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.
Nope. My girls buy stuff at the store.
Now I remember....it crawled out of her nose.
LOL This thread had me rolling on the floor laughing.
Wasn’t he also in Mississippi Burning as the deputy sheriff?
More pixelation needed. Much, much more. Just go ahead and airbrush them out completely. Even Aunt Ester Obama is more pleasing to the eyes.
Lol. It took 231 posts. Great minds think alike my FRiend.
Oh my...they looked better with their eyes blotted out. The two girls are copping an attitude.
I think the Obamas are hysterical. I would be too if these weirdos were encircling me.
Hard to believe....
That satan thing creeped the hell out of me.
But at least it didn’t slump. What is wrong with these kids? Is living the life of luxury in SPAIN that much of a burden?
Wait, did Marvel let him join the X-men too? What is his superpower? Driving down stock prices by opening his mouth? It also must require superhuman willpower to tell Michelle “No your butt doesn’t look in big in those jeans” with a straight face.
I guess Hagrid procreated.
Nice!!! This is a fun thread. I am never amazed at the wit of many FReepers. They are really a fun group to be a part of.
Oh, baby, look at you
Dont you look like Siouxsie Sioux
How longd it take to get that way
What a terrible waste of energy
You wear black clothes say youre poetic
Awesome. You'll dance to anything. I ♥ the Dead Milkmen.
I have a cat named Stuart.
And I made sure a Dead Milkmen song was played at my wedding reception.
Great Thread!
LOL
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