Getty Apologizes for Labeling Chimpanzee Photo as Mitt Romney

Sometimes, when you’re scrolling through stock photos on Getty Images looking for an image of Mitt Romney speaking at a campaign rally in Iowa, you end up with this image, from Xinhua/Landov/Barcroft Media:

.@billkuchman spotted something weird on Getty: Photo labeled Mitt Romney…but it's a monkey http://t.co/m0lmjQ6r4d pic.twitter.com/PGXhD5HavK

— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) June 4, 2015

Politico, which discovered the image, dutifully contacted Getty, and actually received an apologetic statement. “We regret that the wrong caption was inadvertently applied to the photo. The image has been removed from our website,” they wrote, a tacit signal to readers and bored journalists that they could now stop trying to come up with pet chimp names for Mitt Romney.

Wait, what? No. No, I wasn’t doing that.

Update: An eagle-eyed viewer pointed out that the monkey was actually a chimpanzee, making it technically an ape and not a monkey. This photo is really screwing with people’s minds.

[Featured image via Getty]

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