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What’s Wrong With This Picture (Literally)?

Via Jewish Week (and originally noticed last week by the blog Failed Messiah), the iconic photo of President Obama’s team getting an update on the Bin Laden raid has received a photoshop job that may become almost as iconic. Someone at the Haredi newspaper Der Zeitung, a Brooklyn-based publication which “will not intentionally include any images of women in the paper because it could be considered sexually suggestive,” decided that there was too much Hillary Clinton in the photo, so:

This isn’t the first time something like this has come up, nor the first country. In 2009 a couple of Israeli Orthodox newspapers doctored a photo of Netanyahu’s new cabinet to remove the female members.

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