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Okay, famous White House photographer Pete Souza, we realize it’s August and nobody wants to work at all and there’s nothing very news-y happening and everybody’s on vacation WE GET IT, fine, but we’re still sort of working and you are still supposed to be working, yet there is one (1) White House photo added to the Official Presidential Flickr for the entire week, and it is lame.
What is even happening, in this picture? Is that the Sultan-Caliph of the Ottoman Empire, visiting in his Magickal Thyme Machine? No it is just some American Legion old feller who won’t even take off his freakin’ Shriners’ Fez when he meets with the President of America, inside the White House.
And the bowl of apples? BLURRY. Fail, Pete Souza, Fail. Remember when you were into it, a few months ago? [White House Flickr]
Ken, your alt-text has won the afternoon!
Why is there a bowl of fruit on the coffee table? Do they really expect someone to sit there chomping away on an apple while they shoot the breeze with Barry?
Does everyone HAVE to wear an American flag pin even inside the White House? This has gone far enough. If the ‘war on terror’ is over let’s ease up on this pin bullshit.
Barry crosses his legs like a girl. He should take some tips from the guy on the left. Who I think is the ambassador from the Republic of Zwit.
AKAM80TheWolf: Fuck you, I thought the exact same thing…fine minds.
I like peaches too.
The correct millinery technical term for that style of chapeau favored by superannuated veterans is “cunt cap.”
Oh, lordy — what did Sgt. Crowley do to the VFW guy?
that cadet should know to uncover when he goes into a commander’s offices. drop and give me twenty!
Cape Clod: Crying…can’t type…
Geez, how many mega-pixels is Souza’s digital camera anyway? Like 7-billion? I’m on a crappy work-issued monitor and I feel like I’m sitting in the room!
Even that Lincoln sculpture in the background can barley stay awake for this photo.
orange: Yeah, are those white peaches? Maybe Obama’s about to whip up a batch of Bellinis.
Red American Legion hat, red Gerber daisies in the vase on the table, red blush on the fuzzy apples.
I smell Communism!
…other than the apples.
AKAM80TheWolf: freakishlystrong: speaking of alt text, anyone know how to see alt text while using an iPhone?
SayItWithWookies: American Legion, I’m pretty sure, which is much scarier. AFAIK, the VFW were never into burning down hobo camps.
ChernobylSoup v2: You just yell into the iPhone (in German), “Alt Text, Alt Text!”
Hmm, guess I forgot to do the alt-text on this. Doesn’t really deserve clever alt-text, now does it?
Oh, you missed another exposure, Ken, and the apples aren’t even blurry. Obama’s blurry.
The Shriner clown is the only person he met with all week that doesn’t want to euthanize you or rob your childrens’ piggy banks…everybody else he met with is a special interest and special interests have that special juju that makes them come up invisible in pictures.
It’s the darker Jeff Gannon and Eddie Murphy’s dad from Coming to America.
V572625694: Dude should’ve gone with a fez. They never get old. Just ask Kemal.
Ken Layne: “White Peaches”?
Is that arugula growing on the mantle?
Oh no!! You have it all wrong. Souza knows exactly what he’s doing.
Blurry apples….Souza desecrates America’s fruit (America’s greatest pie filling). Effectively, Obama mouth rapes America while making a Veteran of Our Armed Forces watch. It’s like I’m watching NOBAMA shoving a jew into an oven right before my eyes.
chascates: Only Republicans can go without flag pins in the White House. And everywhere else. Also.
Memo to Self: If you need a haircut, never, ever, go where the guy on the right goes and say to the barber whatever he says.
Is it just me, or does the Oval Office look a little too upscale-dentist-office-waiting-room-circa-1994-ish? The fuck is that green mess on the mantle? And the predominant shade, what, Microsoft Employee Khaki? C’mon, Barry. I know all the closeted homos have vacated the premises and the stains have been washed from all the linens in the Lincoln Bedroom where Karl liked to meet Jeff Gannon for his 60-minutes-exactly-from-Secret Service-login-to-logout “strategic meetings.” Live a little. Throw some color on the walls. Those chairs, that lame Washington portrait, even the weak flowers in the vase, just scream overcompensating-gay-Republican. That’s all. My hyphen key just broke.
August is so hot and boring, even the bust of Ol’ Honest Abe couldn’t stay awake for the meeting.
Is that bowl is full of yellow onions?
I notice that Barry keeps his birth certificate next to the fruit bowl now. Unfortunately, it’s blurry too.
AKAM80TheWolf: Yes, the alt-text this time is truly profound. Class really does equal “center.”
Jerri: That was my first thought too.
