The Carney Family's Photoshopping Fail

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

This really shouldn't be news, but this stuff is just so easily avoided, and it gives fuel to the right.  If the Press Secretary is going to be on board with Photoshopping his house to make it look like he has more books, why should people trust him on important stuff?

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The finger is probably the best one.  I mean, if you're going to Photoshop, at least put some effort into it.

[badgate]

Maybe they have a sculpture of a naked woman, made out of uranium, which was just too heavy for them to pick it up and move it for the photo.

[Indy Texas]

How many Americans actually fill all the bookshelves in their library/study?

My parents have a family friend who is a realtor and also stages homes for sale who says she often buys hardcover books on the cheap from used bookstores, gets rid of the dustjackets and artfully arranges them on bookshelves in houses she's trying to sell because the people who live there usually don't have any on there apart from a handful of gaudy, candy-colored mass-market paperbacks that they bought to read by the pool on vacation.

When I was little, I remember my grandparents' house (my mother's childhood home) having the library filled with these leather-bound, gold-leaf books. Apparently, some encyclopedia company years ago used to sell this "great books" set that was like every significant work of Western and Classical literature, philosophy and history. I'm not sure anyone ever actually read them and I think it was one of those things people would buy to make their friends and neighbors think they were a lot more educated and sophisticated than they actually were.

[MurrayBannerman]

How many Americans actually fill all the bookshelves in their library/study?

My parents have a family friend who is a realtor and also stages homes for sale who says she often buys hardcover books on the cheap from used bookstores, gets rid of the dustjackets and artfully arranges them on bookshelves in houses she's trying to sell because the people who live there usually don't have any on there apart from a handful of gaudy, candy-colored mass-market paperbacks that they bought to read by the pool on vacation.

When I was little, I remember my grandparents' house (my mother's childhood home) having the library filled with these leather-bound, gold-leaf books. Apparently, some encyclopedia company years ago used to sell this "great books" set that was like every significant work of Western and Classical literature, philosophy and history. I'm not sure anyone ever actually read them and I think it was one of those things people would buy to make their friends and neighbors think they were a lot more educated and sophisticated than they actually were.

It's something that I would like to do. Whether I actually do it is a whole different thing.

[Lief 🗽]

It seems like the fail belongs to the magazine and not the Carneys, no?

[DrScholl]

Somehow, I have a sneaking suspicion that Carney did not photoshop this himself....

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

It seems like the fail belongs to the magazine and not the Carneys, no?

I'm sure they consented or were at least privy to it.

[Simfan34]

How many Americans actually fill all the bookshelves in their library/study?

I do!

[Deus Naturae]

If you want to talk about giving fuel to the right, just take a look at this.

[AggregateDemand]

This belongs on Sean Hannity's show. I'm not sure sane people really care.

[Zioneer]

Who honestly cares about the Carneys?

[Indy Texas]

If you want to talk about giving fuel to the right, just take a look at this.

Yes, because one has to agree with every single element of context a work of art was produced in in order to have justification for owning and displaying it. The sort of people upset by this are the same sort of people who think Thomas Kinkade paintings qualify as art.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

If you want to talk about giving fuel to the right, just take a look at this.

Yes, because one has to agree with every single element of context a work of art was produced in in order to have justification for owning and displaying it. The sort of people upset by this are the same sort of people who think Thomas Kinkade paintings qualify as art.

Well, I mean, the originals... And why are you hating on my parents anyway?

My main point of criticism would be that they didn't even choose cool Soviet propaganda, which I'm quite sure exists. Instead they went for that trash.

[Bacon King]

Yeah I don't think Carney had any say in what the Washingtonian Mom photo editor did with pictures taken by the Washingtonian Mom photographer

[Simfan34]

Guys, I think it's still okay for a Democratic politician to do something stupid every once in a while, no? I mean, this forum has mocked Republicans for lesser mishaps. It's meaningless silliness, and that's fine... right? Or am I wrong?

[Badger]

Guys, I think it's still okay for a Democratic politician to do something stupid every once in a while, no? I mean, this forum has mocked Republicans for lesser mishaps. It's meaningless silliness, and that's fine... right? Or am I wrong?

Not at all! There would've been no reaction whatsoever if this had occurred with someone in W's administration.

[DINGO Joe]

This belongs on Sean Hannity's show. I'm not sure sane people really care.

Clearly you haven't been watching Hannity lately, it's all T&A now.

[Simfan34]

Guys, I think it's still okay for a Democratic politician to do something stupid every once in a while, no? I mean, this forum has mocked Republicans for lesser mishaps. It's meaningless silliness, and that's fine... right? Or am I wrong?

Not at all! There would've been no reaction whatsoever if this had occurred with someone in W's administration.

Well, no reaction sans today's Atlas Forum.

[Bacon King]

Has anyone else looked at the actual article? This botched edit job is the least ghastly thing about it.

I skimmed through it, my impression was that it was mostly shilling her new book