McCain camp compares Obama to Spears, Hilton – AP (7/31/08):

John McCain’s presidential campaign has released a withering television ad comparing Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, suggesting the Democratic contender is little more than a vapid but widely recognized media concoction.

Now I happen to be a bit sympathetic to the “media concoction” characterization, but it’s pretty clear that this ad is racially tainted – shades of the 2006 Ford/Corker Senate race in Tennessee. Not that it’s especially surprising coming from John McCain who, at this point, would apparently say anything. What is surprising is that on the very same day, McCain’s campaign manager Rick Davis said:

“Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It’s divisive, negative, shameful and wrong.”

I guess Davis ran out of breath before he could work in “lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous.” In any event, this is just the height of hypocrisy. The only comfort is that the media is waking up to the fact that McCain is actually the piece of shit we’ve known him to be.