http://gawker.com/anatomy-of-a-right-wing-bill-clinton-meme-1672708883
If you travel in certain GOP-centric lanes of the internet, you may have recently come across the above image macro, whose jumbled message depends on awareness of Bill Clinton's reputation as a lecher, resentment of the rape accusations against Bill Cosby, and the apophenic close-reading presumption that it's significant that both are named "Bill C." Let's break it down.
On Tuesday, BuzzFeed reporter Andrew Kaczynski tweeted a photo of Clinton alongside Andrea and Margo Catsimatidis, the daughter and wife on John Catsimatidis—longtime Clinton donor, former Republican New York City mayoral candidate, radio host, and owner and CEO of the supermarket chain Gristedes. The group was apparently posing at a Clinton Foundation dinner at 30 Rockefeller Plaza's Rainbow Room.
Clinton is standing off behind Andrea Catsimatidis with his hand on her arm, and despite how much of the photo's visual field is taken up by cleavage, his gaze is directed firmly at the camera. Neither Catsimatidis is visibly uncomfortable.
Eight minutes later, National Review Online digital director Benny Johnson tweeted the same photo, but with Margo Catsimatidis cropped out, captioned "Photo of the day." Get it? Andrea Catsimatidis has boobs, and Bill Clinton once got in trouble for sex stuff. Johnson is a former colleague of Kaczynski's, and was fired from BuzzFeed for plagiarizing from over 30 different sources in his articles. His version of the photo was retweeted upwards of 2,500 times.
If you travel in certain GOP-centric lanes of the internet, you may have recently come across the above image macro, whose jumbled message depends on awareness of Bill Clinton's reputation as a lecher, resentment of the rape accusations against Bill Cosby, and the apophenic close-reading presumption that it's significant that both are named "Bill C." Let's break it down.
On Tuesday, BuzzFeed reporter Andrew Kaczynski tweeted a photo of Clinton alongside Andrea and Margo Catsimatidis, the daughter and wife on John Catsimatidis—longtime Clinton donor, former Republican New York City mayoral candidate, radio host, and owner and CEO of the supermarket chain Gristedes. The group was apparently posing at a Clinton Foundation dinner at 30 Rockefeller Plaza's Rainbow Room.
Clinton is standing off behind Andrea Catsimatidis with his hand on her arm, and despite how much of the photo's visual field is taken up by cleavage, his gaze is directed firmly at the camera. Neither Catsimatidis is visibly uncomfortable.
Eight minutes later, National Review Online digital director Benny Johnson tweeted the same photo, but with Margo Catsimatidis cropped out, captioned "Photo of the day." Get it? Andrea Catsimatidis has boobs, and Bill Clinton once got in trouble for sex stuff. Johnson is a former colleague of Kaczynski's, and was fired from BuzzFeed for plagiarizing from over 30 different sources in his articles. His version of the photo was retweeted upwards of 2,500 times.
