What do these headlines have in common? The picture(s) of Malia in Mexico have been scrubbed from the web.
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With 25 secret agents closely following, Malia Obama travels to Mexico with 12 friends.
www.essence.com/2012/03/19/malia-obama-travels-to-mexico... - Cached
Malia Ann Obama, right, daughter of U.S. President Barack Obama, was spotted having fun with her friends at a hotel in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico over the weekend.
sandrarose.com/2012/03/malia-obama-vacations-in-mexico... - Cached
In each of the last three hyperlinks, the entire article has been scrubbed, the researcher getting a "404 in error" message (the Daily Mail, Essence.com and sandrarose.com)
I have the pictures. They are nothing special, just Malia walking alone, walking with a black male friend and walking with a black male friend in the company of four, maybe five Secret Service. If the family does not want the pictures seen, fine with me. For the time being, I will leave them out of this story.
I have no idea why this action has been taken. Is it because he has an unwritten rule that his kids are off limits to the press? Sounds good but in some of the stories, Malia is pictured, just not in Mexico with her T-shirt that has a peace sign on it. It is all so harmless, that I simply do not understand the decision.
Actually, the real story is not Malia in Mexico but Obama in the web. You cannot know how many articles and quotes Obama has ordered scrubbed from the web over the past three years. As a blog editor, I encounter this sort of thing from Obama several times a month.
No biggie and, certainly, no longer a surprise.
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