While world leaders gathered in celebration of the life of South
Africa’s Nelson Mandela, social media seemed more interested in a selfie
and a soap opera in the stands.
U.S. President Barack Obama managed to upstage his own universally
praised speech about Mandela Tuesday not once, but twice, with pictures
taken in the stands at FNB stadium.
First there was a picture of Obama shaking hands with Cuba President
Raul Castro. Then was the superpower selfie taken by Danish Prime
Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt with a smiling Obama and British Prime
Minister David Cameron.
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While some on social media said it was inappropriate to take such as
picture at a memorial, many others focused on U.S. First Lady Michelle
Obama, who was sitting to the right of the president, wearing a grim
look on her face.
While she appears to be facing the centre of the stadium, headlines
and tweets were focused on her unimpressed look in comparison to the
smiling world leaders next to her.
Comic Rob Delaney called the photo gallery the “funniest 3-panel comic in history.”
The later photo shows the Obamas have switched seats, with the first
lady sitting next to the Danish prime minister and the president looking
ahead sombrely. The president got up to leave and when he did, Michelle
Obama could be seen chatting with Thorning-Schmidt.
A headline at Gawker blared “Obama in the Doghouse After Taking
Too-Friendly Selfie with Danish PM” and linked to the photo gallery.
Buzzfeed asked “Is this the most important selfie of 2013?”
Thorning-Schmidt, 46, has been prime minister of Denmark for just
over two years and is married with two children. On her Facebook page,
one commenter suggested she was not being respectful of Mandela by
taking the picture.
Telegraph writer Iain Martin said the photo was uncouth and not worthy of good English manners.
“In all manner of jobs and professions are people who would not
behave like Obama and Cameron did today on work time, partly because
they just wouldn’t. And partly because they know that they might get
fired for tweeting a grinning selfie from inside the recently-departed
CEO’s memorial service,” he wrote.
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This is bullshit! People who don't have any work are making up things. The woman was just being herself and people are insinuating rubbish.
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