(CNN) -- Her school has become a symbol of the kind of crumbling infrastructure that President Obama hopes his stimulus bill will improve.
But on Tuesday, Ty'Sheoma Bethea became the face of the issue, when she joined first lady Michelle Obama as her guest for the president's first speech to a joint session of Congress.
What’s your first response to this picture?
Over at Gawker, where Hamilton Nolan posted the image and an update, there has been some conjecture as to what the cartoonist meant to convey.
They brought up a news hook where there was a trained/pet monkey shot by the police after attacking a woman in California in Connecticut on Friday.
Others ventured it was a rift on the old monkeys/typewriters/Shakespeare joke.
