Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez bumped into Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Brazil this weekend at the inauguration of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, and the two shook hands and chatted. “She had a very spontaneous smile and I greeted her with the same effusiveness,” Chavez later explained.
In a new 2011 feature for Big Journalism, you have the opportunity to play spin doctor and repurpose the news narrative in a manner that best serves the progressive agenda. The photo above might give some people pause, considering Chavez is a tyrant, but not when seen through the beer goggles of media bias!
Try it in the comments. I’ll update with some of the best.
*UPDATE:
Your captions were fantastic. I had mucho difficulty in picking just a few.
pravus:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomes Obama’s new State Media Czar to the White House.
GraficDav:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez grimaces in pain as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demonstrates the strength of her negotiating talents. Two foreign dignitaries stare in admiration and amazement at Secretary Clinton’s persuasive style, which President Chavez later described as “a typical display of American heavy handedness”.
willdev928:
Hillary Clinton shakes hands with a President whose politics are slightly to the right of the one she works for.
Billyb9:
She’s going to get in a lot of trouble when she gets back to Washington- Obama instructed her to bow!
davewolfgang:
A good manly testosterone hand shake – and Chavez shaking hands too.
EliPurge:
“When Screwtape met Wormwood.”
JoanOfArgghh:
Hillary Clinton and Hugo Chavez smile as they compare body counts.
pothos42:
Sean Penn, in his most daring role since playing Michael Moore in the screen version of “The Biggest Loser,” dresses as Hillary Clinton and completely fools Venezuelan President Chavez at the opening of the first Taco Hugo in Caracas.
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