The White House thought it would make Obama look good to tweet a photo of him in some high school gymnasium, enthusiastically watching some sport (probably basketball), then captioning said photo with pandering, touchy-feely crap about kids & parents.
Just one problem.
Kid in the back row, fiddling with some electronic device, completely unimpressed by either the sporting event or the presence of Obama.
Either they didn’t notice, or they realized that they couldn’t crop him out without losing the coach’s head or one of the diversity-prop spectators.
Anyway, I re-did the messaging for them:
Apparently this kid’s passion is not giving a crap what Obama thinks is important.
He’ll go far in this world.
You didn’t make that shot! Somebody else made it happen.
you owe me a new monitor. this one has mashed potatoes and gravy all over it.
In my mind, the boy’s holding a smart-phone, doing some after-hours stock-market trading.
Even if it’s a hand-held gaming platform, I still think more highly of him than of everyone else in the picture, with the possible exception of the coach.
Gee, he looks like such an ex-jock, don’t you think?. And the women just want to hug him Höoooo haaaa!! Wizbang. Skanzarantzatantza.
Wait, he’s texting and I can read it. It says, “There’s a jckass in front of me whoz relly pissng me off”
Smart kid…
First impression: Sure looks ‘shopped.
1) Perfectly round “presidential”/Olympics badge on the right side of the jacket despite folds going along and under it.
2) A Nike logo on a presidential jacket? Really now?
But:
3) Here’s the source photo, in the Washington Post but credited to the White House: http://www.washingtonpost.com/feb-5-2011-the-tw/2011/12/30/gIQA7XIYRP_photo.html …here’s another: http://www.baracklovesmichelle.com/coach-reggie-love-coach-barack-obama-at-sashas-basketball-game …turns out the “coach” is no less than Reggie Love, O’s former “body man”. It’s Sasha’s basketball team.
I conclude it’s legit.
Such a staged photo…President Urkel in a wanna-be letterman jacket with some kind of US Olympic team logo looking spindly and decidedly un-jocklike, and those poor moppet kids having to make those fake expressions of enthusiasm.
“You didn’t make that three-pointer…somebody else did it for you!”
“You didn’t win that game of four-square…somebody else did it for you!”
“You didn’t get hit in the face with a dodgeball…somebody else got hit in the face for you!”
Malia discovers pole-dancing?
Cheers
That’s really from the White House? That’s one of the worst Photoshop Disasters involving Obama I’ve seen! The President totally wasn’t there; they pasted his head over somebody else.
Love the expression on Obama’s face.
To quote the president “It was like the Special Olympics or something”
That little troublemaker’s already under investigation. ~ E. Holder, Supreme Lawman of the Nation.
Quick Barack, got penalize…err…umm, tax him!! ~ John Roberts, Obamacare Czar
….unless it’s communism.
Actually, the dodgeball paradigm works for this pic…..Prez Urkel and the kids next to him all have the expression of “dayummmm, Timmy Farkus just took a hit to his face, that Kelly Mandelbrot can throw!”
Y’know, that look of one part amazement, one part suppressed derisive laughter that people get just before they rush to the poor kid who got knocked back on his duff in order to do what they can to stop that kid’s bleeding nose and tears of humiliation.