... it's open season on opportunist liars driven by personal ambition.

John McCain deserves whatever he gets in characterization..

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Should not have seen this right before beddie-bye. G'night

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NO!

These may be one of the nicer images of McInsane.
They all represent the truth.

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The third image, the one above the monkey, perfectly illustrates the phrase "lipstick on a pig" !

Obviously Jill Greenberg has lost all access to McSame. Personally I feel the cost was well worth it.

Now damn it when will we see the pictures used in national advertising ?

A picture really is worth a thousand words.

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Would suggest we make this VIRAL enough to get a mention somewhere.

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is the one that identifies the "overenthusiastic fan" who shook cindy mccain's hand so hard she had to wear a cast. i'm betting no such picture exists, because there was no "overenthusiastic fan" - i'm guessing it was john himself, the same nice guy who called cindy a "stupid cunt" in front of reporters. i mention this every chance i get, because i think we're missing something important here: if it was some anonymous person who caused her injury, let him or her speak up. if it was her husband, then cindy lives with a wife abuser. we don't need an abuser in the highest office in the land. c'mon, people, make some noise about this! demand the truth so we can see for ourselves if america is being asked to elect an abuser!

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Or how about the American People giving Mac the High Hard One On Nov 4th

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If AlterNet will not tolerate racist, sexist or other discriminatory or hateful language - how are you going to ever quote John McCain?

The photographs? Much too tame, and too few. The photographer needs to go upstream and depict the "real" John McCain: phony war hero and real war profiteer.

By the way, A-Net: When is profanity "excessive?"

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I despise everything John McCain stands for.

That being said, I think it was very unprofessional to accept a photographic assignment and get paid for your work, then sneek in a few purposefully bad photos in order to use for personal use.

It's bad for the profession and it's bad politically.

Were it to happen to anyone we support, I think we would call it unfair.

Remember what Mayhill Fowler did to Obama with her hidden tape recorder in San Francisco?

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While I am total agreement with the positions expressed by the photographer, I am not sure that this kind of thing is helpful in the midst of a campaign. There are SO many things that can be justly attacked upon McCain, that we might not be well served by sensationalism of images that are not real, and only serve to offend the undecided voter that we must win over. However, that being said, what I would really, really like to see on the internet if it exist, is a real video in which McCain made the vulgar comment about his wife. THAT could show the real McCain to those who think he is a strong advocate for the women's movement because of his ridiculous choice for VP.

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We don't have to wonder whether or not McCain is an abuser. I work at a domestic violence shelter and have a smidgen of training in this area so I feel quite qualified to say that you are an abuser if you call your partner a cunt. Physical abuse isn't the only type of abuse.

Here's a helpful tool in understanding what is considered abusive:
Power and Control Wheel

Although verbal abuse doesn't leave a physical mark the psychological wound can far outlast that of a physical wound.

And if McCain was that openly abusive in front of reporters it is not hard to imagine that the McCain's home life is about power and control which is what all abuse is about any way.

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No, it isn't right. If Greenberg is that angry at McCain, then she must encompass at least some of Obama's beliefs, and he does not stoop to this kind of mockery. Greenberg's doctoring of the photos is nothing more than the other side of the same coin.

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First, if she was paid to do the photo shoot, which I am sure she was, then using photos obtained from that shoot for this purpose is highly unethical. There is an issue of fulfilling a contract and the implicit trust involved in that contract. These are not public domain photographs.

Second, the photos are juvenile and distract from what is important. This makes the opposition appear to be a bunch of unsophisticated knuckleheads drawing high tech moustaches on campaign pictures. Though these pictures may entertain a certain segment of those who would never vote for McCain, they also have the effect of making McCain look like a victim to voters who are still undecided, the voters Obama needs to win. And, in this case, he was victimized.

Do you think Barack Obama would endorse these kind of shenanigans? Somehow, I doubt it.

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There is a truth beyond what reporters can and do say. These photographs capture it.

They are in a very long tradition of political satire that appears in the press. In reality, they are photographic political cartoons.

Can this photographer please shoot a session with Sarah Palin?

McDinosaur and his running mate Sarah Paleolithic deserve as much of his as the opposition can dish out.

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from the important issues in this campaign, and a tasteless, juvenile distraction at that. If this photo spread featured Obama instead of McCain, Alternet readers would be howling in protest.

Look for this to be featured on O'Reilly, and on a thousand wingnut blogs. Look for the McCain campaign to spend a day denouncing it (considering they already denounced the Atlantic cover, which I thought was pretty tame), look for the MSM to give this play, while the horrific news of our economic meltdown gets bounced from the rotation for another day.

It amazes me how Alternet has, of late, been falling into this obvious trap. We have less than two months until election day. Every hour the media spends focussing on anything other than the economy is an hour won by McCain/Palin, an hour wasted by progressives.

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from the important issues in this campaign, and a tasteless, juvenile distraction at that. If this photo spread featured Obama instead of McCain, Alternet readers would be howling in protest.

Look for this to be featured on O'Reilly, and on a thousand wingnut blogs. Look for the McCain campaign to spend a day denouncing it (considering they already denounced the Atlantic cover, which I thought was pretty tame), look for the MSM to give this play, while the horrific news of our economic meltdown gets bounced from the rotation for another day.

It amazes me how Alternet has, of late, been falling into this obvious trap. We have less than two months until election day. Every hour the media spends focussing on anything other than the economy is an hour won by McCain/Palin, an hour wasted by progressives.

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My mistake

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There is a truth beyond what reporters can and do say. These photographs capture it.

They are in a very long tradition of political satire that appears in the press. In reality, they are photographic political cartoons.

Can this photographer please shoot a session with Sarah Palin?

McDinosaur and his running mate Sarah Paleolithic deserve as much of his as the opposition can dish out.

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While John McCain looks adoringly at his VP, Cindy looks loaded.
She is some narco-state and it ain't Columbia.
In yesterdays campaign stops she didn't even touch the floor.
I'll have a prescription for some of what she's on.
Hey Rush, what's up.

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Fair comment-although I for one did not realize he hadn't actually said this.
Are there photos of the alaska barracuda with comments?

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...to elicit a response. In our visual information-saturated world, it takes shocking images to elicit a response, to provoke outrage, wonder, curiosity or simple agreement. I think they're brilliant.

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No.
Yuck.
The wrong way to state the obvious.

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I think it is disgusting that the press is not calling out McCain's on his lies. These photos are probably a backlash of that. The press isn't doing its job. What is a society to do when the fourth estate is corrupt? If McCain steals this election with lies and more, I think we can predict a breakdown of civility in this country. The corruption of our institutions is so out of hand that I shutter to imagine four more years of business as usual.

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What you are showing is the Manchurian candidate!

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McCain is obviously perfectly willing to lie as much as necessary, including whole cloth fabrication, about himself or anyone else - whatever he has to do or say to win. He has set aside all honor and honesty in order to win. Using pictures McCain trusted the photographer to use for his campaign to caricature him is perhaps unprofessional, but I do not see that it's immoral. McCain has decided there are no rules, so I fail to see why any complaints that the photographer isn't playing fair - using caricatures of the truth to point it out - should be answered with a heartfelt, "Awwwww, my heart bleeds for you!". Heartfelt sarcasm, that is.

Ian MacLeod

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