I find this image "ethnographic" and to point to the author's familiarity with this video, down to the seconds, which represents an ethnography of temporality. As the process of cutting out just one frame distorts time, the second way the image is ethnographic is in the way it captures "normal", everyday speeches in the senate. There are constant condemnations of the poor, social safety net policies with simultaneous cries for larger defense and pentagon budgets. Senator Inhofe's stunt adds the element of props, making it all the more silly. To me this is an example of Laura Nader's concept of "studying up," from her 1972 article, "Up the Anthropologist: Perspectives Gained From Studying Up," as the setting itself is a study of power. What do we learn about power and governement in closely reviewing settings such as these and people such as Senator Inhofe?
