John McCain Look Alike Bob Dole Unloads on McClellan

The similarities between the Republican nominee for president in 1996 Bob Dole and today's Republican candidate John McCain are quite startling: both are crippled, crotchety, old as the hills Senators and decorated war heroes. Dole got anhilliated in the general election by Bill Clinton, and McCain will probably get crushed this November by Barack Obama.

Murdoch Predicts Democratic Landslide In Noveber

Echoing something this page has been predicting for months. Still, coming from Rupert Murdoch, who is perhaps the world's most powerful man, means something a bit extra. Check out his babe Chinese wife in the picture at the right--think she married him for his looks??

McCain Faces Heat From Lunatic Republicans for Rebuking Lunatic Minister

If he hadn't sold his soul to George W. Bush in order to win the Republican nomination, I'd be tempted to feel sorry for John McCain because he truly is in a no win situation...

US Military Trying to Convert Iraqi Citizens to Christianity

Your taxpayer money hard at work!

Former White House Press Secretery McClellan Blasts Bush in New Book

Surprisingly this new book by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan appears to be quite a good read. Unfortunately the guy, who always appeared to be a total lightweight, decided to find his moral compass after he served as a rank propagandist for arguably the worst presidency in American history instead of during it. His conscience must have gotten to him.

What Not To Do With A Championship Trophy

STORY HERE

McCain to Campaign with George W. Bush--The Least Popular President in American History

It's pretty funny how to see how desperate the McCain campaign is to avoid having the two men photographed or filmed together for this event. The thing is, the campaign is also desperate for cash, so they're willing to trot out this lame-duck of a president if it means a few more Benjamin's in their campaign coffers. The picture at the right says it all, though. McCain, after having been a virulent critic of Bush in the 2000 primaries, turned into an ass kissing suck up in order to win the Republican nomination this time around. Unfortunately for him, the trade he made of giving up his principles to try and become president clearly has not and will not pay off.

Fox News Jokes About Killing Obama

Hillary's Assasination Remark Causes Firestorm

Crooked NBA Ref Had Huge Impact on Games he Officiated

Man, it makes you wonder how many players in the NBA are currently on the take. They are mostly all millionaires, but then you hear stories about Charles Barkley and Pacman Jones owing hundreds of thousands of dollars to casinos and it makes you wonder.....

Right Wing Attacks McCain Over Immigration

John McCain is coming under withering attack from the right wing of the Republican party for his stance on illegal immigration, as seen in these two stories written by prominent right-wing bloggers John Hawkins and Michelle Malkin. People have forgotten pretty quickly at how much the extreme right used to loathe John McCain, and it seems many still do--especially the frothing at the mouth, racist, hateful fringe right like Rush Limbaugh and his millions of 'dittoheads'. Ad this to the laundry list of reasons why McCain stands to be landslided in November's general election. The deep, old, and continuing mistrust the right wing of the Republican party has with John McCain has has thus far been dramatically underreported in the mainstream media.

Joe Biden: America's Next Secretary of State?

If the current Democratic presidential nomination process was fair and had been based on qualifications, Delaware Senator Joe Biden would have been the nominee. But alas, the same American electoral system that gave us George W. Bush two times is anything but fair, and is astonishingly based more on answering the question, "Who would you rather have a beer with" rather than "Who is most qualified and has the experience to be the most powerful person in the world.?" Anyway, Biden is unquestionably a foreign policy expert and couldn't be further from the ideological, simpleton neo-conservatives who have run this country's foreign policy into a ditch over the past 8 years. He would be a secretary of state that Americans would be lucky to have as their chief diplomat.

Pitcher Nailed in Face by Line Drive

Right Wing Radio Blowhard Mocks Kennedy's Brain Tumor

What goes around comes around, and right wing radio blowhard Michael Savage probably will be lucky enough in life that neither he nor one of his loved ones will develop a malignant brain tumor like Ted Kennedy has. Or perhaps not. What's most troubling about this is that millions and millions of Americans listen to this hyper-partisan, simplistic, and hateful drivel from guys like Savage, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity on a daily basis and take it seriously. In other words, I believe in the free market with regards to entertainment: stuff like professional wrestling and The Howard Stern show is not my cup of tea but it draws huge numbers of other fans and is immensely profitable. These base, nasty, fanatical right wing radio talk show hosts actually discuss important issues like war and peace, race, taxes, etc. and shape stupid, impressionable people's opinions on the subject matter. They therefore a menace to current American society, not unlike a crippling plague or debilitating air pollution.

