Question No. 63 asks that applicants "please provide any other information ... that could ... be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect."
For a while there this afternoon, President-elect Barack Obama's immensely talented chief speechwriter, 27-year-old Jon Favreau, might have been pondering how to address that question.
That's when some interesting photos of a recent party he attended -- including one where he's dancing with a life-sized cardboard cut-out of secretary of state-designate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and another where he's placed his hand on the cardboard former first lady's chest while a friend is offering her lips a beer -- popped up on Facebook for about two hours. The photos were quickly taken down -- along with every other photo Favreau had of himself on the popular social networking site, save for one profile headshot.
Asked about the photos, Favreau, who was recently appointed director of speechwriting for the White House, declined comment. A transition official said that Favreau had "reached out to Senator Clinton to offer an apology."
As the picture shows, he did do some reaching out...
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- AwesomeJosh
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It's so good to see the Obama team getting over the past and enthusiastically take hold of the idea of Clinton as an ally. Grasping this concept is tough for some, but it seems a sense of openness is characteristic of the team. Grope.
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- InformedTexan
- 12 months ago
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Ahahaha- Seriously just made my day.
No disrespect to Hillary or anything, but this is just a blatant indication of loss privacy through social networking.Your business is everyone's business, even if your writing speeches.
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How many beers do you have to have to want to grope Hillary?
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Wait, all this time I thought his speechwriter also made Swingers and Iron Man. Dammit!
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- bobdobalina
- 12 months ago
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Hahaha, that picture is hilarious.
I hope he doesn't get too much shit for this and Clinton forgives him. It's a pretty innocent thing, obviously just a joke.
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- DeliaTheArtist
- 12 months ago
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Oh, S-nap!
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- ButchersDaughter
- 12 months ago
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Oh, who give a flying shit. He's 27 and drunk with his friends. It's called being human and having a sense of humor.
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HAHA this is Hilarious!! He should not get any fire for this, 27 and drunk, groping a cardboard cut out of Hillary, it happens.
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27yrs + beer + life size cut out = groping
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Jeepers! This vetting thing really puts the kabosh on some good clean fun! I feel sure Hilary has a sense of humor...she married Bill didn't she???
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I just saw this on TV and wondered what other Nations are thinking about this country and its disrespect for those in powerful positions. I am not a Hillary or Obama supporter but this is just bad taste and shows immaturity.
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Thats f-ing hilarious. Its like cutting somebody off when you're driving, then stopping at the same gas station a few miles down the road. Awkward. I agree with MaRibElfalcon76, privacy is a pretty fragile thing these days.
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No harm, no foul. Nothing wrong with having a beer and a joke.
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- unimatrix0
- 12 months ago
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I just filled out the application, and it says nothing of the sort.
So I am taking this as humor.
Ha. Ha.
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- SteelEyeVideo
- 12 months ago
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I also filled out the application and saw nothing like this unless there is a part 2 we don't know about yet Steeleye.
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I filled the application out too! Come on! Nobody has any sense of humor here at all?
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- Reverend_Papa_Bear
- 12 months ago
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does this mean Hillary is foolin around?
the score card is now even!
take that Monica!
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- edgerunner
- 12 months ago
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Those guys have really bad aim, John is groping her shoulder and his buddy is giving her Heineken via a nostril. Gotta love those Obama parties.
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- EddieStarr
- 12 months ago
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Wait, who has a Hilary Clinton cardboard cutout? They make those?
Facebook: Making you forget that everybody can see the Internet since 2004
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- ultravphunter
- 12 months ago
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I couldn't tell you how many times I've groped Hillary Clinton via that ever popular cut-out.
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- piratemcdaddy
- 12 months ago
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let the guy live
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For real! The current first lady killed a fellow student when she was 17 and no one says a word. A guy poses with a cut out and its an issue. COME ON MAN.
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Call me uptight, but sexual assault is never funny, whether it's to a real person or being acted out on a cut out.
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I agree with tweets972. Although I feel the photo is innocent in nature, in today's political climate this is unacceptable and foolish behavior. This picture will be everywhere within the next 72 hours and it shows a main member of Obama's team degrading our soon-to-be Secretary of State while other members look on adoringly. Drunk or not it shows a behavioral callousness and stupidity that we've seen all too much of these last 8 years. Fire him now. I wish politicians would quit using speechwriters anyway.
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Get over yourself people. The man has a good sense of humor. Let him be.
