Photo Caption Contest

Last night during what is fast becoming our favorite new reality TV show outside of “Hoarders” and the “Bad Girls Club,” Politico‘s livestream show featured these two characters, Playbook’s Mike Allen and Chief Deputy Managing Editor Craig Gordon.

Write up your best captions for the above photograph and we’ll print them! Have fun and keep it relatively clean. Cussing is allowed within reason. Send to Betsy@mediabistro.com or to FishbowlDC@mediabistro.com. Your name will not be attached to the caption unless you explicitly say you want it that way.

Mike: “Craig, I have good news and bad news. Craig: What is it Mikey, your scaring me. Mike: The good news? I’m taking over the livestream show when [Jim] VandeHei leasts expects it. The bad news? You will have to hide the body.”

Mike: “Do you have my helmet-cam? It’s MobileMikey time.” Craig: “Oh. Em. Gee.”

Mike: “Craig, we know you ate all the Girl Scout cookies.”

Mike: “Have you stolen my Steadicam?”

“Craig Gordon looks like he’s about to receive his ass-whipping du jour.”

Mike: “I wish I knew how to quit you.”

“What the hell is that smell coming from Ben Smith’s old desk?”

“Great, now turn your head and cough.”

Mike: “Smells like teen spirit.”

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MSNBC Contributor Meghan McCain thinks “Caption contests are always fun,” so she’s launched one of her own.

She posted this picture of the fam “from way back in the day” and invited readers to offer their best caption. She’ll announce the “winner” Friday, but lists no prize.

Might I suggest the winner gets to decide the number of years Meghan isn’t allowed to write her drivel? Better yet, how about the “winner” gets to suggest an editor for her keyboard vomit? Either way, everyone wins.

Here are some suggestions from me, leave yours in the comments.

“This baby girl just radiates ‘dumb.’”

“Perhaps the McCains should change their last name to ‘cow’ since Meghan has been milking it for years in lieu of actually accomplishing anything on her own.”

“Every big idiot starts off as a little one.”

“This photo documents the moment just before little Meghan was dropped on her head.”

“Scientists are studying this picture to find out if the flashbulb is somehow responsible for freezing little Meghan’s cognitive abilities at this moment.”

“Meghan’s diaper appears to be full of what her opinions will be in the future.”

Today we’re feature Salon’s illustrious Editor-at-Large Joan Walsh from her appearance on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” last night. Come up with captions and we’ll print the best ones. Try to keep them clean but then again, it’s Friday. So go ahead, spill your guts.

Send your captions to FishbowlDC@mediabistro.com or to Betsy@mediabistro.com. All entries are anonymous unless you tell us otherwise.

1. Joan “The Tin Man” Walsh says: “Please, please: get my oil can & oil me!”

2. “OMG! I just Googled Santorum! Yeech!”

3. Wow Mittens kept telling me that taking Beano would stop this from happening after eating beans and rice!

4. Luke Russert has size 13 feet?!? Damn.

5. “I’m getting that tingly feeling going up my leg just like Matthews over Obambi!”

6. “Yikes! That’s why they call you Big Ed?!”

Dear Fishies. Today we have another classic shot of Hazy, a.k.a MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, whom we miss greatly here in Washington. Let’s see what you can do. Write us your best captions and send to FisbowlDC@mediabistro.com, Betsy@mediabistro.com or @FishbowlDC.

From this weekend’s “Up” with Rachel Maddow, er, Chris Hayes

Chris Hayes calls a safety

This is an equilateral triangle, or as conservative call it, a socialist one.

Despite his obvious inexperience, Chris doesn’t realize that vaginas aren’t really this big.

Hayes makes it official, becoming the douch-iest person to ever attempt Jay-Z’s H.O.V.A hand symbol.

“I am Chris Hayes — a man.  Not Rachel Maddow — a woman,  sort of.  If I were her, I would have a vajajay, and it would look something like this, I am guessing.”

