Atlantic Magazine Might Sue McCain Smearing Photographer

[bijou]

The photographer that viciously smeared John McCain at her website might be facing a lawsuit for violating the terms of agreement in her contract with The Atlantic magazine.

As NewsBusters reported Saturday, Jill Greenberg not only admitted to taking a rather sinister picture of the Republican presidential candidate that she hoped The Atlantic would use on its October cover, but she also generated some truly disturbing and disgraceful images of McCain which she proudly displayed at her website.

The magazine's editor, James Bennet, told Fox News's Megyn Kelly Monday that he was deeply sorry about this incident, and that The Atlantic isn't taking it lying down (audio available here, partial transcript follows, h/t NBer blonde) :  ...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/15/atlantic-magazine-might-sue-mccain-smearing-photographer

It turns out that poor Jill has not yet been paid ... and may not be. 

[Hawkgirl]

What dumb moonbat....

[Willow]

I saw that interview this morning. I don't think the man means a word of it. Faux outrage at it's best. Atlantic is a left wing hack job.

[DixieBelle]

I read elsewhere that she is going to have to issue an apology. Not that it will mean anything...

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

They're going to sue her for a photo their editors approved?

[Chris_]

Just remember who broke the story here first...

Well, it wasn't nme but it was close...

;)

[DixieBelle]

Okay, she is just disgusting!

Malkin has some background info and the disgusting stuff she did to one of McCain's photos. Be warned, it's nasty and Malkin posted it on her site.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/14/the-atlantic-should-have-googled-jill-greenberg-before-hiring-her/

This is the woman who terrorized toddlers for "art". *eyeroll*

This is unbelievably sick. A left-wing photographer, Jill Greenberg, deliberately makes toddlers cry and turns the pictures into a Los Angeles art exhibit called “End Times” to indulge her Bush Derangement Syndrome. She slaps titles like “Grand Old Party,” “Four More Years,” and “Apocalypse Now” onto photos of the poor children she manipulated and goaded.

When Jill Greenberg conceived the idea of photographing crying children back in 2004, she didn’t anticipate the attention the project would bring to her fledgling art career, or the furor it would raise. Greenberg, who lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children, is already known as one of the country’s most success commercial photographers, with work for ad clients like Microsoft, Kraft, and Procter & Gamble and magazines like New York and Time. She has emerged as a potent force in fine art with a series of acutely lit portraits of monkeys and apes, which in turn led to her work with children.

Your images have certainly caused an uproar. What do you say to people who call you a child abuser?

I think they’re insane…Maybe getting kids to cry isn’t the nicest thing to do, but I’m not causing anyone permanent psychological damage.

[Chris]

Sample of her unhinged defacing of McCain’s pics, which looks like something straight out of a Democratic Underground thread.

She got that right.