You know ... the most disappointing thing about John McCain during wasn't his choice of Sarah Palin or the mess that was his campaign. It was the fact that the man who would do something like this was nowhere, and I mean NOWHERE, to be found. He sold his soul for the politics devil and he lost.

From Sen. John McCain supports presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, first black heavyweight champion - ESPN:

"I've been a very big fight fan, I was a mediocre boxer myself," McCain, R-Ariz., said in a telephone interview. "I had admired Jack Johnson's prowess in the ring. And the more I found out about him, the more I thought a grave injustice was done."

On Wednesday, McCain will join Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., filmmaker Ken Burns and Johnson's great niece, Linda Haywood, at a Capitol Hill news conference to unveil a resolution urging a presidential pardon for Johnson. Similar legislation offered in 2004 and last year failed to pass both chambers of Congress.

King, a recreational boxer, said a pardon would "remove a cloud that's been over the American sporting scene ever since [Johnson] was convicted on these trumped-up charges."

"I think the moment is now," King said.

Here's a slideshow of Johnson photographs archived at The Library Of Congress and made available to the public from their Flickr.com account:
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I called bullshit on Twitter more than 4 hours ago:

am not saying the assault was real, but i hope the guy gets caught. i'd really hate it if it were effed up hoax

if you don't know what am talking about, it's of the "random" McCain college supporter who got robbed and attacked by an alleged Obamabot

@nezua yup. which is why it's so suspect. the timing, the characters involved. too little green footballs for my taste

Here's the "official story" :

Police spokeswoman Diane Richard said the robber took $60 from Todd, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said.

The robber is described as a dark-skinned black man, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 200 pounds with a medium build, short black hair and brown eyes. The man was wearing dark colored jeans, a black undershirt and black shoes.
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Frucking FAIR USE, FREE SPEECH hating TV networks!

Yet another 30-40 second clip that's being yanked from YouTube due to another stupidly greedy media company. AUGH! When will it end?

Anyhow ...

Check out what Stewie finds on the lapel of a Nazi officer in this spoof of Indiana Jones.

Oy vey!

Via Oh No They Didn't.

Devastating:

Most Americans are moderates on abortion. Sarah Palin's defense of the right of rapists to force women to carry their baby to term and John McCain's denigration of the importance of the "health" of the mother are extremist views that just won't play with Americans. And keep in mind that the Republican Party Platform calls for a ban on ALL abortions, even in the cases of rape, incest or the "health" of the mother.

This was the moment that John McCain sealed not just his fate, but the fate of the Republican Party this year. There will be no comeback in 2008:

John McCain cedes the "health" of the mother to the Democratic Party, thus alienating women voters. But I see something deeper in this clip. It cedes "health" altogether. It admits that to the Republican party, the healthcare crisis is not of concern to them. "Health" is, to McCain and the Republican Party, so unimportant that it gets put into finger quotes. John McCain has just defined "health" as nothing but a rhetorical talking point.
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In my continuing coverage of Republican racism and anti-Semitism, one of the stupidest Republican memes was "gee, uh, duh, isn't Obama a Moooslim?"

My first reaction was "so what if he was?" Why couldn't a Muslim be an American leader? But that is beside the point. There has never, ever been the slightest evidence that Obama was Muslim.

Those who listen to this lie and believe it are, quite honestly, abyssmally stupid or amazingly gullible.

But who originated the "duh...Obama is a Moooslim" lie?

Seems an unstable anti-Semite, named Andy Martin, started it. And Fox News let this unstable anti-Semite assert lies without questioning him...yet another connection between Fox News, lies, and anti-Semitism.
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