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[Excerpt] When the Atlantic sought a portrait of GOP presidential nominee John McCain for the cover of its October 2008 issue, the magazine called self-described "hard-core Democrat" Jill Greenberg, who took the opportunity to purposefully make McCain look bad, including snapping a shot in which the candidate looms like a horror-movie monster. Greenberg, whose website – www.manipulator.com – advertises her heavily retouched photography style, told the editors of Photo District News that she chose to omit even a standard, complimentary retouching of McCain's photos. "I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad," she said. According to a report...

Barack and probably Michelle Obama don’t like Catholics very much, and it easy to see why. While very few Americans of any religion have any use for atrocities like partial birth abortion and infanticide, Catholics provide much of the pro-life movement’s leadership. Catholics are therefore a major threat to Obama’s political aspirations, and this doubtlessly plays a major role in Obama’s promotion of anti-Catholic hate organizations. As shown below, MoveOn.org circulated an anti-Catholic hate cartoon that is very similar to the work of the infamous 19th century cartoonist Thomas Nast. In addition, MoveOn.org’s now disgraced Action Forum welcomed the most...

The United States of America vs. Bill Keller How hard is it to be executive editor of the New York Times today? The White House calls him a traitor. He gets roasted every day on talk shows and blogs. The newsroom is losing faith. The paper is shrinking. And the worst part is that fighting back means overcoming his own nature. * By Joe Hagan Bill Keller, the executive editor of the New York Times, sat on a couch in the Oval Office of the White House, three feet from President George W. Bush, and listened. For a meeting without...

CAMP HABBANIYAH - Jill Carroll ‘s kidnappers are now locked up. Marines captured four members of an insurgent kidnapping cell responsible for the kidnapping of American journalist Jill Carroll of the Christian Science Monitor. Marines of L Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment captured and detained three members May 19, in a small village west of Fallujah. A fourth member of the same kidnapping cell was detained later by Marines of 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment. Both battalions operated as part of Regimental Combat Team 5. Carroll was held hostage by insurgent captors for 82 days between January and March...

Breaking - Jill Carrol released in Iraq - more to come

CALLER: Hello, Rush. How are you doing today? RUSH: Fine, thank you. CALLER: Okay. Who was in power, who was in office, or power, synonymous these days, when we were attacked on 9/11? Which administration was it? RUSH: That would be the Bush administration, Jill. CALLER: That's correct. And did they not have knowledge it was going to from August 6th when Georgie was at the ranch? RUSH: Yeah. He knew it was going to happen. CALLER: Yeah? RUSH: He knew it was going to happen. Look, you and I both know he let it happen because he needed a...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The mother of an American journalist kidnapped in Iraq appealed for her daughter's life on Thursday, the eve of a deadline set by her captors for the release of all women in U.S. custody in the country. "Taking vengeance on my innocent daughter, who loves Iraq and its people, will not create justice," Mary Beth Carroll said in a message aimed at the gunmen holding Jill Carroll, 28. Sunni Muslim leaders in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East joined intensifying calls for mercy. But as new video images emerged Thursday of the pale, dark-haired woman surrounded...

Iraq's ministry of justice has told the BBC that six of the eight women being held by coalition forces in Iraq are to be released early.                                Hostage takers demanded on                  Tuesday that women be freed The six will be freed because there is insufficient evidence to charge them, a justice ministry spokesman said. The US forces have refused to confirm the releases, but say they would not be based on any operational activities. The group holding US journalist Jill Carroll has said she will die unless all Iraqi women prisoners are freed. The status of prisoners held by coalition...

Outgoing, gung-ho and gregarious. As the picture of kidnapped reporter Jill Carroll emerges, a school friend from her days in Ann Arbor says it's those same qualities that will help her survive. Communities in Ann Arbor and Amherst, Mass., where Carroll, 28, attended the University of Massachusetts, are struggling to come to terms with her disappearance. Carroll was freelancing for The Christian Science Monitor when she was kidnapped Saturday. She had been on her way to meet a Sunni Arab official in one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods when gunmen ambushed her car and killed her translator. U.S. and Iraqi...