{"id":15480,"date":"2013-12-11T19:26:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T00:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15480"},"modified":"2013-12-11T19:26:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T00:26:50","slug":"selfies-at-memorial-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/11\/selfies-at-memorial-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Selfies At Memorial Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many ironies to be discussed in this blog post, I am not sure I can count them all.<\/p>\n<p>The email from Comedy Central was titled <em>Selfies at Funerals<\/em>.&nbsp; Well, first of all, it was not a funeral.&nbsp; It was a memorial celebration of Nelson Mandela&#8217;s life.&nbsp; That&#8217;s why I gave this blog the title that I did.<\/p>\n<p>The actual segment of&nbsp; The Daily Show seems to be titled &#8220;Tuesdays with Mourning&#8221;.&nbsp; I am not sure this is a better description of what the affair was all about.&nbsp; Be that as it may, below is the video of the actual segment of the show.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:431124\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The well written remarks by Jon Stewart were aimed at the silly media and political response that I predicted in my previous blog post <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/10\/obama-shakes-hands-with-cubas-raul-castro\/\" title=\"Previous Post\" target=\"_blank\">Obama shakes hands with Cuba\u2019s Raul Castro<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The final few seconds of video shows Jon Stewart having the same type of overblown, silly reaction to the &#8220;selfie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose this segment was aired before the publication of the USA Today article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/theoval\/2013\/12\/11\/obama-barack-michelle-david-cameron-helle-thorning-schmidt\/3985867\/\" title=\"USA Today article\" target=\"_blank\">Photographer: Mrs. Obama not upset over selfie<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe photographer who took the viral picture of President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;selfie&#8221; with two other world leaders says Michelle Obama&#8217;s expression has been distorted.<\/p>\n<p>The AFP picture \u2014 shot Tuesday at Nelson Mandela&#8217;s memorial service \u2014 shows Obama posing with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt, and Mrs. Obama off to the side with a disapproving look.<\/p>\n<p>But, as AFP&#8217;s Roberto Schmidt pointed out in a blog, &#8220;photos can lie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Writes Schmidt: &#8220;In reality, just a few seconds earlier the first lady was herself joking with those around her, Cameron and Schmidt included. Her stern look was captured by chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt also discloses that Thorning Schmidt, the Danish prime minister, produced the smartphone in which the selfie is now presumably stored.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine any more twists to this story, but I won&#8217;t be entirely surprised if this story has more legs than a millipede.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many ironies to be discussed in this blog post, I am not sure I can count them all. 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