Jay Carney, Communist Propaganda Connoisseur

White House press secretary and occasional beard grower Jay
Carney likes political art. Particularly, he likes Soviet military
propaganda.

This fact was accidentally
revealed in, of all places, the latest issue of
Washingtonian MOM magazine. The journal did a profile on
Carney’s wife, Claire Shipman. There’s a lot of fun facts about
Carney’s preferred brand of $275 sneakers (Hugo Boss) and how the
family’s Portuegese water dog is related to Obama’s (cousins!).

A
few sources
picked up on some non-sequiturs, though. Can you spot the
strangest thing about this totally candid picture? Hint: It’s not
that each member of the Carney clan eats a pyramid’s worth of food
for breakfast.

Rather, it’s the
World War II-era Soviet poster pointing over Shipman’s
shoulder, which asks if you’ve enlisted in the Red Army yet
(because you’re going to get drafted anyway), and the other one beyond
the sink, which asks if you’ve gotten a factory job to fill in for
your husband (who has probably been shot on the front lines).

In another picture, the family has what appears to be a bust of
the U.S.S.R.’s last leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. As a bonus, whoever
poorly photoshopped the Carney library for added girth accidentally
cloned his son’s finger.

Why does Carney decorate with reminders of one of the most
murderous governments in history? In case you’ve been slacking off
on your White House personnel trivia, prior to
dodging questions for the Obama administration, Carney worked
as a journalist in Moscow. He and Shipman met there.