National Archives Agency Apologizes For Blurring Anti-Trump Signs In Protest Photo

Down the chimney, don’t ya know? :grinning:

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Should be asked for his resignation upon day 1 of the next Dem President.

Someone who censors historic pictures is a propagandist, not a historian.

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Such stupidity is not without a reason. These folks know what they are doing. Forget the “deep state.”

It’s the Trump State that we need to kick back at with all our might. Second Amendment comes to mind, right? We got that right as well.

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Criticism of the Dear Leader will not be tolerated.

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Quality Assurance and Prime Delivery. Amazon is in to everything.

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Prior to NARA’s apology, the agency had said in a statement on Friday that “as a non-partisan, non-political federal agency, we blurred references to the President’s name on some posters, so as not to engage in current political controversy.”

Um, the photos appeared in your “Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote” exhibit. This is clearly a political exhibit and you don’t have to look far to find folks who consider voting by women to be controversial.

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And for this Orwellian attempt to turn the National Archives into a 1984 version of the “Ministry of Truth,” some heads should roll. How about we start with Stephen Miller?

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I would like to see some Republicans put on record now, preemptively, whether it would be right for the agency director to be forced out after restoration of the original images. Because it seems likely to happen now.

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“We apologize, and will immediately start a thorough review of our exhibit policies and procedures so that this does not happen again,” the agency said.

I sure hope that, a year from now, we don’t find out that “nevertheless, they persisted.”

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This is what happens when a petty tyrant is running the government…every agency is tiptoeing around, afraid that something they do will draw his eye, and his ire. It’s exactly what happened with the hurricane that was never predicted to hit Alabama…a well meaning civil servant sent out the correct information to assuage people’s fears, and Trump laid into NOAA as a result. No one who works in the government wants to have that happen to them or their section, so they all are running scared; the few who were standing up to all the BS have likely been pushed out by now, and everyone else is keeping their heads low in an attempt to hang on until the tempest passes.

The upending of the government, and how it has become so dysfunctional and riven with fear, is one of the most unreported stories of the Trump administration. Everyone stays focused on Trump, but behind the scenes huge changes have been made, and even places that haven’t seen changes are doing things like this to avoid causing any kind of blowback from Trump or the political appointees. I know that Trump is an asshole, and judges are important, but breaking the government and turning it, even a little, towards service for one person is a huge deal, one that has to be reversed as soon as possible.

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Reprehensible … but with lunatic Trump attacking any and all that personally offends his fragile ego … it is conceivable that some of the motivation for this improper move was to attempt to avoid the wrath of the loon.

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Keep in mind: This wasn’t an error that the National Archives uncovered and immediately rectified.

They’re only fixing it because they got caught. They’re only apologizing because they got caught.

If this hadn’t been uncovered and reported on, and if the public backlash hadn’t been so strong, they would have been perfectly happy leaving it censored.

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They NEVER go on record. Never. That’s quaint and … only for Democrats.

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I will take this apology with gladness. So many agencies in DC are fucking terrified of this thug, so let’s give them credit. Small wins.

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Archives spokeswoman Miriam Kleiman: “As a non-partisan, non-political federal agency, we blurred references to the President’s name on some posters, so as not to engage in current political controversy. Our mission is to safeguard and provide access to the nation’s most important federal records, and our exhibits are one way in which we connect the American people to those records. Modifying the image was an attempt on our part to keep the focus on the records.”

Got that? Modifying the image, which is a stand-in for the record, was an attempt on their part to keep the focus on the records. Got that yet? Neither have I. But actually, we all get it: This Miriam Kleiman is just a paid liar, but clearly reflecting profound historical ignorance, and almost certainly cravenness, in the upper echelons at the agency. Pulling shit like this is how you help kill a democracy, ya fuckin’ spineless morons.

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Perfect.

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So, if you want to distort things, change the name form the National Archives to the National Protect Trump’s Ego Area.

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HA! You and justruss win the interwebs today.

I haven’t the faintest idea. During PE laps one day in 4th grade, a girl explained to me this totally absurd thing about a man lies on top of a woman and puts his penis in her. And that’s how babies are made.
right - like a human is going to come out of that tiny hole. The whole thing is perfectly absurd.

I think storks were made up because some people were uncomfortable with the idea of their parents displaying physical affection.

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Hah. That’s a good one.

Imagine how the National Archives would be forced to bleep out every cuss word tRump uses at his rallies for future generations to know about. How would we remember what an utter clod he was? What if they blurred every expletive in his tweets (the ones he hasn’t already deleted) as part of the official record of his time in office? What if they muffled every recording where he made a vile off the cuff remark at one of his White House driveway rants or Oval Office sign and whine events?

If the National Archives thinks they could get away with what they tried to do with the women’s march they could get away with all kinds of censorship, even changing the official records of a lousy, no-good, very bad pResident. Then we’d have an inaccurate picture and record of our history from which to rely on.

The 1st Amendment is a protection we all should cherish, whether we like what’s said or not. That protection doesn’t exist in authoritarian led countries. Sometimes I think we don’t realize how gifted we are and how it can all go poof in a heartbeat when its taken for granted.

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