Texts From Selina. Is Veep making a reference to the meme in season 2? [trailer]

People magazine’s Memes of the Year. [via]

Texts From Hillary and a bearded man cover the September issue of Details.

Sexts from “Hillary”: Political Animals’ Bawdy Alternative History | Time

USA network says the miniseries Political Animals (debuts July 15), about a First Lady who dumps her philandering husband, then becomes Secretary of State for the man who beat her in a run for President, is not about Hillary Clinton. I believe them. Political Animals, an inconsistent, sometimes ludicrous, but also juicily fun political soap, is about something that ultimately makes for better TV: the idea of Hillary Clinton.

Think of Animals as the TV equivalent of Texts from Hillary. The Internet meme from this past spring used a photo (from TIME magazine) of Clinton sitting on a military plane, wearing sunglasses and staring sternly at a Blackberry, paired them with other celebrity photos and captioned them LOLCats-style. (Obama: “Hey Hil, Whatchu doing?” Clinton: “Running the world.”) It gave us an outsized icon of Hillary as international badass, telling it straight, getting ‘er done, no time for b.s. or wimps.

Oh look, Texts From Hillary was nominated for a Webby! That’s pretty cool.

(You should totally vote for it.)

Pres. Obama’s remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.