Philly High School Swim Coach Busted Hitting on 15yr Old

Well first off, judging from the looks of this loser, he'd have a tough time getting laid with a fist full of cash in a whore house. Still, how dumb and hard up can you be to send illicit sexual text messages and think you can get away with it. I mean, odds are the girl is cute but she's 15 yrs old!! This dude will be flipping burgers or greeting folks at Wal Mart in a few weeks....

Trailer for HBO's "Recount"

It's difficult to comprehend how big a deal this was, especially now looking back after 8 years of the Bush/Cheney regime--very likely the worst administration in the history of the republic. I mean, Al Gore clearly won the election--forget about the counts and recounts. You had thousands of old people in Palm Beach who mistakenly pulled the lever for Pat Buchanan for Christ's sakes. The people who feel the worst about this (and who might actually fall physically ill after watching this), are of course the loved ones of those who have perished in Iraq. We can be reasonably certain that Al Gore wouldn't have launched this disastrous war.

New Zogby Poll: Obama Surges to 10 point Lead Over McCain Nationwide

The vast majority of Americans today are way off base with regards to the upcoming general election battle between John McCain and Barack Obama. Conventional wisdom, fueled largely by the major media outlets who have a vested, definable moneyed interest in the race being close, has it that the race is virtually 50/50 at this point, that it will be a coin flip that could go either way. This opinion, as evidenced by this new Zogby poll, is patently false. Barack Obama enters the general election AS THE PROHIBITIVE, NEAR OVERWHELMING FAVORITE against John McCain, due to a variety of reasons. First off, at age 72 and with years of heavy political baggage, John McCain is a weak candidate. Second, the Iraq war has become an unmitigated disaster and is deeply unpopular with the American people. Indeed it has become a virtual albatross around the necks of most Republicans, none more than John McCain and President Bush though. Next, Americans blame Bush and the Republicans for gas being $4, food prices rising, and for the general shitty condition of the economy. Finally, one only need to look at the results of the recent special elections nationwide which include a Democrat unseating an incumbent Republican in Mississippi of all places, to see just how dire the political climate is in general for Republicans these days. Unless something extraordinary happens, expect John McCain to be drowned by this near perfect storm.

Coming: Beer Pong Game for Nintendo Wii

Finally beer pong without all that hassle of setup.

I always felt that setup time took away valuable drinking time.

What's next, video game versions of asshole, quarters, and anchorman? Or how about a digital equivalent to gravity bong hits?? Seriously though I can see this game taking off across college campuses nationwide.

NFL Eyes 17th Game

I think most American sports fans would take more real NFL games and fewer NBA and MLB games....

Vegas D.A. to Barkley: Not So Fast, Chuck....

Charles Barkley has always had diarrhea of the mouth, but lately it seems that the condition has become more acute. Clearly embarrassed over being outed as a welch who owed $400k to the Wynn casino, first Barkley claimed "I would have paid if they had called me"--which was clearly bullshit, then last night on TNT the Chuckster had the balls to say he's paid the debt and is now clean, when we learn from the Vegas D.A. that he actually isn't!

New TV Low? Man Takes 50mph Tennis Ball to The Nuts for "Science"

Guess which network put this together? FOX, of course....too bad they couldn't have run this 'science' test on Bill O'Reilly or Rupert Murdoch!!

Microsoft's Ballmer gets Egged in Hungary

More on this here. Apparently the guy who threw the egg was pissed at how a trial regarding alleged corrupt business practices involving MSFT and the Hungarian government was abruptly rescheduled after Ballmer agreed to speak there....

