The altered photo

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi has started off the New Year with an
emphasis on technology – Flickr and Photoshop.

Pelosi is defending an altered photo of the 113th Congress’ 61 Democratic
congresswomen that was posted on her Flickr photo-sharing site.

The photo showed four House members who were not in the original picture,
which was taken Thursday when lawmakers were sworn in as members of the 113th
Congress. According to The Huffington Post, they arrived at the Capitol steps
late, and their images were later inserted with a computer program.

“It was an accurate historical record of who the Democratic women of
Congress are,” Pelosi told a news conference. “It also is an accurate
record that it was freezing cold and our members had been waiting a long time
for everyone to arrive and … had to get back into the building to greet
constituents, family members, to get ready to go to the floor. It wasn’t like
they had the rest of the day to stand there.”