New Scandal Rocks Washington

[EarlG]

The teabaggers are freaking over an umbrella

[JaneyVee]

1. Oh this is good! Allow me to add:

Just to make conservatives heads explode!

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Include this one!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022857332

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Those things are best left to professionals

They can be deadly in the hands of a klutz.

[JHB]

5. Do you have a version without the big cat?

[Cirque du So-What]

13. What? And revise history?

Oh, well, if you insist...

[Segami]

19. LOL!!!

[sybylla]

4. How dare a white man be asked...

To hold an umbrella for a black man. At least that's what I'm getting from the ridiculous outrage.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

20. !!! :-)

You just KNOW that's the problem.

[SQUEE]

6. Meh, it defies standard protocol and precedence .. But as CIC he can do that.

I dislike it because it makes him look weak.

[LeftinOH]

7. Here's a Bush under an umbrella:

[Cha]

8. Yeah, poor palin.. it's gotta hurt. st ronnie! rofl

President Obama checks to see if he still needs the umbrella held by a U.S. Marine during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 16

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/16/this-and-that-75/

thanks for the umbrella pics EarlG

[Rex]

16. I love it!

If that marine was not required to stay emotionless, I bet he would have a smile on his face. You can tell the POTUS doesn't want him holding the umbrella over his head.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Looks like a cushy job to me.

I spent a lot of time marching, digging holes to shit in, polishing everything, and saluting idiots when I was in the Marine Crotch, but holding umbrellas for big shots? I woulda signed up for that bit of high living.

[MineralMan]

10. Well, it appears that elected Presidents have

people to hold their umbrellas. Maybe if Sarah Palin got elected, she'd get the same treatment.

She's just jealous.

[MineralMan]

11. Here's the whole photo, by the way:

Note that it isn't just the President who has a Marine holding an umbrella over his head. Heads of state get that kind of treatment, it seems. It's a matter of respect.

[LeftInTX]

15. Oh noooes!!! Now our Marines are holding umbrellas for Mooslums!!!!!

Oh the Fauxrage!!!!!

[MineralMan]

17. I had to dig for that photo. The cropped one is the only one

that seems to appear on rightwing sites. And, yes, that other man is a Muslim, to be sure. Prime Minister of Turkey, in fact, one of our countries allies.

I didn't see the one of the Alter Bush, though. That one's excellent.

[LeftInTX]

18. The RW will create a scandal out of someone breathing!!

[Rex]

14. After seeing the picture finally, I know what the true outrage is about.

I should have known.

[Scurrilous]

21. LOL

[Solly Mack]

22. K&R

[Jenoch]

23. I don't know the rules regarding Marines

and umbrellas. I do know that the only photos of marines holding umbrellas is the recent photo with President Obama.