Gore Finally Steps In, To Host Major Democratic Fundraiser Aimed at Uniting Party

Gore, still a relatively young 60 years old, may still have political ambitions. He now gets to appear above the fray again and play peacemaker between the warring Obama/Hillary factions of the Democratic party.

John McCain on YouTube

NHL Goon Signs to Play in Russian League

This seems like a really bad idea, Chris Simon could find himself crippled or worse off dead after a few months of getting teamed up by Vladimir, Boris, etc.

About Those Republican "Values"....

As I've said over and over, the Republicans stand on the precipice of suffering a cataclysmic electoral defeat this November. A preview was given last week when a Democrat won a contested seat handily in Mississippi of all places--which is described by Max Blumenthal in the above video. Republicans have won election after election over the years by accentuating their party's 'values' over those of the Democrats. What these values actually consisted of has always been ambiguous, yet incredibly successful. A white/black thing? Guns? Abortion? Drugs? Who knows and who really cared as long as it kept working. As the video above seems to illustrate, it seems like in 2008 even the Republican 'values' argument won't work, because if it doesn't work in Mississippi, it sure ain't going to work anywhere else in America...

Coming: Gmail Themes?

Everyone who uses Gmail as their primary e-mail account realizes how awesome it is, and also wonder why people still use clearly inferior web-based e-mail clients like Yahoo and Hotmail--which suck. Anyway, it looks like Gmail will roll out the ability for users to personalize their accounts, which will probably be pretty cool....

Olbermann, O'Reilly Feud Gets Personal

Wow I had no idea that Rupert Murdoch the CEO of News Corp. and Jeffrey Immelt the CEO of General Electric were involved in the increasingly bitter and personal dispute between Fox's Bill O'Reilly and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. That's about $400 billion of market capitalizations between those two companies.

Olbermann slams O'Reilly personally and nastily on virtually a nightly basis on his "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" show which airs at 8pm on MSNBC, but O'Reilly takes a markedly different route on his "The Factor" which also airs nightly at 8pm: O'Reilly has begun to routinely blast General Electric, the parent company of MSNBC and therefore Olbermannn's boss, for its business dealings in Iran.

The bottom line is that O'Reilly's show gets significantly more viewers, and the argument can be made that he should ignore Olbermann and MSNBC altogether. His focus on Olbermann no doubt delights MSNBC as it catapults their weaker show to looking at least comparable to O'Reilly's "The Factor". And, most importantly, the gap in viewers between the shows has begun to shrink. Advantage Olbermann.

Coming: 'Hudstrong'??

It certainly seems so...this chick Kate Hudson wastes no time whatsoever when it comes to dating fellow celebrities. Lance Armstrong's love life has been all over the place since he dumped Cheryl Crow.

Infield at The Preakness = Clusterfuck

Story here, remind me to never, ever watch The Preakness from the infield....

It Seems Like The New Indiana Jones Movie Sucks

THIS USUALLY HAPPENS WHEN A SERIES GOES ONE TOO MANY TIMES TO THE WELL. ALL THOSE NEW STAR WARS MOVIES, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR THE MOST PART SUCKED....REVIEW HERE

Ripper Classic Cut: Stones Sympathy for The Devil at Rock and Roll Circus in 1968

Huckabee Makes Obama Gun Joke at NRA Convention

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Mathews Rips Talk Radio Blowhard

Rush Limbaugh, the moron in this video, Gordon Libby, Sean Hannity and others. Millions and millions of Americans listen to these blowhards every day.

Spitzer Whore Resurfaces

Story, pictures, here....

Barkley Sued by Vegas Casino

For the most part, gambling is a losing proposition: only a sliver of the total number of worldwide gamblers make a profit from gaming, and those who do are mostly paid professional sports gamblers who are right maybe 51-55% of them time. For the overwhelming majority, gambling provides an intense, compulsive, and quick way for the masses to dump their money down a rat hole. Some people, like Charles Barkley, just seem to never learn....

Bush Compares Obama To Nazi Appeasers

Believe it or not, this is the argument Bush used successfully to win re-election in 2004, less than four short years ago. Let's see, comparing others to Nazis, that's pretty ironic, coming from a Bush, don't you think?

