Elephant (album) Magazine" in 2007, Jack White said, "If you study the picture carefully, Meg and I are elephant ears in a head-on elephant. But it's a side view of an elephant, too, with the tusks leading off either side." He went on to say, "I wanted people to be staring at this album cover and then maybe two years later, having stared at it for the 500th time, to say, 'Hey, it's an elephant!'" Upon its release, "Elephant" received widespread acclaim from music critics. The album enjoys a Metacritic rating of 92. The White Stripes were gaining momentum with their previous
Elephant in the room noticing "an elephant entering one's living room". Since then, the events that led to drug money financing the "Samper for President" campaign have been referred to as "The Elephant". For some, their first encounter with this phrase comes through the poem of the same name by Terry Kettering. In one edition of "Time" magazine in 2013, Chris Christie was labeled as the "Elephant in the Room" on the cover page. Communism, Islam, Catholicism, the New Left, cell phone addiction, child poverty, light pollution and so on are also described sometimes as the elephant in the room. A variation is the