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 familywith the faces slightly pixilated to comply with the country's aforementioned privacy laws concerning minorsin 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 photographobviously altereddepicting the two teens as members of the Addams Family, the band KISS , and J. R. R. Tolkien's troll-like Orcs.
Isn’t that a great picture? I laugh every time I see it, especially looking at Harvey Korman’s face...:)
Hillarious!
So Obama knows how low to set the bar. Don’t the 75% get sick of working while the 25% can’t or won’t? There tax rate must be enormous.
I noticed the Michelle was doing the model stance that I learned in “etiquette class” back in the mid 70’s.
Sparko, Thanks for the graphic. Love those colors with those words....”mm...mm....mm...”. I think every Photoshop artist on this site has been fanning the creative sparks of other Freepers. Way to go all! Thanks for the many, many chuckles tonight.
you could be called barry.
My boys love that stuff. I think I saw one or two of the movies. I was busy checking out Viggo Mortenson.
you should do an animiation of the shining hallway scene
What could be more sustainable? Re-purposing White House tablecloths and wall hangings?
yes its an incredible movie
excellent actors
Hmm.
Zero is just laughing at the white trash. Once his goals are met, there will be no more white people (white trash).
Yes, thank you so much for posting Carol in the curtains. I remember watching that episode when I was a kid, thinking then how funny it was....and now, it still is. Thanks again.
seems he’s type cast
Plumeria is the botanical name. Hawaii and South Florida freeze free areas have them. That’s what they make lei’s out of. Many colors, many different scents. They smell heavenly on a summer day but nothing beats Ylang Ylang( Cananga Odorata, I think). That’s the ingredient in many fragrances including Chanel#5. If you pick the flowers in the early morning and out them in a bucket of water, they will release their oils a few hours later. Then mop your floors with them. If you have tile, the fragrance oils seep into the grout lines and your entire house will smell like you are on a vacation in the tropics.
Spanish government mailing address is 1313 Mockingbird Lane? (I know that’s the Munster’s but it didn’t fit my joke)
Oblahblah & comrades need better protocol advisors.
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