‘Obama Is Checking Your Email’ Tumblr Spoofs NSA Computer Records Scandal

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1:18 pm June 11, 2013

Posted on... 1:18 pm June 11, 2013

Much like Kim Jong-Il Looking At Things maligned the late North Korean “Dear Leader,” the hottest Tumblr at the moment is poking fun at President Barack Obama and his indirect involvement with the National Security Agency (NSA) phone and computer records scandal gripping the nation.

Obama Is Checking Your Email features normally mundane photos of the president looking at other people’s laptops and smartphones, possibly as part of a photo-op for the press. However, with the NSA controversy looming large, the photos have become humorous fodder for critics opposed to the government’s intrusion in millions of people’s lives.

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By Ed Carrasco

Ed Carrasco has been in the journalism field for nearly a decade. Some of his photographs/articles have been featured in publications such as the Guardian, LA Weekly, OC Weekly, the Fullertonian, Cerritos-Artesia Patch and Orange Coast Magazine. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from UCLA and a master’s degree in Journalism from Kingston University in the United Kingdom.