

does that even make sense?

But it’s the JOWELS on McCain that really really bother me.
Think Manitou. It’s about to hatch.

Irritable Jowel Syndrome McCain!

Great news, MzNicky!

And thanks but no thanks to that McCain/Manitou image.

If The Atlantic really DOES refuse to pay her for the shot they used on the cover, I recommend a nice fat lawsuit against them. Include the part where their public statements and/or their agents and assigns fomented death threats and other unpleasant behaviors against her. You’d win in a walk.

That’s our man! Raisin McCain!

I adhere to the cynical but not particularly novel view that most professional bodies exist to benefit their members over the interests of the public; exclude competition from outsiders; exaggerate the expertise required for their work so as to justify higher charges; all while allowing their members to pretend to themselves that they serve the public weal.

“Most professional bodies” because there might be exceptions, even though I can’t think of any.

I’m explaining that to make it clear that when I call Jill Greenberg’s actions “highly unprofessional”, it’s intended as a compliment.

smut clyde

word.

and what righteous bubba said on boingboing is dead on: it’s an opinion journal, the atlantic. they publish risible shit on there every day. oh the mighty peals and the clutching thereof.

Jill’s dog pictures gave me a big smile.

Wow, on second look — McCain does not look good. Who has a droopier eye, McCain or Nader?

Miz Nicky – my thoughts are with you. As a fed. employee my job is pretty secure although I work for the agency that administers Medicare/Medicaid so this election will have a big impact on the agency in that the only government entity remotely capable of handling the uninsured is the one work for. Some statistics – there are currently 43 million Medicare bennies. There are 47 million uninsured. It is a big issue.
Frickin congress keeps passing legislation and doesn’t provide the time or $$s to do it right

cheerleading interlude: I have worked for the army, treasury and now medicare and I can honestly say that I have never worked with a bunch of people more dedicated to serving the public interest. I came to this realization when I heard a co-worker respond to a thinly veiled question from a Part D health plan on payment issues. He basically laid in on the line and said that “Look at who we are serving. These people are you grandparents, parents and relatives. You will get paid but look at the bigger picture here.”

I wish I knew more about David Wallace Foster. I’ll have to look into his work.

Winners of the Week:

MzNicky, for getting some good news
Jill Greenberg, for sticking it to the man

Vanderloon, failed pornographer and part-time stalker, ought to get a visit from the FBI.

Goldberg ought to remove the stick from his ass.

The only thing missing on that photo is lipstick.

hmmm if I were J. Goldberg I’d be begging someone to retouch me.

spouse’s MRI showed nothing

That’s news to celebrate big time. I suggest pouring an expensive bubbly, nibbling on your favourite cheese and crackers, while lounging in one of your favourite vacations spots.

acrannymint: Tx, and double-tx for the work you do and your awesome words about fed employees who are there because they care and who do good honest work because of it.

David Foster Wallace: I wasn’t a fan of all of his stuff, but I really loved “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” and some of his short stories I read in the New Yorker and elsewhere. I thought he had an original, imaginative approach and it saddens me greatly that he’s gone.

That’s news to celebrate big time. I suggest pouring an expensive bubbly, nibbling on your favourite cheese and crackers, while lounging in one of your favourite vacations spots.

Well, I think the husband deserves a handjob, at least.

Lesley: Tx girlfriend. Champagne and cheese/crackers is a total go. Favorite vacation spot will have to wait til after the current financial crisis is “corrected.”

RWS: You’re right, that is the least he deserves. Lucky man that he is, he’ll get more than that.

Well, I think the husband deserves a handjob, at least.

Yes, a manicure would be a lovely gift. *snicker*

Actually, I think more the issue is, if you’ll check, not the photo she turned in to the magazine, but the ones she’s manipulating on her site (manipulator, you know?)

Like this one, before it was pulled:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbphotography/2854584138/in/photostream/

Wow, Bill

You are a dick.

Grow the fuck up.

I thought the McCain cover was an oil painting, or maybe a painting done in butter cream frosting.

Good Lord!!

Did you know people could use some kind of computer program to MANIPULATE pictures, kind of like in a shop? Some kind of PHOTOGRAPHY SHOP?!?!

It’s repugnible, I tell ya!

Bill is a chickenshit dick. He screens comments on his flickr site. Only friends are allowed to post.

He’s also taken her photo and needlessly enhanced it. At least, when I look at the original I don’t see “I am a bloodthirsty warmonger” on it. Thanks for pointing out what the picture clearly portrays, Dick, er, I mean Bill.

I’m not posting this for political discussion he says, because he’s not interested in discussing why Jill Greenberg portrays McCain that way and he really doesn’t want to discuss McCain’s military policies…he’s offended because somebody revealed the character of his voting choice. If it was Obama, he’d have no issues with it whatsoever.

As per Bill’s “politics isn’t the issue”, here’s one of his apolitical flickr postings
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbphotography/2788054539/

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Glad to see McCain supporters are finally posting on flickr… it was all Obama for awhile.
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Does Flickr encourage posting copyrighted images?

bill is a shithead, but those are real images that jill has put together, don’t you worry.

she’s got a new one up now. i think you all will LIKE.

it is full of win.

Did you know people could use some kind of computer program to MANIPULATE pictures, kind of like in a shop? Some kind of PHOTOGRAPHY SHOP?!?!

I hear that if you photoshop a needle into somebody’s arm THEY WILL REALLY FEEL LIKE A NEEDLE HAS BEEN PUT IN THEIR ARM!!!

Republicans love Photoshop’s airbrush tool.

I actually like that cover picture of McCain. Politics aside and all, it looks pretty good. If I had done that work, I would be very pleased with the result (not least because I am an infamously crap photographer. I have plenty of pictures of my thumb, in various countries of the world).

“Why is that Muppet made out of leather?”

Well, I hope that shrewish harridan is happy — by taking unflattering photos, she’s gone and forced the Atlantic to dishonor its contract with her. And after being so kind to use her photo for the cover! The nerve of her. Why, he looks at least seventy and you can see that his face isn’t totally symmetrical!

Shocked, shocked, &c,

Clutchpearl McFaintingcouch (ret’d)

Also, she made Drew Barrymore look sort of trampy.

I think Greenberg’s behavior is moronic, actually. (Especially the photoshopped image on her web site of a monkey taking a shit on McCain’s head.) And her photography sucks. God knows, I can’t stand McCain, but this crass publicity stunt is simple-minded, bottom-feeding garbage, even by her low standards.It’s a pea-brained hatchet job that gives the left a bad name. It adds nothing to the discourse.