While Egypt burns, White House tweets photo of Biden and a camel

While Egypt burns, White House tweets photo of Biden and a camel

Lool at the putz on that camel
“Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?” — VP Joe Biden to parents of SEAL killed in Benghazi.

Barack Obama has to stop making it this easy; takes all the fun out of it.

The Washington Times notes that on Wednesday, as the death count in Cairo was rising (by day’s end 327 people lau dead), the White House paid tribute to “Hump Day,” with a photo of Vice President Joe Biden posing next to a camel. (Biden is the one on the right, in case you weren’t sure.)

As though this weren’t enough, Obama’s handlers also posted an animated .GIF to its Tumblr blog showing the vice president sharing a guffaw with the ungulate. Two hours later, the administration caught up with the grim reality here on planet earth and began tweeting about the violence in Egypt.

But the decision to post the camel picture brought much tsk-tsking from both sides of the political spectrum. Elise Foley of Huffington Post tweeted, “Go home, @whitehouse, you’re drunk.” National Review editor Charles C.W. Cooke messaged, “Obama is so much like Lincoln,” while another user wrote, “Massacre in Egypt. Hyper-sensitive @whitehouse tweets picture of Biden with a camel.”

Once the White House managed to shake off the sillies, it offered condolences to the families of those who had been killed. In a statement, the administration said:

The world is watching what is happening in Cairo. We urge the government of Egypt — and all parties in Egypt — to refrain from violence and resolve their differences peacefully.

Sources tell me that if you pulled the message’s finger, it broke wind, but this claim has yet to be substantiated.

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Howard Portnoy

Howard Portnoy

Howard Portnoy has written for The Blaze, HotAir, NewsBusters, Weasel Zippers, Conservative Firing Line, RedCounty, and New York’s Daily News. He has one published novel, Hot Rain, (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), and has been a guest on Radio Vice Online with Jim Vicevich, The Alana Burke Show, Smart Life with Dr. Gina, and The George Espenlaub Show.

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