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The Most Hated Woman In USA?

Oct 28, 2013 2:06AM PDT

Seems currently it's the female on the Obamacare website, but wait, her picture's now been removed. Did she ask for it to be removed? Was it used without her permission? Even the Onion satire site has gone after her. Anyway, the hunt is on for her identity.

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So she lost both her job and
Oct 28, 2013 2:31AM PDT

her health care coverage? Devil

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oddly enough
Nov 13, 2013 9:35AM PST

besides not being a citizen, yet, she's not signed up for Obamacare herself. I also was surprised why she was targeted, since Obama and his groupies are the ones messing this all up. Maybe people thought she was part of the groupies?

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And she says she received no money for the photo
Nov 13, 2013 5:49PM PST

or use of it. I would wonder about the picture taking session. I'd also wonder why she'd sign a release for it's use if she'd receive no benefit from it. There's more here, I suspect.

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an essential part of Liberalism
Nov 13, 2013 10:29PM PST

is to pretend you don't make any money from it. Whether that applies to her or not, I don't know. At least it was done on the cheap, for someone, but obviously by those hired to put up the website. Great right now for some to be "friends of Michelle".

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I defer to your expertise in hatred, and denigrating Public
Oct 28, 2013 1:32PM PDT

figures. I think she may well have been a stock photo-image. The people like Conservative blogger David Burge who tweeted: 'Congrats, vapidly smiling Healthcare.gov splash page stock photo girl! You're now the most despised face on planet Earth.' are the June Bug Larvae of the political and on-line world.

Rob

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I didn't fire her
Oct 28, 2013 5:36PM PDT

I didn't take her picture off the site either. Perhaps you should instead write to Obama and tell him you "defer to his expertise in hatred, and denigrating public figures". Maybe the Onion will publish that for you, so send it to them too. It's also possible she asked to have her picture removed. The more you try to smear others, you just keep smearing yourself.

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If it was a stock photo.....
Oct 28, 2013 11:30PM PDT

.....she probably signed away the usage rights when she had the photo taken, which means she can't ask to have her picture removed ...... well, she can ASK but she can't make them do it.

And if people are frustrated with a website and blaming the model who posed for the photo on it, that's their problem, not hers.

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We still remember the last
Oct 29, 2013 3:09AM PDT

dumb as rocks "Obama Girl", so I suspect some are wondering if she's supposed to become the new dumb as rocks Obama Girl?

Even she got smarter later on.

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ACA as seen by S. Colbert
Oct 29, 2013 5:31AM PDT
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(NT) "vaguely ethnic smiling woman"?
Oct 30, 2013 12:41AM PDT
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no clue
Oct 30, 2013 11:49AM PDT

aw that's whack, poor girl she has no idea why people are hatin' on her

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Oh, I'd give her the credit that she knows. She may not
Oct 30, 2013 3:15PM PDT

know Why mind you. I don't know Why anyone would make the jump from stock image to "The most hated woman in America", but I haven't drunk the Koolaid, or Iced Tea that the Tea Partiers are serving.

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of energy and blood pressure the Right Wing can generate over the most trivial issues, like this woman's pleasant face.

Now there is a source of energy that should be explored. Hell, you could light and heat a city the size of Chicago all year long on the outpourings of Rush Limbaugh by himself.

Rob

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explain Colbert's "vaguely ethnic" crack please
Oct 30, 2013 6:07PM PDT

He's such a caring liberal, yes? Anyone without blue eyes is "ethnic" to him? I've not heard Limbaugh nor Tea Party refer to her "ethnicity"? Caring Conservatives would like to know what "vaguely ethnic" by Colbert means?

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He's a comedian
Oct 30, 2013 10:49PM PDT

My guess would be that he was trying to be funny, since that's his job (he said, slapping his forehead that such an explanation is even necessary).

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oh, so that's it.
Oct 31, 2013 12:21AM PDT

I'll be watching for his blackface humor next. Should be a side splitter, LOL!

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She's turned up
Nov 13, 2013 5:12AM PST
Woman on Healthcare dot gov claims she was bullied

She's Columbian born but eligible for health care and US citizenship. She signed release papers allowing use of her picture but didn't seem to know how it would be used. I would wonder if lawyers aren't dogging her to sue someone. Welcome to America, Adriana. Happy
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taking advantage of immigrants
Nov 13, 2013 9:20AM PST

why am I now surprised?