Technically Incorrect: Posted on Twitter by the design lead for Hillary for America, this will surely be one of the iconic images of our age.
Dear famous person,
If we want to be seen with you, we’ll turn our backs on you.
Please don’t be offended.
It’s just that your fame isn’t enough for us anymore.
We need to attach ourselves to your fame, so that we can post the resulting picture to Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat.
That way, we achieve our own sort of mini-fame. Which could be the maximal fame we ever attain.
Please forgive me for this missive to the stars.
There’s a reason: this astounding picture posted on Sunday to Twitter by Hillary For America design lead Victor Ng. He credited the shot to the photographer currently working on the Clinton campaign, Barbara Kinney.
As Hillary Clinton stands on a podium and waves, not one of the throng in front of her seems to be facing her.
Instead, everyone has turned their backs and raised their phones in order to get a little of themselves — perhaps just their hair or their upper forehead — into the shot.
Ng offered this caption: “2016, ya’ll.”
One can surely forgive him for misplacing his apostrophe, as he gazed upon this human catastrophe.
Increasingly we prefer to be seen with each other, instead of looking at each other.
We live not to be there, but to be seen to be there.
So, dear famous person, please understand that it’s all a show now. All of it.
Source: cnet.com
They probably figured that she wouldn’t make it through shaking hands or taking pictures without having a seizure so they just had them take a selfie with a laugh and a bah-bah. No I’m not voting for Trump either.
At least if they’re off taking selfies with Hilary, then those darn kids aren’t on your lawn. #oldpeopleproblems
Let me guess. All iphone users……
Bernie Sanders probably walked in at the back of the room. Ah…what could have been…Bernie! Bernie!
This has to be coordinated – I think America is just fine…
Wow, this is both funny and sad!
HAHA Have to admit this probably makes it easier for the secret service – people who are immediate threats generally don’t turn their back and look at their phone. Anybody actually facing her are the ones to keep an eye on.
Why is this a surprise? People are turning their backs on Hillary Clinton every minute in this country……. as far back as Al Capone and John Dillinger, people wanted to “take a picture with” well known criminals. We are more a personality culture and less a substance culture to our great disgrace and embarrassment.
Republicans have always had an unfairness towards the Democrats and vice versa and what a toxic environment they created! Now the same thing seems to be happening to Hillary! But I think this a good thing in that while the republicans are busy exposing all the dirty tricks that go on on capitol hill this will make everyone including themselves ultra transparent! Which by the way is how a madman like Donald Trump got to win the republican nominee! All Trump had to do is open his mouth and expose the corruption on pay for play and that does include himself! Donald Trump publicly admitted to paying politician and in return they come and kiss his royal butt! Is he fit for president? Not in your life! Let’s get real here people Donald Trump is as corrupt as they get and he is and has been involved with every politician in this country! Donald Trump Is one of the powerful rich who calls the shots on capitol hill! I’m not saying Hillary hasn’t made mistakes but some times work environments dictate how you do things. Like I said this is all probably for the better everyone will think twice when performing their duties and we can credit one corrupt Donald Trump for exposing all of it!
Oh by the way I forgot to mention all these women who are taking selfies it’s a good thing because these women they can tell their children and their grandchildren how they participated in electing or trying to elect a criminal to the presidency of the United States. You don’t have to be convicted of a crime if you know in your heart that she has violated laws and you know very well which laws just because our justice system is as corrupt as Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn’t mean that she is innocent. If any other United States citizen was to do what the Clintons have done they would be in prison right now. The Justice Department worked on the book at them you know this I know this everyone knows this
@Mistyblue67 Sure, I’ll vote for Mr. Fraud instead. No doubt you got your degree at Trump U. Or should we call him the Bankruptcy King? You choose.
@sohanshop @Mistyblue67 Why vote for Trump or Hillary? There are other choices. It’s time to do away with this CORRUPT two party system.
I don’t understand those of you who would rather talk about her appearance, rather than all the scandals that she has accumulated over the years. How she and is a ministration has totally obstructed justice. You have an attorney general of the United States who meets with the spouse of an individual who is being investigated for criminal behavior. The Atty. Gen. Loretto Lynch and Bill Clinton meet at an undisclosed airport in Arizona and the only reason we are aware of this meeting was because of the reporter who investigated this event. Bill Clinton suggests that the only reason they the Atty. Gen. and Bill Clinton were meeting at this airport was to discuss his grandkids how offensive can this be to think that an attorney general would believe let’s assume that this supposedly meeting was just a coincidence and that supposedly Bill Clinton wanted to discuss his grandkids with The Atty. Gen.. The Atty. Gen. has to know with all her experience involving justice that this is totally inappropriate and should be required her to be disbarred for inappropriate behavior. Talking about stacking the deck then she comes out the Atty. Gen. and tells the director of the FBI she would comply to any of his decisions concerning the investigation into Hillary Rodham Clinton. About three days later he makes this remarkable speech and then at the end he states no charges will be requested based on there was no intent. Why hell is the idea that Bill Clinton and the Atty. Gen. meeting at an undisclosed airport in itself is an intent to obstruct justice, intent the intent is the 30,000 emails that she had deleted in order to obstruct justice, intent having a private server knowing very well that she was authorized to use a private server to conduct government business on based on the freedom of information act this alone would prevent her from having this private server and conducting all her government business on. There is so much injustice involving Hillary Rodham Clinton and just because she’s an attorney married to Bill Clinton and she has influence with this administration that this allows her to be about justice.
