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September 20, 2010

Beyond Sex With an Elephant, Meghan, What are you Trying to Tell Me?


And, if you weren’t wondering before what was going on inside the Republican big tent! I mean, that serpent-like trunk is about as blatant as you can get. (And, regards the back cover: What, no cigarette??)

Beyond the appeal to sex (yet again), however — as Meghan exploits her last name and her Campaign ‘08 social media savvy as one more hawker with a front row set under the political-infotainment “famous-for-being-famous” big top — maybe John’s offspring is actually revealing something else, which is (hold your ears, value voters!) a Grand Old Party’s elephantine moral exposure.

(photos: Adam Bouska; design: Laura Klynstra)

  • http://solarray.blogspot.com gmoke

    Reminds me of the old joke whose punchline is “What?! And quit show business?!”

    Modern politics is obviously a circus and we get to the big tent via a clown car.

  • Sam

    The Republican party – not just 40-year-old virgins.

  • http://twitter.com/marcsobel marc sobel

    There is a John Varley short story which has the answer to the question, how do you have sex with an elephant, You don’t, you have sex at an elephant.

  • http://www.serr8d.blogspot.com serr8d

    Now come on. She’s no more a Republican than I am still a Democrat.

  • matt

    as much as i have enjoyed the relative moderation and young perspective meghan mccain has added to the national conversation since the election, i’m sickened by the phenomenon of “sexy” spokesmodels who have taken the reins without any real experience, knowledge, or wisdom, particularly on the right side of our politics.

    i’m referring to you, meghan mccain.
    and you, sarah palin.
    and you, christine o’donnell.

    oh yes, and you, w.

  • thirdeye pushpin

    taming the pachyderm sperm bank beast of politics…

  • psychohistorian

    The first thing that I saw in this photo was a woman raising an elephant trunk to suckle her left tit. Is this woman trying to feed the GOP or just their sense of sexy

  • DCNW

    We might be tempted to think that Megan’s dirty pics express a counter statement to the uptight, pro-abstinence wing of the GOP, thereby revealing the party’s internal struggle under the big tent. But front cover Megan looks as if she could be sitting in a church pew. Fittingly, the elephant looks miserably bored in both shots.

  • Gasho

    One minute, you’re riding high, dressed in white, fluffy hair and no shoes on and the next you’re kneeling on the ground, all in black with muck boots for wading in elephant poop.

    WTF?

    Is this a pictorial representation of the republican state of affairs? Rich white people who have all the money and espouse hard work, religion and family ethics — all the while being morally bankrupt, ruthlessly screwing the needy and systematically rigging the system to their own benefit?

    Ok.

  • MLC

    How many struggling writers have written books that are better than Meghan McCain’s, but cannot get contracts because they don’t have a famous daddy? Jeez.

  • MeToo

    Cover elephant says it all: yawn.

  • MsInformed

    Posing with an elephant is very slimming….