Yes, making Democrats look like spineless, tree-hugging, terrorist coddling appeasers actually has a history of political success for Republicans. That was before the current administration and W himself completely jumped the shark with regards to having any credibility whatsoever on any issue at all, though.

Standing with about a 25% approval rating, George W. Bush remains one of the least popular presidents in American history, and as this article discusses, the Republican party stands at the precipice of suffering catastrophic electoral defeats nationwide this November...

Maniac Teacher Makes 7-yr Old Unstop Toilet with His Bare Hands

I mean, I believe in disciplining kids and teaching them important lessons, but I do believe this goes too far. At least the kid didn't have to unclog it with his teeth!

Olbermann to Bush: "Shut The Hell Up"

Sacrifice? Bush Gives Up Golf to Support Iraq War Effort

It must be nice and comfortable to inhabit the la-la land our current president lives in. In this guy's pea-brain, the idea that giving up playing golf 'shows solidarity' with the families of those serving in Iraq actually makes sense. Newsflash, Mr. President: actually spending time learning about Iraq, the culture, you know the differences between a Sunni and a Shiite, and contemplating the possible consequences of launching this disastrous war before you started it, would have probably meant a lot more to those fighting there and their families...

Atlanta T-Shirt Stirs Controversy

I'd like everyone who reads this to comment below on whether or not they feel this t-shirt is racist or not:

25 year Old Man Pleads Guilty to Corpse of 92 year Old Corpse

I think this young man might be slightly troubled, either that or extremely, and I mean extremely ugly and bereft of any game whatsoever if this is the best ass he can pull....

Aussie Driver Straps in Beer, Not Child

Beer is apparently an incredibly important aspect of Australian culture....

Christian High School Baseball Coach Busted for Exposing Himself to Undercover Cop

A Christian school coach was fired after he was arrested and charged with indecent exposure. Lawrence "Poppy" Vincent was arrested Monday at a North Side park. Police said he was holding a bible and wearing a woman's undergarments.

What a great story--this pervert is no doubt a big 'family values' Republican. The 74yr old coach was apparently wearing floral women's undies and a bra!

Lebron James Tells His Mom Gloria to "Sit Yo A** Down!"

Bob Barr is Running for President. It Won't Mean Much.

Theoretically, Bob Barr running as the Libertarian candidate for president could siphon off votes from John McCain, just as Ralph Nader did to Al Gore back in 2000. Put simply, though, Bob Barr is no Ralph Nader. He's gone from a hyper political Republican in the mold of his fellow Georgian Newt Gingrich, to a quasi anti-government Libertarian over the past few years. The guy lacks credibility and is for the most part an attention seeking blow hard. In a best case scenario for him this run will increase his exposure and therefore increase his future speaking fees. His impact on the election, if any, will be extremely marginal.

Vintage O'Reilly

Evangelical Freaks: America Deserves Obama

Over the past several decades, hard-core bible-thumping religious evangelical freaks have made up a critical and increasingly important portion of the Republican base. Indeed, it's specifically this demographic of voter who provided the minuscule margin of George W. Bush's victory in the 2004 presidential election. That's why it's vital that John McCain gets their overwhelming support in this election if he has any hope of winning. As Robert Novak, the dean of the right-wing Washington journalism corps writes, this is in jeopardy of happening this time around. Amazingly, some of these hypocrite bible-thumpers--many of whom evade paying their taxes, cheat on their spouses, and surf Internet porn, see a potential Obama presidency as something of a religious plague that has been prophesied to happen for America's various sins--and are content to let it happen. You know, how much worse could it be than for a black man, who's undoubtedly a Muslim looking to convert our children to Islam, to become president of the United States? It would be akin to electing Satan himself president. Hey, if you're an Obama supporter, whatever it takes to win--even if it means a perverse support from these weirdoes....

Strange USC Football Recruiting Video Appears on Web

More on this here: The coach in the video just happens to be the head coach's son, who seems like he's a royal prick and probably doesn't have a lick of athletic talent himself, but just happens to be daddy's kid. Without having that hook up, he seems like the type of guy who would become a cop....