Hell, Obama doesn’t care if that goon wears a head cover in the Oval Office. Obama’s in there after hours in t-shirt & briefs cold fartin’ on that butt ugly rug.
Those aren’t apples, they are BOs’ spare nuts which he can insert as the situation requires.
I like the guy on the right guarding the apples, keeping them safe from Fezmeister.
rikitikitavi:
Obama is in the center of this photo and he defines class.
Maybe Michelle grew the apples and Obama is trying to get rid of them.
“Thanks for stopping by Mr. Poobah. Make sure you get yourself some apples on the way out. They’re organic!”
no, it’s saying that class is defined by “meet the new boss” centrism, instead of getting up in the GOP’s grill with single-payer. Irony.
While Obama may be slightly off-center, and, by implication of the alt-text, not “classy”, it does balance well against Abe Lincoln’s ample bust.
Barry has that “let me tell ya’ll mother fuckers something” pose happening again.
I dig.
Hookah?
Ken Layne:
I thought it was a double-entendre. Making it look like something went wrong with the HTML/CSS formatting at the same time as saying the muslin guy in the center has class.
You just lost the afternoon Ken, and my heart.
“No sir, the United States of America will not interfere in any sort of Austro-Hungarian conflict with the Ottoman Empire. And the more Armenians you slaughter over there, the fewer there will be to move to Glendale, which I’m sure all of Southern California will appreciate.”
Nice tight three-shot. About as tight as Lindsay Lohan’s pussy.
Where’s the beer? This party sucks.
Always wear your red hat when visiting with the POTUS. Lesson learned.
kipperthegod: Yeah, the State Capitol in Iowa looks nicer than the Oval Office.
magic titty: Hahahahahaha. I like.
Cape Clod: But those are all examples of his leg crossings (positions?). When the prez sits like the guy to the right, I do get turned on.
OH MAGOG!! THAT HIDEOUS FUCKING TRASHY-ASS EAGLE SUN BURST RUG!! UGH!
Get a new one, please.
Obama had exactly that look when he met Crowley for a beer. The look says ‘this idiot represents enough Americans that I just cannot afford to make him look stupid. Must. act. interested. in. what. he. has. to. say.’
Mahousu: Why you gotta make this about race?
That ‘mess’ on the mantle, muthahfuhkahz, is the finest example of cissus rhombofolia you will ever be blessed enough to lay your bleary eyes on.
Dis’ my country. Dis’ the powers-that-be, the powers-that-wannabe and the powers-that-wish-they-were.
But don’t (DON’T!) ever dis’ Mother Nature. She will FUCK. YOU. UP. !
Oh, yeah… and someone tell the Secret Service to keep an eye on the Gerberas. Obviously, they’re a Republican plant.
El Pinche,Joshua Norton, Todd Mecklem:
Hopey is breeding genetics lab-grade drosophila melanogaster in that still-life and is working on a cure for chronic birther mouthbreather trisomy (Dobb’s Syndrome) in his spare time as POTUS.
Kinda like that nice, clean, and articulate actor Will Smith in I Am Legend.
They are discussing Cash for Schreiner’s car’s.
Pete Souza’s blurred foreground images make the ghost of Ansel Adams weep. Why, Souza, why do you foresake the Stop 64 Club?
Asked to remove his hat, the vettard responded by singing a chorus from Steely Dan:
No I’m never gonna do it without the fez on
Oh no
Don’t make me do it without the fez on
Oh no
That’s what I am
Please understand
I want to be your holy man
Does EVERYBODY have to wear an American flag pin whilst attending to the needs of Our Liege: Barack bin Obama? No.
Special dispensations are given to young men and women serving in the White House in coffins.
Morbo the Annihilator: It also looks like they are all in the loading program from The Matrix…otherwise, I’m guessing Obama would end up looking like Venom from Spiderman 3.
kipperthegod: No redecorating. If he does it, he will no longer be a Kenyan Muslin Communist, he will be a Gay Kenyan Muslin Communist. And if she does it, there will be floral carpets and the back of his chair will be wearing a shrunken cardigan sweater. Not to mention they will draw more bad press than the Congress with their fancy new jets. We’re in a depression; threadbare is the new opulence.
Actually, a second photo of the same scene will be published next week, and then you will have to pick out the seven differences between the photos.
Here’s a hint, number four is “two apples missing from bowl.”
Actually POTUS is assuring a first class citizen (Former Military) that second class or worse citizens will not get any of his health care.
I like these apples…..omg…better if they would have been in a silver bowl..and yeah..check here for the silver updates….http://bit.ly/reason_for_silver