Obama Named ‘Hero’ In Official White House Photos

Well this is potentially embarrassing. It appears that the individual responsible for the naming convention of the presidential imagery on the official White House website has literally “given” hero status to the photos. Any effort to save the lead photos off the Whitehouse.gov homepage saves a file that starts with “hero_.” But its not ALL images on the site, nor the homepage. For example, the “Photo of the Day” is given the rather pedestrian name “P012710SA-0476.jpg.” Cue conservative critics using this as an example of the administrations Messianic complex in 3, 2, 1…Updated

For the non-blogging set, allow me to explain. Somebody at the White House is in charge of updating images on the White House website. And it appears that either that person (or more likely his or her boss) created some sort of naming structure for images of President Obama. Alas, it appears that this individual (or perhaps group of people) thought it smart/clever/ironic to name all the Presidential images by starting with the following prefix “

One can see for oneself by going to whitehouse.gov and “right-clicking” on the image, selecting “Save Image,” then reading for oneself. All four images currently on the homepage have the same naming structure. Heads Will Roll!

>Update – a savvy commenter below points out the following: “Photographic Terminology & Glossary: When viewing a proof sheet or selection of images, the “Hero” image is the image selected for final use. i.e. typically the best image from the selection.”