'Time' mimics the NBA's split personality Time magazine is covering the NBA's playoffs campaign ... literally, right down to the tagline, “There can only be one.” The newsweekly’s latest cover features a split-screen shot of Democratic presidential combatants Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, fusing them into a delegate-devouring, single-headed political creature that, to my cynical eye at least, looks a lot like John McCain. Time’s previous cover, advertising a story about the environment, courted controversy by substituting a tree for the flag in the famous 1945 photo of U.S. Marines raising the Stars and Stripes in Iwo Jima. The tree also looked like McCain. And isn’t “There can be only one” more grammatically correct? That’s how the Scots say it, anyway. —Posted by David Gianatasio

April 25, 2008 in Gianatasio | Permalink

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this cover also reminded me of a poster that hung in my fourth grade classroom: it was the same person, exactly, only photoshopped to reflect one "criminal" as white, the other black.

it was meant, obviously, to show bias in appearance (particularly in relation to politics and justice). it makes me wonder why Hillary is in sepia, with a half-smile, while Obama is in grayscale, stern-faced.

intriguing, Time, intriguing.

[and yes, grammatically, it would be 'be only one'--not only in scotland, but in american scottish spoofs as well--see Robot Chicken/Lohan incident.]

Posted by: the girl Riot | Apr 25, 2008 3:08:34 PM

Another new Obama viral video--this one by Wheatus (of "I was a Teenage Dirtbag" fame).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXVSJ6vLULA

Posted by: JMilli | Apr 28, 2008 2:34:58 PM

Is there symbolism to how, if you consider Obama's and Clinton's lips as one set of lips, there is a slant, or crookedness to the mouth?

Posted by: Thinker | May 2, 2008 3:43:42 AM

thank you, dude

Posted by: anornCrimi | May 7, 2008 2:58:58 PM

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