Wonkette
The White House released the official portrait of the first family. Annie Liebovitz took over for Pete Souza for this one, which seems unfair to us. Anyway, where has Bo run off to? [via Ben Smith]
ON PHOTOGRAPHY
This Could Be Superimposed Over Galloping Unicorns And Hung In A Bar In Texas One Day
Read More:
9:30 AM
on Fri October 23 2009
By
Juli Weiner
2607 Views
“Put on a sport coat you dithering slob.” -Karl Rove
I think Bo’s out back in Michelle’s vegtable patch, burying John Boehner.
Hey, Sasha Obama…more like “Hail to the CHEEKS”
AMIRITE?!?!
“There goes the neighborhood!”
Archie Bunker
Unlike in many photos of republicans we can see both of the president’s hands.
Hmmm…how will the RW go crazy over this one? Got it! No flag pin!
Malia’s gonna be a hottie.
Annie needs the work. Next thing, she’ll be shooting weddings.
What a lovely picture. No question who Daddy’s girl is.
A nuke-u-lar family if I ever saw one
ForTheTurnstiles:
Yep, and you know these girls aren’t going to end up falling drunk on a sidewalk in front of photographers.
what a bad ass photo to see to start my mornin’. yessir.
Annie Liebovitz knows how to photograph people with clothes on? I’m disappointed.
Have they discovered yet that Amy Carter is living in the chimney?
Texan Bulldoggette: *GASP*! You’re right. And we don’t even know yet what other secret codes can be found in this picture until losers like Michelle Malkin tell us. CUE THE PEARL-CLUTCHERS.
So….fucking…..CUTE!!!!
It that a jar of ashes on the mantel?
Anyone see the picture of the First Lady playing Double Dutch the other day? She has awesomez.
Call me disappointed. When I read that Annie took the picture I expected Michelle to be wearing nothing but barbed wire and Thomas Jefferson’s old three-pointed hat.
Glenn Beck saw this and began crying hysterically.
Limbaugh saw it and threw up in his mouth.
MLHencken: I’d recommend that Limbaugh try Prilosec, because that sounds like it could be related to acid reflux disease. But he shouldn’t, because he’d probably just get addicted to that, too.
Wow, the rumors are true - the President and his family ARE black!!!
This cannot stand.
Is there now a government bail-out plan for bankrupt photographers?
I sorta like the way Michelle is portrayed as perfectly evil. Her facial expression seems to scream out, “It is OUR plantation now, beyootches! Booya!!!”
hobospacejunkie: Oh you can see both of this guy’s hands:
http://wonkette.com/404631/oh-and-a-happy-thanksgiving-to-you-too-saxby-chambliss
No good, no good at all! Where are the DUI’s, vehicular homicides, divorces, alcoholics,draft dodgers,drug abusers, prostitutes and mob connections? How fucking Un-American can you get? I’m going into diabetic coma just looking at it.
is michelle breaking out of sasha’s chest, like on alien?
ChernobylSoup v2: Or at least she should be topless and making out with a Huskie.
B’god, the human warmth is everything-warming.
So…look at these beautiful peeps. How can anyone hate them as much as they do..oh wait. The Brown, hating wingnuts are not down with the brown.
freakishlystrong: One day, the hate, too, will pass.
Obama’s smiling a bit too widely. Not a good gum to tooth ratio, as Stewie might say.
God, what a beautiful family.
What’r them colored folks doin’ in the White House?! Somebody git my shotgun and call the Sheriff.
This deprives me of my freedom to have a first family of whites.
No doubt, they are gorgeous kids. Not as good looking or smart as MY grandchildren…
My family wouldn’t look that good if you gave each of us a million dollars worth of plastic surgery.
Liberal family values. Stunning. Eat this for breakfast wingnutteers.
This is what liberalism looks like, maybe not in actual policy, but in everyday life. Broadcast around the world please.
rafflesinc: Ugh, yeah, thanks for that reminder. Just when I thought Jeff Sessions had taken over as the most vile and shameless republican, it is clear that saxby retains his grasp on that mantle.
Damn, that’s great looking family. I wonder if they have room to adopt a middle aged, semi-housebroken Caveman?
Hey Michelle, I’ll help out in the garden! You guys’ll love the way I do BBQ. And I love walking the dog.
I feel a great disturbance in the Force — as though a million Simon Legrees were crying out at once.
Annie L took the time during the shoot to whine about all of her financial woes, hoping Barry would add her to the bailout list. Michele, however, was having none of it and dressed the strapped celeb photog down for irresponsiblity…and sartorial stoopidness.
Bo has got Cheney backed up into corner somewhere, snarling and growling at him. Good boy Bo!
SayItWithWookies: This would explain Cheney’s appearance yesterday. Perhaps a cry for help from the Sith Lord as the Jedis have said screw balance lets stomp out evil for a while.
WadISay: THANK you.
Wow I guess Annie Liebowitz has reached desperation point.
Rupert Murdoch wants to know how those black people were able to break into that pretty home.
No snark: That is a beautiful picture, and they are a beautiful family!
Kudos to Annie for this one!
Well he’s no Saxby Chambliss. Of this I am certain.
Holy shit.
The President is black.
It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white.
sanantonerose: Unless you are a paultard, teabagger, or other member of the lunatic fringe.
BeWoot: What? You didn’t hear?
