We often do not think about our tweets and Snapchats reaching anyone besides our friends and followers, and certainly not news outlets with wide circulation like BuzzFeed. The paper’s editorial board wrote: “The motivation to take these pictures was obvious: Being at a party with the president’s daughter was an exciting, unexpected moment that many of us wanted to share with our friends. One problem we aren’t fully addressing in the Sasha and Malia leaks are that a lot of them seem to be coming from the girls’ inner circles.Īfter the Brown incident, Malia received an apology via The Brown Daily Herald.
But there will always be those types of hypocrites eager to feast on others for page views. Unfortunately, we now live in a time where right-wing vultures who refer to themselves as “reporters” spend their time hunting for any behavior from the left that they can judge and deem “inappropriate”-which is ironic given their decided lack of reporting on the actual hateful rhetoric of many right-wing media figures and our own president. What it all boils down to is: When are we gonna leave these girls alone? It’s similar to the right-wing’s persecution of her older sister, Malia, where so-called reporters have stalked her at parties to get photos of her drinking and having fun. The picture, of course, has gone wide-along with the misguided notion that the Obamas are bad parents for letting their 16-year-old daughter kiss a boy at a music festival. This weekend, at Chicago’s annual Lollapalooza music festival, Sasha was pictured kissing a young man named Matt Metzler. Unsurprisingly, all bets are off when it comes to Malia and Sasha Obama.
“Leave the children out of political discourse” is a common refrain whenever the children of politicians are attacked or otherwise maligned in the media.