[Republican Red]

Spitzer is standing on the right, hence the (R).

I'm glad they told me which one in the picture was ELIOT otherwise I might have thought the lady standing to his L might be ELIOT

[princess leah]

Google and yahoo and aol are all liberal media outlets. Just take a poll on any of their websites and you’ll see it!

[Republican Red]

During the Gary Condit drama, I remember the media used to only use the tag Gard Conit, (Rep) as in Representative. While technically correct, Condit was a Representative, I firmly believe it was done to infer republican. I have never seen Mark Foley described any other way except "R" and he was a Representative too.

[ReignOfError]

I'm glad they told me which one in the picture was ELIOT otherwise I might have thought the lady standing to his L might be ELIOT

1) AFP is a French press agency. Outside the US, Eliot and Silda might not be so obvious.

2) Wire service photo captions are not intended for the general public. Their audience is for editors; they include far more information than anyone is likely to need, so that editors can pick and choose which information their readers need in the contest of their story.

For example, an AP caption might read something like "U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, addresses a crowd at a campaign rally at the IBEW hall in Latrobe, Pennsylvania Thursday, March 13, 2008. Pennsylvania's April 22 primary is the next milestone in a hotly contested race for the Democratic presidential nomination."

The published caption is more likely to be something like "Obama addresses a campaign rally in Pennsylvania Thursday."