Photographer Amy Davis of the Baltimore Sun should get some sort of medal for this picture from last night’s Spelling Bee, which is now on the AP wire:

Wow. That’s absoluetly pefrect.

If you want to verify the pic, it’s #8 in the Spelling Bee pics here; it also lives on the Sun website here.

UPDATE: I don’t know if anyone else picked up on it, but when given the chance to pick her favorite word, contestant Isabel Jacobson from Wisconsin chose Kakistocracy, meaning "rule by the worst possible people."

A cleverly slipped-in political statement? Maybe so.

Later on, they showed footage of the finalists being given a surprise visit to the White House, including a squirm-inducing group face-to-face with the First Lady, who treated some of the brightest kids in America as if they were almost as dim as her husband. Isabel was barely visible, apparently sitting in the back with her knees bent up in front of her. If I had to guess from her body language, she seemed unsure whether to hide or display discomfort. One thing I do know: every time the camera panned the back row, it cut away before getting to Isabel. Maybe she didn’t display the requisite sense of childlike wonder while being condescended.

You go, girl.