Hil's too sexy for this pic, Sec of State's gonna leave me.

Cropping a picture is not the same as photoshopping out a person in the middle of a picture. Obviously, a photograph doesn’t show every thing in a room. If it’s cropped to show somewhat less, it’s not making any assertion about what’s left out.

Besides, who has religious objections to seeing Joe Biden’s image?

That should be (D-Pakistan). No wonder Fox won’t hire you.

Anyone who ever went to church with him, and now wants to deny ever knowing him?

You are going to have to be a bit more explicit with your innuendos. Who, what church, where, and WTF?

Well, I was only throwing out a hypothetical on who might. I don’t know where or if he ever went to church, or why someone there might not like him anymore. Maybe it had something to do with him snoring in the pews? :smiley:

Hasidic Jewish men.

A cropped image can be unethical if it’s trying to distort the reality of the situation by purposefully cropping an important element out, whether that element is cropped out in-camera or after-the-fact. This is not one of those situations, in my opinion, but I did want to note that the mere act of cropping can certainly be as unethical as Photoshopping out a person.

Since you’re in contact with him, could you inquire why they went to the effort of photoshopping in empty chairs rather than blurring/pixelating the women or cropping the photo?

I suppose pixelating works for guys that are good looking, but if you’re ugly, you kinda have to go for flat out drunk.

These croppings are unethical because they detract from Hillary’s significance. She is an important part of the staff. She is part of the inner circle . Yet she gets erased due to some atavistic religious concept. It diminishes her. If you continually remove women from pictures that show them with power, you eventually think women are not part of the power in government. She is specifically diminished and women in general are too.

Sorry for being unclear. I was talking about the (facetious) comment about the cropped Biden photo. Hillary wasn’t cropped; she was Photoshopped out. Of course that’s unethical–there’s no question whatsoever on that.

See, there you run the risk of some enterprising young Hasid figuring out how to unblur or reassemble the pixels, gazing upon Hillary, and being overcome with lust.

(In my youth, it was sticking a nail into the underside of the cable box at just the right angle to unscramble the Playboy Channel.)

Hmmm… I wonder if young Hasids have an angle you could stick a nail in to unscramble them?

Probably not.

YEEEEEEEEEEES!! Omg that’s so awful considering what they’re watching but it’s just so damn funny! Look at Obama! HA!

A couple of more altered versions of the picture

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Three

There’s one with all the men edited out, but I can’t find it.

This one?

Dunno. I get a message saying “Forbidden” and I can’t see it.

Cut and paste the URL back into the address bar, and it’ll work for you.

Just go up to your address bar and hit enter again. Worked for me. Or cut and paste the link into another tab.

Yeah, that’s the one. Saw it on Maddow last night.