It isn’t quite the selfie-retweeted-’round-the-world, but that hasn’t stopped the White House from answering questions about David Ortiz’s impromptu snapshot with the president.
What an honor! Thanks for the #selfie, @BarackObama pic.twitter.com/y5Ww74sEID
— David Ortiz (@davidortiz) April 1, 2014
Obama’s senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer made an appearance on Face the Nation to talk about serious matters like the state of the Affordable Healthcare Act, but didn’t shy away from host Bob Schieffer’s questions about the above picture (those start around the 5:47 mark).
Pfeiffer said that the president didn’t know anything about Samsung’s connection with Big Papi, and that whenever someone is using the president to promote a product, that’s concern for the White House’s counsel.
On the topic of legal action, Pfeiffer said that the while the White House has spoken with Samsung, he’d rather leave the outcome of that conversation between the lawyers.
“Maybe this will be the end of all selfies,” he said. We can only hope.
(via Engadget)
