My colleague Rich Noyes caught ABC’s Terry Moran being cute this morning when Good Morning America ended its first hour with footage of a male elephant trying and failing to um, seek a profound physical union with a female elephant at the Botswana game preserve as President and Mrs. Bush were preparing for an African photo op.

Moran joked about the Bush visit: “It’s a family program, but this is nature, this is what he came to see, I guess. The new generation of Republicans, perhaps.” Claire Shipman ribbed back: “I’m sure they’re just happy to have any sort of elephants in the picture.” Moran: “Yeah, although I’m not sure that’s, they were on message there. I think they were, for the social conservatives, they might have been a little off message. I don’t know.” Social conservatives would apparently tell the elephants to get a room. He didn’t joke that the liberals might have been appalled there weren’t any prophylactic devices in the picture to educate your teenagers on proper techniques.