Unhinged photographer hired by The Atlantic magazine to take cover photo of McCain

Hot Air headlines calls it the continuing “Sullivan-ation” of The Atlantic. Once you see the complete set of photos (the worst of which were posted on the photographer’s website) and the story behind them, I think you’ll agree.

I can only imagine what she would have done to images of Gov. Palin, had she been the focus of The Atlantic’s cover story.

Hat tip: Fausta

Cross-posted to Right Wing News, where I am helping guestblog for John Hawkins on Sundays.

4 Responses to "Unhinged photographer hired by The Atlantic magazine to take cover photo of McCain"

pjean says:

September 14, 2008 at 11:51 am

This infuriates me, but I will let it pass and sit back and watch how such nastiness unfolds. Groups and individuals cannot operate this way and not expect to draw the same negativity onto themselves. The consequences of such behavior may not come when I might think it should, but it will come back on them.
Lorica says:

September 14, 2008 at 12:12 pm

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.

This quote should actually read “and I have photoshoped some of my artwork to make it extremely anti-Bush” The amazing thing is, it isn’t her who is responsible here, it is here boss. It’s not the people who pull the trigger, it’s the gun’s fault, basically. Nice thinking. – Lorica
Steve Skubinna says:

September 15, 2008 at 4:24 am

The left is on the lemming express, and haven’t yet noticed it’s only a one way ticket. The more they pull this crap, the stronger McCain/Palin gets. What most worries me is that it’s seven weeks to go, and they might yet wise up, look around, and see what effect they are having.

Or is their echo chamber so airtight that they think they’re doing great? Are they clustered in the control room of the Hindenberg over Lakehurst, high fiving each other?

Let’s all pray they remain clueless, and that the day after McCain wins we get lots of dumbfounded Pauline Kael moments (“He couldn’t have won! Nobody I know voted for him!”)
Leslie says:

September 15, 2008 at 10:01 am

Here’s Howie Kurtz on the Atlantic photos:

Finally, I had missed this little scandal at the Atlantic, which leaves Jeffrey Goldberg disgusted:

“Like others at the Atlantic, I was appalled to read about the actions of Jill Greenberg, the freelance photographer who took the cover portrait that illustrates my article about John McCain. Greenberg doctored photographs of McCain she took during her Atlantic-arranged shoot, which took place last month in Las Vegas. She has posted these doctored photographs on her website, which you can go find yourself, if you must. Suffice it to say that her ‘art’ is juvenile, and on occasion repulsive. This is not the issue, of course; the issue is that she betrayed this magazine, and disgraced her profession.”

Goldberg’s post goes on to quote from an account of the incident that appeared in the New York Post, which broke the story:

LINK

Note: this part appears on page 5 of Kurtz’s column, but the rest, much of which is taken up with Palin’s performance with Charlie Gibson, is worth a look too.

And to Steve: it’s too bad that Pauline Kael, who is arguably the best movie critic America’s ever had (and I do mean “movie”–she hated the word, “film,” which she thought pretentious) is today best remembered for that stupid quote.

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