The man on the left with the wandering hand is Jon Favreau, Obama's golden boy speechwriter (yes that is bitterness you discern), at a recent party. The Washington Post turned up this photo right before it and just about every other photo of Favreau was taken down from Facebook and MySpace. Favreau has apologised. Clinton's spokesman has responded in good humour:
"Senator Clinton is pleased to learn of Jon's obvious interest in the State Department, and is currently reviewing his application."
Nicely done. Though I wonder how they would have responded had this happened during the primaries...
I find the outcry and general denouncement of the fellow to be intriguing; apparently the crowd wailing over the objectification of a former presidential candidate via a hand upon the cardboard breast missed the ObamaGirl diaries entirely.
On the other hand, I suspect Favreau in fact to favor the fellows himself. Eternally impeccably-dressed, no girlfriend, well-kempt, and well-versed in the themes of prejudice? Not automatic qualifiers, of course, but it does quirk one's eyebrow (as well as beg the Seinfeild invocation of "Not that there's anything wrong with that!") Were one to choose the conspiratorial lens to view this through, it'd be possible that of all the photos of Favreau scrubbed from the internet, this one was left to dispell just such suspicions.
Or he just got trashed and felt up a cardboard cutout, like one does in one's twenties.
The era of Facebook, though, is going to transform the role of embarrassing photos - either they will become a null point, or a gold standard. I'm looking forward to seeing which way it goes myself.
Posted by: Ah, Youth | December 06, 2008 at 08:27 PM