Sunday, July 12, 2009

Snap!

The picture going the rounds of President Obama apparently eyeing up a young girl's bottom (and to be fair, it was a bottom well worth eyeing up!) just goes to show - if it needed to be said - that you should never trust a still photograph. If you watch the video footage from which the still was taken, you will see that he was doing nothing of the sort. I am always suspicious when a photograph is published which appears to back up a story - particularly when it's about a person's mood or state of mind. A snapshot of an instant in time is just that - without knowledge of what went before, or what came after, it provides no basis for making any sort of rational judgment.

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