Posted on 12/12/2013 7:48:34 AM PST by thetallguy24
On Tuesday, conservative news outlets in the United States decided that the best way to commemorate the life of Nelson Mandela, and to report on the memorial services in his honor, was to manufacture a controversy about an AFP photo of President Barack Obama shooting a selfie with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. According to Fox News, the “international incident” was so bad that, “The tsk-tisk-ing could be heard across continents.”
Liberal news outlets countered with a photograph from former President George W. Bush’s Instagram feed, taken at the same memorial, in which he’s seen posing with pop star Bono.
Two things were lost amid the nonsensical partisan wrangling. First, the furor shamefully overshadowed the memorial service itself, and the heartfelt messages that were delivered by Mandela’s family and colleagues. Second, such outcries overlook the close quarters in which our Democratic and Republican politicians actually live and work.
Candid images from White House photographer Pete Souza tell another story.
(Excerpt) Read more at policymic.com ...
Incest Is Best
Sickening.
The “club” matters more than principal i guess.
The White House photographer's job is to make Obama look good. He only takes the staged photos he is ordered to take. Only the best of these are released.
If he ever took and released a “candid photo” he would immediately be fired.
Nothing willl take away from the fact that they were ALL honoring a listed terrorist(previously) by the US Government.
"Perhaps, instead of giving in to the frantic us-or-them discourse proffered by the media (Funeral selfies! Handshakes! Ted Cruz!), it's time that we acknowledge that conservative and liberal politicians spend more time together, and have more in common with one another, than wed like to believe."
Yep.
To call George Bush a 'conservative' is to stretch the term to the breaking point. More importantly, the demoplicans and the republocrats in the Ruling Class are first and foremost Ruling Class. They have, for the most part, no understanding of and no contact with the Productive Class or the Protective Class.
Yup!
I saw them yesterday in the DailyMail. Cozy.
Oh, that photo of GWB with Bono was really scandalous. /s
Only missing image was a photo of Jimmy “Never mt a terrorist I didn’t love” Carter.
Makes you realize just how much they play us for fools, doesn’t it?
In the first picture, when Bush is talking to Obama, the muscle in Obama’s left cheek is crimped, indicating irritation and/or impatience. Big happy family, indeed. What you have is two well-bred, strong Christian Southerners being polite to people who stand for everything unholy.
On Tuesday, conservative news outlets in the United States decided that the best way to commemorate the life of Nelson Mandela, and to report on the memorial services in his honor, was to manufacture a controversy about an AFP photo of President Barack Obama shooting a selfie with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
...then I decided the author was just another liberal hack. I'm sure the pictures were just wonderful, and made up for Obastard's antics.
“Michelle, you stay over there...this isn’t something that you’d be interest in....”
It took me a while before noticing Holder was in that room too.
"One of these things is not like the others...."
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