The right wing media is in unison screaming mode again, sliming newly-released American Alan Gross, because of course they are. A photograph of Gross in his lawyers’ Washington DC office after getting out of a Cuban prison shows photographs of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro hanging on the wall.

In the strange paranoid wingnut universe, this is proof that Gross and his lawyers are secret commies dedicated to the destruction of America.

Here’s the photo, posted by New York Times photographer Stephen Crowley:

Alan Gross, w atty Scott Gilbert & spokeswoman Jill Zuckman, prepping remarks to deliver after arriving in US…#Cuba pic.twitter.com/8Od6G54jc6

— Stephen Crowley (@Stcrow) December 17, 2014

And here’s a typical right wing reaction:

Holy tapdancing farkstick, what is going ON today? RT @brandonbuss: wtf??????? http://t.co/Ni6EFvud61 pic.twitter.com/ZiRBBOCPTs

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) December 17, 2014

I don’t know why those pictures are on the wall, but if I had to speculate I’d say it might be because these lawyers were working on getting Alan Gross out of Cuba for the last five years, and hung the pictures as a way to keep the issue front and center.

That’s just a guess, of course. But I’m pretty sure it wasn’t because they’re plotting secret commie plots, and then circulating a photo that exposes them by mistake.