Ezra Klein, printed in full because this is so fricking weird:

According to Think Progress, Fred Malek, John McCain’s new funding co-chair, was one of Richard Nixon’s Jew-counters — as in he, uh, counted Jews in the Bureau of Labor Statistics because Nixon though a cabal of them were doctoring the numbers — and, when he was younger, got arrested for killing, skinning, and barbecuing a dog.

I would like, right now, before we get any farther, to thank this election for not being boring.

I can understand why many good, normal Americans think John McCain is a heroic, strong-minded man of conviction, even if I disagree with their assessment. What I cannot understand is why Saint McCain has taken to hiring sociopaths, criminals, and morally disgraceful individuals. Moreover, at what point will the people who think McCain is a saint start to judge him by the company that he keeps?

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