Posted on 04/13/2014 1:28:59 PM PDT by neverdem
Now that we know that Presidential spokesman Jay Carney and his wife, ABC correspondent Claire Shipman decorate their house with Soviet art, it is time to take a look at exactly which messages the DC power couple choose to surround themselves and their children with.
First, take a look at the photograph provided by the Washingtonian Magazine, and annotated by The Week:
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No, but I do have a collection of us, Brit, and Russian posters. They are in albums in my office. I live in a predominantly Jewish town. It would be insane for me to hang anything nazi on my wall.
“”Do they run a bakery out of their home?””
My first thought was who on earth has that much bread or pastry for breakfast??
I think it has to do with the “presentation.” I would probably enquire about why they had them up. If the answer was “ we met in Moscow when we were assigned there,” that would be an OK answer.
I mean they are not Lenin or Marx.
For some reason I can’t help but think that there is not only propaganda in the background but that the entire picture is staged. Bedclothes to neat, makeup just right, lighting just perfect, flipping egg over the floor and not the stove, etc., etc..
I agree.
But this is the guys house. What he does in his house is his own business. In his office? Different altogether. And I always thought his wife was cute.
Because in utopia everyone will live as they do; nevermind the gulags that history predicts.
We can agree on all that, FRiend!
Like The Good,Little “Alinskyites” They Are,They Start On Their Kids As Early As Possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My MIL who now lives with us will be 100 next month. Her father was a German Mennonite farmer in Ukraine and left to study in Berlin just a short time before the country was communized. After a short hiatus in Berlin, the family (he had married in Ukraine a widowed English woman with 4 children, had another in Russia, and one more born in Berlin {my MIL}) they were forced to leave again (WWI was breaking out) and went to England, then found a relative to support their immigration to America.
Years later he found out his entire family of 13 siblings had either been shot or sent to Siberia-the males shot, the females exiled.
It was common before WWI, apparently, for all males to join the army for a certain amount of time-2 years I think. The Mennonites would not carry arms and were allowed to serve in the Forestry Service instead.
My MIL can keep me on the edge of my seat with her memories.
It is as phony as the people in it.
Note the photoshopped duplicate books and the piece of the photoshopped finger.
See the original full size here: http://tinyurl.com/TheCommieFamilyAtHome
“I am as red white and blue as the next guy. I find a lot of WWII posters to be fascinating. Including German and Russian propaganda. Doesn’t make me a nazi or a commie.”
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To pile on to Cyber Liberty’s question…
“It’s one thing to put up Communist propaganda posters in your dorm room or your sixth-floor, walk-up flat that you share with your roommate, but there’s something messed up about using that to decorate a family kitchen.”
Mom and kiddies wear starched PJs which is not so proletarian.
Poached eggs in the foreground, flap-jacks stacked a mile high and plenty of bread, strawberries and mountain of croissants - just like the kitchens in the former Soviet era - the yoke’s on you.
And . . . “reasonable people agree.”
Pics were totally staged and photoshopped
You can show just about anything on basic cable
Agreed
When I was growing up in the Maryland suburbs, in the 70s, there were more than a few families with Russian names. Certainly there were those families that all-American and were spies, but I wonder how many others were hiding in plain site?
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