Heroic outrage

(meme) Bob McCarthy is incensed:

Soon after President Barack Obama signed an executive order lifting the ban on the use federal funding of embryonic stem cells in medical research, the wizards behind the White House web site posted the photo above.  Though I find it less troubling than the president’s continuing assault on the unborn, the file name (hero_stemcell_main2.jpg) under which someone at the White House saved the photo of the signing ceremony this afternoon is disturbingly creepy.

[...] To imply that President Obama is somehow heroic by signing a measure that lifts a ban on the slaughter of human embryos for scientific purposes goes beyond the pale.  Such an amateurish action should not, however, surprise anyone familiar with Obama’s socialist agenda (a.k.a., “Obamalism”) and his follower’s blind allegiance to “Dear Leader.”

Doug Ross adds:

Not as creepy as the song Bruce Springsteen will sing at one of the White House's Wednesday night bashes. The song will be called He's a stem-cell hero, sung to the tune of He's a rhinestone cowboy.

Urbanik offers:

"Hero: When viewing a proof sheet or selection of images, the Hero image is the image selected for final use i.e. typically the best image from the selection." -Photographic terms glossary

You're welcome.

Meanwhile CNN & FOX personality Glenn Beck thinks that allowing federal dollars to be used for embryonic stem cell research means the progressive movement will lead us to a new "master race" that's "absolutely frightening".

Update: Undeterred, Our Lady of Perpetual Outrage marches on:

What’s amusing is not that the term “hero” was used — “hero shot” is a common photography term to describe the best images of a series of shots.

What’s amusing is that every damned shot that’s ever taken of Dear Leader is classified as a “hero shot.”

At least we've descended from "disturbingly creepy, beyond the pale" to amusement.

But is it actually amusing that every photo of Obama featured on whitehouse.gov is the "hero" of a set of ones that weren't featured? Michelle must be having a slow outrage day, for this is standard procedure in the photo publishing biz.