Tampa Teacher Stephanie Ragusa Arrested Fourth Time for Sex With Underage Boys, Holds Up Four Fingers in Mug Shot

I guess some of these women teachers like young meat! The student who turner her in obviously wasn't emotionally up for the task and went whining to the authorities, hopefully his friends are unmercifully teasing him for being such a wuss. This shit never happened to me when I was in high school....

READ ABOUT THE MAINE TOPLESS COFFEE SHOP HERE!

Eli Manning Visits Disneyland

Professional football player, yes. Rocket scientist, no.

Lawyer: McCain to Me in 1999: Bush "As Dumb as a Stump"

In my mind it's pretty well certain that neither John nor Cindy McCain voted for George W. Bush in 2000, and moreover it appears that back then at least he had little respect for Mr. Bush's cognitive abilities. The John McCain of 2008 is a very different political animal of the John McCain of 8 years ago. He has not only nearly completely embraced the Bush foreign and domestic policy agendas, as the Obama campaign is trying to communicate, a McCain presidency could very much look like a third Bush term. The question is, what happened? The answer is that McCain has sold his soul to try and become president.

Typical Woman Driver? Indy Female Race Star Mows Down Crewman

Video Shows Mom Giving 2yr Old Son Weed to Smoke

Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you white trash! Story here...

Mariners' Richie Sexson Goes Apeshit

Hey, at least a Mariners' hitter hit something, albeit with a batting helmet. As the guy says in the interview, the team has gone scoreless for the last 22 innings straight--

Blind 78-yr Old Bowls Perfect Game

Well this certainly doesn't make Barack Obama, who was widely lampooned for bowling a measly 37 a few weeks ago at a campaign stop, look very good. He's not blind and he's 47 years old. One really must question bowling as a sport, too: I mean I can't bowl very well but how hard can it be if a blind man can master it like this?

Houston Teens Rob Grave, Use Severed Hundred Year Old Skull as Bong

Houston, we have a problem... One of the strangest aspects of this utterly bizarre story is that all of these kids are apparently home schooled: Um, hello...earth to parents!--your homegrown educational methods are not working so well!! How crazy is this? Are the kids involved in some morbid death cult or something, or are they just bored stoners with vivid imaginations?? How about a part time job guys? There is absolutely no future in grave robbing, and if you want to get stoned a glass or plastic bong will do just fine--you know you don't have to deal with the stench, rotting flesh, ancient brain matter, etc.

Obama Camp Takes Jab at McCain's Temperament

This exchange provides the public a preview of some of the tactics both campaigns will use against each other as the general election finally gets underway. By accusing McCain of 'losing his bearings', the Obama camp is trying to promote the image of Senator McCain being a Grandpa Simpson type figure--the type of dizzy old man who might forget to put his dentures in, answer the ringing iron instead of the phone, or get lost in the mall or something. The McCain team, by accentuating the fact that Hamas has indicated it supports Obama for president, is trotting out the old Karl Rove Republican playbook of making the Democrats look like soft, terrorist sympathising milquetoasts.

Donna Brazile and Paul Begala Argue Over Democratic Voters

These are two of perhaps the most well known Democratic strategists, although Begala is an unapologetic Clintonista. Brazile tries to retain a semblance of neutrality because she works for CNN, but it's pretty clear she's in the tank for Obama...

Charles Barkley, Dumbass

New York City GOP Congressman is a Dead Man Walking

The November national Congressional elections are shaping up to be an electoral catastrophe for the Republican party, who are likely to be pushed further into the minority by losing dozens of additional seats to Democrats due to a plethora of reasons including Iraq and the economy. Amazingly, as this story describing the recent fortunes of Staten Island Republican Vito Fossella reports, things keep getting worse for the GOP. Fossella was arrested last week for a DUI in Washington D.C. Ok, you might be saying to yourself, "no big deal"--but the story gets juicier...much juicier: It looks like the woman who paid his bail and sprung the married, father of three and supposed devout Catholic Fosella out of jail after his arrest, also is the mother of illicit love child. That's even messier than the Spitzer affair, which is saying something.

