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Photographer Jill Greenberg is facing death threats and some heavy-handed criticism for some photos she doctored of pictures she took of McCain and posted on her Website. Greenberg was hired by The Atlantic Monthly to photograph him for an October 2008 cover, but because she retains the copyright to all her photographs, it didn’t take her long to show how she really feels about the presidential candidate. While the photos are no longer on her Web site, they are on artnet.

The images are fantastic photoshop work of McCain with bloody fangs and even one with a monkey pooping on McCain’s head. Greenberg lost her agent over the mess, and some in blog-land are questioning if this is freedom of speech.

I think the photos are amazing and get to the heart of what most of us are thinking when we watch the guy suspend his campaign and head off to solve our fucking problems. Maybe when he’s done with the financial crisis, he’ll come back home to tackle the water issue.

This article appears in Sep 25 – Oct 1, 2008.

7 replies on “McCain’s Never Looked Better”

  1. Actually The Atlantic Monthly did publish a ‘shopped cover of Gore showing fangs years ago. It wasn’t well received.

    Anyway, McCain has been plying the trade of drama queen, his trade, most of his life. Especially the past month or so. It’s easy to see when one considers his family.

    The old “turtle on a post” thing has been reconfigured for him lately in the blogs. Here you go:

    While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to be a heartbeat away from being President.
    The old rancher said ‘well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.’ Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle is.
    The old rancher said, ‘when you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a post turtle’
    The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctors face, so he continued to explain…You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she doesn’t belong up there, she doesn’t know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with.

  3. It looks like she’s a really talented artist. Too bad she probably only be doing weddings and bar mitzvah’s for a while.

  4. What’s the big deal? Must be a bunch of humorless right wing idiots who are freaking out, because the photos are not more provocative than many of the photoshopped versions of regular photos I’ve seen all over the place.

    The man’s a chump, the people who think he’s got three brain cells functioning on his own are even bigger chumps.

    THIS IS EXACTLY what Freedom of Speech is about and only McCain chumps would think this was not the perfect example of First Amendment freedoms.

  5. Not only did McCain call his wife a c— (rhymes with “grunt”), he also called her a “trollop.” That’s the real scandal, because do we really want a president who uses insults from the 19th century?

  6. GOOD!! She deserves them. Jill Greenberg is the slime of this Earth for doing what she did. There goes her career; good riddance!

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