This is the same type of carnage that this administration has demonstrated whether it’s Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bowe Bergdahl, Lois Lerner who was in charge of the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service, or the Ex- Atty. Gen. Eric Holder’s who’s Justice Department sold weapons to drug cartels in which a border guard will be murdered with one of those weapons sold.
When this talk about how she Hillary Rodham Clinton was responsible for running weapons into Libya and also responsible for the overthrow of the Libyan leader which created a vacuum in Libya which was the result of four Americans who died in Libya.
Let’s talk about the time when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton goes to Bosnia to visit
United States soldiers how according to her is under attack by sniper fire, Lets talk about Hillary Rodham Clinton failed policies that led to the annexation of Crimera from the Ukraine was even discuss all the failed policies in the Middle East that led to thousands upon thousands of Christians who lost their lives due to terrorist and the hundreds of thousands who have to flee their country and become refugees and amongst those refugees are terrorist known as ISIS. Knowing very well that she and our government is incapable of properly vetting any of these refugees that she wants to bring to United States. Who by the way are unskilled don’t speak English and by the way how they got to make a living for themselves? Taxpayers can be placed on welfare provided the income housing their children’s go to our public education we can even support our own people. The sad thing is she is part of the failed policies excluding her criminal activities this administration has spent over $10 trillion and is going to increase greatly especially when they bring to our country hundreds of thousands of refugees. No but you want to debate how she looks in a Selfie
Obama and Hillary care for black people, when they need them
to vote in throws and vote often!
Obama
in 2008: “Hillary is a corrupt wallstreet mogul”
Obama
in 2016: “No one is more fit to be president.”
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNiNWbmPWehjpQohglWsKxw
“Colored people are like human weeds and need to be
exterminated” Margaret Sanger
“I admire Margaret Sanger
enormously, her courage her tenacity, her vision…” Hillary Clinton
Please… it’s among the first of real documented “selfie” presidential campaigns. And most likely not the last.
ARREST THE CROOKED CLINTONS NOW AND SAVE THE USA
@bondjamesoo7 Sure, and when Donald releases his tax returns he’ll be prosecuted for treason.
I think this photo is green screen or something of the sort and she’s been busted doing this in the past. If you blow the image up, most of the phones have a dark background or the phones appear to be off completely – a couple of them on the far right might be ligit, but from that distance, you would have t have that cream wall showing on most all of them and it is no where to be found.
@windowsca What you’re actually seeing is the back of cell phones, because the high resolution camera is there, as opposed to the low resolution selfie camera…
@windowsca you should have stopped at YOU BLOW!
Looks like she’s got that woman card down.
“It’s just that your fame isn’t enough for us anymore”
Hillary’s fame?
How about Hillary Clinton’s infamy?
Or her being a pathological liar?
Or her extreme anti-Americanism?
Or her criminal activities, such as, but not limited to, committing espionage, treason and murder?
@everinfidel What’s interesting in the above is that over and over Trump has been shown to be a non-stop pathological liar. Who makes stuff up on the fly. A perfect example is the birther nonsense. And he spins it around and throws it at the Hillary like a monkey throwing poop. But what’s really, really sad is that y’all believe it and don’t bat an eye.
@everinfidel
@gork_platter
What the heck kind of a reply is that? @everinfidel was not talking about Trump or his many problems. His post was asking the questions about Hillary, which are perfectly valid questions.
Yes Trump has issues. But trying to point light at his mistakes when addressing Hillary has a seriously scammy aspect to it.
@Blackkramer @gork_platter @everinfidel
Are you kidding me? Those questions are not valid. Nearly 30 years of investigations, tens of millions of taxpayer dollars spent, a dozen committee investigations involved, and there’s simply nothing there.
Only a politically-biased tool cannot discern the basic truths of the last 30 years.
Yet, we merely need to focus half a year on Donald and there are dozens of verifiable violations of federal law, without the press even trying!
@gork_platter @Blackkramer @everinfidel Nothing there? Spoken like a true partisan.
@gork_platter @everinfidel Like father like son
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump-jr/
It’s just plain, old-fashioned, rudeness. The digital devolution is supposed to have given us more leisure to be with friends but now we meet for coffee, sit down together, and check our e-mail and other “social” media on our stupidphones, willfully and rudely ignoring each other. The more social media we have, the less social life we have. The “World Wide Web” has narrowed our perspective and enabled us to become obsessed with ourselves in an orgasmic explosion of narcissism. No wonder that Herr Drumpf is the man of the hour: he’s the poster child for unrequited self-love.
I’ll turn my back on both candidates, but I won’t take selfies.
@mlincoln–2008 turn your back on Trump and you cast a de facto vote for Hillary…….. you really want to do that? I’d rather you take a few selfies and vote than sit home.
@xkman1968
All I said was that I wouldn’t take a selfie with either candidate if the opportunity presented itself.
This campaign has boiled down to “choose your poison,” featuring the worst pair of major candidates presented to the electorate in my lifetime. One is better than the other–but not by much.
Some elections people save their campaign buttons, and slogan stickers, not this one.