Online Ordering Boosts Papa Johns Pizza Business

I've personally never ordered a pizza online, but after reading this article I can assure you the next one I order will be done via the Internet. Pretty wild that you can now text message and have a pizza delivered now too. I can envision stoners across college campuses nationwide utilizing these new technologies...

Vegas Car Thief Leads Police on Low Speed Golf Cart Chase

Obama Versus McCain: Punishment Time

Barack Obama stands poised to demolish John McCain in November's general election. McCain is an old, damaged, and very weak candidate. The war in Iraq is deeply unpopular among the vast majority of the American public, the economy is in recession, and George W. Bush has recently officially become the least popular president in American polling history. In Obama's North Carolina victory speech last night, he tellingly said "We can't afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush's third term."

This author's main reason for supporting Barack Obama in November will be that the Republican party needs to be punished for giving America and more importantly the entire world George W. Bush for the last eight years. Severely punished. Punished for giving us Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle. Punished for giving us Donald Rumsfeld and John Bolton. Punished for giving us Karl Rove, Paul Bremer, John Ashcroft, and Guantanamo Bay. Punished for giving us Abu Ghraib, Haditha, rendition, and water boarding. Punished, finally, for giving us Iraq.

In an elective democracy the way for the masses to take out their frustrations and vengance on their leaders is via the ballot box, and for that Bush and the Republicans should be thankful. In prior generations or in many other countries even today, such rank incompetence and arrogance might have led them to a much worse fate than merely being swept out of power. In truth, John McCain probably wouldn't be all that bad--he'd certainly be a million times better than Bush, but that's not the point: the Republicans need to be punished, and the world needs an 'anti-Bush' to help restore American credibility. The election won't be close, as fortunes have given the American people a perfect 'anti-Bush' in Barack Obama. And then, finally, our long national nightmare will be over.

Gore's Thoughts

Gore, wisely, is staying above the fray. He undoubtedly still harbors presidential ambitions (he's only 60) and is playing this smart.

War Maniac Bolton: US Should Bomb Iran

This war crazed, bloodthirsty, frothing at the mouth maniac--who was famously named UN Ambassador by George W. Bush for a stint, has been described as looking like Captain Kangaroo on acid. Its nuts like these guys--who never actually served in the military yet have never seen a war that didn't get them off (Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle are among the others), who got us involved in this Iraq nightmare in the first place.

Huffington Shock: Claims McCain Didn't Vote for Bush in 2000

Expect this to get a lot of play over the next several weeks and months, and if its true it's simply amazing: the Republican nominee for president today didn't vote for the Republican presidential candidate eight years ago. I mean, one could argue that it showed incredibly good judgement on McCain's part, seeing how terrible a president Bush has turned out to be, however it makes it all the more mind boggling that McCain has morphed into Bush's lap dog supporter this time around. Will the real John McCain please stand up? No matter what anyone says, John McCain is shaping up to be a weak candidate of historic proportions and the odds are that he gets landslided in November by Obama...

Howard Dean on Fox News

Dean stumbles and bumbles a little bit, you can tell he's flustered, which is never a good thing. However he gets what will be the two major Democratic attacks against McCain across: 1. Iraq, and number 2 the economy.

Busty Florida Biology Teacher Fired for Having a Second Job

Christ, where were high school teachers like this when I was growing up? And maybe she should be teaching something like human anatomy and not biology??  

SEE ENTIRE MINOR RIPPER PORN SECTION HERE!!

Seriously though, how absurd for this school to have fired this teacher for wearing a bikini on her second job...It's not like this country has an over-abundance of qualified public teachers anyway, or that the pittance that these people get paid could come anywhere near to being a livable wage. Here this teacher practices pure entrepreneurship, using her God-given talents to make some extra cash for her and her family and she winds up getting fired. I guess that's why some call the state Flori-duh....

McCain's Preacher

May 4, 2008

Op-Ed Columnist
The New York Times

The All-White Elephant in the Room

By FRANK RICH

BORED by those endless replays of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? If so, go directly to YouTube, search for “John Hagee Roman Church Hitler,” and be recharged by a fresh jolt of clerical jive.

