Shutterstock, a stock photo company, wants to make sure presidential candidates in the 2016 race produce materials that are gaffe-free.
So, it set aside photographs from early voting states and put them into a folder called “Safe for IA and NH,” as flagged by Politico on Tuesday.
The collection was put together after a super PAC for Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush used stock footage in a campaign video from overseas, according to Politico.
“It does happen a lot. You know these people are under, you can understand, really tight deadlines,” Shutterstock curator, Robyn Lange, said, according to Politico.
The photos include what you might expect a 2016 hopeful to need during the course of a campaign — a mother and daughter walking through a cornfield, a covered bridge, a tractor, and a bald eagle, to name a few.
All the photos were taken by New Hampshire- and Iowa-based photographers, according to the report.
Take a look at the “safe photos.”
No twitching fetal corpse GIFs though? Clearly, this is a FAIL.
Will Fiorina or Carson be the first one to save some money by just doing a screen grab and therefore have “SHUTTERSTOCK” watermarked across the picture?
Boy! Christi’s still a fat turd…He should sue his lap band guy (or whatever procedure he had) for malpractice. Practice Fiorina’s philosophy of not paying for failure…
Hey, thanks, Shutterstock. Why would we in the public care to find out whether or not the candidate can put together a team that has basic competencies like being functionally literate and all that fun stuff?
Why do these people need stock photos at all? Shouldn’t they be representative of their constituents?