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.
Good point.
seriously... also note that post #231 on this thread was submitted by a FReeper named “beelzebubba”!
Why is Morticia on the right, leaning? Is her right leg shorter than her left? And who’s the dude on the far left?
That's the first thing I thought. Creepy sulking, slouching thing.
I thought that was the Munsters dog spot under the stairs
The daughter on the right looks as if she has been taking poise lessons from Michelle.
oh yeah, that’s me
Loveluy Goth Family, looks like a bunch of Monks and one liar!
From the Spanish link.
oh that’s funny. So for 13 years there is no photo of these girls..and suddenly they are going to be photoshopped all over the net.
What in the world where those parents thinking letting them wear black nail polist and combat boots to such an occasion.
Shouldn’t the one on the right be ringing a church bell?
Geez. And tho think, the Parents didn’t have to: either force their kids to go, or let them dress that way. The kids suffer the ridicule due to their parents. (i still think that 13 and 15 year-old have some reasoning as to whether something is appropriate or not)
A little tweeks here and there. Proper posture and maybe one of the daughters placed on the other end, in addition to wearing different clothes and makeup. Shame. What could have been a nice keepsake photo of the event, IMHO looks horrid.
I didn’t even notice the black nail polish. In addition, I find it hard to believe that no one knew in Spain what these kids looked like. They must go to school?
I think the photo said it was in Nairobi and it was a Cameroon costume.
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