Picture This Lady Bird
Spanish King Juan Carlos' recent elephant hunting mishap in Botswana resulted in perhaps the most damaging political photo since US presidential candidate Michael Dukakis was photographed in a tank in 1988. The image depicts the king, a patron of the nature conservancy group WWF, holding a rifle while standing next to a dead elephant he had just shot.
As if to show the monarch how a photo op should be done, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a Tuesday trip to a bird sanctuary in Marlow in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Now that is a good publicity photo.
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