article_snippet: Rachel Whetstone, pictured, was the author of the blog post.
article_snippet: Rachel Whetstone, senior vice president in Google's Communications and Policy department then followed up with the baby gif.
article_snippet: After citing a number of other rulings vindicating, by state-level government bodies and also officials in Europe, Whetstone fired off another gif - this one a jubilant Jewish New Yorker winning an argument.
article_snippet: The piece was a seemingly rare intervention by Whetstone, who hadn't written a blog for Google since 2012.
article_snippet: A recourse to gifs in otherwise serious discussion isn't unprecedented.
article_snippet: In January, House Speaker John Boehner fired off a salvo of 12 Taylor Swift gifs to trash the President's community college plans.
article_snippet: A spokesman for the Democrats responded in time, harnessing the pop icon to declare 'Haters gonna hate' over Twitter.
highlights_snippet: Communications official Rachel Whetstone wrote gif-laden rebuttal .