Hillary Clinton and Audrey Tomason are MIA!!!
It is the image that has come to define a pivotal point in history, capturing the moment the deadly raid on Osama Bin Laden’s lair was watched in awe by the White House elite. But it appears for one U.S. newspaper, a couple of the people sat with President Barack Obama in the Situation Room that day were not quite elite enough.
Brooklyn-based Hasidic newspaper Der Zeitung printed a story this week with a subtly manipulated version of the historic image – all the men in the photograph remain untouched but the two women in the picture have been Photoshopped out.
It is thought the newspaper, which is written in Yiddish and serves a small part of the area’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, removed the women because of religious issues regarding female modesty.While Mrs Clinton is dressed in the picture in a full jacket, wearing a top beneath that covers her almost right up to her neck, the newspaper never intentionally prints any images of women at all in case they could be considered sexually suggestive. More critical observers suggest the women have been edited by Der Zeitung, which translates as ‘The Time’, because of an ideological objection to women holding positions of power.
Subtly manipulated with scissors I presume. Start the invasion of Brooklyn!
Bin Laden killed by Seal Team Six.
The words Seal and Team have four letters each, totaling 8.
The Word Six has three letters in it, exactly half of 6.
Three plus eight equals 11.
So the total of Seal Team Six, 11, in front of 6 looks like this, 116, or 911 flipped 180 degrees counterclockwise, if you will.
Spooky shit you can’t make up.
Religious extremists always think themselves more rational, reasonable, and better persons than the majority population who do not share their views.
They do not think it is odd that most people, outside their ?-like existance, do not share their views because everyone outside their narrow religious world isn’t intelligent enough to be enlightened by the truth.
Some people seem filled with a religious feeling, and may not fit the pattern I’m claiming. That seems something different.
The self isolation that extremists exhibit is, IMO, a evolutionary hold over that protects some people from illness that fester in communities that are open to interaction across a wide social ranges or communities.
nope, they still wrote about women and had women user submitted stories. just no pictures of them. sometimes it was insane and my team of designers would fight against it or ask to use other photos. when haiti was hit by the earthquake a picture had about 20 women in it that they wanted removed. we opted for a different picture. ridiculous eh?
nicktherat,
Thanks for the explanation.
I’m a religious person, myself, and am always trying to understand theology or moral framework beneath actions.
What is it about women that this religious movement doesn’t want to be exposed to?
I assume it’s a sexual thing. Are women considered dirty, or what?
In Jerusalem, women are restricted to their own, barricaded portion of the “Wailing Wall”. By religious tradition, women cannot pray at the wall alongside the males.
The original photo was also doctored. Here’s what the photographer shot:
Found by Mr. Kevin via here
On the one hand, I’m no feminist, but it seems a bit much to PhotoChop out all the women in a pic. On the other hand, it makes me not have to look at Hillary. I’m torn! (rimshot) Can I get an Amen? NOT EVEN ONE?!?
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Thanks nicktherat for helping us understand whats up with these folks.
I’ll add it to other religious oddities I just don’t get
I was jut going to type out a list but then realized it would be too long.
All the Abrahamic religions treat women as property and something to be controlled, for lack of a better term for it. Females in both Islam and Judaism are not to be seen by anyone but their husband. True Hasidic females wear wigs and clothing that covers them up completely when out in public.
And in the Christian denominations, if one of those denominations has rules regarding modesty and dress, it is only females that have to abide with those rules, as is witnessed by Mennonite and Amish women with their plain print dresses, hair caps and lack of makeup of any sort, and the more conservative Mormon women with their plain colored garments, and other examples.
All this while the males in each of these religions have NO rules regarding outward appearance or dress at all, except for the Mennonite and Amish which require a man to grow a beard once he gets married. It’s all pure sexism, tribalism, whatever you want to call it, and comes straight from ancient times.
Newspaper photos of female politicians never enticed me, but when I was a lad I found the women’s underwear section of the Sears Roebuck catalog fun to look at.
Does that make me a religious extremist?
The whole photo is as phony as the Osama raid itself. The Situation Room photos and video were staged to make it look like the Obama admin was watching the raid when in reality Panetta says there was no live feed. The whole thing is nonsense and propaganda. Of course…if Hilary Clinton’s name – or any Clinton – is associated with something, it’s GOT to be a lie.
Osama Bin Dead for Years: People like you would take a look at the Zapruder film of Kennedy’s assassination and say sometime in the time span where the car went behind the highway sign and reappearing and when the front of Kennedy’s skull was blown off, that that wasn’t really Kennedy. While the car was behind the sign a switch was made and a cadaver or something was shot up, and that Kennedy has been alive all these years, secretly running our government all the while. Good grief. I am just amazed at the lengths some people will go to to not believe anything they see.
# 14 nicktherat “seeing images of women might turn men into raging perverts”
Reminds me an old Jewish joke. Too long to recount here but you can read one version at: http://ebaumsworld.com/jokes/read/23212
When I started my internship it was on Long Island, NY. For a boy raised in the west, the Jewish cultures were a puzzlement. My best friend for about 30 years is a Brooklyn Jew married to a Mexican Catholic. Oye!
But, eventually, I learned to cope. For instance, put enough horseradish on it and even gefilte fish is edible…
nick–I’d love to take the commute with you a few times–ever come back via the 287? I spent a wonderful day in Sleepy Hollow and thought it was almost magical. Can you tell I’ve spent too much time where its flat, brown, and no river? All kinds of possible side trips coming and going.
Animby–looks like the Calvinists, Lutherans, and Methodists reworked that joke to remove any joy at all. No dancing, no holding, no touching, no sex at all except to reproduce. I thought it was some Jewish sect that only allowed sex thru the hole in a sheet or blanket? Was that just for the wedding night or all the time?
Ha, ha. Take what little joy and comfort there is in this world and CRUSH IT!!!!!!!
Yea, verily. Just heard on tv that one of the great gifts of John Paul was that he taught the world how to “suffer.” No shit. Don’t know if that will count as one of his miracles, or its just extra credit.
You can’t make this stuff up.
I wonder if Bill is trying to hire these guys to paintbrush her out of his life.
#34 – Bobbo:
Thank god for John Paul. The world used to be such a happy place.
Disgusting.
Ooooh! I get such funny FEELINGS sometimes. It must be the women’s fault — it can’t possibly in any way be caused by anything in ME!!! Therefore all women are HARLOTS and their SHAME must be COVERED!
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This is a form of mental illness. Unfortunately, it is one that has been institutionalized into many, if not most, religions.
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“It might lead to DANCING!”
Essentially the same joke is told in the South about certain Baptist sects, along with “Might as well — can’t dance.”
Come to think of it, isn’t one of Mother Teresa’s gifts to the world also the lesson of suffering? Dignity in suffering? Faith in suffering?
Dogma. The joy of being awake and comatose at the same time.
All the men in the picture were retouched to show an extra rib.
# 37 Uncle Patso “a form of mental illness… institutionalized into … religions.”
Mental illness? How can they be ill? they are just following the word of god! Are you saying god is a psycho?
I will pray for you.