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Can you come up with a better headline for this image than Fox News?

By Alex Hern

Fox News has a story today genuinely headlined “AP publishes unflattering pic of Romney bending over”.

The piece goes on to ask:

So was it a cheap shot? 

Tim Graham, media analysis director at the Media Research Center, says absolutely. 

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“It’s unbelievable,” he wrote. “It honestly looks like a little girl is gaping at Romney from behind.” 

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It seems like they missed a trick with running it with such a staid headline, though. Has anyone got any better ideas?