Posted on 09/27/2009 3:47:38 PM PDT by machogirl
Photo of Obama and Spain's First Children Causes a Stir September 25, 2009 04:53 PM ET | Paul Bedard, Alex Kingsbury | Permanent Link | Print
By Alex Kingsbury, Washington Whispers
Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was in for a rude shock if he thought the same privacy conventions that shield the children of public figures in his home country would extend to the United States. Zapatero brought his wife and two daughters along on his trip to New York for the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, and on Wednesday he and his family posed for a photograph with President Obama at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The photo caused a huge stir in Spain because the public had never before seen an image of its leader's children, ages 13 and 16, who appeared in the photograph sporting slightly gothic attire.
The photo, credited in the Spanish press to White House photog Lawrence Jackson, was posted on the State Department Flickr site, according to sources. Conservative news outlets in Spain prominently featured the photograph of the Socialist leader's family—with the faces slightly pixilated to comply with the country's aforementioned privacy laws concerning minors—in their papers and on their websites. The conservative El Mundo newspaper put the photograph on Page A1. The liberal El Pais, meanwhile, ran a detailed explainer about why it was not publishing the offending image.
After a request by the Spanish government, the White House removed the photograph from the State Department website. But it was too late. Many Spanish in-boxes today were flooded with a series of E-mails with the photograph—obviously altered—depicting the two teens as members of the Addams Family, the band KISS , and J. R. R. Tolkien's troll-like Orcs.
Do they have brothers whose motorcycle boots they can borrow? :-)
(Snap, Snap)
Seeing the picture, I can understand why they don’t want folks to know what their children look like.
“So, where are the kids?”
Well I think Hansel is in the belly of the witch on the right.
SLIGHTLY gothic attire? How are they measuring 'slightly'?
The daughters have the Goth look going on.
I read the English Translation of the Mundo article. I used to be fluent in Espanol, but not anymore. The literal translation was a little confusing. I think that the King’s children are allowed to be photographed but the Prime Minister’s aren’t?
When I was growing up and we went to an important event, my parents scrutinized our outfits. I guess anything goes today.
Gack....Halloween came early in NYC this year!
The Spanish are asking why, since Zapatero wants to bring up their kids (he’s trying to completely change the Spanish educational system and turn it into nothing but leftist indoctrination), he can’t bring his own kids up properly. They can dress the way they want, but when they’re at a public, official event, they should dress in a way that seems to respect this fact. Obviously, the goth horror show look doesn’t do this...
Spaniards are very big on appearance, and this photo has made ZP look like even more of a goober than usual. He’s an idiot, but, like Obama, a dangerous idiot.
wow... just wow... u can’t make this stuff up.
So fine, they are goth, big whoopy doo. Why do I have more of a problem with the slouching?
Michelle looks better than that funeral togs of the Spanish women.
Maybe I’m old fashioned, but if I were going to meet a head of state, and I was bringing my kids, I would tell them that I didn’t give two cents what they liked. They were going to look presentable.
It’s hard to figure why Zapatero wouldn’t want to show off his daughters to the world. I mean, it appears he’s married to a man.
Comparatively, the situation with his daughters is normal.
This is a joke isn’t it? Because of the many computer wizzards among Freepers, I have learned to take all pics on FR with a grain of NaCl.
I did notice that their posture was “slouched”. Does this point to them NOT wanting to be in the picture?
Caption:
Left to right: Witch, Beotch, Witch, Warlock, Satan, Witch.
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