 

For today’s “caption this” contest we bring you the below picture of morning 94.7 Fresh radio deejay Tommy McFly getting freaky with Washington publicist Wendy Gordon (both pictured at right in a more traditional picture pose).  Send your prize quotes to fishbowldc@mediabistro.com, to Betsy@mediabistro.com or to @FishbowlDC. We’ll run the best ones. Keep it clean but not that clean.

Tommy was happy to discover that these didn’t sag as much as 94.7
Fresh’s ratings

“Wendy, hold this pose long enough and I’ll see if someone can’t take
a picture so someone will write about us.”

I thought PR people were supposed to promote their clients, not themselves?

“If only they were pecs.”

Tommy admired the fine craftmanship of Wendy’s bedazzler.  Seriously, that’s all that interested him.

As he dipped her back, she couldnt help but think, “Doctor, this is how I want my face to appear!”

Today’s photograph that is crying out for captions comes from a benefit at Bullfeathers last night to benefit military public affairs officers serving in Afghanistan. All proceeds from “Flacks who wear Flak Jackets” support gifts for PAOs. Hosts: Sean Spicer and Brad Woodhouse. Ron Bonjean runs The Bonjean Company, a public affairs firm dedicated to providing strategic counsel, government relations, communication and crisis management services. Come on Fishbowlers, send us your witty captions at FishbowlDC@mediabistro.com or to Betsy@mediabistro.com.

“Have I told you about my days as a runway model in Milan?”

“Either this guy next to me farted or someone from Occupy DC snuck in here.”

 

Today ABC brings us a photograph that conjures flashbacks of the Michele Bachmann‘s bug-eyed Newsweek cover. And we’re dying to see what you, dear readers, come up with for captions. The picture accompanies an ABC story on the camaraderie of the political “wives club.” Read the story here. Please send all captions to FishbowlDC@mediabistro.com, to Betsy@mediabistro.com or to @FishbowlDC.

From L to R: Mary Kaye Huntsman, Anita Perry and Callista Gingrich.

Photo credit: ABC News via Callista Gingrich

1. Callista: “I adore these ladies, but I’ve seen better hairdos in doggy daycare.”

2. Meet the new Stepford wives

3. “Does anyone have a spraycan of starch handy? My hair could use some.”

4. “I wish Anita would stop pinching my ass.”

5. Casting call for Bravo’s Real Batshit-Crazy-Dead-Behind-the-Eyes Wives of DC

6. The last thing Herman Cain saw before his eyes were brutally pecked out of his head.

7. E’s latest show “The Girls Next Door” (If you live next to a mental institution)

8. These women did not file sexual harassment charges against Herb Cain.

9. Mary Kaye Huntsman, Callista Gingrich and … uhh … oops

 

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Photographers Tom Williams and Bill Clark made out like bandits in this weekend’s White House News Photographers Association photo contest.  The dynamic duo from Roll Call won a total of six awards combined.  Williams, a FishbowlDC fav,  took 1st place in the “On Capitol Hill”  category for his photo of Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) after being censured on the House floor for ethics violations.  Clark won the “Portrait” category for his photo of Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) supporters posing with Michelle Obama magazine covers.  Congrats to Bill and Tom!

For the full list of winners and photos, click here.  For the winning Roll Call photos, here.  Internal memo from Doug Graham announcing the guys’ successes after the jump.

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Thanks to all who contributed.
The names of the authors are absent to protect the innocent (or, in this case, not so innocent). All the best to NYP’s Charlie Hurt and C-SPAN’s Annie Tin for being good sports (i.e. don’t injure me the next time we run into one another!)

1. Annie to Charlie: If you don’t be quiet I’m seriously going to slap you with my blurry hand!

2. Charlie and Annie argue over whose turn it is to work the hook for the bad RTCA Dinner entertainment.

3. Animatedly sauced (Note to readers: neither was intoxicated. This is creative thinking).

4. Charlie and Annie argue over which one of them Kathy Griffin was flirting with. John King and Dana Bash had the same argument on the way home. (FYI, Griffin attended RTCA as a guest of King and Bash.)

5. Charlie and Annie play rock paper scissors over who get to ride shotgun in Scott Brown’s truck on the ride home.