Newt and Callista Gingrich’s Smiley Auschwitz Photo Is No Fluke

[MrScorpio]

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/01/Newt-and-Callista-Gingrichs-Smiley-Auschwitz-Photo-Is-No-Fluke

The Atlantic unearthed a picture of Newt Gingrich and his third wife, Callista, posing arm in arm in front of Auschwitz. “Newt is wearing his default smirk,” the magazine observes, and says “there is something distinctly off about these tourist-style shots in front of the Nazi death-camp.” It’s not actually that strange: exhaustive research reveals that the Gingrichs often pose—in the same outfits and with these same facial expressions, in fact!—at the sites of many of the world’s great tragedies.

[babylonsister]

1. Just too, too creepy for me. nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. I don't know what's worse taste: the original photo

or the attempt to make a meme out of it.

Everybody involved with this fails.

[deutsey]

6. I agree n/t

[Happyhippychick]

3. Absolutely tasteless

[gordianot]

4. Unreal! n/t

[LeftofObama]

5. As much as I can't stand Gingrich (or any other republican)

This looks photo shopped to me.

[MrScorpio]

9. So not shopped

http://www.gingrichproductions.com/index.php?option=com_expose&album=25&photo=47&playslideshow=yes

[gateley]

17. Sure looks shopped -- if it came from Gingrich, it's not impossible he shopped them

himself (or his minions or whomever).

Regardless, the photos @ the link are shopped and although some think they're in poor taste, I think they show how clueless Newt really is.

Just can't get over this one, though - I'm not saying they wouldn't have their tourist photos taken, just that it LOOKS so fake, you know?

[joeybee12]

20. Not shopped...look and Newt and calista's shoes...

They are slightly covered in dust from the stones...not shopped or the world's best photoshop EVER!!!

[madokie]

7. Are women so hard up that they have no choice

other than to marry a dick like newtie

[Gold Metal Flake]

15. Birds of a feather, Mad.

She is there by choice.

[CJvR]

8. So?

Is a depression mandatory before visiting the place?

Looks like a regular vacation photo, couple with silly grin in odd locations.

[hobbit709]

10. When I was 8, My parents took me to Dachau

My dad was in the Army stationed in Munich at the time. I didn't really understand what it was all about, but I could sense the evil that happened there.

[izquierdista]

13. It's a mandatory tourist stop in Poland

All the times I've gone to Poland, I've managed to evade it, but it took some effort. IMHO, they have turned Oswiecim into the Disneyland of Death.

[treestar]

18. Haven't thought about it before, but if I were there

I would take photos of the place, but not pose in front of it.

[originalpckelly]

11. Actually Callista is technically frowning...

it's just that the autosmiler that most pols have built didn't respond correctly for the situation. Must have been some kind of cellphone near by, as Newties appears to be malfunctioning as well.

[Erose999]

12. I think her face has been botoxed to the point where she can't frown. And if you think about Newt's

speech in which he called for schools to institute child labor... I mean the words on that gate "work makes one free" are pretty much what he was saying.

[COLGATE4]

14. The all black almost SS outfits are stunning, too.

[Motown_Johnny]

16. photo shop rules

[Javaman]

19. the gingrich creepy meme. nt