What you’ll find is a white televangelist, the Rev. John Hagee, lecturing in front of an enormous diorama. Wielding a pointer, he pokes at the image of a woman with Pamela Anderson-sized breasts, her hand raising a golden chalice. The woman is “the Great Whore,” Mr. Hagee explains, and she is drinking “the blood of the Jewish people.” That’s because the Great Whore represents “the Roman Church,” which, in his view, has thirsted for Jewish blood throughout history, from the Crusades to the Holocaust.

Mr. Hagee is not a fringe kook but the pastor of a Texas megachurch. On Feb. 27, he stood with John McCain and endorsed him over the religious conservatives’ favorite, Mike Huckabee, who was then still in the race.

Are we really to believe that neither Mr. McCain nor his camp knew anything then about Mr. Hagee’s views? This particular YouTube video — far from the only one — was posted on Jan. 1, nearly two months before the Hagee-McCain press conference. Mr. Hagee appears on multiple religious networks, including twice daily on the largest, Trinity Broadcasting, which reaches 75 million homes. Any 12-year-old with a laptop could have vetted this preacher in 30 seconds, tops.

Since then, Mr. McCain has been shocked to learn that his clerical ally has made many other outrageous statements. Mr. Hagee, it’s true, did not blame the American government for concocting AIDS. But he did say that God created Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for its sins, particularly a scheduled “homosexual parade there on the Monday that Katrina came.”

Mr. Hagee didn’t make that claim in obscure circumstances, either. He broadcast it on one of America’s most widely heard radio programs, “Fresh Air” on NPR, back in September 2006. He reaffirmed it in a radio interview less than two weeks ago. Only after a reporter asked Mr. McCain about this Katrina homily on April 24 did the candidate brand it as “nonsense” and the preacher retract it.

Mr. McCain says he does not endorse any of Mr. Hagee’s calumnies, any more than Barack Obama endorses Mr. Wright’s. But those who try to give Mr. McCain a pass for his embrace of a problematic preacher have a thin case. It boils down to this: Mr. McCain was not a parishioner for 20 years at Mr. Hagee’s church.

That defense implies, incorrectly, that Mr. McCain was a passive recipient of this bigot’s endorsement. In fact, by his own account, Mr. McCain sought out Mr. Hagee, who is perhaps best known for trying to drum up a pre-emptive “holy war” with Iran. (This preacher’s rantings may tell us more about Mr. McCain’s policy views than Mr. Wright’s tell us about Mr. Obama’s.) Even after Mr. Hagee’s Catholic bashing bubbled up in the mainstream media, Mr. McCain still did not reject and denounce him, as Mr. Obama did an unsolicited endorser, Louis Farrakhan, at the urging of Tim Russert and Hillary Clinton. Mr. McCain instead told George Stephanopoulos two Sundays ago that while he condemns any “anti-anything” remarks by Mr. Hagee, he is still “glad to have his endorsement.”

I wonder if Mr. McCain would have given the same answer had Mr. Stephanopoulos confronted him with the graphic video of the pastor in full “Great Whore” glory. But Mr. McCain didn’t have to fear so rude a transgression. Mr. Hagee’s videos have never had the same circulation on television as Mr. Wright’s. A sonorous white preacher spouting venom just doesn’t have the telegenic zing of a theatrical black man.

Perhaps that’s why virtually no one has rebroadcast the highly relevant prototype for Mr. Wright’s fiery claim that 9/11 was America’s chickens “coming home to roost.” That would be the Sept. 13, 2001, televised exchange between Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, who blamed the attacks on America’s abortionists, feminists, gays and A.C.L.U. lawyers. (Mr. Wright blamed the attacks on America’s foreign policy.) Had that video re-emerged in the frenzied cable-news rotation, Mr. McCain might have been asked to explain why he no longer calls these preachers “agents of intolerance” and chose to cozy up to Mr. Falwell by speaking at his Liberty University in 2006.

