Out of Pocket: Major Newspaper Runs ‘First Girls’ Picture with Murdered Children Story

Posted by Bossip Staff

Washington Times ran a story talking about murdered children, but for some reason the picture they used in the story was the President’s daughters:

On Wednesday, a story in the Washington Times about murdered Chicago schoolchildren was inexplicably paired with a photo of President Obama’s daughters. The two girls are not mentioned in the story, and aside from having at one point been schoolchildren in Chicago have no conceivable connection to it.

The Obama children, of course, are not actually mentioned in the news story. But somebody at the WashTimes thought it made perfect sense to insert the image of the underage White House occupants into a story about murdered kids in Chicago. And no, this was not an example of an unfortunate juxtaposition, where the the Obama girls photo was actually part of another, more innocuous story and because of a layout quirk simply appeared near the murdered-kids story. Instead, the Obama girls photo was specifically selected to accompany the article.

The photo was later taken down.

Funny, the Bush’s daughters didn’t see as much airtime as these two dolls. People are getting out of hand with her exploitation, unlike the Obama guy in the spoof, Blame It On.

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