Where’s Hillary?

[texkam]

Hasidic paper breaks the rules by editing Clinton out of White House photo
By Joe Pompeo 2 hrs 47 mins ago

Hillary Clinton's expression, right hand clasped over her mouth in astonishment, is largely responsible for making the above photo iconic--and, to at least one newspaper, sexually suggestive.

In the photo, President Obama and his national security team are huddled around a conference table in the White House Situation Room, watching CIA director Leon Panetta narrate last Sunday's raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. The mood is clearly tense.

When Women's Wear Daily consulted a coterie of photo editors and designers about why the image is "destined to be one for the history books," Clinton was foremost in their responses.

"The Hillary Clinton expression is the one that holds the photograph fully," Time's photo director told the magazine. "You can see 10 years of tension and heartache and anger in Hillary's face," Conde Nast's Scott Dadich agreed.

Turns out she was probably just coughing during that crucial moment captured by White House photographer Pete Souza. But nevertheless, the image still proved a bit too racy for at least one of the many newspapers that printed it.

That would be the Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic broadsheet Der Tzitung. The paper photoshopped Clinton, as well at the only other woman who could be seen in the room, out of the frame.

"Apparently the presence of a woman, any woman, being all womanly and sexy all over the United States' counterterrorism efforts was too much for the editors of Der Tzitung to handle," noted the prominent women's blog Jezebel.

Indeed, "The Hasidic newspaper will not intentionally include any images of women in the paper because it could be considered sexually suggestive," Rabbi Jason Miller explains in The Jewish Week. Though he notes that the publication's "fauxtograpphing" may in fact be a graver act against their religious tenets: "To my mind, this act of censorship is actually a violation of the Jewish legal principle of g'neivat da'at (deceit)."

Beyond that, Der Tzitung's editors apparently missed or blatantly ignored the guidelines stipulated on the official White House Flickr page, where the photo was released for use by news organizations: "The photograph may not be manipulated in any way."

The White House has not issued a response on the altered image.

[Bruce M. Morris]

but it wasnt just Hillary. There is another woman in the back in the original that is edited out as well.

[andyz]

I suppose that paper won't be doing an article on TPF and the Human Form forum.

[groovyone]

Bizzare

[groovyone]

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[SCone]

Can I get her removed from all photographs?

[texkam]

Can I get her removed from all photographs?

Political views on her aside (and I have my fair share), the woman has been a workhorse. She (and the other woman) deserves better. The WH should grow a pair and take action towards the publication for violating the terms of use for the photograph (otherwise don't have any). You either run it "as is" or don't use it!

[brewercm]

Originally Posted by Bruce M. Morris

but it wasnt just Hillary. There is another woman in the back in the original that is edited out as well.

She was still kind of there in the version I saw.

[SCone]

Originally Posted by texkam

Political views on her aside

What politics? She scares me... reminds me of my first grade teacher...

As far as the photo edit, it wasn't done for political reasons... it was religion. And I would hope that the response from this administration would be the same as they have shown for other religious differences.

[BenE]

This is a very important situation, and extremely newsworthy (the removal of the women, I mean).

I rate it in importance and newsworthiness, one step above the time I had a flat tire on my way to Dallas.

[jeffro20]

What a weird world we live in.

[Hogleg 44]

Originally Posted by jeffro20

What a weird world we live in.

[CaptainG]

Hillary.