Bo’s ashes are in the urn on the mantel.
SayItWithWookies: That’s I-Phone comment if I ever saw one.
My ancient mother could have taken that with her one cataract and her Instamatic. (That’s a compliment to the 1st Fam).
That is a nice picture. And a nice family. But why is Annie Liebowitz so highly regarded? Set up two or three lights and take the pic with your Canon or Nikon that is set to AUTO! Done. Next time I’ll do it for half of Annie’s normal fee.
Obamas: Neither parent comes from money, both highly educated and ambitious. Obvious affection for one another. Happy, well-adjusted children who are neither concealed, nor faulted in the public eye. Family activities are charity, gardening and volunteer work.
Palins: Both unemployed. Limited education. Well known lol-cows. Sordid public feud with eldest daughter’s baby daddy. Children alternatingly used as campaign props and human shields. Family activities are snowmobile racing, pregnancy.
How did Palin become the banner carrier for the American family again?
Gallowglass:
She’s white. Black people aren’t “real” US Americuns.
ManchuCandidate: Ahhhh, Right. Forgot about that part.
Gallowglass: “How did Palin become the banner carrier for the American family again?”
She’s a virginal MILF. It works with the conservative religiosos and the folks who think Hooters is a family restaurant. She’s a terrific bit of engineering by the wingnuts, and one that will probably haunt us for a while yet.
That’s a nice picture of our Islo-Communist, Facist, Marxist, Kenyan, Hilterian, Muslin, Terrorist-sympathizing, Hater of Whitey, Teleprompter-reading, Un Nobel Prize-deserving, African President and his family.
(did I miss any adjectives?)
Holding Out for a Hero:
Nixonian.
It’s “Leibovitz”, not “Liebovitz”, BTW. Politico loses the morning.
Gallowglass:
Mother apparently had a little affair with Father’s partner in a snowmachine business, too. Grandmother arrested on drug charges, wasn’t she?
It’s still passing strange to think ‘Hey–the President!’ and then think ‘Awesome!’ instead of ‘Fuck that guy!’
Also: assessing presidential fitness based on choice of spouse seems like a much firmer basis for accurate judgement than beer intake. I’d have voted for him even if he was lame, just to have such a kick-ass FLOTUS.
Gallowglass: Oh, you and your insistence on *reality*. Crazytalk!
The GOP is countering with a Leibovitz heart-warming portrait of Newt and his three wives.
ManchuCandidate: Dammit! Goes back to studying Rosetta Stone’s series on “Advanced Wingnut”
Nice pic but dayum, hasn’t Liebovitz ever heard of lighting? It needs touching up, pronto.
Terry: I thought it was baby daddy’s mom that was arrested on drug charges. I could be wrong though. I have a hard time keeping up with the trailer park soap opera that is their “lives”. Such as.
Terrific photo, but Annie really missed an opportunity to set the stage for the 2012 election by having the Obamas pose like the Huckabees, with everyone in mom jeans, the girls in zippered bright red sweaters, Obama in a blue & white pinstripe shirt with elbow patches, and Michelle holding Bo on her lap and choking him to death.
I have to admit I’m still sort of amazed a black dude got elected president
This picture is all about Malia’s heinie. That’s where all the energy and lighting are directed. Just read the picture left to right - white, red, white, black, heinie. It’s like a koan to heinie. Annie is having her own special way with the Obama family. The secret message in this picture is “Dems have great heinies.”
Do not under any circumstances read the (vile, hateful) comments on this post at Politico. Seriously, they should be ashamed.
…and where is the Barbie-cam pic of the First Fam??? Discrimination, I tells ya!
oudemia: I think they’re moderating the comments over there now. There are a few that are offensive, racist, and nauseating, but most by far are complimentary.
Extemp- I have done some research on Bo and this photo. This photo was supposedly taken September 1. Bo was seen in a photo with the First Lady on September 26 so Bo is not on the mantel piece.
oudemia: I did not read these - but I hope Secret Service monitors this and then visits the scum who write vicious messages
frumious_bandersnatch: Plenty of people, men and women alike, are definitely thinking “Fuck that guy.” To say nothing of the people thinking of fucking his wife.
Seriously, is there something wrong with my monitor, or does the lighting in this picture really suck?
They all have chips on their shoulders!
I can see the radical agenda just oozing from every pixel.
I love them. I love this family. Can this family be president forever? This family looks like my family. No snark today. They are so wonderful.
house of the blue lights: This looks like your family? Sasha, get off Wonkette, NOW!
oudemia: Politco has started scrubbing the comments on the article.
DoctorCulturae: oh, the world already knows that. it’s just america that has a confuze.
You can just tell that both those kids are gonna be mischievious troublemakers. Not Bush-twin-style, but more like… sassier than Barney Frank after a three-martini lunch.
assistant/atlas:
Agree - Maliah is going to grow into her Mom and champion a cause such as landmines somewhere, and stomp about in wellington boots proving it, while Sasha is probably going to take up some geeky, goofy cause like her dad, like clubbing seal hunters for sport, or in a delicious irony shooting wolf hunters from helicopters and protecting moose from bimbos with an entitlement complex.
So…. no one see’s the statue guy doing the butt thing to Sasha?
whare iz teh birht cert…ahh forget it
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PHOTO AND FAMILY!