None of this is to say that two wacky white preachers make a Wright right. It is entirely fair for any voter to weigh Mr. Obama’s long relationship with his pastor in assessing his fitness for office. It is also fair to weigh Mr. Obama’s judgment in handling this personal and political crisis as it has repeatedly boiled over. But whatever that verdict, it is disingenuous to pretend that there isn’t a double standard operating here. If we’re to judge black candidates on their most controversial associates — and how quickly, sternly and completely they disown them — we must judge white politicians by the same yardstick.

When Rudy Giuliani, still a viable candidate, successfully courted Pat Robertson for an endorsement last year, few replayed Mr. Robertson’s greatest past insanities. Among them is his best-selling 1991 tome, “The New World Order,” which peddled some of the same old dark conspiracy theories about “European bankers” (who just happened to be named Warburg, Schiff and Rothschild) that Mr. Farrakhan has trafficked in. Nor was Mr. Giuliani ever seriously pressed to explain why his cronies on the payroll at Giuliani Partners included a priest barred from the ministry by his Long Island diocese in 2002 following allegations of sexual abuse. Much as Mr. Wright officiated at the Obamas’ wedding, so this priest officiated at (one of) Mr. Giuliani’s. Did you even hear about it?

There is not just a double standard for black and white politicians at play in too much of the news media and political establishment, but there is also a glaring double standard for our political parties. The Clintons and Mr. Obama are always held accountable for their racial stands, as they should be, but the elephant in the room of our politics is rarely acknowledged: In the 21st century, the so-called party of Lincoln does not have a single African-American among its collective 247 senators and representatives in Washington. Yes, there are appointees like Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice, but, as we learned during the Mark Foley scandal, even gay men may hold more G.O.P. positions of power than blacks.

A near half-century after the civil rights acts of the 1960s, this is quite an achievement. Yet the holier-than-thou politicians and pundits on the right passing shrill moral judgment over every Democratic racial skirmish are almost never asked to confront or even acknowledge the racial dysfunction in their own house. In our mainstream political culture, this de facto apartheid is simply accepted as an intractable given, unworthy of notice, and just too embarrassing to mention aloud in polite Beltway company. Those who dare are instantly accused of “political correctness” or “reverse racism.”

An all-white Congressional delegation doesn’t happen by accident. It’s the legacy of race cards that have been dealt since the birth of the Southern strategy in the Nixon era. No one knows this better than Mr. McCain, whose own adopted daughter of color was the subject of a vicious smear in his party’s South Carolina primary of 2000.

This year Mr. McCain has called for a respectful (i.e., non-race-baiting) campaign and has gone so far as to criticize (ineffectually) North Carolina’s Republican Party for running a Wright-demonizing ad in that state’s current primary. Mr. McCain has been posing (awkwardly) with black people in his tour of “forgotten” America. Speaking of Katrina in New Orleans, he promised that “never again” would a federal recovery effort be botched on so grand a scale.

This is all surely sincere, and a big improvement over Mitt Romney’s dreams of his father marching with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Up to a point. Here, too, there’s a double standard. Mr. McCain is graded on a curve because the G.O.P. bar is set so low. But at a time when the latest Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll shows that President Bush is an even greater drag on his popularity than Mr. Wright is on Mr. Obama’s, Mr. McCain’s New Orleans visit is more about the self-interested politics of distancing himself from Mr. Bush than the recalibration of policy.

Mr. McCain took his party’s stingier line on Katrina aid and twice opposed an independent commission to investigate the failed government response. Asked on his tour what should happen to the Ninth Ward now, he called for “a conversation” about whether anyone should “rebuild it, tear it down, you know, whatever it is.” Whatever, whenever, never mind.

For all this primary season’s obsession with the single (and declining) demographic of white working-class men in Rust Belt states, America is changing rapidly across all racial, generational and ethnic lines. The Census Bureau announced last week that half the country’s population growth since 2000 is due to Hispanics, another group understandably alienated from the G.O.P.

Anyone who does the math knows that America is on track to become a white-minority nation in three to four decades. Yet if there’s any coherent message to be gleaned from the hypocrisy whipped up by Hurricane Jeremiah, it’s that this nation’s perennially promised candid conversation on race has yet to begin.

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